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10 yards for 10c
4o pieces cotton Challies the reg
ularoc ones. On Monday morning for
layard. This for Saturday morning for 5c yd.
AH the 10c rummer dress goods in
the house; all the 12c summer goods
in the house; all the 15c summer dress
goods in the house go in one lot on
Saturday for 5c yard.
10c Fard
'The best we have at this price. All
the fine summer dress goods, imported
and domestic lawns, organdies and dim
ities. Some .worth 35c On Saturday
for 10c jard.
Big reductions in
Black Silks
20 inch all silk satin duchess, regular
price, 85c, clearing sale price, 63c yard.
24 inch all silk satin duchess, the 81.25
quality, clearing sale price 87c yard.
'24 inch all silk satin duchess, the best
we have our 81.50 quality, clearing
sale price 81.05 yard.
24 inch black brocaded India silk,
regular price S5c, clearing sale prich 49c
On Saturday any child's hat or bon
net in the Btore at half the marked
price.
Powers and Howard
Many people in Lincoln will remem
ber Judge Powers, who Is spoken of
In a Chicago paper as follows, as one
of the leading lawyers in the Irvine
divorce case.
One of the prominent delegates Is
Orlando W. Powers of Utah, who has
been pictured, interviewed and hand
shaken with great volubility and aban
don since his arrival a few days ago.
Judge Powers is a character, and the
name of the thing he characterizes is
politics. That Is his meat and drink,
and the fact that he is a very thin man
who looks as though one of his lungs
might be lame, should not be taken
as an indication that his meat and
drink do not agree with hlmTo Powers
a ward caucus is a feast and a county
convention is a great banquet of good
things. Powers, who is now opposing
with all his strength the money policy
of Grover Cleveland, was appointed
by that same Cleveland as a federal
judge foe the territory of Utah adout
ten years ago. He left his Michigan
home and went out to the land of the
latter-dav saints to take possession of
the Job, but a low-lived and ignorant
senate did not gather the full value of
.the judge's services and so refused to
clinch the nomination. Powers was
there, however, and they could not
drive him away, even had they been
so disposed, which they were noLHe
opened a law office and very shortly
became the leading member of the bar
of the territory. But his heart was in
politics, and, although he had hardly
become acclimated to the Utah irriga
tion ditches and gravelly valleys he
became affected with the thirst for re
form and took the leadership of a
newly organized anti-mormon party,
which, under the name of the "liber
als," set In to clean out the mormon
sovereignty. Powers revealed himself
as a politician of the result getting
order, and after a campaign ol un
paralleled ferocity he had the pleasure
of seeing the whole "liberal" tickte
elected, from Mayor Scott down to the
bottom man. It nearly killed the old
mormons of Salt Lake, who had de
nominated Powers and his followers
as "carpetbaggers," but It Immensely
pleased the gentile residents, and they
clubbed together and gave the clever
attorney and central-committee chair
man an outright present of $10,000.
Powers was afterward known as the
"$10,000 beauty of the Wahsatch." The
name of carpetbagger was quietly and
cheerfully accepted by the mormon
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When honest, seasonable merchandise is sold for less than cost of
production, people ought to respond with all the cash they can spare.
Remember every yard, every article and every made up garment of this
spring and summer purchase has been cut in price, some 50 per cent,
some 33 per cent, none less than 25 per cent.
These for Saturday and when gone more added, equally
as good
fighter, and he caused an enormous
triumphal pole to be erected on a pro
minent corner of the city, and on the
top of this pole was placed a gilded
representation of a carpetbga, which
forever afterward taunted the bishops
and seventies and other mormon folk.
If the long man and the short man
were to rob Judge Powers they would
find as the thing which he values
greatest a golden carpetbag with a
diamond setting, which was given him
for a watch charm, and which he de
lights to show as a product of Utah
mines. The Judge is a pretty smooth
product himself, and his share in the
present convention Is going to be
great. He has already been accepted
by the various high priests of sllvre
as - man whose help Is more than
worth asking for.
Among the delegates now in the city
is Edgar Howard, a young man with a
Roman face full of sweet peace and
benignity, who runs a paper In Papil
llon, Nebraska. Mr. Howard has been
In politics for only a few years, but he
has learned many things in that time.'
He was once a candidate for the legis
lature, and In making his rounds
struck a family of refugees from Indi
ana who had taken up a residence in
the Sarpy county bottoms. Mr. How
ard made himself agreeable and was'
Invited to supper, and the squatter put
up a pretty fair meal.
As Mr. Howard was preparing to
leave the Indianan said to him:
"Kin ye rassle?"
"Not very much," responded the pol
itician. The other looked troubled. "That's
dlsapp'lntln'," he said. "Kin y fight?"
"T try to kep the peace," was his
visitor's reply.
"But ye kin fight some?"
"Oh, I suppose so. Soyou need not
fear for my safety, I know thsee bot
toms thoroughly and am afraid of
nothing."
"Ye can't rassle an ye kin fight
some" "the other mused. "Well stranger
they ain't no help fer it. Peel off an
come on."
Howard remonstrated. It was no
part of his politics to fight every voter
on the bottoms. He begged to be ex
cused. The other was obdurate, how
ever, and, attacking Howard, the as
pirant for office could do no less than
pitch in and defend himself. He
warmed up, indeed, and, finally, as the
other man pressed him too seriously
for foolishness, he went at it earnestly
and pounded his opponent with great
vigor, finally "getting a grapevine twist
on him as they clinched and rolling
of the great
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him on the sod. The voter, both eyes
being blacked, yelled a lusty "enough,"
and on being released from his recum
bent position cordially thanked his
conqueror.
"Friend," said the Indiana party, "ye
don't know what good ye done me. In
Indiany I was a pretty brisk man and
whopped most everybody in the county.
I allowed when I moved out here J'd
do the same thing, but thought it'd
be better to try the kind of people
they is here. Te say ye can't rassle
an ye kin only fight some, an yit ye
pound me all over the place. 'Cord
Ingly I calculate that the people that
is here an' that kin an' kin fight
enought to talk about is too fast fer
my kind of fightin'. I had expected to
go in town tomorrow an' git drunk an'
clean out the place, but I guess mebbe
I better stay right here an' oil up my
harness. I'm much obliged fer your
Information. These here black eyes'll
git well, but a busted backbone or a
caved-in head or a lot o broke ribs is
too serious a risk at my time of life."
The Indiana acquisition is one of the
most pacific residents in Sarpy county
and is one of Howard's strongest sup
porters, and predicts that he will some
day be president of the United States
If he only takes advantage of oppor
tunity and learns to "rassle."
BRYAN IN CHICAGO.
Even the sedate Associated Press
acknowledges that Mr. Bryan set Chi
cago on flr Thursday. It Is given to
few men to achieve the personal tri
umph that was Mr. Bryan's on that
day.
HELPING A BASHFUL LOVER.
It was only a two-room log cabin,
and after supper Mrs. Coots and I sat
down in the front room and left her
daughter Sue, a girl about 18 years
old. to clear away and tidy up. She
had just finished when a young man
slipped Into the kitchen. His headgear
was a coonskln cap, the bottoms of his
trousers were tucked into his boot legs,
and he was awkward and ungainly as
a. cow on Ice. runs a story in Truth.
"Howdy, Joe?" saluted the girl, as
he entered.
"How howdy?" he replied, as he sat
down on the edge of a chair and fum
bled with his cap.
"That's her beau," whispered Mrs.
Coots to me over her knitting. "Joe's
peart 'nuff. but powerful- shy. Bin
coting Sue fur nigh a 'af now, but
At a big reduction during the clearing
sale.
32 dozen Ladies' muslin and c unbric
gowns, beautifully trimmed with lace
and embroidery, sizes 14, 15 and 16.
This lot consists of ten styles. Some
are slightly mussed. The lowest prico
garment in the lot was one dollar, the
highest, one seventy-five, On Saturday
your choice for 75c each.
Ladies' fast black sateen skirts, full
width, double ruffle, sale price 60c re
duced from 98c.
Rustle Percaline skirts, extra wide,
double Spanish flounce, sale price 83c;
reduced from 81.25.
Ladies' Laundried Shirt Waists
We are cleaning them out regardless
of cost. On Saturday another lot of
81.25 waists for 49c.
A clean up in th e linen department.
500 remnant cotton and lianen crash
lc each.
500 remnants tine huck and Damask
crash, 2 Jc each.
5C0 remnants fine turkey red table
damask, lc each.
1,00c remnants fine unbleached dam
ask. Worth from 40c to 75c a yard
7Jc each.
100 dozen fringed white napkins. Reg
ular price 10c and 12c each. 10c.
500 extra fine satin Damask dinner
napkins. Worth up to 85. a dozen.
The above items are all manufactur
ers' samples. Price 10c each.
25 pieces large check white dress
geols. Regular price 10c. Now 5c
hain't dun axed her to marry him."
The girl took a seat on the far side
of the room, and for ten minutes not a
word was spoken between them. Then
she finally queried:
"How's b'ars, Joe?"
"Hain't seen a b'ar in three months,"
he replied.
There was another painful interval,
and then Sue asked:
"How's coons, Joe?"
"Coons Is plenty," he replied, as he
avoided her glance.
"That's the way it goes!" whispered
the mother. "They jist sot and sot.
and talk 'bout b'ars and coons and
slch, and I do declar I'm glttin' all
upsot!"
Five minutes later, just as the young
man seemed on the point of leaving.
Sue kindly inquired:
"Killed any 'possums lately, Joe?"
"Nary one," he replied, as he stared
at his boots.
"I can't abide that no mo'," mut
tered the mother, as she laid aside her
work and rose up.
"What are you going to do?" I asked.
"Git 'em together or skeer him off."
She walked out Into the kitchen and
stood before the young man and stern
ly demanded.
"Joe Skiliman, did yo' dun cum over
yere to" borrow an ax?"
"N no, mum," he stammered.
"Did yo' dun cum to cote Sue?"
"Y yes, mum."
"Sue. do yo' want to be coted?"
"Reckon I do," answered Sue.
Then yo' all Jist listen to me. Joe.
yo git over on t'other side. Sue, yo
snuggle up to him. I'ze gwlne to blow
out the candle and leave yo In the
dusk, an me'n the stranger's gwlne
to sot on the fur side of t'other room
and talk loud. I'ze got mighty tired
of this fussin' 'round, and yo' all has
either got to fix or unfix things this
very night."
An hour later, when Joe went home.
Sue called her mother out and held a
whispered conversation with her, and
when Mrs. Coots returned to me she
smiled grimly and explained:
"They all ar' gwine to be married
nex' week "
Canon City coal at the WhUebreast
Coal and Lime Co.
"Queen Victoria:' Ladies' Favorite
Her Majesty's Perfume, is the most
lasting and perfect Perfuxce. Ask
t'gga1 the Druggist " for a sample.
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