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Metcalfe, editor iOf Life, over the insolent and commer .ciahzed theater trust whi ch has taken possession of the playhouses of the 'country and is dictating not only who *shall play before Americans, but what I "class of plays they shall produce. 5 Mr. Metcalfe first got into trouble *with the trust by printing & cartoon in Life reflecting upon the trust at ,the time of the Iroquois theater fire 'in Chicago. The firm of Klaw & Er langer sued him for libel and was de feated. The trust then had a meeting nand passed a resolution barring him Jf rom the theaters of New York. The *order was carried out rigorously, and 'Mr. Metcalfe was refused admission when he presented tickets he had pur chased at the boxoffice. A some thea Hers he was ejected by force. Mr. Metcalfe thereupon brought ac- ^tion against the members of the trust, 'Comprising twenty-four theater mana geis the city of New York, and the I local magistrate has just made a rul sing holdi ng the who le crowd for trial ^on the charge of conspiracy. Mr. Met- -|Tcalfe's grievance is personal, but his l^ij 'energetic action in defending his rights i is of interest to every citizen. The ^theater trust has been very insolent in its treatment of the public. Its meth ods have reduced local managers to fmere doorkeepers. If they did not sign I the trust agreement and gi ve up the percentage of the profits demanded of I Hhem they received no more bookings. I th e, did sign tey became mere er- A the other star actors were treated to a dose of compulsion also. *If they declined to sign the trust agree I |ment they were shut out of the theaters of New York as well as in large parts I of the country. Mrs Fiske has been I i treated in this way. 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I fact, ac cording to our reactionary advocate of the spoils system, he would about as soon see a bright young friend sen tenced to the penitentiary for life as to be compelled to pass his life in a gov ernment clerical position. Mr. Eddy's argument is not conclu sive. What he says about the depar t ment clerks at Washington is large ly rue, but it is not a true in dictment against civil service. I was true long before government Jjosts were protect ed from politi cal changes, that most men were unfitted for -other work aft er a season in the goverifenent service, f*ffire* short hours, routine duties and. regRj,ar pay spoiled them, and a man was as badly spoiled in four years' time as be could possibly be. His position did not de *pend on his efficiency, but on his politi cal pull, so ambition gave him no in centive to perfoim his duties well. The civil service system is not per fe et yet, and it may never be, but even now it is a vast improvement. I the I idays when a chan ge of administration meant the decapitation of thousands of experienced employees, the public serv ice suffered from incompetent and in experienced men thrust in to satisfy 'political appetite. The theory of the civil service syst em is that the govern ment is entitl ed to get trained and com -petent servants for its money, just the Fiske and her companv, Salt Lake City, could not play there be cause all the hoxtses were in the trust. She hired a hall and delivered a, publ ic address telling why she could not plav in the city. I Minneapol is Mrs. Fiske was obliged to go to the Auditorium, which was unsuited to her and where she probably lost money on er venture. This is part of the plan of the trust, to break the star actors and make them "come in." Such a shoddv monopoly of art is ex tremely repugnant to the public senti ment and it is to be hoped that Mr. Metcalfe's work may result in its breaking up. If Togo appears in the Baltic the fishing fleets may keep on their couise. Togo, he "knows how." Bonaparte in the Cabinet, the first citizen of Maryland, in force, character and public influence. is not a popul ar man and would, perhaps, not be a votegetter in convention. is a hard hitter and a man of strong convictions. But he has been a power in the country in pushing civil-service refoim and in battling for civic rights and civic purity. His presence in the cabinet is an earnest of the president's determina tion to conclude his administration as he began itas the champion of the people without regard to machine in fluence er party exigencies. The presi dent, believi ng as he does, that the best party policy is to do a little more for the people than they expect, rather than considerably less than thev hope, does right to surround himself with men whose lives and public services are of the same general character as is own. The "committee of public safety" is getting more aid from Mayor Jones than it bargained fo Reports from the Wheat Fields. Grain men who have been watching for something from the wheatfields of the* .northwest, to indicate the condi tion or relative advancement of the light-weig ht seed, of which a large pro portion was sown this season, will be interested in the report of Mr. Marshall, appearing elsewhere in jthis issue. General opinion has been that 40 per cent of the seeded area was put down with light-weig ht seed, Mr. Mar shall estimates but 10 per cent to have been seeded with wheat under 50 pounds in weight, whi ch in no way controverts the former estimate for the whole, and it is entirely pcobaftlg that tfe^arly estimate 5*%f j^Mts not tg$4arge for the portia&'-eeerfed with wheat weighing under the sixty-pou nd standard. I is this large acreage of seed below standard weight that has caused uneasiness as to the outcome. I is gratifying to note in a maiority of cases the fields show a much greater uniformity of stand than might have been expected, and lightweight and heavyweight seed, sown, close together, appear to have advanced equally well. I is noted that the advantage of an early start, due to unusually fine weather in March,,,April and early May, has been lost bvHhe later unfavorable conditions, and the crop, so far from be ing advance, is today a trifle behind the development usual at this date. Durum wheat is farther along than either fife or blue-stem, and is found to be veiy vigorous, which bears out one thing its advocates have claimed for it. The people of Hungary are talking revo lution. Never did people seem so anxioi.s to get slaughtered as at present. "Motley's the Only Wear." P. Ellard Dowlmg, editor of the Eve leth Star and whitewasher ordinary for the last legislature, is interesting in some respects. I the last issue of his paper Pellard reads The Journal out of the republican party, excom municates it with book and ring, and then says: Among republicans proper there is a unanimity of sentiment that makes it evident that the old quarrel is to be relegated to the rear and the Btate redeemed from its useless double ad ministration. There is no disposition upon the part of'the friends of E C. Dunn to continue the dispute, and the partizans of the other side have large ly taken themselves from the pale of re publicanism, thereby lessening their influence to such an extent that possi bilities of their doing mischief 'ia* com paratively small. Evidently Brer Dowling, being still within the pale, realizes that his possi bilities for mischief "is" still fairly large and should be improved. I is a fact that republicans generally, in cluding the 80,000 who voted for John A. Johnson, aie already to drop the old quarrel and get together on the right basis. I Dowling were allowed to run the show, he would show his disregard for the old quarrel by kieking all the anti-Dunn republicans out of the party, and would then proceed to "redeem the state." I is quite possible, how ever, that the gentleman from Eveleth, will not be the ringmaster in the next convention. is fitted by nature for another job, and if he has any regard for the fitness of things, he will wear motley. President Wallace of Macalester sums up the effects of the war thus far as follows. (1) The territorial Integrity of China assured, (2) despotism in Russia doomed, (3) some of the conceit knocked out of the white man (4) war made ex tremely unpopular with the nations. An advertising story that did injustice to Hiram Cronk, the last veteran of fhe war of 1812, has been denied by his daugh ter. She says that her father's life was 'not prolonged by the use of somebody's brand of spirituous liquor. She admits that during the closing years of his career his vital powers were occasionally forti theaters thiuout thelfied' by a small libation! oT wine, but she country. Only a few days ago Mrs. says that he never drank of the heavy orange crop is almost a complete failure. passi ng thru intoxicants nor was he addicted to the use of tobacco. lived to be old because of his temperance in the use of life's neces sities and not because he used liquor. In many cases the long lives of people over 100 are attributed to the use of liquor and tobacco as a joke* because we heat the other sid^e of the question* so often For many years Mr. Charles Bo naparte, who will succeed Mr. Mor ton as secretary of the navy, has been a personal friend of the presiden t. There is no danger of unknown entan glemen ts in this case, because Mr. Bo naparte has been a lawyer and a re form politician for so many years that his alliances are matters of public knowledge. They are all of a charac ter that the preside nt can heartily in dorse. Mr. Bonaparte is undoubtedly, The assessor admits that the law im- $* Taxation Troubles. ,-Every year when the tax assessors be gin their work, 'something turns up to show the cruditie s, inconsistence and- in- justice" of 'the present system of taxing personal property. Duluth is having an experience with mortgage taxation, as the city assessor has started out to list all mortgages on St. Louis county property that are owned in the county. Duluth people haven't been paying taxes on mortgages, and a wail of com plaint has been lifted up. The assessor defends his action, saying that the law absolute ly requir es him to list mortgages. The register of deeds is requir ed to file a list of mortgages owned locally, with the county auditor, who must distribute it to the assessors. This is for the pur pose of reaching all credits possible, but in actual practice it is a discrimination in favor of outside mortgage holders, and for that reason it has been' ignored. poses a hardship, and says he will only list mortgages at one-third of their value. This leads the Duluth Herald to remark that if the assessor is goi ng to observe the law, he must assess every credit at its face value, for the' law has so requir ed for the last forty years. Here the Herald scores a palpable hit. The incident simply illustrat es that tho tax laws as they stand are unjust. I the taxing officers disregard the law they are derelict in their duty, and if they enforce it they are confiscating the income from moneys and credits. Tlfey are discriminating against the man who invests his money at home. Such a syst em is a back number, and the state can get rid of it none too soon. Quite an expensive table has just been purchased by a French collector of old furniture. It was the writing table given by Napoleon Bonaparte to Prince Clement Lothar Metternich. It was bought in Vienna this week and will be tak en to France The table is of rosewood, mcrust ed with gold. The purchase took about all the collector's small change, for he gave up $260,000 for the piece. Napoleon could hardly have known how valuable a piece he gave away so thoughtlessly. The Servant Girl Problem. I is claimed that the free employ ment agency may have an influence in solving the servant-girl problem. I is charged that the private intelligence offices pass servant girls about fr om house to house, securing for them a raise of wages when they move or a bonus for leaving their former em ployer, and, of couse, the intelligence office reaps a harvest of fees from the distracted housekeepers, who are kept on the keen jump to secure help. There will be nothing of this kind in connection with the state employ ment agency. There will be no fees to pay and no inducement to girls to leave one place and step into another. I may be that the state agency will in time beco me the balance of power in the disposal of servant girls. There will hardly be any marked improve ment in the situation, howeve r, until housework is recognized in a different way fr om what i% is at presentnot until young women seeking housework learn something of the obligations of a contract. Perhaps the free employ ment agency may prove of some edu cative value in these respects. The two new battleships secured by Japan are as good as $10,000,000 to the islanders. If some of the Russian Port Arthur wrecks ar raised, as is now prom ised, it looks as tho the Japanese navy, as one result of the war, would be de cidedly to the good. If the longer you fight the stronger you get, it certainly looks bad for the opposing party. Messrs. Lewis & Clarke opened their fair at Portland, Ore., yesterday. The Messrs. Lewis & Clarke have great repu tations as explorers and th^ir discovery of Portland as a central place for a fair is undoubted proof of it. The Washington Star points out that the automobile has been of great benefit to the accident insurance business. W notice, too, that the artificial limb manu facturers' families have been touring Eu rope this spring. Richard Harding Davis has gone to farming in York state, having purchased 250 acres in Westchester county. If Mi". Davis crops this farm with one hired hand, it will give him abundant exercise. Portland is entertaining the tallest president with the highest ambitions of any we have had since, since when? Was there a vice president with ambitions once before? Flanders of Cameron, Mo., was painfully if not fatally bitten by a mule. A Missourlan of all people should know that the mule is a double-ender. There was another wedding in Minne apolis last night, after which there was a perfect hail of rice and shoes. Happily no one was killed. Jadam Bede says the fight at the Tsu islands has sealed the doom of the bat tleship. Jadam has a fellow feeling for swift cruisers. The Philadelphia gang greatly missed the statesmanship of Senator Quay in this extremity. Penrose was never his con frere's equal. THE PASSING OF GRANDPA Little Johnny (such a bright boy) Runs a railroad and a bank Baby Jim conducts a journal, And a senator is Frank Boys of sixteen, eighteen, -twenty Now direct the human race What's the use of having grandpa Merely loafing round the place? We are chloroforming grandpa Don't you hear his feeble moan? Grandpa is a nice old fellow, And It's sad to have him groan Shall we take him out, my brothers, Eire lie dies beneath the lid? No we've talked with Dr. Osier,. And he says it must he dia. -Life. United States Consul Covetkoi Lyons, France, reports that 4 he European GOOD ADVICE BY A WOMAN OF THE WORLD.Advice is one of the few things in this world that can be both cheap and good. For proof see A Woman of the World, by Ella, Wheeler Wilcox some of it. The book is a series of letters to various persons at critical points in their lives, and the "critical points" are of many kinds. For example, there is a letter to a Vassar college gill, another to a bride, another to a girl who faces the necessity of earning a living, another to shop girl "concerning her oppressors," another to a jealous husband, et cetera, all in re sponse to letters seeking advice. All deal with intimate peisonal affairs about whi^h good advice is often needed, and the author "speaks right out There is no misunderstanding her position. 4 XP?v ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, A Author of "A Woman of the World." l/ffflWtniMIIIKttfMMOHMTtM One does not need to accept all of the ad vice of this adviser extraordinary. Even a woman of the world has no monopoly In sound judgment on the problems young men and maidens and others have to face. But despite the exceptions this woman of the world says many things that her read ers would be better for heeding. L. C. Page & Co Boston, $1.50. OUR HUMORLESS HEROINES.A writer in the Contributors' club in the At lantic Monthly for June complains that the heroines of greater English Action are al most without humor. says: They are a fair and gallant company, and it is good to be with them Thev are wise and sweet, passionate, strong and brave, beautiful almost alwajs, good on the whole and, without failing. Interesting. Yet I felt the lack of one last gracea sense of humor then raises the question whether these same heroines would not be im proved by a sense of the humorous. puts the question in this manner: Must it be so? Would there not be some thing yet more poignant in struggle and suffer ing if it were accompanied illuminated by a humorous sense, turned inward to accept the folly of It all' Lear fool seems to some of us more pathetic than his master by virtue of this very consciousness, and the appeal of Cyrano de Bergerac Js accentuated by tie lurk ing smile of the sufferer as he regaids himself. But who will create for us such a figure? There surely is an opening for some literary aspirantcreate a humorous hero ine. JOLLI TY AND HELPFULNESS.Miss Billy, by Edith K. Stokely and Marian K. Hurd, is a story of a girl who brightened the whole face of adveisity which came to her family simply by being jolly and doing the good things that came to her hand Her brightness and good cheer af fected the whole family and spread to the community with most surprising and ben eficial results. One is not quite satisfied that the reason for the family's moving into such a community is sufficient, but overlooking that the story is well told and wholesome. It is the best kind of an answer to discontent. Lothrop Publibhlng company, Boston, $1.50. MR. GARLAND'S SUBLIMINAL LIT- ERARY SELF.Since "The Tyranny of the Dark" began to excite comment dur ing its run in Harper's Weekly, and more especially since its publication in book form by the Harpers, Mr Garland has been frequently asked about his own be liefs in regard to the interesting occult phenomena with which the story deals. But he always declines to bind himself further than by saying that he has had no personal psychic experiences, but has witnessed strange things during his ten years of investigation. He does, how ever, believe strongly in certain manifes tations of the subliminal self. "How can I help it," he said recently, "when I have actual examples of my subliminal literary self at work?" It seems that at one time Mr Garland was awakened from sleep by apparently hearing an elderly English countryman speaking to him in verse The impression made upon Mr Garland was so strong that, -without hesitation, he wrote down exactly what he heard. The poem was in dialect, two verses running as follows- Here I stond i' the murk o' the wuther, An' whussle atween ma thoombs, An' never a boon ca's at his tuther. An' never a hoontsman coornu. The fields adfe plooed like a meller's garden, The fields a planted vci' earn, An' naught remains for the poor auld warden But to hang oop the roosty harn. An expert, to whom the verses were read, said the dialect was the speech of an uneducated Yorkshire yeoman. "Of course, as a realist," Mr Garland laugh ingly said, "I deprecate this sort of thing, and try to keep it under, but I am glad to ha\e met my subliminal literary self, if we do not seem to have many interests in common." THE MAGAZINES A Project for Savina Niagara Falls. Dam Niagara down the White Horse lapids, fill up the whirlpool, raise the water level in the gorge 100 feet, ehange the river into a storage reservoir from the foot of the cataract to the brow of the escarpment, and 2 500,000 electric horse power may be developed five miles be low Niagara at Lewiston. says Alton Adams in The Engineering Magazine for June. When this power is not in use a third cataract will be created, with the combined discharge of both the American and the Horseshoe flails flowing over a dam 100 feet high between Lewiston and Queenston. At this dam fully 60 per cent of the energy of 222,000 cubic feet of water per second falling 100 feet and de veloping 2,500,000 horsepower may be transformed into electric- cunent. A dam about 100 feet high, corresponding to the drop of the river surface from the foot of Niaga ra Falls to Lewiston. five miles below, would work no substantial injury either to the natural falls or the existing power plants. Those who have enjoyed the wild scenery of the White Horse rap ids at close range will be loth to give them up, but when the hard alternative is to drown these rapids or dry up the American falls, the,former seems much the less of the two evils. Boston Corbet, the man who is cred ited with having shot Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln^is residing in Texas. Church Financiering. To the Editor of The Journal. There is a weak place in the adminis tration of churches. It is the financial place. This is generally not from any necessity,1 nor from lack of financial strength in parishes, but usually because of a very defective financial method of raising funds. The usual plan'Is for the board of trustees, all of whom are Tusil occupied with their own affairs, themselves to n dertake personally to raise the funds neede for current expenses. I is easy to see that this places the board Itself and the church at a great disadvantage. The canvass is desultory, weak, fitful, hap hazard, hit and miss, and, for want of time, never made promptly when it should be. If the canvass is made each year, in stead of being made early in the fall, in September pr October, the^inefficient canvass lingers along in driblets till the holiday season is on, when people wish to use their cash for holiday purposes. After the holidays comes the taxpaying season and then people are thinking of economy in order that they may pay theii taxes. The result of this weak, inefficient, haphazard financial method ia that cur rent church expenses drag behind and are not promptly met. The idea, there fore, soon gets abroad in the parish that it is weak financially, the people get dis couraged, attendance on services becomes indifferent and irregular, enthusiasm lan guishes and the spirit of the church does not rise to the level essential to the best work, but droops and drops to a lower tone It sometimes happens, too. that boards of trustees do not wish to take any sug gestion from a pastor, but to regard him rather as a hired man. A prophet cannot be turned into a hired man He is the principal officer in the church and should be consulted and have a voice in all that is done. Otherwise all the interests in volved will sooner or later pay. the penalty What is the remedy for this inefficient financial method? The board should yearly elect some man or woman of the parish who has a gen uine interest in the church and in the pastor, and who is tactful, prudent and patient, to make the canvass for funds, and pay him or her well for so doing Then this person can afford to take the time to make a thorogoing canvass, to make it in season and to look after any arrearages in subscriptions which have not come in during the year. That method, which has been tried, is no mere theory. The current expenses will always be met promptly and the parish Itself en larged by seeing people outside of it who may be more than willing to assist in some degreeand many such there are. The above proposition is neither theoretic nor academic. I has been tried with ex cellent results, even when nothing has been paid for such services. It keeps church, moreover, in good spirits, so that it works with enthusiasm and effective ness. The revival the church most needs today for its spiritual prosperity and its increase in numbers is a financial revival wrought by adopting right business methods. Churches are al most always in a financial hole. There Is no necessity for this at all. The great est and best of all human institutions thus too often languishes, whereas it might easily be the most flourishing and successful of all There is npt another institution on the face of the earth that could survive if administered financially as churches usually are. That the church survives indisputably proves vital is the hold of religion on human nature. Among the reasons for the decline in the number of candidates for the Chris tian ministry may fairly be reckoned this business evil In the administration of churches, which dampens their en thusiasm, hinders their growth in num bers and often very seriously embarrasses ministers themselves, because, tho living within their salaries, they are unable to promptly pay their bills and meet other imperative expenses. And many a min ister's salary mig ht be made more com fortable than it is with benefit to the church and its work as well as to himself, if this evil were remedied. He would not so often be practically starved out. This wholly unnecessary evil does not en courage new candidates for the ministry. A grave responsibility rests upon the churches here in this matter and upon their boards Rev. A. N Alcott. Minneapolis, May 19. NO POLITICS IN THIS Rate Regulation Viewed by a Republican and a Democratic Paper. I will be well for dissenters in St. Louis and every where else to n derstand that the people are with the president on this question. President and people are well aware of the vast ness and of the im portance of the rail way interest. Neither the presi dent nor any other public-spirited per son in the country has the faintest in tention of injuring the roads, or of hampering their le gitimate activities in a ny way. Under the 1 i 1 a tion which the presi dent urges, and which the people indorse, equal and exact justice will be rendered to the railways, as well as to their patrons. This is all that any railway magnate or anybody else can reasonably ask Railway rate legis lation is one of the burning issues of the day. There i"5 a strong probabil- ity that congress will be called in special session to deal with it. When the matter comes up in congress, St. Louis will be found on the right side of it.St Louis Globe Democrat. President A. B. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western is' much wiser than very many of his rail- a associates. Other leading rail road men keep talking in generaH ter ms about the' desire of the rail roads to co-operate with the govern- ment in curing the existing abuses, but almost to a man they have cried out that federal regulation of rates would be a danger to the republic. President Stick- ney, however dis agrees with his fellows. A great deal of high salaried time is be ing expended in ef forts to becloud the issue. If the able gentlemen repre senting these big corporations will but concentrate their thoughts for a little while upon the one question involved in the present controver- sythat of giving to the commission the power to deter mine what a max imum rate shall be more of them, we feel sure, will see things as Mr. Stick ney does. But whether they do on not mak es very lit tle difference. The American people have been thoroly aroused to the ne cessity of federal rate regulation of interstate com merce, and thru their congress the people will see that the necessary rem edial legislation is enacted. Atlanta Constitution. IN THE GARDEN A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot Rose plot, Fringed pool, FAVORS 50c A Week. On Saturday we will sell 200 "Reli able" Gasoline Stoves. Full Cabinet Frame, Exactly like picture, all Brass Connections, 3 Burner Size, Special at $ 3 9 8 Burner size, Special at $ 2 9 8 Gash* or $1.00 down and 50c per week. Also 200 Bake Ovens, Suitable for elthjer Gas, Gasoline or OH Stoves, Special Saturd ay at $159 Special Sale Gas Stoves 100 Gas Stoves like picture and Simil ar, 2 Burner Size, Special Satur day $ 1 9 8 per foot $1.98 1000 Gas 10c, foot Gas Hose. Ft. Be=t Quality Hose, Regularly Saturday per 6 6c 200 Folding Ironing Boards like pic ture, Regularly $1.00 Saturday 59o A $3.25 Vase for $1.95 On (Saturday we will sell 100 of these Beau tiful Hand Painted Rose Center Vases* with Gold Plated Top and Base, Stand 23- In. Hlghi, Regularly $3.25 Saturday $1.95 Limit one to mer. 4 Ferned grot i The veriest school *&!* %i Of peace and yet the fooj evA* i *&* Contends that God is not Not God, in gardens, when the eve Is cool?* Nay, but I nave Si sign-, 5 *Ss 'Tis -rtrv stoe God walks In mine. i *T Thorn** dMu4 a custo- Th One-Price, m\ Complete liouueturahhen. Tnere are some things not included with* In the limits of stri ct business rulesFav ors, Courtesies which, when one has done the best he could, he has a right to expect. W have the old fashioned Notion that we are Under Obligations to our customers for their patronage, and you may rest assured that, when you have done the best you could, and need a Favor, you will not have to ask twice for I at the New England. I is not necessary to tell our OLD Customers thisthey know it from experience. Assortment, PRICE, Service, Thank You, and all goi ng Favors, I Generous Measur e, are for you at the New England. Make .No Mistake. SATURDAY'S SPECIAL BARGAINS Department Housefurnhhiug Sundries, 5th St. and 1st Ave. Entrances. Special Sale Dependable Special Sale Hammocks. Special Sale Flemish Pitchers. Better Hammocks, and more of them than ever and that 's saying a good deal, for the New England's Ham mock business Is something Immense. Special Prices all along the line Sat urday, 59c to $ 6 OO As an Extra Special, we offer for Saturday's Busi-, ness 200 Full Color Hammocks. Close Woven, Large Size, with Spreaders, Large Pillow and Valance. Regularly $2.00, at, all Complete $125 Refrigerators Fop Saturday's Business W a Offer A Solid Car Of The Ever Popular "La Belle" Refrigerators Every one Warranted. Special for Saturday at $4.69 $7.50 $9.75 Cash, or a Dollar or Two Down and 50c or a Dollar A Week. Stone We Show Every Size and Every Style of the Three Most Up-to-date Lines of Wheels on the Market The Old Re liable "Crescent" in Gent's Sizes at $25 0 0 and $30 0 0 Juvenilp "Crescents" at $19 0 0 $2150 ana $22 5 0 The Ever Popular "Day" Wheel, with Its Reversible and Inter changeable Cones, at $25 OO $30 OO, $35 OO and $40 OO The High Grade "Tribune" with the Robin's Egg Blue Enamel, the Hand somest Wheel on the Market, $40 OO $45 00, $50 OO and $55 0 0 Special Sale Bicycle Tires. Have Just Received, and will place on Special Sale Saturday a Large Lot of the Celebrated Goodyear Tire & Rub ber Company's 1905 Goods. "Pathfinder Saturday Ill 11. B' Guaranteed Tires, Heavy "Roadster" Guaranteed Tires, Saturday $ 4 0 0 "Monarch" Guaranteed Tires, Satur day $ 2 6 0 "Surety" Guaranteed Tires, Satur day $ 2 3 5 "Yale" Unguaranteed Tires, Satur day $125 Special Prices Satur day on all Bicycle Sundries. InnerTubes, Carbide, Repair Kits, Oil, Graphite, Bells, Locks, Oil Cans, Pumps, Pump Hose, Toe Gllps, Cement, Tape, Grips, etc. FtM?nittrire & Carpet Co* 5th St., 6th St, and 1st Av. S. fr.&fVffr.Tft,, II $1.25 to $4.00 $3 50 sill