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2 Parts VOL. XXII.—NO. 358 Is Unparalleled in Big DSscounf^GSving on High-Grade Goods. S£&l&* 1 acffi Fill A Kaue Amlw it BKGINS :n!i{SDAYv i^xi<mbkr^6u7---it ends Saturday, December 30th. Ev^T g&IP BaglaSia I¥C UfilWSl viii Mm Piece of Furniture in our entire stock will be subject to a discount—nothing held back. This is the last week * before our annual inventory, and we are going to reduce our stock to a minimum if low prices, regardlessTf cost or present value, will do it. Goods are not allowed to become old or out of fashion with us. The regular selling price of every article in our Furniture Department is marked in plain figures. Our special Pre-Inventory selling prices will be denoted by Colored Tags, with graded discounts printed on each. ' ~" A Sample Article with each Tag at.Tagged Price is given herewith to show, as plainly as printer's Ink can do, the immense values offered at this Sale. / ° \r ° \r ° X/ON, /o \ IO%OFF * * 20%0FF * 25°/oOFF * a , /O/A 3®> SO^OFF **' SAMPLE BARGAIN. SAMPLE BARGAIN. SAMPLE BARGAIN. fi#S /3 SAMPLE BARGAIN. l^^w dgflfSfjfSl jgf^atoepcfe Upholstered Rocker (like cut), sample bargain. A fine Antique Oak Cheval Bed - fSSufel^l fetoMHMS^^^ jj£3| pl^ppf| 3siill I as birch frame, finished in imita- I This hand- room Suit. Dresser shown in cut % § tion mahogany, and is covered with Pf^ jUgff^ some is 52 inches wide and has 24x40-inch WS^MI^W !B| iJfpSiL I Bokara Cloth—the most f / Full Brass French bevel-plate Cordovan^and has'best'steel sprines II Extension Table (like cut) is If ISI | LLl\ll^WnM "lollnts aild \\ t\ l6ng- -Oui f r^ and filling. The frame is birch, B1 niade of best quarter sawed oak, has makes the net 'M^^^lSfe^ I»• "vTlllitlj lacquered !l W PPB'^B Buitu»49.«6. finished in imitation mahogany. ba^eTo w^hotte^llv^^Uhldfw 1 P^ce for this hHw Our. re Bular j^^^^ffii^P Yellow Our regular price is $41.50. inSametoTkn^^ sale *ft 1 fj 50 ll Ta^ed CONDENSED LIST OF FURNITURE DISCOUNTS. EVERY ARTICLE MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. Hand-decorated Jewel Stands 50^ Fancy Rockers 10 to 33#% I Hall Trees 10 to 25^ Sideboards and Buffets...... 10 to 25^ I Odd Chairs ,10 to 20% ! Child's High Chairs & Rockers 10-20% Dainty Gilt Reception Chairs 50 % Onyx Stands 10 to-83^ % j Chiffoniers. ". 10 to 25 % •Dimjjjg Tables ...... 10 to 20^ ! Book Cases 10 to 20% Medicine Cabinets 10 to 2o| Odd Upholstered Chairs 50% Shaving Stands 10 to 33 Vi % | Jardiniere Stands. 10 to 2* % Fine^Dressers .10 to .20% Combination Bookcases and Cheval Mirrors 10 to 20% Smokers' Stands 50% Parlor Suits 10 to 33>1% Udies' Writing Desks 10 to 25 % tadies' Toilet Tables .. 10 to 20% Desks 10 to 20 % Indies' Sewing Tables JO to li\J, Ladies' Sewing Basket Stand 50% Odd Divans 10t033^% Dining Chairs., ...10t025% China Qosets. ......"...■.,. .10 to 20% Iron and Brass Beds 10 to 20% Music Cabinets '. 10 to 20% Bedroom Suits 10 to 50 % Patent Rockers 10 to 25 % Couches 10 to 25 HPiano Stools .10 to 20^ Roman Couches 10 to 20 fo Morris Chairs 10 to 20 % Brass Beds 10 to 83 vj % • Parlor Tables 10 to 25 % Davenport Sofas 10 to 25 % Roman Seats 10 to 20 Reed and Rattan Rockers... 10 to 20 % | Office Dssks and Chair* 10"' Vnn TatTf Hahpv P*ciW ~ TOE NORTHW£srs store! ~ ■_" . you cant I loney tasier £T^^^^mw%^%vw%rkw% W7 Keraember You Have Only Five Days. SIXTH ANP WABASHA STS. ST.PAUU^ need not remind y°u tp make y°ur selections early. FELL IN LOVE> WITH ft PHOTOGRfIPH. Romantic Story of a Young New York Millionaire and the Way in Which He Won a Wife. Quite recently Mr. Richard Harding: Davis discarded the theme of winning a bride through a chance photograph as unreal. In his Princess Aline, though he re tained the incident as a basis for the rx.vf!, he reversed the order of proceed ings. His hero fell in love with quite another person. If Mr. Davis, had read the romance about to be unfolded here he would have known that all thing.-; are possible and this one delightful be sides. He would have learned that the matrimonial venture upon which Archi bald Jermain McClure and Miss Anna Austin Cassia entered a week ago was the direct result of a beautiful bit of paper. To nine observers out of ten it misht have seemed but an ordinary mag azine cut. But when the eyes of young' Mr. McClure rested upon it it had'be come the embodiment of grace and charm. It formed the turning point in his life. One may speculate endlessly as to what he might have done and what he might have been if this exquisite repre sentation had not come under his eyes. For us to enter upon any such imag inings would be distressing, since they would but delay the telling of a romance which began with every charm to com mend it and which ended, as every love story should, with the sounds of wedding bells last week in Albany. There are no young people better known in the town of Albany than Arch ibald McClure and the beautiful Anna Cassln. He is a grandson of the late James B. Jermain, the millionaire phil anthropist. She Is a daughter of the capitalist, John Cassln, of Rensselaer. Bring wealthy, without having- had to work to make himself so, young Mc- Clure was able to enjoy himself and to spend what money he would, not on in creasing his fortune, but on widening his experience. After leaving college he chose to see the world. He went to Europe and having somewhat exhausted the fields there returned again to the United States. There came a day when he felt he knew their products and possibilities too little. To be of a country and ignorant of it, Eeemed to young McClure a crime, and he started off, as he expressed it, to learn things. To this end he stopped at mining dis tricts, Questioned engineers, descended shafts, studied assaying and entered deeply Into the physical geography of his country. He climbed mountains, crossed rivers, studied the layout of towns, in quired into populations, estimated their growth, and made up his mind finally that the West was the place to live. Many a man as venturesome and bound by no ties of deep—well, let us say it, of the only—love that counts has decided similarly. Young McClure wrote his parents that the new West seemed to him aH;>irether quite the place for a young man to start and build for himself a career. He went 8 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE to San Francisco and studied there the possibilities in every channel from real estate to banking. Incidentally he review ed the young sind chaiming women that San Francisco sends out annually much as she-develops her flowers. Their growth is as prolific. They seem, as it were, to MISS AXXA CASSIS, XOW MRS. ARCHIBALD J. M'ILIKE. grow on every ptem. Young McClure passed them all by wilh never a desire to pluck one. He had the reputation arnqng his friends, who, after the manr.f-r of friends, vowed they knew him well, of being invulnerable. It was frequently predicted of him that he would never fall in love. He had been in the mMst of temptation, the greatest, so often, and he had never shown a symptom even of weakness. He, in the deb.onny.ir fnshion of youth, vowed that to him all girls were alike. 'My difficulty," he uted to say, "la to tell which is which. Put a girl in -white aniJ she's like any other girl, isn't she?" It angered many a young woman to be SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1899.—TWENTY PAGES. set down in this fashion as like any of the rest of her kind. And the young man was frequently described as too blase for any use. But the old saying that everything conies to him who waits stems to have been the reward of the cynical Mr. McClure. He waited without impatience and most unexpectedly he reaped his reward. "Here you are—all the magazines, all the magazines—Scrlbner, Harp r, Century, Atlantic, Puritan, Munsey's. Here you are." Mr. McClure; of Albany, was on the train goirg fi om Sacramento to San Fran cisco on a trip. He wished ihe newsbty, with his dirty eoatsleeves, wouldn't brush .so dreadfully near to him. He wondered vaguely why newsboys always came through the car just at the moment when a fellow wanted to sleep. "Ops-mo-politan, Puritan, Puritan," shouted tho boy insistently. And he seemed to plant himself directly at young McClure'a elbow. Tie took the Puritan out and held It before his eyes. Mr. Mc^luro shruggoa his shoulder?, and more to get rid of the boy than for Bi t y other reason bought a copy. Thus in an instant by the hand, the dirty hand, of a newsboy was his career of a bachelor arrested. But that cornea later. As yet the magazine was lying unopened at tho cynical young man's side. It might have been that he would never have opened It had not a gust of wind done the office for h^m. Young McClure was seated In the end seat of tho car within the draft made by the opening- an.l shutiingiiof the door. Some one stepped in though it and slammed it, which rustljed the page of' his Fate. The young *man caught a glimpse of an exquisite fScce, polled on a regal throat. The sight of it mad*' him lons for mere. With eager &&esjpie grasped the bcok and gaze.i on the flice on the page. He drank in what w£s tfepre. It.filled.his eyes with pleasure such as a thirsty man might find in his first draught of water after many days of famine. Ie was the face his eyes had been hungry jr. He knew now why none other h . ever given them an Instant's joy. He had bec-n invulnerable; yes, until this dark eyed, dark hashed, sweet lipped creature had come before him. Now he was figuiatlvely upon his knees before an unknown head. The eyes beck oned him, the lips seeded to speak to him.. As hir, train Sped on he fancied what a creature so molded 'would say. He could, above the rumble of the cars, hear i the tones of her voice. > It must be deep ai:d soft t«> match her eyes. He knew it, he could swear to -it. J-i< r vofce Tests contralto. He vowed he'd hear It if she was upon earth. ' Her name beneath the picture told him she was Anna Austin Caspin, of Reinssel laer. She had a home then near Alban\r, where his father and mother lived. She was of flesh and blood, not a creature of some man'**ancy. Th|re were men and women who knew- her. Women!—that was all right; but J •men-the thought tortured him. Suddenly another still worse chased "through» his brain. What if there wore a mail—fome one man! What, if already the lad given her haiiu and heart? He studied the picture closely. She might be eighteen or'twenty. She had firmness in her lips aad strength in her poise. She was not a coquette. He knew It. He would stake his life upon it. Where she gave her heart she would give her hand. None could w<>o her lightly. That night young 26cClure, with the beauty's dark eyes looking into his, wrote his parents In Albany. He had framed tho page from the Puritan in his silver hair brushes. The lovely bit of paper waa balanced between them, inclined just a trifle to the level of his eyes. The silver setting fitted her admirably. She whs even more lovely than she had been In the pages of the magazine. Young McClure, with one eye on his sheet of paper and. the other on Anna Caesin's image, wr&e his parents that he had finally decided tViat the West was no place for a young man who wanted to succeed. The West' was too nfcw. The East was old and tried. The y^ung man set forth such reasons as thesejfor his return..And he ended, just-beforej he signed himaelf, Affectionately your ton: "I shall re turn as soon as possible, probably next week." The dark eyes *>f« Anna Cassin had wooed the young man back to the East. On the wings of~love he fled there as fast as the train wolild carry him. Of every one he met en route he asked one question. The burden: of it was "Do you know Anna Cassin—the most beautiful girl in America?" ; So he arrived in Albany. His family noted with delight that he was much less cynical, much more a&niable. He seemed a trifle distrait, but 'that was doubtless, they thought, due to his travels. He asked constantly about Miss Cassin, who lived near Albany. He described her to the least curve of her lips. At last he found some one who knew her. The charms of that some one doubled with the knowledge. Young McClure became her devoted slave. At last he was invited to meet the real living, breathing, human being who had sat for rhe-picture. It was at an evening reception, and she was there,. gowned as in her picture, in white, cut low. About her neck hung a chain of costly, rare Egyptian work. It brought out the whiteness of her skin. Her black hair, coiled low, framed an ideal head. The young man bowed to her and said in the first moment of their meeting, "I have known you for months." "How so?" she asked in a voice of mu sic. The last touch to his dream was made real—the tone of her voice was deep and soft as an organ. He told her how he had met her pic ture, framed it and taken it with him on his travels. She laughed, but he saw that she was not displeased. They met again and yet ag'aln. Deeper and deeper she engraved her image upou his heart. It had never left, his eyes. Three thousand miles he had traveled to make the vision real. Such devotion deserved to meet its re ward. Young Archibald Jermain McClure claimed his la^t week. In a bower of roses he wedded the woman whose picture had won his heart. Few people guessed the romance behind all the conventionalities of the ceremony and reception which took place at the home of Mrs. Cassin in Rensnelaer. r And the picture, the exquisite bit of paper? It has a frame of rhinestones— a wedding present from the bride to the eroom. ETHER DRINKING Becoming' a Prevalent Vice In (Vr tain Parts of Germany. In Ec stern Prussia the director of the asylum for the insane recently called the attention of the government to the fact that in his district ether drinking was fast supplanting the use of alcohol. In the city of Memel alone, situated in the extreme northeastern part of Ger many, the sale of ether destined as a drink for the past year is officially stated to have amounted to 8.550 quarts, to which must be added a large quantity that was passed through by smuggling, and which, therefore, escaped official counting. In the district of Heydekrug a still more considerable quantity is an nually sold as a stimulant. The ether Is. sold by liquor dispensers and retailers over the counter to the consumers in drinks averaging from four to five grammes, this dose producing more ex hilaration as well us more •immediate stimulation than would ordinarily be pro duced by four times the*same quantity of ordinary alcohol. The after depress ing effects, however, and for the amount taken, far more than counterbalance the after effects of alcohol, the victim of the ether habit suffering greatly from dif fused pains and from great mental and physical depression. In those regions given largely to ether drinking, all dis eases of the liver, kidneys and other or gans that usually suffer from alcoholic saturation or excesses are greatly on the Increase and prone to run a much more rapid course. m HAZLE'S HEADACHE CAPSULES Are sold by all Druggists, and they guarantee them. BREAKFASTS FOR, WINTER. APPETIZING DISHES WHICH COME INTO FAVOR WITH THE ADVENT OF COLD WEATHER. Cold weather increases one's appetite and inclination for hearty breakfasts. Snow and ice suggest sausages and buck wheat cakes, corn dodgers and fried chicken. While heavy breakfasts are never advisable, substantial viands prop erly cooked are better for most persons 'after the winter in. Avoid greasy hashes, kidney stews and all made dishes and eat simple foods. Never fry. any thing for breakfast that can be broiled. ' Here are two suggestions for breakfast menus which will suit the average taste and will come within the means of most families who pretend to live in-any sort of a wholesome fashion. Baked Apples. Hominy, with Cream. Broik-d Lamb (."hops. Baked Potatoes. Broiled Bacon. Corn Muffins. Rolls. Coffee. Tea. Of course this may be varied according to taste, some other fruit being pr.; tern d, and oatmeal may be used instead of hominy. This is the other suggestion: Ora rsges. Oatmeal, with ("ream. Broiled Chicken. .' Stowed Potatoes. Country Sausages. Buckwheat Cakes. Coffee. TRIPE. Among 1 the many .breakfast dishes for this seasou is tripe, which is most nour ishing and wholesame. Slowed with oys tera it is delicious. This is the way to cook it: Cut the strips in inch dices, wash it thoroughly. Put in a saucepan a well rounded tablespoonful of butter and stand it on the stove. When it begins to bubble add a heaping tablespoonful of flour and mix it to a cream, then add gradually a pint of rich milk heated in another sauce pan. When this Is well mixed add half a pint of tripe cut in dice and let it cook five minutes, then add a pint of oysters, solid meat, and let all cook together four minutes. Season well with salt, a little red pepper and chopped parsley and serve. If the tripe is not perfectly tender boil it a few minutes in water before adding it to the sauce, but it is usually in the right condition at the market. CORN MUFFINS. Sift together one pint of oor'nmeal, half a pint of flour, a teaspoon'ful of salt, throe heaping tablespoonfuls of Solar baking powder, the best, and a heaping tablespoonful of butter and one of hud, and work it through these ingredients with the hands. Separate the whites and yolks of three eggs; stir the yolks df the eggs through half a pint of milk, and then stir It through'the meal. If thebat ter is too soft add a little more milk, as the batter must be light. Last of all. add the whites of the eggs and boat and stir the whole till it is peerfeclly smooth and freo from lumps. Butter the mufiln pans well, fill them to within a quarter of an inch of the top with the batter and bake In a quick oven tijl they are a rich brown on top. FRIED CHICKEN. There are several ways of frying chick en. Southerners all say that Northerneis do not know how to fry chicken. 1\ r haps they don't, but as few Southerners Part 2 ££i PRICE FIVE CENTS. fry chit-kens after the same manner, it Is safe to give a recipe 'from * Southern er who dojea. not think anything about it, but knows her way is best. She does not believe in djppfng the chicken in batter. This woman is a Virginian and a tine cook. This i<* the way she say* chicken • should be fried: ; Cut the chicken in quarters and roll it in rlour that is well seasoned with salt f and pepper. Have a kettle half Kill of ■ smoking hot fat on the stove, drop the pieces of chicken in and !ft them fry till a de'ieatH drown. Then lift each piece out separately with a skimmer and let the fat" drain off on a. bit of brown pa per. Then serve on a piping hot plkiut wiih a cream gravy and .1 :'.-v, strips of fried suit bacon laid round the- >-(it;c- of tli.' uish. Make the cream gravy in the dish the salt bacon is fried in. When the baron is done lake it out and pour a half pint of cream in iha frying nan. Wh«n it bubbles thicken it with a tablespoonful of flour dissolved in milk. This is eiiousth for one chicken*. BKOILKD CALVES' LIVER. Have the liver sliced at the market, wash" It weH in salt water: then drain it dry. Brush it over on each slue with melted butter. Lay it on th" broiler and' broil till done, Brst on one side, then on tl:i> other. Plan' on a hot platter and: season with salt and pepper ami butir-r.; Broil the bacon one minute and place It around the liver; this is far better than fried liver. EUCKWHEAT CAKES. In making buckwheat cakes do not use the prepared buckwheat, but set a sponge over night with yeast, and then mix the cakes to the proper consistency In the morning, adding a little molasses to make them brown well, and a little baking soda dissolved in hot water. > TO BROIL CHOPS. After the chops are trimmed put them on a broiler, as close to the coals or gas broiler as possible, and quickly brown them on both sid< s. After they are brown move them far enough from the fire to prevent them from burning. Sprinkle them with salt and cook them to the de sired degree, either rare or well done. Put them on a hot platter, with a little butter on each chop. Garnish with pars ley and serve at once. Chops shouffl be eaten as soon as possible after cooking, as they soon get "flat, stale and un profltable." . : : ■ i £ Enjoy Elegance and Comfort In Traveling to"-California. The Aunneapolis & St. Louis R. R. has secured a line of brand new tourist cars that -siupass anything ever Been, being Pullman's latest and best. Berth rate Ift these magnillcent cars only $6.00 to Lo« Angeles. Call at Minneapolis & St. Louis office, 3?G Robert street. Live on Stravr. Thousands of persons In Germany live literally- "on straw," making it up into blankets, panniers, boxes, knicknacks, hats, bonnets, etc. Professional schools have even been founded where the trade is taught in all its varieties.