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8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1906. Great Sale of Men's Shirts KM POZRN HIOH (TRADES MEN"" SHIRTS, mad from fin Chembrey. Qingham end MadrassAS. In all new spring patterns or with Mohair and Bilk Bono ma, col lar attached or detached, worth up to $1.60. go on sale Saturday, 50C MEN'S HOSJ9 Plain and fanoy colored or allk mhroldered, regular mad 1fr and worth up to too special Saturday, at, pair, Uc and iviw MEN S WOOLEN UNDER W EAR High (Tad garments, worth regularly 75p up to 11.60, Saturday VEN'S UN'DHRWHAR Heavy fleeced, worth up Jo 7V. par garment, 25C MEJN B WORK OIVK8 AND ' M ITTIW8 Greateit 'bargain ever shown, Eft worth up to $1.00 pcial Saturday, at peslr, - .....OVt Valentines on Tha greatest cut price on Valentine begin Saturday. i: no fancy Valentine for .100 SO fancy Valentine 7(jC t fancy Valentine 5l)C ifv. fancy Valentines for Ii fancy Valentines for ...25c .............. 12ic Great Sheet Music Sale Saturday morning; we place on sale in both our music department on second floor and basement, all the latest popular hit In both vocal and Instru mental, at 12 He per copy, lc for postage. Come in and hear them aung. Rufus Restus Johnson Brown Nothing from Nothing Leaves You I Ixve Tou All the Tuna Bouncing Betty Alabama Rlossoms Can't You See I'm Lonesome? Vsise Tranquil Popples I'm Trying to Find a Sweetheart When My Sweetheart Mary Whispered Ts A Great Graniteware Sale FOR SATURDAY 0HLY In our hardware department, in basement. This is the Old Style Gray Granite, the best ware made. It ia heavy and has two coats of Large No. 28 Wash Bowl, at Coffee Pots at : 10c 17c Large Chambers, 1QC Colanders, . at 10 quart Dish Pan at ( quart Sauce Pan, at Berlin Kettle, at Large Dipper at 1 quart Pudding Pans, at 15c 19c 11c 17c 10c .5; Special Sale SFS 50 AJD 10C, DEPARTMENT, BASEMENT ANNEX-SET RINQB, Imitation SLl',,1?0""' opal"' srnerald. pearls, amethyst; PEARL BELT BUCKi r? NECKLACES, BROOCHES. Shirt Waist Sets, CUFF BUTTONS LODGE pTvf' WACH S0.138: "TICK PINS.- Bracelets, etc. Will wear well and can . Pt!5kN8' ' ' theprlc dotected from high priced goods, greatest line ever shown at 0C Omaha's Meat Shoulder Roast, pound Round Roast, 1 pound I Jdutton Leg. I Vound -rutton -Chops, pound Sugar Cured Bacon, ..5ic ..7ic .8c 9.c lOJc WOLCOTI'S WINNING BLUFF Poker Experience of the Late Seuator from Colorado. BIG : POT AND AN EMERALD RING Witli a qtrala-bt Flash that Hadn't Filled the Senator Scared a Veteran and Gave a Chinaman Cold Feet. "Ed Wolcott wa the most whimsical but at the same time one of the nerviest poker placers I ever foregathered with around a card table,'' s&lc) a member of a former Colorado delegation In dbngress, alluding to the late United States Senator Edward O. Wolcott of Colorado. ' "His Mm nf Hrflw woa - ... - v. . 7- " w imiuui mm hum (glint from' the' different fucet of a dla Imond. There wo no such thing a mak 1 ing a study of hi game and marking out a 3 line of action wherewith to combat it. H 1wa always willing to agree that the Jiteady, Inipasnlve poker player stood the Ibest chance of getting the money In the I long run, but he argued that he didn't play Hoker for the purpose of getting the money, ut tor run. 1 once saw him stand pat on a (air of nines and boost the opener out of a ei,ouo Jackpot. It was a favorite device f his to allow himself to be caught red- tended in a scries of bluffs that looked utle short of Imbecile, and then, when he had got all hand fixed In the belief that 1 main graft wa attempted pot stealing. wait for the real goods and turn around and whang them to death. "I saw him get o finished and Intuitive a poker player a the late David T. Littler of Illinois Into so deep a mas of study on night that Littler went around looking dazed for several days afterward. Littler, a wealthy man, who had been one of the Pacific Railway commissioners, was one of the shrewdest student of other men' poker ldioayncracles who . ever cam to It Heals Without A Scar, Ta great nagaatlsed. sootslns sad assuag Unl- na-KINa CACTUS OIL sever leevse esoar. Prof. Dim's King: Cactus Oil Speedily rare cuts, sprats, brslssi. eld sons, sirsllui, froM ItM.taappea iudl, barbed wire out en animate, aaraess I sad ssddls gall, mange, lick, sod all hurt of man or beaeu At arasit la lte, 0o sad St bottle. t I an aecorsud cmi.w seat prepaid fey the BiuufacMrar. OLMIV McDAIO. , Clinton, low. If your aruggu eaaou ' For sal by . Sherman Q NcCennell DtMZ On'aha Neb. ,f.mi B .vou-.uk.'.'e.J Special Sale Jfte fancy Valentine for 10c fancy Valentine for i 15c fancy Valentines for Be fancy Valentine for Jc fancy Valentine for , lo fancy Valentine for ,. 10c .....5c ...7ic . 24c .. ..Ic ......ic Will the Angles Let Ma Play f NaKoml Mexaclana Belle of Dixie Eyes of the Soul In the Golden Summer Time Forestry March Syncopated Rax Call Ma Back enamel; will out wear any other goods made. Bo low we give a few sample prices: t quart Pudding Pans, at 5 quart Pudding Pans, at -Inch PI Plates, at Basting Spoons, at $ quart Preserving Kettles, 17c 4 quart Preserving Kettles, at i 8 quart Stew Pans, at 4 quart Stew Pans, at 1 quart Coffee Flasks, at 15c . 9c 10c 15c of Jewelry Saving Section Sugar Cured California Hams, pound '... ..7ic ..28c 46c .6c 8-pound pall Pure uird. B-gound pall Pur All kinds of Sausage, strictly home made, pound Washington, and it was more fun for him lo show seme antagonist up in what lie considered a fool poker play than It was for him to win money. "A Chinaman who was In the same game and who had been up against the same problem that worried Littler smiled a wan, gray smile when It was all over and looked like a small boy caught teasing the cat. The Chinaman was one of the secretaries of the Chinese legation in Washington and a poker player who knew how. I was tho other player in the game, but I llgured !n the main Incident of, the session merely us a looker on. The Start. "The game Wa $0 ante and $50 limit, and it wa played in the sitting room of Senator Wolcott' hotel suite here. Wolcott had started out with astonishing poor luck in his run. of cards. Littler, who was a follower of the old-fashioned play-them- when-you-get-them poker , dogma, got 1 most of the hands and money during the lirst two or three hours in the sitting, it seemed to be Wolcott' luck to get some thing only when the others of us had noth ing to draw to, and onco he had been passed out on his ante when I'd supplied him with a pat king full on aces; then, attempting to bluff his path through to the turn of the tide, Littler had spiked him every time. "For want of something better to use as a buck the Chinaman had slipped a mag nificent emerald ring off his finger for that purpose, and, the ling coming Into my possession with a small pot, I dealt the Jack pot hand that brought about the Inci dent of the evening. "Wolcott. who wa on 'my left, gave a knuckle rap on the edge of the table to Indicate that he couldn't open the pot. The Chinaman, who was next, observed that he was tired trying to fill a pair of jack, o that it wa by him. Dave Littler pushed five blue ones to the middle. " 'For fifty,' he said. "With only nine high I went into the discard. "Wolcott, before going In, spread four of his cards out, face up, on the table. The four cards were the duce, trey, four and five of hearts. Stroking; the Par. " "Dave," he said to Littler, 'how many ar you going to drawr " 'It'll cost you fifty to find that out, Ed.' replied Littler, placidly. " It aeems like a desecration to try to fill a hand Ilk this with so little at stake.' observed Wolcott, musingly. 'Now, If w wer only playing cure enough poked " 'If the other are willing.' put In Littler, nodding toward me and the Chinaman, I'm willing to set aside the limit just to give you your opportunity to sidestep what you consider a sacrilege. If all hands are agreeable, w can take oft th lid for this hand. I only suggest it. It's all on to in.' " Tm out of it, anyhow,' said I. " "Well. It' up to our friend from th Land of Flower, then. said Littler. "Th Chinaman t:iWl that the taking off of th limit wa very u.-r-eabl to htm. temporarily or permanently I never aaw a high grade Chinaman yet who wa a bad gambler or a poor loser. " 'All right. Dave.' said Wolcott. shying his no good card Into the cast off heap. I guess I'll Impose an additional charge of $&00 to draw cards.' "The Chinaman wa there. 80 wa Littler. "I gave Wolcott his on card. He didn't have the curlolty to look at It antll he saw what th two others wer going to take. Th Chinaman took three. - Til struggle along the best I know how 8c ... 10c 5c 5c 59c Cold Belts Only 25c Just received a new line of the very latest patterns in Gold Belta, the regular 60o qual ity, all go on sala Saturday, only 25c Big "Crown" Shoe Sale 1,000 pair Men' Sample CROWN STIOF8, In all leather and styles, absolutely worth M00 and I3.60-SALB I u PRICE) l.VO Women'. Misses.' and Child' tl 60 One kid Lace Shoes some of the ladies' shoes are actually worth 12.50 and 13.00, Saturday .98c 1 Another Great Sale of Silk Suits Saturday 4 AU the women In Omaha seem to be Interested In our sale of Silk Shirt Waist Suits and well they may be, for It la eidom uch magnificent bargain opportunities oom their way. Never before have we been erahled to offer their equal at the price. HANDSOME SILK SUITS-Made from Glvernaud's taffetas and wtu pot cracK, all newest spring style, all color in cluding whit and blaok. slse $2 to 44 an overstocked manufacturer needed the money and we secured their garments worth regularly Hi. 00 to $22.80, 7 AQ to sell Saturday at f",v Will refund your money If you change your mind after buying. BEAUTIFUL SILK WAISTS Taffeta or Peau de Sole, worth up to $$.00, great as sortment of colors 1 weave 275 gar ment to (elect from it, O fitl choice eS.V5" FROM I TILL 10 A. M. we will sell Women' $2.00 MOREEN UNDER SKIRTS with 12-Inch flounce and three ru files limit of two to a cus- fxi.'ic tomer-at UVC NE7W SPRINO COATS AND SUITS. Hundreds of elegant garments now on hand and many others arriving dally. The greatest assortment ever shown In Omaha so early In the season. NEW SPRINO SUITS Eton Blous. Bolero and Poney styles, beautifully .de signed, newest materials and colors, at $t&00. down to $30.00, $J0.00 $10 SPECIAL SATURDAY BARGAINS. NEW SUIT SPECIAL Handsome tailor suit In greys, blues, browns, greeris and blarks S different styles to select from $2260 values- Qll Saturday GROCERIESI Highest Quality, Freshest Goods, Lowest Prices Always at Hay den's 22 pounds finest Pure Can Granulated Sugar $1.00 10-lb. sack best Granulated Cornmeal..l6c 7 lbs, best hand picked Navy Beans 20c 7 lbs. best Poarl Barley, Farina or Hominy .......26c 8 lbs. best Breakfast Oatmeel ibc 2 lb. cans fancy Sweet Sugar Corn 5c 2 lb. can fancy Wax or String Bean. ...6c Drug Dept. Specials Quinine Pill, par 100 at Porus Plasters, at Balka Sweet Powder, at Fine Toilet Soap, box Raker's Cold Cream, box Tetlow' Face Powder, box Corn Plaster. box - 25c 10c 15c 10c 15c 10c with what I've got,' said Littler. "It struck me right away that Littler was standing pat for tho moral effect such action might produce on Wolcott in case Wolcott filled a straight only. The shrewd glance which the Chinaman cast out of the tall of his eye at Littler showed me that he had Littler figured out about the same way. Speculating; on a Draw. "When the two others had drawn Wolcott cautiously raised one corner of the card I gave him. We were all watching him carefully, but I, who knew him far better than either of the others, couldn't havo detected whether he'd filled anything or not If my life had depended upon it. "As soon as ho glanced at his card Wol cott folded it away with the rest of them, and then reached out to a table for a cigar. To a man uwd to studying small things in the course of a game of draw this sort of looked to ine as if Wolcott might have filled something, and that, apprehending that there was going to be considerable business on hand, he didn't want to go smokeless while that business was In progress. " 'Your shoot,. Dave," said the senator us he touched the match to his cigar. 'Ouess me.' "Littler lit a cigar himself, and pondered. There were three worth while things that Wolcott might have filled. He might have completed a straight open at both ends. Ho might have stuffed up one cranny in a pink flush. He might a remote calculation have filled a straight flush at one end or the other. " 'Edward,' said Littler, gathering up his cards again and looking at them carefully. 'I am so thoroughly Imbued with th belief that the card you caught ha lu surface broken by something Inconsequential, and probably black, that it's going to coat you $500 to make Inquiries of me.' "Wolcott dampened the end of one of his fingers and touched it around the lighted end of his cigar to make it burn evenly. " 'That isn't such a bad imbue of yours, Dave,' he said, 'but It lias a certain hollow sound to me. A thousand more, shall we sajr? "Th Chinaman scratched reflectively at the root of hi queue aiid pushed hi round ilk cap, with the coral crown button on top of it, ever one of hi ears. He was th man caught tn the cross-fire. HI ac tion indicated that be took both of the cross-firing occidentals for bluffers. Prob ably he eliminated Wolcott from the cal culation altogether. Still more probably b took Littler' action In standing pat as a mere scheme on Littler' part, meant to care Wolcott to the tall grass. " 'And a thousand.' said the Chinaman, producing a little gold pencil and gold bound tablet from beneath the folds of his dress and scribbling tti betting tab on It. "Littler caat a sharp glance at the China man, a much a to say, Oh, ho; so you're tn It, too, ehT' Now, that glance of Lit tler' toward th Chinaman convinced m that Littler had stood pat on a non-pat hand, for there was a certain look of fear In th glance. I think that Littler' glance In the Chanaman' direction had th am effect upon Wolcott. Th natural query wa. 'Why should Littler look worried over anything th Chinaman might have caught In drawing three cards when Littler him self stood patf "However, Littler next move showed that h wa still confident that ' he had Wolcott beat, anyhow. " 'Seeing a how I am th instigator of thta pot,' he said, 'I am not going to run away from It au3 withdraw my upport I from It. On thousand more.' i "Wolcott reached over and picked up the n n MY7Frprn MM PiiiS THE RELIABLE STORE, Women's $1.00 Fur Trimmed Juliets 6Qc ' Women's S0-cent Felt and Plush Slipper Child' $1.00 Hand Turn Lac Shoes S(5 69c All Stetson $8.00 and IS.00 Shoes, A Oil ovfr Pul on a woman's foot. Made espect with double sole -v .11.. - TPvnro rrrvr NEW CRAVEN ETTES IN great assort ment of styles and colors, worth Slf up to $18.00, at $.U0 and i'au l-lb. can assorted Soups Be 1 lb. package Mince Meat Ec Large bottle fine Tomato Catsup 8H0 Quart can Golden Table Syrup I'aC l-lb. package Macaroni 8'c I lb. package Fruen's Wheat Wafers. ...SSiiC X-Celo Broakfast Food 7c Vi-lb. cans Breakfast Cocoa 7V.-C Bromangelon, .Jellycon or Jello, pkg....7c Ladies' Kid Glove Special An Importer's surplus stock of flne French Kid Gloves, In all newest shade and stitching, one or two large pearl clasps, poods that would sell regularly up to $l.ob, now on sala at, fQn choice LADIES' GOLF GLOVES All sizes 6H to 8. worth up to 60c special Satur- Tin day. at big emerald ring that was serving a buck, and examined it critically. " 'I know a trout s 11 earn in Colorado that's Just this color,' he said. " 'But we're not fishing for trout now, lid,' observed Littler, with mild reproof, 'We're playing cards.' " 'Thousand more than you, David,' said Wolcott. " 'You admlro tho emerald so much,' said the Chinaman with great civilty to Wol cott. 'It Is yours.' " 'Oh, I didn't mtan to make It so broad as that,' said Wolcott, smilingly. " "Nor Is it," observed Littler, calmly, 'ex actly ' a meeting for the presentation or exchange of gifts. It is a card nesta. You are betting.' addressing the Chinaman. " 'A thousand more,' was the Chinaman's quick response. That was Littler'a signal for hibernation. He cast another cukk glance of fear at the Chinaman. He plainly considered the Chinaman the one. '1 opened it on thirty,' Bald he, spreading out his three tens, ami for an exceedingly dignified man, somewhat beyond middle ase, Dave sure looked some sheepish. " 'No,' said Wolcctt, seeming not tn notice LltUer's discomfiture, and addressing him self to the Chinaman as he once more picked up the beautiful emerald ring. 'I couldn't think of accepting the ring. Hut,' he went on, if thero were any way by which It could be sort of assimilated Into the pot' " 'Then, aald the Chinaman, although I would prefer you to accept It us a gift, my last raise. Instead of $1,000, Is the ring.' " That relives me of the odium of hint ing,' said Wolcott. A thousand more than the ring.' Cold Feet. "The Chinaman looked littler straight In the eye and then made a graceful wave of the hand towards Senator Wolcott. " The gentleman from Colorado," said the Chinaman to Littler, 'apparently loves emerald more than money. Else he would not risk my emerald, now already his, by raising on a bluff," and the Chinaman sepa rated the three Jacks from his hand and threw them far up on the table. "Wolcott smiled a most serene smile and drew down the pot. ""However,' he said to -Littler and the Chinaman, 'so thst neither of you gentle men will experience the chagrin of Im agining that you were bluffed out, here is the card that I drew.' "And he tos.-ted the nine of spades Into the middle of the tnlile. His had been a busted flush and a shattered straight nine high. "Dave Littler got up and stretched his arms, sweating softly. The Chinaman smiled hi wan,, gray smile, and we played no more that night. "Wolcott. protesting to the Chinese sec retary that he had only used the ring as a ort of 'prop' to enable him to get by with his bluff, tried to get the Chinaman t J take It back, but the Chinaman graciously de clined. Wolcott eased himself of what he felt to be an obligation by sending the Chinaman, when the latter returned to the Chinese empire, a pair of srlendld Ken tucky thoroughbred horses. He wore the emerald to the day of his death." New York Sun. Tea Gloves tor Left Hand. An unusual theft was reported to the po lice Friday morning by Arndt Bros., pro prietors of a siore at ?!M4 Leavenworth street. For pi)hHc inspection the Arnrtt have been In the hnhtt of hsneinp a line of rlovt-s on the outelde 'f the store. The line wan not taken in Thursday evening, the consequence beln"" ten gloves for the left hand were rone Friday morning. 'The police are looVln for a man without a rivht band and with a new glove oa hi left hand. Cnni Silk VtlUng Safe AU new pattern, all pure ilk, the latest colors, regular price 8nc, all go on aai Saturday. at, yard lattfU 18c Pure Linen B Handkerchiefs.. .Oi. 0c Hand 1B Page only "fv toe Hose Supporter..,.. "' !5f Hoee lOn Supporter Iwt Saturday .n:at..V.''. ,39c A Brents In Omaha for the STET80N and CRoPHETT Shoes for Men, and the 1'L.TKA and OROVER Shoes for Women. Twenty-soven styles of the OROVER Shoes carried In stock The eriaUat ihn ally for TENDER FEET. NEW SPRING COAT8-IN three-quarter, short and medium lengths, at e $20.00. down to $12.50. $10.00, 7.6 4O.UU NEW SPRING SKIRTS In ttne Voile, pa- namas, tis, rwrgen, neviot, etc., & Ml $12.60, $10, $7.80 and .O.UU at Skirt Special $S.OO and $10.00 values, at $4.98 and 2.98 CLEARING SALE OF WINTER COATS f CONTINUES. Small lot of Winter Coats, up to $8.00, choice ..100 Coats that sold at $1000 and $12.00, Qg $16.00. $18 00 and $31.00 Coats, 7 (( now $5 00 Silk Underskirt, at , Children' Coats, worth $8.00, at 2.98 2.98 Children' White Dear Skin Coat, fl QQ slightly soiled, at I.OCJ Ladles' Home -Made Wrappers, splendid values at Jli5, $2.00, 11. 7o, l.so and FROM 8 TILL A. M.-Women' $1.28 Wrapper, at.: , FROM 8 30 TILL 8:80 A. M.-1.00 Dreeslng Sacques, at FROM $ TILL 11 A.' M.-Chlldren s Dresses, worth up to $2.(0. at . 1.25 ..59c 49c 79c GROCERIES!! The best Soda or Oyster Cracker, lb 60 BUTTER BUTTER BUTTER Fancy Separator Creamery Butter, worth 26c and iiSc per pound, for this sal only, per pound 21o DON'T FORGET THE BIO ORANGE SALE SATURDAY. Extra fancy lerge. Juicy and sweet High land Navel Orange, worth 30c per dozen, for this sal only, par dozen 20o Hosiery Specials LADIES' FANCY EMBROIDERED HOSE. In black and colors, regular EOc d:c and 76c values, at, pair ccJW $ pair for $1.00 LADIES' HEAVY WOOL HOSE. In black and Oxford grey, regular 25c and 85c values. Saturday, at 19o and aow MISSES' 26C SHAWKNIT HOSE, fin ribbed, special (Saturday, IOC PLAIN FACTS ABOUT PANAMA ObieiTttioni of a Young- Engineer Along tlie Canal Zoce. I HARKED- EFFtCT OF TYPICAL CLIMATE Man Heated in Iks tk o Against Man Uardiiipsi)eaai af Sreetsi aad TVeaaias; A !! Uvea, inlttgf Obata!a, "One of the problems now confronting the United Slate gpvernmunt in the work here on the ihthinua with regard to the several thousand clerks, stenographers, engineers, carpenters, masons and other skilled employes Is how long a white man born nnd reared in a northern clime can stand tho decay and the malaria of the cnnal xone," writes a young engineer who Is engaged In Hie advance survey work near Has tAlspo to a friend in Boston. "While the death rate t Colon and at Panama continues to be about six times that of Boston, tho government has effect ually stamped out the yellow fever and all danger from that source, as far as the ca nal employes are concerned, has been prac tically eliminated. Everywhere along the lino of the cunal In the interior of the 'isthmus the conditions are much more healthful than at the two terminal cities on either coast. Yellow fever Is unknown and deaths are of rare occurrence. "But this does not mitigate the fact that this climate was never Intended for a white man. Th system of a Caucasian Is Imply Incapable of resisting for a long period of time the disease and decay that is constantly fighting healthy human tissue. The hope of the canal official Is that the average employe from the states, with a vacation of about two months at home every year, will be able to recuperate suffi ciently to stand off the climate for another ten months. This Is the experiment that Is now being tried out. "In some cases men have been known to come to the Isthmus and stay ten months without ever getting even a touch of mala ria. They have gone home for their annual vacation and have returned to express pro found contempt for the climate. But before their second vacation the malaria always gets them. Other men contract the malaria very soon after arriving here and are forced to lay off from time to time with malarial attacks which become more and more severe. Some of these fellows return from their first vacation In the states al most as fresh as the day they first landed on the Isthmus. Others come back, after having suffered from regular malarial at tacks all the time they were at home, not improved a particle. After a second or third year on the Isthmus, such men will be worn down to nothing but a bundle of bones in a saffron skin, for no man can stand the kind of malaria we have at Panama many years in succession. After a man'a system has been racked with the malaria a year or so he Is a fit candidate for a railroad pass to the cemetery from niost any otherwlne harmless ailment that happens along. i General I)ea. "The Inroad ma 'aria makes in a man's constitution, however. Is no worae than the general decay that Is all the time going on. In this climate everything aeems t decay and fall to pieces. One of the first thing an engineer has to do after getting home Is to visit a dentist and get hi teeth fixed. On' Uth seem to fairly crumble away. Sale of Ladles' M islin Uidzrwzar The grestest assortment of dalntv VndertuuuUns ever brought to the city. The fresh up-to-datenoas, the generous proportions, the excel lent workmanship, the dainty trimmings. Immense assortment for selection ar.d extremely low prices make this your greatest . saving opportunity on Muslins. LADIES' MUSLIN SKIRTS mad extra, full, flounce of rtoep embroidery or rows of lace and Inserting. All have extra flounce and dust ruflle, garments worth upto $6.on. in 3 lots at $2 M, $1.94 gjj HANDSOME MUSLIN 8K1RT8. beauti fully trimmed, very full and well made, worth up to $-'.00. In three lots at Rilr Sc 75c and OUk LADIE8' OOWN. made extra long and full beautifully trimmed, worth fully double, special Saturday at DSr and 1 OV" LADIES' CORSET COVERS, DRAWERS, CHEMISE AND SKIRTS, lace and In sertion trimmed, all elsea. worth OQr. up to $1.00, at. choice J LADIES' DRAWER8 AND COR- 15r SET COVERS, worth double, at..,."J CHILDREN'S MUSLIN DRAWERS, trim med with la-e and clusters of tucks, srecial bargain Saturday at 25c, jQc Ladles' Fleece IJned Vest and Pants In all sires, special at 39e 25C and LADIES' LISLE GAUZE VESTS In pinks. blues or white at uc lUC and New Corset Models All the new spring models In high grade Corsets, now shown In our Corset De partment R. St 0., Warner's, Kabo, Royal Worcester and W. B. (If) Corsets, up from J " THE NEW NEMO 8elf-reduclng Corset for tout figure, all sues. 2b0 It Is conceded by all that the prices wa mak on Furftltur ar lower that the Hoe. .slfrd MWhere on similar goods. AU our goods are marked In plain figures. YoS ll I know thil To make it Interesting for the next few days we will give you 10 pecnt0 dlsSunt ttZ Tth. marked prices, on .11 bUl. Purced. One artlcl. or o?e.. Only good, excepted being Kitchen Chair, and Mattresses mT nving. $L76 for ft fw dyr China Department Just trrrported from Tsurio. Japan, Egg Shell China, decorated oupe, saucers and plates, very fin 60c values tomorrow: cups and saucers, pair 16o 15C plates, ach Real Dutch Cram Pitcher, , IOC aVt ."" Clearing Sale of Men's Hats MEN'S SOFT FELT HATS in all blocks and colors, worth regularly up to QQq $100. special Saturday THE CELEBRATED IMPERIAL $2.00 HAT either soft or stiff, special. 2.50 at SALE) OF SAMPLE) TRUNKS AU floor mples. worth up to $10 divided K ef to 8 lota at $8.60, $6.60 and.- OsUV Into along with everything else. The average pair of $3.50 shoes last only a few weeks. The stitches rot out in a week or so and the soles drop off. Shoes that are pegged with the ordinary Iron nails do not last any longer, for the pegs rust out and the soles drop off Just the same. The only kind of shoe we, here on the tunnel survey, have been able to get any satisfaction from are those' that are fastened with the old fashioned wooden pegs.- They go to pieces, too, but they last longer than the others. "Another trouble that makes life miser able a great deal of the time here with us In the Interior is from boils. We get them, I suppose, from wading the river and swamps and plowing through the Jungle, for they come only on our legs. Some of the tjien are covered with these boils. They are unusually painful and men are litld up with them two and three days at a time. "To anyone in the spates who doubts that the climate In the canal lone Is as insidious as I have painted It. I should like to show some of- the natives. Colum- ' Man a they call themselves, who work with j us and who were born and have always lived here. Everybody knows 4hat sny tropical cllmateNtends to have a demoral- j Izlng effect on any person who halls from i a more hardy tone. The miserable wretches j that the I'nlted States government Is 1 forced to employ to do all the manual work on the canal seem to me to Illustrate the fact that this climate will demoralize even 1 a monkey, j "These poor creature become indignant j m-hn nnv ft the AtiiFlnMil'l cnll them ' VI ir. I I vers." for thev f'nnnlrier themselves mnrh better than Africans. Yet men here who have been all over the world declare that they are the nearest thing to the 'connect ing link' of any people they ever saw. They have no morals, live together almost like cattle and believe In all manner of low and foolish superstition. A .woman 1 th highest form of possession among them. The women are fairly Independent, too, for If the man one of them happen to ba living with fall to work, sh speedily kicks him out and Jooks up a more indus trious mate. Most of the fights among the men are over the women. Cannl Will lie Due. "In spite of the climate and the many other obstacles with which the govern ment has to contend, everyone here believes that the canal will be dug. The engineers seom to be pretty well agreed, however, that the enterprise will eventually be turned largely over to private contractors. Red tape and precautions and checks to prevent the possibility of graft, or of reckless expenditures, will forever stand In the way of the government's digging the big dity'h In the quickest time at the lowest cost. Materials and supplies of any great amount have' to be ordered from Washington, where the government calls for bids, and after many weeks of dis astrous delay finally ships the desired tools or machinery. If a private contractor In charge of a certain section of the work wanted $25,000 worth of shovels or of any thing else, he would order direct from some company in New York, and twenty four hours after his order was received the materials would be on the wsy. Delay means expense In such A work as this. Then, too, about a great government work of this kind there Is no one in absolute au thority to give orders hen orders ar most needed. Chief Engineer Stevens does not enjoy the absolute authority that makes for expedlating a great work of this kind; neither does Chairman Bhonls. One man 1 a check on another. Even for an order for some trivial material or supplies, which la filled by the material and aupply department on th Isthmus, it takes weeks and week for an engineer to gst what he AS A SATURDAY SPECIAL we ar show. Ing an Immense line of 76c Corsets, in long and short hip models, also Corset Girdles with or without Hose (Qc Supporters, at 49c and : . 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I "With every. year bringing new revela ' tlons of graft In some department of the ' government., everybody will probably rec i ognize that these precautions that aro being taken at Panama are absolutely necessary, but such checks make a great work of this kind, a more tedious and ex Densive undertaking: for tha government I than if some one private Individual was In order as he pleased." Boston Transcript. What Vo. and Mo Mean. The average reader and book buyer I constantly put to' his wit's end to decide what constitutes a duedecimo, a ISroo, an octavo, a crown octavo, etc. In truth, there Is absolutely no fixed law which gov erns this question. Presumably the size of a book Is determined by the number of folds of the paper which forms a "slgna ture," but the length and breadth of paper vary so greatly that the number of folds really Indicates nothing of the slse of a book's page. 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