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ESTABLISHED JUNE JO , 1871. , SUNDAY" AtTGteT 15 , 18 ! ) SIXTEEN PAGES. SIX OLE COPY" KIVK CUNTS.
This grand special sale on Monday is one of rare magnitude The bargains are so phenomenal they need no special lauding Below is the
advertisement Come and see the goods and you will say as every one does
Ladies'Shirt Waists Children's
.MUST NOW GO Ready Made Dresses
ThlH price will sol ! them.
Your choice ot Another lot of those $2.50
any that sold Children's read ) ' made
up to $2.50. . . . (6th ( and Douglas dresses FVoiii'h In utngliiun jxH'cnlo , ,
This Include ! " ) nil our hofiittliul hum-
flcriMl pcrRulo , orifnmlr til'd nlinrlKim wlilto hiillu linen
blMHT WAISTr" " . with ( ktnchcd collars nnil IIIVMI , all olubor-
nnil culls ; were Hold from II.50 to J2.0 ntt'ly trimmed with
down to 3 < Jo. embroidery and lui'o , I
npo U to I. , on bargain
cimrn | nt fine.
Special Bargains
n Extra Values in
Black Silks PeaTi
de-Sole
Satin lUipjclame and
Gros Grain Silks
* IlnvhiK purcliMKi'il H.OOf ) pieces of Hln-k
SHU nil In h'MKlhsof 1 1-1 ynnln i-ai-li. hut
32 mid 15 iilecos to mutch , enonnhiifor In
dies' t-ntlre dress. Von can take your
cliolce of buying either one lilcee or as
ninny as you want. On lU'counl oC lie-
ing In lengths < > f 1 1-1 .vimln eaeli , we
liuvu been enabled to liny tlu-in tit
greatly reduced prices and will sell tliein
atI'.tc , tiSle nnd 8 ! ) per yard ; pjooils woith
nil the way from ? 1 to $ : i PIT yard.
Iff M
Mi
worth all the way from one to
two dollars a yard.
$1.00 Fancy Silks 25c , 39c
Extra values in fancy silks
for waists and trimming , fancy
taffetas , checks , plaids and
\ * \ \ plain silks , brocaded silks ,
goods worth from 750 to $1.00
on bargain square , your choice
, at 25c and 390 yard/
YAR.EX
KLONDIKE NOT THE RICHEST
Alasknn Pio'.th Inferior to the Ballarat
Mines in Virgin Gold.
$25COO , FOUND IN A BACKYARD
X roM > 'Olor Wlm Kli-ketl Suntl fr im
M'lirlr Hunt * nnil ( Slithered In u
% V Fortune .tllllliniM Made
i mill liiiHlljI.uHt. .
The Alaska gold flelda are not < he rlchCBt
In the world for virgin sold ; nor are the
"finds" there more'sensational than throe lethe
the famous Australian fields In Victoria. The
fevered excitement and mad rush to the
Klondike gold fields recalls the scenes and
human pictured of the Ballarat and Dendlgo
( Sandhurst ) gold flelda of Australia. Ballarat
and Bcnillgo proved to be the richest finds ,
nd the richest auriferous bed the world has
ever scon. For more than three years after
the first discovery of gold on the field , "too-
jilck miners" walked the valleys and the ravines -
vines hunting 'or nuggets on tm < r'acc ;
perhaps on no hundred llclds In the world
were eo many and valuable nuggcta ever
found than on these neighboring fields of
Dallarat and Ucndlgo , In the colonj of VIc-
"Toe-pick mlnori" were those wKhout tool ,
or pan , who cluiuly walked about the Held
and picked up the y H ° w "liebblcs" as they
could llnd them among the sand and stones
which they scattered with the toes of their
ehoes. They kicked for gold ; strange to say ,
tliey were highly rewarded for their clily
effort llly from a miner's standpoint , A
singular example of the luck of these "loo-
picks" was u young lover who had heard the
tnarve'.ous ' stories of gold at Bullarut. He
was a "now chum , " but he had a sweet
heart. One morning ho bade her tearful
face goodbye , picked up a big lemonade bottle
tle nnd left Geelong for the llelda , sixty mile *
up In the Black Hills , promising her that
ho would return and marry her as soon an
ho had picked up Ihe lemonade bottle full
of nuggets , which , he assured her. wouldn't
be much longer than It would take him lo
. walk there and luck.
A BOTTLK FULL OP GOLD.
ncachlng Ballarat the young enthublast
began kicking the stones and dirt about in
ccarch of his treasure. No more earnest or
pernlsijnt miner "dlthed" under the rod of
Mount Bunlngyonghrro the rich find waa
fret mailp. lie had no { enl , eo lie slept In
The open , with his bottle In his clutch.
Week passed In and out. On the sixth Sunday -
day he walked Into the home of hla sweet
heart , and handed her a yellow lemonade
bottle. The virgin nuggcta made It yellow.
It was full of gold , J15.000 worth , The
couple married , and upon this foundation
built their fortunes In Oeelong , where they
now live , unlets the old "home yearning'1
has drawn them back to their native heath
In EngUyd. Facts like these srt the pub'lc '
taliul' mid ,
In lets than eighteen months from the
Sensational And at Buningyong , 50.AOO pea-
jilo tented on the 'Uallarat ' Held. jilcMng ,
dishing or kicking for gold From Unit
day. In 1S54 , until now there have never
been has than 40.000 miners on the field
{ There arc now nearly 100,000 pioplc In In
City of Uallarat living on the hundredci ot
kaUe ot drive * beneath It , the baud and
Bought under * the old tariff
plain goods will be very much
worn this season you should
buy now and save money ,
Plain Dress Goods
_
Big Bargains
Every One of Them.
36-inch and 46-inch all WOOl
Henrietta and French Serges ,
a complete line of new tal
colors , will soon be 500 and
75c yard , on sale in our dress
goods department at age and
39C yard.
cheaper than they will be
again for a long time to come
Buy now Save money
46-inch heavy all wool
Henriettain blue 01
jet black , will soon
be 750 yard , on sale §
at 480 yard.
A large variety of French
PoplinS * fancy weaves , black
goods , all this Fall's
importation , for to
morrow at750 yard ;
will be later $1.25.
Albion claim alone having nearly 100 miles
of drives nnd bhafta nearly U.OOO feet deep.
So mad was the rush nad so eager the
crowd that no ono thought of taking time
to build n house. For years until the al
luvial country was immeasurably turned
over or pegged Into fixed claims and the
Bendlgo "rush" diverted the stream the
city of Ballarat was a camp ot white tents
Cases
From the Steamer ' 'Citv of Roms" delayci in transit
One case containing 12,468 yard's finest quality -
* ity high grade embroidery , including very neat and dainty
designs , from the steamer "City of Rome" whiph have been
slightly wet , but were imported to sell up to (750 ( per yard.
They go in four lots at
ts > J > * y y y a w \ay 75 ) .
Another case of laces from the steamer "City
of Rome. " This is one of the finest cases of
I high grade lace that we have yet received , in-
1 eluding silk chantillas , oriental , French and German Val-
jenciennes laces go in three lots at
Many worth
half a dollar
a yard.
500 dozen lad es' and chi'dren's plain
WHITS AND FAHCY BORDERED
HEMSTITCHED
each , worth up to 150 . ; !
350 dozen ladies' and gent's fine . . . . . jj--
DIA IiA-WET , wide and narrow hemstitched
plain white and fancy colored border KCAIJ D- "
KERCHIEFS , all sizes , go at 50 each , Wofch 25
250 dozen ladies' and gent's finest
IMPORTED IRISH LINEN and SWISS EM- and 0 J7T
ItROlDERKI ) IIANnivERCIIICrS go at lOc
and 12ic each , worth up to 33c
13 cases ladies' PERFECT FITTING
CORSETS , black satine , French Coutile and
corsets , including P. C , Warner Bros ,
land Loomer's , go at SQC each , worth up to $ i'
stores , boats , jewels or whatever and rushed
pell mcll to this excited canvas city , half
prepared , and either ate and tramped out
their gold In search of more gold , or had
It mercilessly taken from them ,
A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY.
The. cost of living In such an Inaccessible
place was , all told , about $20 per day. Thus
i. 150,000 miners were putting $1,000,000 a day
other places. You could almost speak from
man to man along the whole distance , for
men tramped back nnd forth , excited by each
new sensational find , passing the news along.
Every hill and dale was.alive with meu In
search of the craved metal.
When the whole country had been turned
over and "dished , " the real mining com
menced on the reefs , and there the real
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IKX'IDENTS OP TUB UALLAItAT fiOLD FII5LD3.
The first brU'k chimney was a curiosity.
U still stands.
The gold escorts which brought the fabu
lous tieasure. Into Melbourne gave that 100
Millet ; of country the aspect of a military
patrol. 'Kvery tongue told of the new el- I
dorado , but no one told of the suffering and ,
chagrin of the unlucky ours , and no OMO ,
found his head cool enough to figure out '
the lived en alluvial fleld w& * to the coun
try. Men foolishly told their farms , stocks ,
In the ground and taking out lees than $250-
000 , But no one thought of that. Men
ovnywhere were making rich finds , and the
Kid ( I escorts were carrying away large
amounts of gold. These were Inflammable
facts , \\hlch lured a new batch , and painted
a new yc'low ' hope to the erttwhlle unlucky
digger , llendlgo w seventy-live mile a
anay , and wee as rich ni'.rly as Uallarat ,
wbllu uuggety patches chained the road be
tween at Maryboro , Cluoeo , Cuswlck and
fortunes and the genuine prosperity from the
mining Industry tet In. From 1b54 to 1890
( a period of thirty-six years ) the colony
of Victoria has produced 5G,870,574 ounces of
gold , worth $ t 137,41l.4SO , This was. vir
tually , all mined from the Uallarat and lien-
dlgo loJes , or reefs , as they are called there.
This given u an average i- ( over $30,000,000
p i year. After working tbe-e two great
rcpfs , on vhl'1 ! in t'c c' ; e of nearly 100-
000 people each , for am a generation , there
On bargain square
on main floor
OF
Ladies' Button and Lace
which would retail at $3 ,
$4 , $5 and $6 a pair , go at
These are sizes 2 1-2 ,
3 , 3 1-2 and 4 , in A
B , C , D and E
widthsand in almost
any kind of toe.
were taken from the drives beneath- them
In 1880 over $11,000,000 of gold.
A new Impetus was given in the mining
industry at this low ebb when the Band
and Albion went down another 1,000 feet In
Ballarat , anil George Landsell sent the "ISO
Victoria North , " In Bendlgo , down below its
3,000-foot level. Fossicking ceased on both
fields more than twenty years ago. Until
this day the old alluvial Hats look as if they
had been rooted over by hogs looking for
potatoes. These great fields produced one
sensation after another. The riches seemed
Inexhaustible. While some lucky diggers
celebrated their sudden fortune by lighting
cigars with $100 ( 20) ) notes , others , filled
with a measure of disgust , left for other
parts.
A miner , after spending his all , footsore ,
ragged and penniless , tbrr.w his pick violently
to the ground with an oath. "I'll chuck the
whole thing , " ho muttered , heartsick
with disgust at his utter failure to find evtti
the "color. " The sharp tool struck a hard
substance , and bounded away. The Incident
angered the unlucky digger. Gripping the
pick with fierce determination , he sent it Into
the same place with terrific force he noticed a
further away. In its wild jump bo noticed a
yellow streak the point traced in the air.
Examining the Point , lie saw specks of gold.
Then his joyous heart overleaped the hlght
of. hU anger , and ho was soon on hid
kncca , proudlng the dirt about the naughty
place which resisted his strength , His eyes
bulged wider and wider as his busy hands
cleaned the dirt from about the big yellow
face , which lay near the ourface. The find
was the great "Welcome" nugget. It was a
solid mass of virgin gold about a foot long ,
six Inches wide and of Irregular shape , with
a thickness of two to four Inches , and
weighed 2,195 ounces. For this piece of gold
the miner was paid $13,000 , He went home
and quit mining.
NUGGKT WORTH $47.7CO.
The "Welcome" is not the biggest nugget
over found , The largest Is the "Welcome
Stranger , " which weighed 2,3S3 < / & ounces and
was worth $47,700. The Welcome was found
at Ballarat , June 1 , 1858. A model of It If )
In the Ballarat school of mines. The "Ber
lin , " SSI ounces , 10 pennyweight ; "Kenn
Tow , " 718 ounces ; " "Beauty , " 377 ounces C
pennyweights , are the biggest lumps of na-
tlvo gold found , next In slzo to the above.
Since the ' 60s no large nuggets of sensational
slzo Imvo been found In all Australia.
The old surface fossllker left Ballarat dig
gings nearly u quarter of a century ago ,
when syotematlc reefing set In to mine I ho
rock In the bowels of the earth. The lait
sensation on this famous field waa In 1879 ,
when the IIin > hnuld "pof'was struck. Someone
ono found a sand lode In a yard iui < l followed
It Into a gutter. Jt w&s called "golden
gully , " U was tlmplv a Band was li lodged
In a email rift , or wai the filling up of a
small ditch from eome rich source. More
than 1,000 ounces of gold were taken from It ,
v/hlch netted the owner $25,000 , and set
every crazy loon to digging up his yard for
an expected find , There were over 200
"Mother Hlrshfleld , " "Sister Hlrshfleld , "
"Queens Hlrbhfield" and the like , with borne
designating number or prefix named after
the original ditch. It Is now extinct. An
other , the "Gold-I'olnt-Gutter , " took out
$300,000 of alluvial gold In forty-four days.
TEN YKAHS OF TENT LIFE.
In Its ten yeare of tent life and eeml-tent
life Dallarat put more than ( wlce as much
gold In the ground In search of the metal
than ho took out , It came from other jiarlu
so ehe did not feel the otraln. And , as mil
lions of It came from abroad , Australia did
not feel It. She only felt the unrest and the
temporary high price of living entailed. It
remains to be ald that the aboriginal mcau-
Ing of Baal a-rat Is , "without a rat " The
fact Ij that there ! a not a rat in the moder ,
well built city of 100,000 Inbebltants.
Those who have attempted to explain thU
5 cases of Light , Fancy
Windsor Prints ,
these are the "j\c \ , kind , go tomorrow at 2 Ac yard. . . .
One case black and white Prints , the Sc kind , go
at 3 0 yard
One case Indigo Blue Prints , the Sic kind , go
at 3 c yard
2 cases Plain White India Lawn , worth SAc
yard , go at 2 Ac yard
One case best quality Amoskeag Scotcli Ginglinm
the ijc kind , go at 5c yard
One case White Star Percale , worth IQC , go
at Sic yard
One case black and white Henrietta Satine , the
kind , go at 50 yard
One case best grade Outing Flannel , ihe S-Ac qual
ity , go at 40 yard
8-4. - and - SHEETING bleached
9-4 10-4 , and un
bleached , full pieces Monday only 12Ac yard.
These are worth 22C
One case SUMMER BLANKETS , large , full
size , worth pSc each , go as long as they last at
39C pair
For the past two weeks we have caused a phenomenal sen
sation in Turkish Towel selling , but Monday we will.wind up
the sale as there will be none left after that day. As long
as they last go at
3Ifi Tl C1 t Of "I C * Worth from IOC to
/2 j * /2 9 * Jf ' 9 * ssceach.
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Never was There Such an Opportunity to Buy
Marseilles and Crocheted Bed Spreads § SBAP.
Think of fine , full size , heavy Crocheted Bed Spreads at 29c , 3c ! ) , 43c , 59c and flSe
worth from 75c to $2.00. *
29c , 39c , 49c , 59c , 98c. S ? glfro"l7Beto
One case best quality Table Oil Cloth , tomorrow only | Qc Yd
curious circumstance eay that It Is because
of the mineral character of the whole coun
try. Perhaps the hungry miner cither exter
minated the breed by eating them or so
cleaned up all the available food at the ter
ribly high price of It that the domestic mouse
starved on the cheese cloth. Miners arrived
much faster than food. They walked and rode
everything which could carry them , seldom
thinking of food or the price of It. But that
Is true of every gold field , and every fevcrlnh
rush to a new field. The succeeding geneta-
tlnns of man never did profit by the poverty ,
suffering and failures of the ones before rt
In gold raining. The old fever has lost none
of Us fervor or folly.
Hll'IKTIKS.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that , a
Cleveland man who recently returned from a
trip through England , winding up with the
jubilee week In London , WAS asked what was
the most curious tiling he saw when abroad.
"Well , " he answered , "tho tlilnz which
most forcibly appealed to my American de
light In the exaggerated farm or numor was
a sign over a Salvation Army barracks In
Leeds. I tumbled upon It one afternoon
whlio strolling aimlessly about. Here Is a
lltetal copy of the Inscription :
: Souls Renovated While You Walt. :
Alexander Holies , on of Ihe early Itinerant
preachers , who preached In three aiilea
among tbo Allegheny mountains was much
tormented by the Influence of one John
Hogora , a Jerseyman , who openely tnugbt
nthclam and the abolishment of marrmgu ,
say an exchange. On ono ocacslon , while
holding a meeting In the woods In Vlrninli ,
a young man and woman pushed their way
up to the Mump which nerved as a pulpit ,
The man. Interrupting the sermon , said de
fiantly :
"I'd like you to know tint WP are Hoger-
Itcs , ' The old man looked at film over his
spectacles and waited. "We don't believe In
no God. Nor In marriage. Thin is my wife ,
because I choose her to be , but I'll have no
preacher nor squire meddlln1 ulih us , "
"Do you mean to tell uu > , " thundered
Father Holies , "that you have taken this
girl home as your wife ! "
"Yes. I do , " said the fellow , doggedly ,
"And you have gone willingly to live with
him as your husband ? '
"Yrs , " said the frightened girl.
"Then I jironounce ycu man and wife , and
whom ( iad hath Joined together let no man
put ufiiiider. Bu off ulth you ! You are
married now according to the law and the
gospel. "
Hcv. Arthur 8. Johns , the new roclor of
Christ churrti , New York , has a fund of wit
and humor , aaya the Washington Post. Like
Ills father , the late Jllshop Johns , ho Is very
much of a man , and he enjoys the rrcrca
tlons of life as much as a layman. He le
a fine shot and invariably take his annual
vacation uhen the quail are tlylng , and goeu
to North Carolina to enjoy the tport. When
be was In charge of Christ cliuroh at Hock-
vllle , Mil. , he owned a cow , and It was a
dally uccuirenee to see Air. Johns golug
do.vu the main street of the village , swinging
hU trusty milk pall , on hU way to and from
milking that cow , lie worked In his garden ,
to } , and htlll attended to the spiritual need !
of lila flock with great ucces > and a power
thit received grateful recognition every
where.
One day a couple of years ego a former
parl/ihoner of Mr. Johns In Hockvlllu met
him on the street In thli rlty and a-l.cl
him what he wai doing In loun.
"I've beeu to see an oculist , " he itnllcd.
"An ocullat ? " repeated the other. "Why , ,
your eyes are not affected , arc they ? "
"Oh , yes , " Jie replied , seriously. "Pvo
hurt them doing fancy work , such ae worKIng -
Ing in the turnip patch , milking cows and' '
the like. "
In making some calls one afternoon Mrr
Johns visited the house of a woman who had
Interested herself In teaching pome tiny tots
their catechism. Two of the little girls
happened to ho there , nnd the teacher
proudly proceeded to put them through their
lessons for the minister. A bweet Ilttlo
bundle of blue eyes and tousled hair and. 4'
years was asked who was the first man ,
"Ad'm , " she replied promptly.
"Who made him ? "
"Diwd , " was the reverent response.
"What did God make hint out of ? "
"The tlay of the earth. "
The teacher triumphantly glanced at Mr.
Johns and continued.
"Who was the first woman ? " she qucrU4 ,
"Bve. "
"And who made Kve ? "
"Dawd,1 again anuworcd the child.
"And what was J3ve made of1
The baby pondered for a few momenti.
Her little- eyelids dropped and her head went
lower. She was evidently struggling deeply. .
Then suddenly feho brightened and looked uj > .
with confidence.
"A wlbbon ! " she said with much anima
tion.
tion."See
"See how femininity sticks out , " remarked
Mr , Johns in a smiling aside to the ( earner.
"The poor little thing evidently tlilnka Iti
wan a remnant day. "
This bright saying was. of course , re
peated , and some of the ultra-pious people
raised their eyes and declared It wa out
rageous for a minister to nay suth a thins.
IlKI.HilOl S.
IMfitor Knelpp , the water-cure priest o (
Woerlshofcn , 'Bavaria ' , left all Ills property
to Ills lifelong friend , I'astor StucUle , In
Mlnilclhcini , cutting oft ills relatives with
nothing.
The lain Kbcnezor Oovo of North Hampton , '
! X , II. , loft $3.600 to the Congregational
I church of Sanhorntown , N. II. , hla native >
dace : Sl.OOO to the Kldder Institute , Kldder , .
ill ) , nnil 12.000 each tu the American hoard ,
Uio American Home .Mlrslniury society nuil
ilio American Missionary association.
Archbishop Keanc , now ot Koine , will eooa
vUit the Catholic university In Washington ,
of which ho was formerly rector. He wilt' '
be present at the meeting ot I lie university
board of directors In October , and will TO-
turn to Homo about November 1 , Ills friends
sav that If ho be rlicsen archbishop of New
Orleans he wilt accept the nfllce , but that ho
would prefer to remain in Home.
Dr. CJIark , at the San Kranclscn conven
tion , gave the following facta concerning
missions and accessions to the church from
the Christian Kndeavor ranlo : "Ten thou
sand four hundrrd and Klxty-elght societies
have Riven nearly $500,000 to missions through
their own denominational missionary boards.
During the last eleven months 25'JGl of the
Juniors l < ave joined ( lie church , and from the
young people's societies 187,123 In all , 213-
HPV. Mali Ion Van Horn , who hax been tp-
nolnte.l United States COIIHU ! at Ht. Thomui ,
West Indies , has been for many yeara paitor
of Dm Union Congregational church In New-
oort. and ttandg high amung the clergymen
of Htiodo iHJand , Ho was born In Princeton ,
N. J. , and went to Newport when about 26
Years old , He then bccamo Interested In the
ronubllran ( ir.rty and tias many times been
a delegate to elate ronventlona , and ha *
nerved many yearH on the republican city
( orwnltuc of Newport.
American and Huropeun expositions btva
a wai-ii ! ! premiums to Cook'u Imperial Chito
for Its excelUut qualities ,