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O. H. CRONIN, EDITOR ANDMANAOCR.
VOLUME XVII
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, APRIL 8, 1897
NUMBER 40.
NEWS SANTWHISOBS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
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WHEN AMO BOW IT HAPPENED
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"head Happenings Portrayal For General
v Sdlflwtlen sad Amusement.
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Bentley’s for Croekery end glassware.
The battle is over, and—well we did
;!■ ; not win. - •
' Councilman-elect Hicks ran like a
race horse. . _.
H. A. Allen was down from Atkinson
j, last Friday._ ■ ■ . ^
Sam Thompson spent Wednesday
night in Atkinson.
Sanford Parker spent Sunday in the
_ city with his family. ‘
, When in need of lead pencils or tab
lets, call at Mrs. Cress'.
Miss Blanche Adams was down from
Stuart Sunday visiting friends.
Jim Harrington went up to Valentine
Tuesday evening on legal business.
J. J. King was down from Chadron
Sunday, returning in the evening.
The ladies working society will meet
with Mrs. C. E. Moore on Wednesday,
' April 14. __
Prof. Anderson went up to Hot
Springs Tuesday evening for a few days
visit.
The total precipitation for the week
ending Monday, April 5. was 5.27
• inches. _
, The ground was never in better shape
for seeding, in this section, than it is
this Bpring. _
If you want some of the best bread
you ever ate you can get it at Bentley’s
'> City Bakery. 30-8
Frank Woods, of Spencer, visited
friends in O’Neill several days the first.
, ;s of,the week._- ■
l Dr. A. T. Blackburn was down from
Atkinson Wednesday and dropped 81.50.
& in our .subscription fund.
Jake Hershiser returned to Norfolk
yesterday morning to look after his
business interests there.
Is O’Neill going to have a champion
ball team this season? If we are it is
about time to organize.
Down in “Darkest Arkansaw"lhe peo
ple are suffering untold hardships on
account of the high water.
It will be nearly three months before
we have another election. Politicians
will be a little out of practice. -
The board of directors of the Golden
Irrigation district held their regular
monthly meeting last Tuesday.
How about rock salt? We have it
in any quantity.
39-2 O’Neill Grocery Co.
For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor
bett’s parlors, 23rd to 30th of each
month. Photographs 81 per dozen.
We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
bran, shorts, corn, oats, etc., at gold
standard prices. 83-tf L. Keyes.
When needing corn, oats, shorts or
oil cake, see us. We have it at living
prices. 2 O’Neill Grocery Co.
There is no school this week. The
school board ordered a vacation for a
week in order to keep the measles from
spreading. __
Jim Harrington purchased the build
ing now occupied by Dr. Trueblood as
. an office, at the Morris estate sale last
Monday, for 842.
James Trigg and Sam Thompson have
formed a partnership and expect to open
up a first-claBs paint shop in this city.
See there ad in another column.
We have Alfalfa, Red Clover and
Kentucky blue grass and they are fresh
and niee. See them.
89-8 O’Neill Grocery Co.
Elijah Babcock and Mias Teasie Mar*
ley were married by County Judge
McGutchan last Thursday. The Fron*
tier congratulates the young couple.
Our spring stock is a sight worth see
ing. Call and get our prices. We sell
cheap for cash.
40-3 Sullivan Mercantile Co.
Charlie Mall has purchased Sam
Thompson’s interest in the restaurant,
and the firm name is now Hatfield &
Hall. We wish the new firm success.
Shoes! Shoes! If you want to save
money on shoes you muss buy them at
our store.
40-8 Sullivan Mercantile Co.
In spite of the bad weather last Sat
urday the Episcopal ladies did very well
with their exchange, and they will hold
another April 10 for the same purpose.
Joe Horriskey was around town Fri
day for the first time since his recent
illness. As a result of his illness he is
nOw eligible 4o the featherweight class.
The hew drug firm, HersbiSer & Gil
ligan, expect to have a full and com
plete stock of all goods to be found in a
first-class drug store, in about ten days.
A. L. Wyman, of Shelton, Neb., is in
the city this week for the purpose of
organizing a lodge of the Loyal Mystic
Legions of America, a fraternal benefi
ciary order. '_
Bentley’s new stock,of crockery and
glassware is just immense. If you want
any dishes don’t fail to see their pure
white semi-porclean. They are so
cheap. __ 89-8
At the Morris estate sale Monday,
Jess Mellor purchased about $1,700
worth of notes and accounts for $150.
He had ought to open up a collection
agency. _
Hershiser & Gilligan’s is the best place
to buy first class paints, oils and wall
paper at prices to suit the times. Pure
drugs dispensed' with care. Choice
tobacco and cigars in stock. <40 tf
Joseph Price, father of Maylon. Price
of this city, returned Sunday evening
from a protracted visit with relatives in
Illnois. Mr. Price is now convinced
that Holt county is the place to live.
The Norfolk News is of the opinion
that Parnell Golden was entitled to first
place in the declamatory contest at that
place last week. It is very often the
case that the deserving does not win.
Daniel Horgan returned Tuesday
evening from Ireland, where he has
been visiting relatives for a year and a
| half. He left Queenstown one week
I ago last Sunday. Mr. Horgan looks
hale and hearty after his long ocean
voyage. __
An exchange defines a ‘‘sucker" as a
business man who sends his job work
to some printer out of town and expects
his home paper to blow up the town
and benefit him as well as his enter
prising neighbors. There are a few of
them even in O’Neill.
Having purchased the* drug stook of
Morris d; Co., we wish to announce to
the public that we aim to give you the
attention in the future that was given in
this place during the past.
40-tf Sincerely yours,
Hehshiseb & Gilligan.
Stuttgart Free Press: Stuttgart is
fortunate in having five of the best
physicians, and most thorough gentle
men withal, in the state of Arkansas.
You must have a very healthy (?)
country, Doc, when! a little town of
1,000 inhabitants can support five of the
“best physicians in the state.”
Having purchased the drug stock of
Morris & Co., we are now ready to give
you the best for your money, and
invite you to come in when you are in
town, where you will be courteously
treated. Truly yours,
40-tf Hehshiseb & Gilligan.
F. W. Anthony, who left Laurel,
Neb., for Denver for the benefit of his
health, returned to O’Neill Tuesday
evening. His health has greatly im
proved since going'to the mountains,
and the pure air of Holt county will
soon return the bloom of health to his
cheeks.
Last week the Sullivan Mercantile
company billed two car loads of pota
toes to Galveston, Texas, from which
place they will be shipped to Cuba. We
hope they will strengthen the muscles
of the patriots and thus assist them in
breaking the chain that holds them
bound to the Spanish tyrants.
Neligh Advocate: Will Moss, the
college student from Atkinson, is still
very sick. He was getting along nipely
and improving until Tuesday, when he
suffered a relapse, and was for awhile in
a very critical condition. His father
and mother came down and are at his
bedside.
The suit of Mrs. Mary Tierney vs.
Grattan township, for nursing Mr.
Hayes in 1894, was tried to a jury in
Judge McCutchan’s court last Friday.
Suit was brought for $100. The jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the
sum of $42. Mrs. Taylor was attorney
for the plaintiff, and J. J. Harrington
for the defendant.
A Kansas editor went to Mexico on
an editorial excursion recently, says the
Norfolk News, leaving his daughter, 17
years old, to get out the paper during
his absence. The first issue under the
new woman regime contained this
notice at the head of the editorial col
umn: "Pa is in Mexico. I received a
letter from him this morning. He has
got.ma with him and is haying a darn
good time, I guess. I wish be was
home, as it is lonesome to be editor-in
chief all alone. .Pa and ma went to
church and a bull fight last Sunday.
Go well together, pa and ma, church
and a bull fight.”
Sheriff Hamilton took Raymond Mus
ser down to Lincoln last Sunday, where
be entered upon an eight-year sentence
for shooting Geo. A. Spence last Decem
ber. The supreme court fixed bis appeal
bond at $8,000 and gave him until April
IS to file it. Munser made no attempt
to secure the bond but expects to try
and secure a commutation of the sen
tence in about a year
Dixon Tribune: Lightening mean
dered around over Wayne a short time
ago, and passing seven saloon keepers,
the county commissioners, all the news
paper men anrj C. J. Rundell, flopped
down on a poor Inoffensive preacher
and knocked the whey out of him.
Someway Wayne’s lightening does not
seem to care about the moral as taught
in the Sunday school books of our
youth.
Two years ago R, J. Warren, a drug
gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y., bought a
small supply of Chamberlain’s Cough
remedy. He sums up the result as
follows: “At that time the goods were
unknown in this section; today Cham
berlain’s Cough remedy is a household
world.” It Is the same in hundreds of
communities. Where ever the good
qualities of Chamberlain’s Cough rem
edy become known th'e people will have
nothing else. For sale by P. C. Corrigan.
The following special to the State
Journal from Blair, Neb., will be of
Interest to our citizens, as Mr. Cain re
sided north of this city for several years:
"Thomas Cain fell’down the cellar stairs
at the residence of his son-in-law, Harry
Higley,, last evening at 5 o’clock, and
sustained serious injuries. A gash about
four inches long was cut in his head,and
some internal injuries resulted from the
fall. Dr. Meecher is not able to tell at
the present time whether or not they
will result fatally.”
The musical union will hold a special
meeting at the rink Friday night to
which the public are invited to discus*
the question of securing the service* of
an instructor for the musical classes.
The union has the promise of the ser
vices of an eminent Instructor if the
proper arrangements can be made, fie
will want to organize a private class in
voice culture, outside of the union ant)
all who have an interest in such matters
are urged to attend this meeting and
hear the question discussed.
The anti-irrigationists were not in it
to any great extent yesterday. In this,
the First district, the vote is very close.
With Emmett to hear from Leeper
has a majority of two over Hopkins. It
is the opinion of those familiar with the
sentiment in that precinct that it will
give Hopkins a majority of five or six.
If so, he will be elected. In the Second
district Dodd bad no opposition, while
in the Third Mr. Hall was re-elected by
a majority oyer Mr. Sission, the Ains
worth candidate. Sam Nelson is elected
assessor by a good majority over John
Kelly. Fred Whittemore was re-elected
treasurer without opposition.
The city election prssed off very
quietly last Tuesday, the result being a
great surprise to us as well as a large
number of others. B. S. Gillespie was
elected mayor over John Skirving by a
majority of 23. The vote on mayor in
the several wards was as follows: First
ward, Gillespie 40; Skirving 28. Second
ward, Gillespie 37; Skirving 25. Third
ward, Gillespie 30; Skirving 37. So it
will be seen by the above that the bloody
Third was the only one in the city which
gave a majority for Skirving. N. Mar
tin was elected city clerk and B. Me
Greevy city treasurer without opposi
sition. In the First ward E. P. Hicks
received a majority of 30 over Ernest
Adams for councilman. E. S. Kinch
was elected to the council from the Sec
ond ward without opposition, as was
also Emil Sniggs from the Third. The
political complexion of the council is five
republicans and one old-time democrat.
A chronic politician haa thus written
to a lady whom he sought to marry:
“My dear, I hereby announce myself as
a candidate for your hand, and I shall
use all fair and honorable means to
secure the nomination. I know there
ere many candidates in the field, and I
hesitated long before entering the race,
but now I am in to stay. My views on
matrimony have often been expressed in
your hearing, and I need not express
them here. You know I favor the gold
standard of love and the maintenance of
that standard after marriage. If you
decide to confer upon me the honor I
seek, please fix the date for a caucus
with your mother. I've no objections
to her acting as chairman, provided it is
clearly understood I am to be chairman
of the permanent organization. Should
the result of the caucus be satisfactory
we can soon bold the primaries and
select the date and place of the conven
tion.” The following brief telegram
answered it: “Caucus unnecessary.
Nomination unanimous. Come at once
and fix date of ratification.”
Mr*. A. Inveen, residing at 72<J Henry
St, Alton, 111., mffered with sciatic
rheumatism for over eight months. She
doctored for it nearly the whole of this
time, using various remedies recom
mended by friends, and was treated by
tbd physicians, but received no relief.
She then used one and a half bottles of
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which effect
ed a complete cure. This is published
at her request, as she wants others simi
larly afflicted to know what cured her.
The 35 and 50 cent sizes for sale by P.
C. Corrigan._
Exchange: This'is a very peculiar
world. One is struggling to get a place
in it, and another is fleeing from it.
One is trying to build a house, another
is trying to sell his for less than it cost,
to get rid of it. One man is spending
ail be earns in taking a girl to places of
amusement, etc., sending her flowers
with the hope of making her his wife,
while his neighbor is spending what has
taken years to earn and save in getting
a divorce. One man escapes all diseases
flesh is heir to, and gets killed on the
raJftoad. Another man escapes a scratch
and dies with whooping cough. One
man stands off all his creditors and goes
traveling, while another pays his debts
amir stays at home. What are you
doing?, : .
The Morris drug stock was sold by the
administrators of the estate last Monday
afternoon, and was purchased by Jake
Hefahlser and Dr. J. P. Gilllgan.
Jake will move to O'Neill and run
the store as soon as he disposes of
bis store at Norfolk. In the meantime
Tom Morris and Charlie Stout can be
found at the old stand ready to accom
modate all customers. The new firm,
Hershiser & Gilllgan, need no introduc
tion to the people of O’Neill or Holt
county. For many years Jake was an
employee of Morris & Co., in the store
in which he now owns an interest, and
for about four years worked in Corri
gan’s drug store. About a year ago
he purchased a drug store at Nor
folk, where he has since resided. Dr.
GiHigan has been a practicing physician
in . this city for the past five years, and
is well known throughout the county
and northwestern Nebraska as one of
thl^beet* physician* la the state, The
new firm will put in a large stock of
new drugs, and will then have one of
the largest and best drug stores in the
state outside of Omaha and Lincoln.
The Frontier takes great pleasure in
welcoming them to the business circles
of O’Neill and we predict for them
success.
A party of nimrods, consisting of R.
R Dickson, 8. J. Weekes, J. B. Mellor,
J. A. Harelet, Jas. O’Donnell and Harry
Dowling, went on a hunting trip to the
south country last Friday afternoon.
The boys were supplied with the nec
essary perquisites for an enjoyable trip,
and about half the residents of this city
were promised an abundance of the
feathered tribe when the gallant hunters
would return from their outing. But
alast Man proposes and God disposes.
The boys had not made their peace with
the weather department before starting,
and weeping clouds followed them like
a Nemesis. Friday night the boys
camped in a hay stack and they say that
the next morning they thought they
were in a Noah’s ark, as they were
surrounded by water. With water in
front of them, water behind them, and
water above and below them, still Dick
son was not satisfied, as the boys say he
got off the hay stack to show them that
the water was not deep and fell into a
well, and the dangers the rest of the
push encountered in rescuing him—to
hear them tell it—would fill a book,
The boys returned home Sunday after
noon without a feather, not even having
the satisfaction of getting a good shot
at either ducks or geese.
nr xexoxivx.
The following beautiful line*, were
written by Willie McCarthy, the 12-year
old *on of Mr. and Mr*. P. C. McCarthy,
of Leadville, Col., on the death of hi*
little sister, who was buried in the
Catholic cemetery here a week ago:
Beloved parents, weep no more for me;
All my sorrow now is over,
I am happy now In Jesus
On this bright and golden shore.
Oh, dear papa and dear mamma.
Look to Jesus now and live:
For he is your only Saviour,
He eternal life will give.
Oh, dear brothers, John and Willie,
Look to Jesus as your friend;
For a crown of life He’ll give you,
When with you this life shall end. ‘ ‘
Farewell Fannie, you have left us,
We will see your faoe no more;
’Till we meet In yonder mansion,
On that ever blessed shore.
We do miss you, greatly miss you,
As we go to evening prayers;
Oh yes, we are sure that you are happy,
And we hope thy joys to share.
Yes, we will meet you, God will help us;
We will ever faithful be;
While here on earth we toll in sorrow,
We will still remember thee.
wnui McCabthy,
UQI8LATIVX BOIXOM.
Lincoln, Neb., April 18,^1807,—Spec
ial Oorreapondence: When the' first
Count of the ballots, by the first "non
partisan committee,” was brought to a
sudden halt by the restraining order of
the court, and to disgrace by the start
ling exposures of Hedlund, and when
Hedlund, who exposed the crooked
work of the counters, had been dis
charged and denounced by the governor,
and when those who had committed the
outrage on the ballots had been com
plimented for their work by the gover
nor, and when a mob, calling itself a
"legislative committee," headed by Mr.
Edmundson and others had seized the
ballots, and when these ballots had been
in the custody of this "legislative com
mittee” part of the time, of the secretary
of state part of the time, of a "guard"
part of the time, and of Tom, Dick and
Harry a part of some ten days and
nights, and when at last a new com
mittee of counters hsd been created
under a new act, then this new com
mittee solemnly marched out of the
house and senate into the secretary of
state’s office, on into the back room,
into the nest where the ballots had been,
where the doors had been locked, where
the blinds had been closed, where the
secretary of state had gone in and out>
where his deputy and his clerks had
gone in and out, where Maret and the
oil room gang had flitted in and out,
where Edmundson had solemnly walked
in and out. where the "guard” had been
in and out, where God only knows who
had been in and out when the people of
Lincoln were asleep, and the first sol
emn act of the new committee when
they reached the haunted chamber was
to lock the two outside doors and place
a guard at the inside door.
isacn memoer or me new counting
committee protested vigorously to
everyone whom he met, "These ballots
will be counted now and counted hon
estly.” I don’t know why these popu
list manipulators (eel called upon at all
times, in all places and under all cir
cumstances, to atop every man they
meet and explain that they are honest.
Their honesty seems to be of a kind
that requires constant advertising and
pushing to keep it before the public.
There’s a theory among the mental
science people that if you earnestly
desire something, which you are greatly
in need of, all that is necessary is to
constantly assert that you have it, and
by the very force of the positive state
ment repeated over and over again, you
will bring to yourself the desired thing.
If this theory is correct, I know of a
number of prominent populists wbo
have reached that stage in sanctified
honesty where they can do no wrong.
Whenever they, in their enthusiasm for
reform, run up against a law or a con
stitution, that’s a sign that the constitu
tion is wrong and ought to be set aside.
"You can’t criticise this recount any
more now,” said one of the legislative
committee, as he stood in the hall,
outside of the counting room with the
door locked behind him, "for we’re
going to do this ourselves.” "You bet,”
said a hard-looking citizen who stood
near and who has been one of the bang
ers on and one of the helpers. "You
bet,” he continued to ejaculate, as the
member reiterated over and over again
that the members themselves were going
to do the job aud nobody could question
their honesty. "You bet they can’t,”
repeated the banger-on, "an’ the peo
ple’s with us.”
I have noticed all through this session
that whenever you meet one of the
“push” in this recount business, he
wants to explain that he, himself, is
perfectly honest, is entirely disinterest
ed, and there’s always one of these
cheap job-hunters standing at his elbow
ready to ejaculate and vouch without
recourse for every word.
"You can’t kick on this recount now,”
said one of the committee to an old
acquaintance, "for I’m going to look
after it myself. You’ve know’d me for
twenty years and you’ve always know’d
me as bein’ honest.”
"I always think of your honesty
whenever 1 see you,” retorted the
acquaintance, "because you are always
thoughtful enough to mention it.”
It’s an era of pretentions and tin horn
honesty. It’s the millenium for quacks
and humbugs. The shoddy mills are
running night and day to supply the
demands of that part of a greedy public
that wants to be flimflammed and flat
tered with the very latest pattern of
fashion, frivolity and fraud.
Even the farmer, who is ordinarily
staid and steady in his mind, has become
rattled by the weird strains that come
from the wheezing bag-pipe of populism.
Everything goes that has the pop and
bluster of “honesty” in it.
Every man with a hysterical brain, if
he %as a frousily head and a lubricated
mouth, if he has grass' colored whiskers
and an old buggy, if he neglects hit
home, his family, and his business, and
l chases year in and year out for an office
can get one if he continually wall* oaf
the whang doodle song of personal '
honesty. Peffer was elected because k a
wae “poor but hoaaot." Because b*V;
railed against greed, but be came home;
to Kansas rich. Bryan got a nominal
tion because he railed against injunc
tions, and now, by reason of an injunc
tion, be baa a monopoly which brings
him in SIC,000 a inontb, and this be
religiously divides with tbe cause."
The siren of railroad influence with' ’’
the twang of her light guitar and the
fetching seductiveness of her song has
lured many a republican politician to
his ruin, but never a pop. The causes
'and effects which regulate the standing
of ordinary men have no influence upon
tbe destiny of the populists. Before the ‘
election, each of these reform members
went about among his neighbors bins
tenng and bragging about what railroad
reforms he would inaugurate when he
got to the legislature. The locomotives:;
as they flew across the state would toot
in a different key and the if heels would ■
revolve in the opposite direction.
Freight rates were to be reduced to so
low a figure that corn fodder could be ‘,
shipped from Benkleman to Boston and
passenger rates were to be put down so
that the farmers of the state cooM
afford to ride over the country just for"
fun. Passes were to be prohibited. In l
their speeches before election these
members announced over and over
again that they would lock their Upe too
close to speak a lie and wash their hands
too clean to touch a bribe or a railroad
pass. Now their pockets are bulging
out with passes, and now, if what they '
say of each other Is true, there Is not
one of them that would believe the
other under oath. Bach one, when he
speaks of himself, is “honest,” but when'
tbe other is mentioned he shakes his..
bead and looka suspicious. They've
buried every railroad measure, which
they introduced but never Intended to
pass, so deep that the “whits faced
oxen with red ears” couldn’t pull one of
them out into the daylight, and the
“liver colored mole with one eye*
couldn’t kick the anti-pass bill loose .
from tbe grip of the reform sifting
committee.
After the legislative committee had
looked themselvee in a haH-day or so, f*
“fixing up for the recount,” as they,
gave out, they opened the doors and
pretended that tbe oount was open to/
the public. The parties who ware ^
expected to do the slight of hand bust-'
ness have been hindered some and I
cannot now prophesy the result
J. W. Johmo*. •
XICTOLI RU
On July 4th wg will gin our cdstom
era i high grade Imperial ladle* or genta
wheel. Share* will be given for sales,
and collection* of account* note* or
school order*. 89-tf .
J. P. Manr.
U IMPOXTAXT HAITI*.
Before planting garden it is important
to get good freah seed*. We have never
been better prepared to furniih strictly
first-class, fresh seeds, than we are this
spring.''Before baying, look them over
and you will be convinced that w* are
headquarters for good seeds.
80-8 O’NaiUi Gbocbby Co.
J. P. Mann’s
Spring Announcement!
/ „ ■ ■ * ’
NEW DRESS GOODS. J§
-All the latest novelties in worsted'
suitings, Organdies, Laperts, Grena
dines, Brodis, Picritines, Malls end
Percales. And a (nil line of the latest
trimmings.
MEW CLOTHING.
Beautiful stylish plaid salts, all wool.
>8 and t8.50. Cheaper ones 95, M, and
•6.75. Block Clay worsteds, all wool,
•7.75, 99 and MO, as good values as can -
be found la the United States. Good
salts for boys 4 to 14, 91.50 and •1.75,
Fine ones for 92 and 92.50, and an
extra good one for 93,
HEW SHOES.
And more of them than ever. Ladles',
men's and children's. All the new
things in high and low shoes. Ox ‘
Bloods, Tans and Blacks. We have
some cheap shoes, but prefer to see
how good a shoe we can sell you, not
how cheap a one, as the best shoe Is ;
.always the cheapest.
New Capes, New Skirts, New Wrap
pers. New Ties.' New Hats,' New Cape,
and the finest line of shirt waists and
fine shirts in this part of Nebraska.
McDonald’s celebrated work shirt ^
overalls and pants in endless variety.
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