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in our store is our immense stock of dress goods for
fall and winter. All of the newest fabrics, designs,
colors and combinations of colors ma' be seen here
mi in such quantities as are carried onh' by the very
largest dry goods houses in the country. We really are offering-some startling- bar
gains in this department, bargains which would be to the interest of even' woman in the city to look into. It is an
established fact that dry goods are cheaper now than they will be a month later much cheaper.
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once in a lifetime. Do not delay for this is an opportunity which seldom comes.
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In CI icrgo business and in other
tbings'heic there is no limit one way or
the other. 1 see things on Euch a big
scale that 1 feel suddenly a mcacbing
shame at Lincoln's insignilicar.ee or
again I see such litt'e transactions that
I feel as if Lincoln alter.all amounted to
something. Orderj are given here that
Lincoln merchants cou'd not till and
other orders that they would hardly
bother themselves about.
There is so much ligbt housekeeping
dene here, especially down well into the
city, that groceis and market men have
modified business accordingly. Soup
bunches with a small carrot, a tiny
onion, two inches of a celery stalk and a
leaf of parsley the size of a half, dollar,
all for a penny, area part of a grocer's
stock in trade. One can buy a half cent's
worth of onions and a halt cent's worth
of yeast, hand over a penny and get a
"thank you' as polite as if there had
baen a three dollar ordir. Daily papers
arc a penny apiece.
When once I bad found out that
Groceries could be sold in penny Iota I
was hardly prepared to be tsld that the
milkman whose man delivered two cents
worth of milk taily to our next neigh
bor, was a millionaire who sent his milk
into Chicago each morning on a special
train. It teemed odd Do, for the daily
papers to be carted over tho city in or
dinary delivery wagons drawn by two
horses.
lb.9 criminal class go ta the same ex
tremes as the merchants. Nothing is
to 3 small cr too worthless to be stolen.
A 1 mall pile of pieces of lead pipe, the
scraps Ic!t after some rt pair work done
in a business building', was enough to
ret on feet a regularly crgacized night
burglary. The bund of three might havo
succfeded in telling tho pipe for a few
dollars if they had not been caught. On
the other hand there are violations and
evasions of the law herd that even Chi
cago neeu not be ashamed of. There
was Holmes, and more recently Spauld
ing. There is Leutgert who possibly
boiled bis wife up in potash and other
chemicals. And if position may be
presumed to magnify a crime, there are
the perpetual dishonesties and 1 cheinss
in tho city government. Suicides ac
cumulate until they are no longer of
more than passing interest. Murders
are to common that the city papers
rarely give them more than a half col
umn unlets there are unusually revolt
ing features as in the Leutgert case.
There are, so to tpeak. cosmopolitan
methods of breaking laws.
Perhaps notkxag-grew upon me with
more significance than the attitude of
the press here and the people towards
crime and especially towards crime
in government. One can hardly blame
the papers for light editorials about
David E. Bates who has a half dozen
wives and is engaged to Eeveral pro
spective brides, but there was something
altogether out of place in the jocularity
about Alderman Mangier, saloon keeper,
who lied in the first place, or refuses to
tell the truth now, concerning bribery in
the city government. Perhaps the most
shining example of thes3 frivolous edi
torials was in a Daily Xewxot last week.
Irregularities had been discovered in the
water office. The editorial begins:
"The discovery of large fresh batch
of frauds in the water office brings the
administration face to face with a grave
crisis.
The crisis arise from the fact that the
s'orage rcoms io the city ball for water
office frauds is completely exhausted.
The question is, what shall be done with
the new batch?
And so on for a half column. It is as
if frauds were too common for anything
except to create a little fun.
Tha squabble over the civil service in
the city government is a constant scurco
of merriment. Between theso matters
are sandwiched in good humored, litt'e
Ioke3 at Kipley, the chief of police, who
is unable to find any gambling in Chicago.
And it is no better among the people
than among the newspapers. The
papers would not print such trash as
they do, if they did not know it was ac
ceptable to readers. On the street cars
the conversation is animated arguments
for socialism or hilarious Jokes on the
city fathere.
There are funny things in John Cre
rar's will. Mr. Crerar is the founder of
the John Crerar Library. There are fifty
two 1 1 luses in the will and the fiftieth
gives the money for tho library. None
of tbeae clauses dispose of less than
$1,000. Most of them give from $10,000
to $100,000. The whole amount ghen
outside of the Library fund is about a
million and a half, Yet there was left
about twice this much for the library
itself.
The will by its wording tells much of
the man himself. He waB a Scotchman
with tome of the lustiness of the Scotch
character. He leaveB large fortunes to
bis couBini and second cousins with
directions to his executors to see ttiLt
the 6aid cousins and second cousins are
advised to pay off their mortgages when
there are any. Yet the Scotch tender
nets is shown t)o. He left 825,000 to
th? Scotch Presbyterian Church in New
York, "in which church I waB baptised."
1 here is one bequest left unexplained
as most of tho ethers are. "I give and
bequeath to Miss Katheiine L. Peck of
Waterbury, Connecticut, tho sum of
fifty thousand dollars." This suggesls
nothing, but one wonders if hidden here
is not the romance that explains the
terse statement in the beginning of the
will, "I am a bachelor and was born in
New York City."
The cause of most general interest is
of course the one setting aside money for
the library, partly because of its im
portance and partly because it shows to
plainly the character cf Mr. Crerar.
In the first part of the will it is provid
ed that a colossal statue of Abraham
Lincoln be erected and in this clause
Robert T. Lincoln is made one of the
Board of Directors.
John Crerar's wiehes in regard to the
character of the Library are given in
three forcible sentences.
"I desire the books and periodicals
selected with a view to create and sus
tain a healthy, moral and Christian
sentiment in the community, and that
all naEtiness and immorality be cxclud-
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