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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-12-04

Lovely Floor Rugs at 25 and $500, Portiers
at 90 to $3.50.
New stock and new designs in lace Curtains,
soc to 50 90.
Handsome, perfect fitting, Tailor-made Suits
$3.50 to Is 80.
Best line Of Childrens Cloaks ever shown at
% CO. 3 30, 1 90 and 800
Fine Mercerized Satteen Underskirts beautifully
made, at 75c sl.OO, 125 and SO.
A fresh stock Of Kid Gloves. Just imported, in
grays, tans, modes, browns, white and
black, guaranteed, at 81 CO.
Choice brown Fur Scaris with four bushy tails
at 80 IS and So 90.
Lovely soft Flannelettes for Sacks, Kimonas
Wrappers, etc SIC and Zoe yard.
Ladies heavy gray and white Ribbed Vest
and Pants at 25c.
Part wool Vests and Pants, medium weight in
gray and white, at soc
Table Dsmask Satin Finish, Mercerized at 25c,
and pure Linen Cream Dlmask at 25c vd.
Feather Proof Bed Tick, 8 ounce weight to
every yard at l2ic yard.
Mems Kid Gloves, Deg Skin and Mocha Gloves
at LOO % and so pair.
Beautiful Crochet Shawls, in round and square
shapes at 50c
Stylish black Feather Neck Boas, full and long.
at SlO0 each
White Bed Spreads, Sheets, Pillow Cases. Boil
sters, Blankets and Comforts
Table Linens Napkins, Table Felt, Table Oil
Cloths, Towels, Crashes. etc.
Lovely Granite Cloths Melton Cloths. Broad
CLOTHS, ETC.. for Jackets. Suits and Skirts
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-12-04

Childrens Union Suits at 25c per suit.
Chid's Drawers at Zoe, l24c l5c.
Boys Heavy Gray Ribbed Shirts and Drawers
Boys Heavy Fleece Lined Shirts and Drawers
at 25c
Women's Knit Ribbed Knee Shirts at 25c, soc.
Mems Heavy Gray Fleece Shirts and Drawers
at 25s
Women's Heavy Duck Underskirts with ruile
at 90,
Womeu's Heavy Top Skirts walking length, at
$lO0 and 81 so
Baby's Silk Caps, white, with lovely Silk En-
broidery 25c.
Infants W yn HOODS at 25c Sacks at 25c
Beautiful black near silk Underskirts with ruff
fie at soc.
Bed Comforts, large and heavy cotton filed at 6Oc
Elegant Bed Comforts, Satteen Liued, cotton fill
ed, at $l.OO
Warm Fleece Blankets at SOC, 75c part wool at
LOO and Sl25
Big value castor and black Jacket at $500 the
last of these.
Warm Elder Down Dressing Sacks for house
wear at Sl.0O | 25 and so.
Lovely Dress Goods and Dress Trimmings. all new.
Beautiful Fur Edgngs for Children's CLOAK Trim
ming, etc
Ready-Made Shirt Waists of pretty Flannelette
at SOC.
Warm, ali-woo Shirt Waists in black, blue, gar
nett, at Sl.0O.
Knit Worsted Gloves at 25c Children's Knit Caps
at Doc.
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OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS
School Taxes.

To the Editor of The Journal:
In the issue of T h e J o n a l Of Oct.
rs, under, the title of School Tax Deci-
sion." is noted the finding of the supreme
court in the case Of w. NJ. Babcock to
collect an assessment Of 80 mills levied
against his property in the Excelsior
school district Mr.. Babcock and others
contending that the limit could not exceed
Is mills. The board of education and
the patrons of the school lost no sleep or
suffered any other discomfort through
fear Of an adverse decision, because to
anyone who could read and understand the
English laguage the intent of the law was
so plain, and it had been backed up by
the opinion Of four attorneys general that
doubt.
In the same article r. D. Cone is
quoted as saying that 'if that law was put
to vote it would certainly be defeated by
an overwhelming majority There are in
the state 141 high schools. of which 81,
or over IS per cent, pay a higher rate
than Is mills; and of the 11S graded
schools 65, or over IS per cent, pay, q
higher rate than Is mills.
The people are justly proud Of their
educational system, and no one Is or
ought to be foolish enough to suppose they
would deliberately cripple their high and
graded schools by voting to cut off one
half or more Of their income.
Some Of the persons involved threatened
in the event of an unfavorable decision to
| remove from the district. We believe we
equa nimity than we could the loss of our
high school, which would surely follow
| were their contentious upheld. 49,
A. G. Long,
Secretary Board of Education.
Excelsior, Mimi, -,ov 6, 1902.
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New Home Markets.

Andrew Carnegie finds the secret of
commercial world power in a large home
market and the practical monopolization
Of that market by it's own producers.
That was the central theme of his recent
address. The United. States having the
best home market in the world, has the best
chance for controlling the commerce of
the world. Germany, with population
much larger than Great Britains, and in
creasing twice as rapidly, has the ad-
vantage in the race for second place.
Foreign commerce is a braggart; domestic
commerce Is the real king.
Statisticians are forever estimating the
commercial strength Of nations by their
foreign commerce, whereas, it is their
domestic commerce that is the true CRIT
terion. The United States is the greatest
manufacturing nation. in the world. but no
one would ever know it from studying
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Husband the Land.

United States Senator Paris Gibson of
Montana maintains that our land laws
ought to be so altered that not an acre
of the public domain can be acquired
by private persons except through the
operation of strict homestead law, with
out the communication feature of the pres
ent law, and insisting upon five years OF
actual residence upon the land, which
he would limit to $50 acres. Senator
Gibson wisely holds that it is good ma
tional policy to keep the land in the
hands Of the cultivators. OF recent years
by means of perversion of the homestead
act, the desert land act and forest reserve
scrip immense tracts Of land in the arid
or semi arid states have been acquired
by nonresident capitalists or by stock
growers who will use them only for graz
ing purposes. -. :
The senator is right. The arid lands
with national irrigation beginning, are
no longer to be looked upon as valueless
for even those that cannot have water pu
on them will be rendered valuable by
their proximity to irrigated lands
Economy and careful distribution of the
remainder Of the public domain is a con
comitant of the most successful working
Of the new irrigation plan. :, -. 49,. Il,
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Frenchwomen only grew more active.
lola worked no reform through such now
els as La Debacie" and "LAssommoir."
There is no doubt that he worked con-
scientiously and with not the semblance Of
a wish TO allure people to vicious ways
by careful and; elaborate details Of the
lives Of pronounced harlots or women of
easy virtue not on the street. It is said
that he personally acquainted himself and
thoroughly acquainted himself with the
motives, the why and wherefore of every
vicious class he depicts. His purpose was
didactic. doubtless, but the textbooks
which Issued from his pen contain so
many revolving scenes and suggestions to
people who want to keep their minds and
maginations free from foul images that
they are too repelant to study Morality
is not made triumphant by portraying i'm
morality even with the highest literary
skill. Men and women will continue to
get snged or burned in the fires of vice,
until they are awakened to their peril by
some thunderous Haiti" Of conscience.
realistic novel can never take the place
Of conscience and conviction of wrong
ness; can never quicken conscience, II
asleep, to action.
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IN . A NUTSHELL.....


President Harper of the University Chicago
posed the segregation university.
His action has set pedagogical waggng
where about the ACCESSIBILITY co-education
Mississippi valley where it the
condition. We expect long the question
fought out In educational institutions of the
Segregation will probably little show the
state yet statement attributed to the pres
dent of the University Of Missouri is somewhat
that it better yield
the university than combat
that he segregationst himself but would hard
to conceive of coeducaor taking flexible position.
On the other hand, Dr. James, the president
western university declined in his inaugural address the
other to take the question worthy
of serious discussion since to his mind for long time
education is the education
tical in the
The objections to coeducation advanced by OPP
the animatng idea with President
Harper to have been preference for education
of rather than of He declares that the object
of Chicago university is to educate and that
swarm in they have to this time, univer
to the University Chicago
higher education Dr. Harper has hit upon
segregation He thinks that when becomes
stood In the land that go the University of
Chicago without meeting students,
will not be in much haste
western to the eastern universities
Now, OF course argument of that kind
be applied they
too essentially democratic admit that it
glorious educate than time, may
perhaps have segregation of the in the
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stes but that general likely. In
the first place. hardheaded legislators appropriate
to set of buildings
for men, when one be made for both. In
second place, coeducation the
of the west who have from years
Of schooling taken their learning side legislators
trained in that not likely permit
segregation to be introduced without opposition
State universities, it we'll known, looking
vehement other form of opposition purse
srnghoding legislatures Moreover Minnesota least
not greatly troubled by the young
seek higher learning training 1t
science literature and the but number of men,
644 is respectable number large
attendance In that college of
ties that well attended. Outside college
outnumber in the University
to the figures being roundly 1000
In the current Popular Science Monthly
Rowland Angel Of the University Chicago, discussing
the Reaction from Coeducation' following
the current objections to education:
1t is hard the health to pursue course
Of study designed for strong Angel
sders this disproved by the persistent
ness of the "co-eds 1t is claimed that
level OF scholarship. Professor Angel
strctors in coeducatonal institutions rarely
that such is the fact In theisn verdict that
the better Students Another argument that
neither
and, therefore, have upon spirit
of research Coeducaon Is insidious
sion Of freedom of speech In the
is baneful to college spirit, is said
is runous the academic atmosphere another
objection Still another is the alleged social
propretes The segregatonists
makes young men effeminate and young mannish
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08
DAILY DIVERSION

Wit of the 9IInd-Father Joseph Stad-
Gilman Of the Jesuit Foundation Of St.
Francis Xavier, devotes himself to work
among the blind and the deaf and dumb.
He says that contrary to the general i'm
and fond of jokes.
Illustrative Of this, not long since a
blind acquaintance of his, whose remain
ing senses. like that of all blind, are ex-
ceptionally keen, was in a room where
were some lady visitors. Finally, one OF
the ladies left.
"What remarkably white and perfect
teeth that lady has," laughingly remarked
the blind man.
err Stadelman.
Because for the last half hour she has
done nothing but laugh"
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ing him to urge, In his next message to
congress, that $4,000: 900 American citi.
Zens (women) be enfranchised by an
amendment to the federal constitution.
The very last letter she ever wrote was
addressed to Mrs. Roosevelt. 1t was
written three days after the letter to the
president, which had not yet been mailed,
and within twenty-four hours of Mrs.
Stanton's death. In both letters Mrs.
Stanton recalls that governor of New
York the president favored woman suf-
frage, and ought as president of the
United States to do, as when governor,
all he can to give the ballot to women.
1t will be interesting to see whether the
president will heed this message from
the grave.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just pub
lished the last volume Of Bret Harts
completed before his death.-a collection
of his new Condensed Novels They
have also issued Everett Tomlinson's new
tale of colonial days.. Under Colonial
Colors.' ,..-.-g .
1.-THE Strongest Master is new novel
by Mrs. Helen Choate Prince. which
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. announce. Also
THE Heart of the Doctor by Miss NJ.
G. Foster, a new author.
The Baroness Won Hutton. author of
"Our Lady Of the Beeches," will visit
this country this winter. She is a native
of Pennsylvania.
The Macmillan company announce BIO
graphical Sketches by James Bryce, au-
thor of "The American Commonwealth. -
The Bowen-Merrill company of Indian
apolis announce a new novel entitled ''The
Loom of Life by Charles F. Goss, the
author Of "The Redemption of David Car.
son." which was great success. :.
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Anthracite's Impaired Importance.

TO the annual report Of the United
States geological survey for 1901, E. w.
Parker, now one of the anthracite arbitra-
ton commission members, who is editor of
the Engineering and Mining Journal, con-
tributes paper on coal production, in
which he discusses the increased competi-
ton Of bituminous coal with anthracite,
which has changed conditions very ma
terially, anthracite having been practi-
cally eliminated as fuel in manufacture
ing and largely restricted to house use.
The report shows that in 1880 anthracite
production was 25,5so,1Ss long tons and
the bituminous output, same year, was
sS,241, GAL long tons. E. IN 1900 anthracite
production was 51,22l;35S long tons and
bituminous 1S9, 1884, 564 long tons, 27o per
cent larger than anthracite. The coal
strike strengthened the hold of BIZ
luminous upon the market so that it
cannot be displaced; w
Mr.. Parker, in his report on coal pro-
duction in 1901; referred to the anthracite
strike of 1900, as narrowing the anthra-
cite market and he predicted then that
bituminous coal was in the ascendant and
admitted that oil would also come in com
petition with anthracite in cities where
smoke-suppressing ordinances are en-
forced.
It is probable that anthrac cite will never
regain all the ground it has lost The
engineer in chief of The navy, Mr.. Mel
vile, in his current report to the secre-
ia Of
troleum as a substitute for coal on ship
board and rather discourages the idea as
far as the navy is concerned as he shows
it is more expensive to store Oil than coal
on a battleship, while it might be ad-
vantageous to use it on torpedo boats and
destroyers. The use of oil as fuel in
factories and on locomotives is increas-
ing.
Consul General Mason reports from Ber-
lin that in Germany an important industry
Is the manufacture of fuel briquettes made
from Ignite, peat and the waste of Goa
mines, which are used in locomotives anG
under factory boilers, the average price
being $3.16 a ton.
Practically all the hard coal in the United
States is contained in seven Pennsylvania
counties, and there is none in Wales O,
| Germany having such high percentage
| of carbon as this. There may be dis.
| covered vast quantities Of anthra cite, nov
unknown, somewhere in the world, but
at present, none of the quality of that ir
| Pennsylvania is known to exist elsewhere
and there are limitations to that valuable
| supply. If the arbitration commission eff.
fects composition of the questions al
issue between the anthracite miners an6
operators and succeeds in making resor,
to- a strike impossible. not for three
years but for all time, through an intel.
ligent, periodical arrangement of terms
based on mutual concessions, anthracite
coal will to a considerable extent recover
it's Importance as fuel but, probably will
never hold it's former position in tina
| respect.
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A Sagacious and Foxy Jury.

The Solomonic jury in the libel suit of
John Lind against the Minneapolis Times
has cordially agreed to disagree. This
jury evidently had a proper understanding
Of the political and opera -bouffe nature OF
the case, and knew better than to return
a verdict that would embarass the editor
Of the Times or injure the feelings Of the
next congressman from the wealthiest,
most important and most populous con-
gressional district in the United States,
as the campaign orators were wont to as
sure us. The jury refused to take seri-
ously case which afforded such a fam
Gus arena for those esteemed local wits
and wags Emanuel Cohen and A. B.
Jackson. ~
It was also manlfestly absurd for the
jury to conclude that man who had just
driven into retirement by a majority OF
1000 such a consumnate politician as
your Uncle Loren Fletcher. had any
substantial claim to have been effectively
held up to ridicule or contempt much less
to be made a pariah by the alleged ibel.
We suspect that this serpentine jury
could not logically fit to a publica tior
that is generally conceded to have made
John Lind two thousand votes, a verdict
that would say that he had suffered from
the publication in question. To have done
that would have been as inconsistent as
for the democrats to have said that the
Rev. Mr.. Burchard, of rum, Romanisn
and rebellion fame, had done their part,
a. mortal injury. On the other hand
this preternaturally wise jury was no
disposed to punish Mr. Lind for having
resented in emphatic fashion a chargt
| that it would not be public policy tt
| leave resting against the congressman
| from this district.
| Besides, the fact that Mr.. Linds execu
| tive committee, while jerking out it
! hair, except Mr.. Corser's, over the scan
dalous charge that Mr.. Lind was seeking
Scandinavian votes because in his you'll
| he disported himself on the shores o
Sweden, had incidentally turned the libe
| into a capaeious and effective trap TO
these same votes made the jury feel tina
Mr.. Lirid's mental anguish under the dis
tressing libel was not without automati
| balm.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08

The official statements Of the results
of the colonial conference in London last
June have just been made public They
were quite as futile on the whole as has
been generally supposed. but the state
ment Of what Canada offered Great
Britain, in return for preference in Brit
ish markets, is interesting to Americans.
In addition to. the existing preference OF
third reduction in duties on British
goods, Canada offered a further pref
erence for British goods BY further actual
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08

reduction of such duties, by raising the
duties on foreign goods and putting on the
dutiable list certain foreign imports that
are now free. 1t will be good statesman
ship for the United States to begin at
once a. course of conduct toward Canada
designed to head off efforts looking to the
making of Canada an exclusive preserve
for British manufacturers.
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President EIIot's Views.

President Eliot has just found serious
fault with the Protestant church. The
Methodist 'bretheren resented his views
but he refused to modify them. Much
as we all admire the great president of
Harvard university, it must be confessed
that he finds fault with great number
of things. The presidents views are
found in papers in items such as these:
president Eliot says that as spectacle
Niagara Falls is a little too coarse"
president Eliot of Harvard says that
the republican partys survival is a case
of atavism'
''President Eliot thinks that the uni
verse shows few signs Of improvement
in the last twenty-five years.
"The president of Harvard university
thinks that the zenith is slightly out Of
plumb"
Perhaps things will be better by and by.
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line, the difference Is attributed largely to
the exacticns of Canadian elevator men,
though the great milling demand in the
United States, chiefly proceeding from
the Minneap polls mills, is conceded to
make the American market legitimately
higher at the present time than the Ca
madam.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08

The Pioneer Press attributes Governor
Van SAINTS great run in Minnesota to the
general excellence Of his administration,
whereas the Minneapolis Tribune says it
is due to President Roosevelt's popularity.
Each assigns the reason it would like to
assign and ignores the salient cause of
Governor Van SAINTS popularity-his
courage in making no exception of great
railway combination in enforcing the law.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-08
The MAGAZINES

The Atlantic, among manifold attrac-
tons. contains the first of a series Of
papers by Ambrose Winston on the his.
tory and character Of American labor
organization. This initial paper is en-
titled "A Quarter Of a Century Of
Strikes" showing the tendency since the
Pittsburg riots to organize labor for the
betterment Of labor conditions Henry D.
Lloyd contributes a paper on "Australian
Cures for Coal Wars" and enlarges on
his favorite topic, the, New South Wales
and New Zealand system OF compulsory
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. if one party to o
dispute Of labor and capital wants arbitra-
ton by the court. Elizabeth McCracken
contributes a suggestive paper on The
Book in the Tenament.' showing the ap-.
probation by people in "settlement dis
tricts of the higher literature. F. G.
Howe In 1.-The End of an Economic Cycle"
argues that tariff readjustment along
scientific lines may be safely undertaken
without disturbing the business situation
and beneftting those who are most OPP.
posed to readjustment. The article is a
strong one. There are some admirable
stories in the number, with "reminiscences
and sketches and an especially delightful
talk in the Contributors club department.
The Cosmopolitan, among many inter-
esting features. contains valuable paper
on Alexander Hamilton, by the late Pro-
lessor Fiske, found among his unpublished
matter. In 1.-THE Winters Drama" Mr..
Bathon tells what plays will be seen by
the public during the coming winter and
who will play; with many Illustrations.
Everybody's Magazine has another in
stallment of Bessie Van Vorsts exploita-
lions a. a working woman to see what toll
is like. This time she spends a term in
knitting mill. D. G. Phillips tells the
life story of the much abused David Ben
net Hill and Mary Manners tells us about
the sporting set at Newport. Booker
Washington talks Interestingly of Work
With the Hands," and there are several
good stories about outlaws and violence,
one Of them 1.-THE Red Law and the
White by Joseph Blethen, formerly Of
Minneapolis, now of Seattle. A good
story in the number is How We Tanned
the Cook by Lillian Bell. New York,
No. So East Ninth street.
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always came out on time if 1T took leg.
TO a subscriber who came in on the fire
escape and tried to stop the paper Mr..
Peet remarked that It couldn't be stopped
by an injunction under the circumstances.
N. B.--We note among our exchanges
this week the reliable old Grantsburg
| Journal. t-E& ~ '#T- Al K. 3
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The Proper Method.
Omaha. Bee

The National Womans Christian Tenn
perance union has decided upon a cru.
SADIE against pictures Of undressed wo.
men on billboards. The most effective
way to get rid Of those bad pictures is tc
do away with the billboards. They are
not only public nuisance because they
are unsightly and offensive, to the artis-
tic seye. but they endanger life and limb
during heavy wind storms, besides afford
ing combustible material for conflagra-
tions.