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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargain i'm
Shirt Waists,

A miscellaneous lot of Wom-
ems Shirt Waists. in one-of-a-
kind designs. OF batiste, Irish
linen and madras. variously trim
med with laces. embroideries,
hand embroidery, tucks, etc.
Slightly soilcd from handling.
Sizes SO, 40 and AZ.
75c to $50 each.
Were SIPS to $500.
And these remnants:
White Messalinc Satin Waists alI-ovcr
tucked effect. trimmed with buttons: Huckcd
long sleeves. Reduced from 5000 to $50 each.
s Messaline Satin Waists. in taupe. Copen-
hagen blue and peacock green: all-over tucked
effects, trimmed with large buttons: tucked long
Amethyst Chiffon Cloth Waist. all-ovor
tucked effect with yoke and collar OF Baby Irish
lace: long sleeves: size IS. Reduced from
Handsome Taupc MessalInc Satin Waist
yoke and collar OF tucked cream net. bodice and
lapcls trimmed with soutache braid: tucked long
sleeves: size 40. Reduced from $500 to SEQ
$ All-over Tucked Net Waists. in gray. dark
from $50 and s775 to S575 each.
] Imported Handmade Lingerie Shirt Waist,
hand enhroidered and trimmed with cluny lace.
fastcn in back: size IS Reduced from $3.50 to
$1,000.
Crossbarred Handkerchief Linen Lingerie
Shirt Waist. trimmed with hand embroidery.
cluny lace and fine tucks; long sleeves trimmed
to match: size 80. Reduced from 5000 10
$50
) Fine Batiste Shirt Waists hand emhrod-
cred and trimmed with German valenciennes
lace and fine tucks: q sleeves: fasten in back:
sizes SO. 40 and AZ. Reduced from $o.15 TO
s.. a. each.
:; Irish Linen Shirt Waists. hand embroidered
and trimmed with large and small tucks: long
sleeves: fastcn in front: laundered collar and
cuffs: size Is. Reduced from $40 to SD each.
Third floor G. st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Neckwear Department.

Chiffon Mufs, in pink, gray. brown and
black. Reduced from $1,000 to 500 each.
9 Marabou Feather Muffs, in plain gray and
white. Reduced from 500 to $500 each.
g Marabou Feather Sets. consisting of muf
and boa: light blue and gray. Reduced from
$751; to $500 set.
Main floor ST
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
And these remnants:
Friday Bargains inn
Bows FURNISHINGS Dept,

a Tot OF Boys Separate Trousers.
knickerbocker style: mostly all wool
and lined throughout; sizes to II.
CSC. Values, $I.5o and $500.
A lot of Boys Madras Shirts, in white
and colored effects; mostly all coat
style; sizes II to IA inch neckband
S5c each. Value, SIPS.
And these remnants:
II Boys All-wool Sweaters. coat style: sizes
to L. Reduced from $1a5 and $50 to 69c
each.
5 Boys Blanket Bath Robes sizes 2 to 10.
Reduced from $3.50 to 81 Go each
% Cloth Hats and Caps, for boys and girls +:
variety of styles and all sizes. Reduced from
81 So 81 90 and 50. so to Soc 75c and 81 90 each
70 Children's Odd Hats and Caps. Reduced
from zoe. 75c and $1.O0 to Poe each.
Third floor Tenth st
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargain i'm
Wool Blankets.

Wool Blankets subject to slight inn
PROJECTIONS = but no holes and of a
character that does not affect their
appearance or service. There are two
hundred pairs in the lot, as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargains i'm
Lace Curtains and
POrtieres,

We offer for clearance the &C
emulation of all one. two and
three pair lots of Lace Curtains
and Portieres' at greatly reduced
prices.
Lace Curtains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Is Our Remnant DaV

Me1omus otherwise Imperfect are jus an sshot kngHso b
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Rope Portleres.
Friday Bargain inn
COlOred Dress Goods.

4 Parts of Pieces 54-inch dag
onals, in old blue, golden brown
and tan. Suitable for coat suits,
separate skirts, etc.
7oc yard. Value, $I.75.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargain inn
VV0mem's Silk lisle Hose

40 dozen pairs Women's Black
Silk Isle Thread Hose, with
double soles and high spliced
heels; excellent quality.
CSC a pair. Value, 35c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargain i'm
Fleeced MimOmO Cloth.

500 yards Fleeced kimono
Cloth-a heavy material-in
checks, plaids and Persian Eff
fects, suitable for Women's and
Children's Wrappers, Kimonos,
Dressing Sacques, etc.
I21ac yard. Value, 18c.
And these remnants:
(21a to 8 yard lengths.)
121ac Outing Flannel, Sc a yard.
121ac Printed Lawn. 10c yard.
121ac Printed Percale, 10c d yard.
121ac Batiste Bingham, 10c a yard.
15c Galatea, 121zc yard.
29c Chiffon Null, Zoe yard.
3Sc Japonika Silk. 25c a yard.
3Sc Silk Poplin, 25c a yard.
soc Mousseline de Sole Soc yard.
Second floor, G ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargain i'm
Mems Clothing Dept.

We offer the remainder of our
winter stock of Suits and Over
coats at reduced prices. They
consist OF plain blacks. fancy mix
lures and a few blues. They are
the products of the well known
makers-fIart Schaffner and
Marx; Hirsh, Wickwire & Co. and
others-thus affording particular
men an opportunity to supply
their wants at very decisive say
ING.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

And these remnants:
IA pairs Women's Gray Lisle Thread Hose
double soles and high spced heels; sizes Sla 8
9la. Reduced from SOC to 25c pair.
IA pairs Women's Black Lisle Thread Hose
with embroidered ankles: sizes 9, 9la and 10
Reduced from Soc to 35c pair.
30 pairs Infants Black Cashmere Hose. witt
silk toes and heels: sizes and ~. Reducet
from DC to 12k,c pair.
Main noOr p
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Friday Bargain i'm
Girls perca1e Dresses.

A small lot of Girls Percale
Dresses, in light and dark checks.
plaids and polka dots, trimmed
with braid; long sleeves; fasten
in back; full plated skirt; sizes 6
to II.
CSC each. Were $I.25. :
And these remnants:
Girls Ful-length Coats. OF brown velvet and
garnet corduroy: size 8. Reduced from $3.50
and $500 to 5000 each.
l Girls Tan Broadcloth Coat. full length: size
g. Reduced from 5000 to $3.50.
Misses All-wOol Cheviot Jumper Dresses
in dark blue and garnet. trimmed with silk and
buttons: plain skirt with fold. Reduced from
$3.50 TO $1,000 each.
Girls Garnet BrOadcloth Suits. trimmed
with black satin: box coat full plated skirt.
Reduced from $500 to 5000 each.
Misses CheviOt Coats. black and blue full
length trimmed with buttons and finished with
velvet collar. Reduced from $13.TJ to Sf0.s5
each
I Misses Novelty Cloth Coat full length. trim
med with fancy buttons Reduced from $50
to SIS. 90.
Third floor, G ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

Formerly. Now.
2prs Imported Irish Point $500 $500
2 prs Arabian Irish Point. $500 $50
prs. Ivory Marie An c,o-o
tolnette ........... D'OO ~
prs French Arabian, :. $I2.oo 500
prs. French Arabian. SI2.5o $500
2 prs. French Arabian S22.5o $3.50
prs. French Arabian. $500 $500
Portieres.
Formerly. Now.
prs. Red Rep. good c6 q, .r
quality. Observation-Disclosures. e'O'oO PO./
prs. Green Rep, fine CQ n G. ~
quailty. f'O
QUALITY prs Red Rep. fine $3.50 $500
Rep pr Extra Heavy Green $3.50 $500
pnD Pr; k'd-and Green silk $4,000 $1,000
2 prs Green Silk Velour. Co n SJOOO
slightly faded. ........-.. |@'Oo
va ;. pr. Green SILK and $3.50 $500
Rope Port1eres.
Formerly. Now.
1 pr Red Velour. faded. $3.50 $3.75
pr. Heavy Red Cord, S2 20 e. ~
with valance. ~
pr. Red Chenille Cord $500 $3.50
pr Blue Mixed Cord. $500 $3.50
Fourth floor, q st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Pylons Surmounted by Flowers.

named. alike in front of the reviewing
stands and in the spaces not so occupied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Arranges Street Decorations.

The committee on street decorations.
Edward w. Dom. jr., chairman, met last
night. 1t was decided that an expert
member of the committee will give advice
to business. men and residents as to
the decoration of their buildings upon
application being made to the chairman.
1t was announced by Mr.. Dom that the
plans for the court OF honor had been
completed: that they are now in the
hands of contractors who are figuring
upon the proposals which will be opened
next Monday.
II was explained that the court OF
honor is the street space on Pennsyl-
vania avenue between 18th and 18th
streets northwest This space will be set
with Venetian masts. thirty feet apart,
and twenty-five feet high. On the top OF
each mast will be a basket filled with
evergreen ana artificial flowers. From
each will depend streamers of red and
white, upon which will be the initial
letters + and in blue on white back
ground. The Venetian masts will extend
the whole distance between the streets
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14

ally and otherwise on the farm than
in the city where there are so many
attractions to lead him away from his
work and to induce him to spend his
money for purposes that are many
times worse than useless. The Com
missioner is now receiving many
applications for help to begin work
in March or April and many of them
to begin at once. Young men and
married men desiring to secure work
on farms should write the Commits
sioner OF Labor at once in order
that he may put them in communica-
tion with farmers desiring help.
Farmers desiring help should do the
same.
The Commissioner also has many
requests for girls to work in many
of the best homes in the state at
wages ranging from 50 to S. per
week, including board and washing.
Girls desiring such places should
address the Commissioner of Labor,
stating their wants, and send referen-
ces. Persons desiring the help Of
girls should also write him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
WHY WE TR ABE.

1t is strange that grown men, great
or small, should seriously entertain
the proposition that import duties
ought to equal the difference in the
cost Of production. Why. it is the
difference in the cost of production
that most generally makes trade de-
sirable, and beneficial TO both par
ties to the transaction, whether they
be individuals or nations. Trade
based on this principle has largely
tended to make the United States a
great nation If a given article can
be produced cheaper in Texas than
in Wisconsin, the people Of WiscOn-
sin buy it from the people of Texas,
and sell them 10 return something
that can be produced cheaply in
Wisconsin: and what is true in this
regard from the north to the south
is true from the east to the west. 1t
is chiefly because Of the great
difference in the cost of production
that the Panama canal is being dug.
IF universal tariffs were laid to even
up the difference there would be
little reason for prosecuting the great
enterprise. Trade is not altogether
OUe5ided
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
THE HONEYMOON PARADE.
Wedding Custom In One Town When
the Train Is Late.


A small city, which need not be To-
Gated more particularly than that it Is
somewhere east of Boston, has it's own
peculiar way of speeding the newly
married on their honeymoon.
For one thing, every one goes to the
station to see the couple depart This
is done in many small places. The
showering of rice or confetti and the
throwing Of the old shoe take place,
not at the home of the bride, but at the
station. To that extent the city re-
ferred to is not unusual
But in this city train schedules fire.
Quently go awry, and when they do
the unusual happens. The wedding, Of
course, has been celebrated on time,
and the reception has taken as much
time as such things usually take. The
departure from the brides home is
made in due season to catch the train
if it is on time.
The wedding guests rush to the sta
ton, where all other inhabitants hav-
ing nothing better to do have assem-
bled already. 1t is a free show which
no one would miss.
The carriage bearing the newly mar
ried pair is drawn by white horses and
decorated with white ribbons. Custom
demands this and no one has yet had
the temerity to do otherwise.
The carriage arrives at the station,
and it is learned that the train is so
many minutes or so many hours late.
USUALLY the measure is in hours
The carriage doesn't wait. 1t goes
parading 1t drives around and around
a prescribed route, from every point Of
which the driver can get due notice Of
the approach of the train.
The crowd remains patiently at the
station. Other curious persons station
themselves at points along the route
just to see the wedding coach pass.
Sometimes two or three carriages,
drawn by white horses and decorated
in white, swing steadily around this
hymeneal circuit. Tt seems like an
endless procession. 1t is not unsual
for a wedding pair to spend the first
five hours of their honeymoon just rid
ing round and round waiting for the
train.
When the screech of the locomotive
finally is heard the driver continues to
swing up to the platform just as the
train comes to stop. Then the bride
and bridegroom make mad rush for
their car amid a shower of rice and
confetti and old shoes. The honeymoon
parade is Over-ExChange
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
For High School Debating

The advantages of triangular high
school debating leagues are presented
in a bulletin just issued by the depart
meuC of debating and public discus
sion of the extension division of the
University of Wisconsin. In order
to encourage the establishment of
such leagues among the Wisconsin
high schools, a model constitution
with the methods of organization is
included in the bulletin.
Three high schools of about the
same size and strength in neighbOring
cities can readily organize a league,
the bulletin points out, and each high
school can have two teams on the field
annually, one on each side of the
question. BY this plan each school
meets both opponents every year, and
If it is arranged that each school has
an affirmative and negative team.
the best of preparation can be secured
through practice debates.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
a TURNER MASTERPIECE.
Origin of the Painters Famous "Rain,
Steam and Speed"

Of all pictures by the great English
color poet, Turner, none is more pOpu-
lar than that which now graces the
London National gallery under the
name Of Rain Steam and Speed"
which was first exhibited in 1874 1t
is impossible to reproduce this ade-
quately.
Concerning the origin Of this picture
Ruskin furnishes an interesting tale.
The story was told to him by a friend,
Lady Simon. 1t seems that she was
travelling one night in the early days
Of the Great Western railway from
Exeter to London. ''When 1 had taken
off my coat and smOOthed my rufled
pIumes and generally settled myself"
she tells, 81 looked up to see the most
wonderful eyes l ever saw, steadily,
LUMINOSITY, clairVoyantly, kindly, pa
ternally looking at me. The hat was
over the forehead, the mouth and chin
buried in the brown velvet coat collar
Of the brown greatcOat. Well, we went
on, and the storm went on more and
more until we reached Bristol, where
we waited ten minutes. My old gen
tleman rubbed the side window with
his coat cuff, in vain. He attacked the
center window, again in vain, so blur
red and blotted was it with the tor
rents of rain. A moments hesitation
and then, Young lady, would you mind
my putting down this Window
ooh no not at all
"'You may be drenched, you know
Never mind, sir
Immediately down went the win
dow and out went the old gentleman's
head and shoulders, and [ said, oh,
please let me look
"'Now, you will be drenChed,' he re-
mOnstrated. But he half opened the
window for me to see. Such a night,
Such a chaos of elemental and artificial
lights and noises l never saw nor
heard. He drew up the window as we
moved on. [ leaned back for some
minutes with closed eyes, then opened
them and said, We'll, 1 have been
drenched, but it was well worth it
"He nodded and smiled and again
took to his steady but inOffensive Pc
rusing Of my face. The next year, I
think it was, going to the academy, I
turned at once, as [ always did, to see
what Turner's there were. Imagine
my feelings! There stood written
Rain, Steam and Speed, Great West
ern June, 1843' I had found out
whom the seeing eyes belonged to. AS
1 stood looking at the picture [ heard
a mawkish voice behind me say:
"'There, now, just look at that!
Amt it Just like Turner? Who ever
saw such a ridiculous conglomeratiOn"
l turned very quietly round and said:
4 did was in the train that night,
and it is perfectly and wonderfully
true After that I walked quietly
Helen Zimmern in Metropol-
itan Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
The Question of Farm Labor

for the year 1909 promises to be a
problem of no mean proportions.
The Commissioner of Labor. J. D.
Beck of Madison, is being beseiged
with applications from farmers all
over the state for farm help, either by
the month or by the year. There are
a great many more farmers asking
for help than there appears to be men
wanting these positions. During the
hard times last year, the Commits
siouer succeeded in placing over 1900
men out of work in the cities upon
farm at wages ranging from $50 to
$50 per month, including board and
washing, and varying according to
the past experience of the farm hand
and his training for the work. Those
Offering places for S35 per month are
generally for married men without
children. At these rates of wages
any young man is better off fnanci-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
Goinq Too Far.

At a school exhibition a Juvenile
elocutionist got up to recite the first
piece Of his life. He was ambitious
He wished to make a great success Of
his piece, and he had been told by
his teacher that the secret of elocution
was the geSture-for every phrase its
fitting gesture. The opening line of
the boys selection was, 1.-The comet
lifts its tail of fire" The overzealous
boy, to fit its proper gesture TO this
line, lifted up the tail of his coat and
held it out in horizontal position.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
Masonic Memorial.

Resolutions adopted by Mineral Point
Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. on the death
Of Brother Charles Gilman:
Brother Charles Gilman died at
Mineral Point on the 9th day of Janu-
airy, 1909.
For a period spanning nearly the
length of an ordinary life time he had
been an ardent, consistent and eXem-
plary mason. He was well grounded
in the tenets and principles of masonry
and strived to live up to them closely
in his daily life and intercourse with his
fellow men.
During his long residence in Mineral
Point, he was one Of its foremost citi-
zens, always ready with his counsel and
purse in aiding public functions and
enterprises, and to the poor and needy
in the community his charity was I'M
sparing.
No one has stood in higher public es-
timation in Mineral Point on account of
his sterling qualities as a good citizen,
than he.
Therefore, be it resolved, that in the
death of Brother Charles Gilman, this
lodge has lost one of its oldest and best
beloved members, whose memory we
will always cherish in kindest rec
objection.
That to his grief stricken family, who
mourn his loss, we offer our tenderest
sympathies in their great bereavement.
That the charter of the lodge be
draped in mourning for thirty days in
his memory and that a copy of these
resolutions, under seal of the lodge, be
given to Brother Gillmann's family.
VIM. P. BLISS,
VIM. C. HALES,
CALVERT SPENSLEY,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
EooIinu the Docs,

In a certain part of Scotland, ac-
cording to Dean Ramsey, the shep-
herds used to take their collies with
them to church The dogs behaved
well during the sermon, but began to
be restless during the last psalm and
saIuted the final blessing with joyful
barks. II one church the congrega-
ton resolved to stop this unseemly
detail so when a strange minister was
about to pronounce the blessing all re-
mainc1 Gated instead Of rising, as he
expect. He hesitateG and paused
till az q shepherd cried: '"Say ava,
sir. We're a sittin' to cheat the
dowgs"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
Rraakfastinn With Whistler.

The was q foreign painter who used
to breakfast at Chelsea, and when
Mr.. Carr asked him if he had been
there lately he replied: "Oh, no; not
now so much He ask me q leetle
while ago to breakfast, and I go. Ny
cab fare, two shilling, 'arf a crown. /
arrive, very nice Goldfish in bowl,
very pretty. But breakfast-one egg,
one toast-no morel Oh, no. My cab
fare, two shilling, 'arf a crown. Fo4
me no morer'-LOndon Telegraph.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
ZOOLOGY and EIads,

Zoology figures very largely on the
flags of different nations. On the
British royal standard is the lion. 1t
was Richard Occur de Lion, by the
way, who altered the device from
leopards to lions on the kings stand
ard. The eagle appears on the stand
ards of both Russia and Germany
and both the lion and the eagle on that
Of Spain. Bulgaria has a lion, China
a dragon and Mexico a bird quarreling
with a snake. Taken together with
the animals that appear on nations
arms, the royal unicorn and Austria
liam emu and kangaroo, a fairly COM
prehensive collection could be made
from national emblemS.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
First Electric Fire Boats in
The World

The fire lighting system of Chicago
has just been augmented with two
great "Dreadnaught'' fire boats which
are the first of their kind in the world e.
They are the largest and most power
full vessels built for fire fighting and
the first centrifugal pump fire boats to
be used on the great lakes; and they
are the first turbine driver boats in
the world to be electrically controlled
from the pilot house as well as the
first boats in this country to use cleo
trical propulsion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
Trade School for Girls.

Milwaukee Journal: Many students
of economic and sociological condi-
tions will be greatly disappointed if
the school board fails to give favor
able consideration to the plan of Mrs.
Kander, one of its members, to es-
tablish in Milwaukee a trades school
for girls. The need in the city for a
trades school for boys has been felt
and met The need for similar
school for girls is just as great even
rreater.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-14
Incnnsis feYnt

Brown-It's curious about peoples
beliefs. They will give entire ere
dence TO the most absurd things and
put no faith whatever in the most OBJ
vious truths. Black-Yes. I've noticed
it. There's Greene, now. He hasn't
the least confidence in hash, but he'll
eat all the croquettes and mince pie
you can set before him--Exchange