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BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING.
STORY OF THE VASSAR GRAD
UATE BORN OF NEGROES.
She Kept the Secret of Her Birth
for Years From Her
Roommate.
This is the story of Anita Hemming
of Vassar, '97. In all the news of the
past week there has been nothing more
dramatic than the story of this woman
and the sudden revelation of the secret
she had kept so well, says the New
York • World." The public was told
that one of the most beautiful, the
most brilliant, and the most charming
graduates of this year's class at Vas
sar was a negro girl. The public was
intensely interested, but to no one did
the revelation come with such over
whelming surprise as to the classmates
with whom Miss Hemming had been
so closely associated for four years.
In no mind, until very recently, had
there been the slightest suspicion of
the truth.
The story of Miss Hemming's college
life and of the influences and charac
teristics that made her what she is will
be told here. There is interest in it, as
well as a moral lesson. There is inspi
ration, too, in the splendid triumph of
this young woman who came into life
so heavily handicapped for the career
she has achieved. These are the things
that she has done. How she has ac
complished them and the manner in
which she has surmounted all obstacles
will be told in detail later on.
In I&SS she was graduated from the
Prince Grammar School, Boston, at the
head of her class.
in 1890 -=he completed, with the high
est honors, the full course of the Girls'
English High School in Boston.
Subs-qu'-ntly she attended Dwight I*.
Moody's School, at Northfield, Mass.,
and there prepared for the entrance ex
amination of Vassar, astonishing her
teachers and associates by her brilliant
work.
In 1809 she entered Vassar, from
which she has this year been graduated
with high honors.
During her four years at college she
was a prominent and brilliant figure in
the life of the great institution. She
became a leader among the girls, a
member of the most exclusive college
societies, a guest in the best Pough
keepsie families, and the idol of a large
following of enthusiastic freshmen. She
was lovingly called "the beautiful bru
nette." It was supposed that she had
Spanish or poesibly Indian blood in her
veins. No one dreamed that in a little,
modest Boston home there lived an hon
est mulatto who was the father and
a prepossessing mulatto woman who
was her mother. Both of these were
light in color, with the mixed blood
of their race, regular features and a
clear olive complexion which many a
white woman would give much to pos
sess.
To these parents Anita was born
twenty-five years ago. Her rather was
a clever and industrious man. He
worked hard, and almost from the be
ginning he was able to give his family
the advantages offered by the average
white husband and father of the mid
dle class. Anita had a happy child
hood. She was sent to school, where
she associated with the white children
of her age. At this time there was no
effort made by her parents to conceal
the negro strain in her blood. It w T as
probably the unconscious shrinking
away from her of some playmate that
first taught the colored child her own
aloofness and showed her that she
must make much of life's journey alone.
The thought did not discourage the
ambitious little girl, who quietly laid
out the plan of life which she has so
consistently followed. In her wish for
an education she had her father's af
fectionate support and aid. She en
tered the Prince Grammar School in
Boston, where she is still remembered
as one of its brightest pupils. At the
end of two years, during which she
easily distanced all of her associates,
ehe graduated at the head of her class.
This honor secured her entrance to the
Girls' English High School, for
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four years she gained new laurels and
wore them modestly.
Just at this time she met the woman
who has probably had most Influence
in the young girl's life. The woman
was a philanthropist. She had broad
sympathies and keen observation. She
met Anita at Trinity Church, Boston,
where the girl had been a communicant
since childhood. The clear-headed and
sympathetic woman of the world be
came deeply Interested in the beautiful
colored girl who was malting such a
steady, brave, up-hill fight against
environment and tradition. She sug
gested college, and in the contemplation
of this vista, of delight Anita almost
forgot her peculiar relations to the
world of ideas, achievements, and
white skins. She entered Moody's pre
puratoiy school at Northfield, and it is
at this point that her career may be
said to have really begun. She was
at this time a girl of twenty, with a
beautiful face, a splendid intellect, and
a habit of retrospection. Her parents
mingled wholly with their colored
friends, and her home life had brought
her into contact with the people of her
own race. The line between her and
the lire she wished to lead seemed very
sharply drawn. There w r as nothing
about her, however, to suggest her
negro blood. Her skin was a clear
olive, her eyes soft and dark, and her
hair straight as an Indian's, her figure
and carriage perfect. She looked like
a Spanish or Italian girl.
At Northfield Miss Hemming first
had the experience of associating inti
mately with girls not of her own race.
Her niommate there, however, was a
Miss Bessie Baker, a mulatto like her
self. Miss Baker has since become the
wife >:f W. H. Lewis, a well known
negro citizen of Boston, who was
know n in his college days as Harvard's
great center rush. Miss Hemming was
bridesmaid at the wedding, which oc
curred last autumn. She is now the
guest of Mrs. Lewis in the latter's
home on Columbus avenue, Boston.
During the year at Northfield the
two colored girls were closely asso
ciated with the social as well as the
educational life at Mr. Moody's school.
Strangers looking at either of them had
no suspicion of the presence of a strain
of negro blood. Their classmates
seemed to have forgotten it. The happy
life there and the temporary absence of
the cloud that had hung over her may
have aided Miss Hemming in her re
solve to enter Vassar without the great
handicap which she had carried so
long. She determined to conceal the
fact of her negro origin. This implied
no false statements. She had merely
to let it be assumed that she was as
the others were.
Miss Hemming entered Vassar. No
one asked her Avhether she was negro
or New Englander, Indian or Spanish.
She was young, brilliant and beauti
ful. That was enough. She had passed
an excellent entrance examination. She
had met the necessary requirements as
to "good moral character." She
promptly and quietly took her place at
the head of her classes, friends flocked
around her, professors praised her, she
was initiated into the mysteries of se
cret societies and midnight "fudge"
parties. Her college career had begun.
For almost a year she kept her secret
w r ell. Thejn she suddenly disclosed it.
Perhaps it weighed upon her mind, and
she told it to obtain relief. Perhaps the
disclosure was accidental. No one
know-.;. But the girl chose her confi
dant wisely. She told her story to a
membei of the faculty—one of the most
popular professors in the college. This
woman's attitude toward her briltent
pupil may be assumed from the fact
that she subsequently visited Anita at
her Boston home during the holidays.
The Hemmings were humble people,
and they made no effort to conceal the
fact from the college professor who
was their guest Their friends and as
sociates were colored people. There
was no pretense of being white.
With the exception of this friend Miss
Hemming entertained no guests from
Vassar in her Boston home. The pro
fessor, like Anita, kept the secret well.
Anita's roommate was a beautiful and
popular student, whose family held a
high social position. Not even this girl
suspected the truth for years. When
she did Anita's first great trouble came.
Miss Hemming's progress through
Vassar was a triumphal one. She had
a beautiful voice, hence she joined the
glee club. She was also taken into the
choir and became a leader in the mu
sical set of the college. She joined the
choral club. As the months passed she
was made a member of other college
associations. Among these were the
Contemprorary Club, the *97 Federal
Debating Society, a Greek club, and
the Marshall Club. But these were not
all her triumphs.
There are dances and festival days at
Vassar. in which Harvard, Yale and
Princeton men are allowed to partici
pate. In large numbers these young
men bowed at Anita's shrine. It was a
ther blows with an angonized fear. She
sobriquet by which she became re
nowned—"the beautiful brunette."
It was her roommate who finally
caused the temporary downfall of this
striking figure from its fine college em
inence. In some manner this girl had
discovered that Anita was of negro
parentage. She immediately changed
her room and discontinued the ac
quaintanceship. It w as the first blow in
the colored girl's college course—and it
was a bitter one. Anita awaited fur
ther blows with an agonized fear. She
knew that the story would spread like
wildfire through the college, and she
felt that the upbuilding of the structure
she had raised was but a waste of time.
To what end was all her w-ork and
study, if the friends she loved turned
from her and the college she loved
closed its doors to her. No one knows
what the pirl suffered, for she never
told". She kept to herself, withdrew
from her associates, and became ab
sorbed in her work. But they would
not have it so. For some reason the
roommate, too. kept the secret. A few
rumors started, but were immediately
scoffed down. As the weeks passed,
and her friends still rallied around her.
Anita breathed again. She had had a
narrow and a most dramatic escape.
During the last year of her college
career Miss Hemming held one of the
most prominent positions in the institu
tion. It was admitted that she would
graduate among the first. Without ef
fort she held her supremacy as student
and leader in the college set. She had
never been a solitary or a "dig"—two
unpopular types at college. During her
last year it was natural that she should
cling fondly to the friends she had
made and the social environment of
which she knew she could never be
s\tre again. She was a fascinating
woman and professors and students
and strangers alike fell under these
charms she exercised during these last
months. In the midst of all this the
revelation came.
Once more the little rumors began to
circulate—this time more loudly and
persistently than ever before. The girls
began to eye her curiously, wondering
ly. She knew that they were comment
ing, discussing. There was bitterness
beyond words in this to the proud,
sensitive woman. To her these girls
had become to seem like sisters. To
them she was merely a creature to be
discussed as a problem, a phenom
SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD-TTXIOST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1897.
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Bicycles
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SATURDAY.
We shall offer Saturday our
stock of 1897 models in the Hum
ber and other well-known makes
of bicycles at much reduced prices.
LOT I—Men's "Duke" Bicy
cles, 22 and 24 inch red enameled
frames, M. & W. quick repair
tires. Reduced from $50 to $33.
LOT 2 —Women's Calumnet
Bicycle, latest improved 1897
model. Reduced from $60 to $33.
LOT 3—Men's 1897 "Road
King," M. & W. quick repair
tires, non-splitable tires, 26-inch
green enamel frames. Reduced
from $75 to $39.
LOT 4 — Women's "Silver
Queen," frktionless bearings, 22
-inch black enamel frames, lami
nated wood rims. List price, $75;
our sale price, $39.
LOT 5 —Men's and Women's
Haimber Bicycles, "Humber
Quality,*' for over a quarter of a
century the best in the world.
Makers' list prices, $100 and $105.
On Saturday our
Sale Price, $65.
LOT 6—Juvenile Wheels, 16
to 18-inch frames, for boys or
girls. Special reduced prices, $20,
$25 and $30.
LOT 7—Parcel Carriers for
the delivery of small packages.
Mounted on three bicycle wheels,
with commodious place for par
cels, etc. Former prices over one
hundred dollars. Our price to
close what we have left, $25.
Weinstock, Lubin & Co., 400-4/2 X Street, Sacramento.
enon. In grief and humiliation she
went to a member of the college fac
ulty and in plain words told her story.
There was nothing more for her to do
but await the result.
A faculty council followed. Some of
the professors had surmised the truth.
Every one knew it now. President Tay
lor himself advised that at so late a
day no official action should be taken
to prevent the girl from graduating
with her classmates. And so Miss
Hemming's fate was decided. But she
had worked harder than two-thirds of
her class and was graciously permitted,
as a favor, to take equal rank with
the members of that class.
Miss Hemming carried off the honors
of commencement day. dn the circum
stances it was not as happy an occa
sion as her splendid record deserved,
but she made the best of it.
Having graduated she went at once
to Boston. W r ithin a month her story
was given to the whole world. It will
be a pleasant surprise to her, perhaps,
to discover how much broader the
point of view is, sometimes, outside
of college w alls. She has secured a po
sition in the catalogue department of
the Boston Public Library, and here
she has begun her post-college ca
reer. She has already won the inter
est of wise men and women broad
enough to appreciate her struggle with
a "problem" larger than she is, and to
glory in the way she has solved it.
In the many conversations with her
since her story has been made public
Miss Hemming has attempted no de
fense of her position'other than to say
no one asked her while she was In col
lege if she were white or colored. She
takes the ground that she w as not un
der moral obligations to announce her
origin. She says she entered college as
any student would enter, purely on her
merits and ability to pay the tuition de
manded. Since she has become so con
spicuous she has had much difficulty in
avoiding persons who wish to see and
talk with her. She has been asked by
at least a dozen publications to write
her impressions of college life, and she
has had generous offers for manuscript
from many large newspapers. Her
work in the catalogue department of
the Boston Public Library occupies her
from "8 o'clock in the morning until
5 in the afternoon."
During her office hours nobody is per
mitted to see her, and when her work
is finished sir* goes to the homti of J.
H. Lewis, a colored tailor, with whose
wife, as before mentioned, she is liv
ing during the absence of her family
at College City. In contrast to her col
lege career, her life is a lonely one.
She denies herself to all callers, ex
cept her most intimate friends.
Miss Hemming's own home is at No.
9 Sussex street. She has two brothers
and a sister. One.of her brothers-
Frederic —was graduated from the In
stitute of Technology- last spring as a
chemist. He is a dark and handsome
youth, much like his sister in appear
ance. He visited her at Vassar on sev
eral occasions during her life thera The
other children are still very young, but
will be given educational advantages
equal to those of their brilliant sister
and brother.
Miss Hemming's parents, as has been
said, are both light in color. The father
is five feet six inches tall, has gray
eyes, good features, and wears side
whiskers cut after the English fashion.
His eyebrows are heavy and arching,
and his hair straight. Mrs. Hemming,
though darker than her husband, is a
fine-looking woman. Her straight black
hair is lightly streaked with gray. Both
parents are quiet, refined and exceed
ingly ambitious in behalf of their chil
TO-DAY, 9:30 fl. ]R.
SPECIAL SALE OF
: BLANKETS, SPREADS,
TABLE CLOTHS,
SHEETS, TOWELS, ETC.
LOT I.—We shall-offer a limited quantity of Bleached
Canton Flannel for children's night gowns and various other
purposes Sa J e p nce g c y^
LOT ll.—When preparing for chilly nights remember
that we always have special values in white blankets. In
this sale we shall offer something extra in California-made
blankets for winter use at
Sale Price, $3 75 Pair.
LOT lll.—Bleached Hemstitched Damask Table Covers,
large size, free from starch or filling. A desirable breakfast
1 or lunch cloth. Satin finish —good patterns.
Sale Price, $1 97.
i
LOT IV. —Bleached Sheets, hemmed ready for use, fair
quality muslin: will improve with washing. Size i\ yards
wide by 2\ yards long. § a J e p r | ce>
I LOT V.—Cream Table Damask, Irish manufacture, a
wonderful table linen for every day use. 54 inches wide.
Sale Price, 25c.
LOT Vl.—One of our buyers recently purchased from an
Eastern mill direct an unusually large quantity of fine
White Marseilles Bedspreads. We never remember buy
ing a better lot of spreads at the price than these we are of
fering to-day. Large size, hemmed ready for use, raised
Marseilles patterns. § a | e $J
LOT VII. —A great towel for 13c. Absorbent Turkish
Towels for bathrooms or gene ra l family use. Generous size
and excellent drives. § a | e \> Y \ \fc
LOT VIII. —We are still selling extra values in Crash
Toweling. Here we offer special inducement in bleached
linen crash toweling at
Sale Price, 5c Yard.
dren. In speaking of his beautiful
daughter last week Mr. Hemming ad
mitted that she had gone to Vassar as
a white girl and had remained there as
such.
"As long as she conducted herself In
a manner becoming a lady," he said,
"she did not think it necessary to pro
claim the fact that her parents were
mulattoes. She was always a quiet,
studious girl, and from the time she
first went to school books were her
chief pleasure. She did not care to as
sociate with other children. She pre
ferred to spend her time reading her
favorite authors.
"Vassar was her ideal college. From
the time she decided to go to college
there was never any doubt in her mind
as to the institution she preferred. Vas
sar it was, first, last and always."
Miss Hemming's hostess, Mrs. Lewis,
also valiantly upholds the young wo
man's attitude in college. A mulatto
herself, and a woman who has experi
enced much that Miss Hemming has
had to suffer, she can appreciate, per
haps, better than any one else, the
point of view of her much-discussed
friend.
"Miss Hemming," said Mrs. Lewis,
"has not reflected an atom of discredit
on Vassar or upon any other pupil. She
is good and true and refined. She is a
gentlewoman by nature and education.
Because her face did not tell her secret
should she have gone about placarded
'I am colored?'
"At first, I know, she thought of tell- j
ing her associates at Vassar what she
was. She was told by an excellent au
thority that it was not necessary for
her to do this. So she kept her own
counsel, and In doing so she did wise
ly. She could ornament any society.
She proved this at Vassar, and I have
faith enough in her to believe that she
will prove it in the future as well as
she has done in the past. Her record
at Vassar is in fact the best answer
that can be given to all the questions
asked about her since her scory has
been made public. She was admired !
and loved there, and put forward in all
things. No one could know Miss Hem
ming well and not love her."
That all Vassar has not turned from
Miss Hemming was shown last week
by the visit of several Vassar girls,
who called on her at her home and bore
her off to the hotel to dine. The reve
lations concerning her negro blood and
the notoriety to which she has been
subjected did not count with these loyal
friends against the charm of the wo- J
man and the bonds of college life.
Just as a Hint.
"John," said she, thoughtfully, "to
morrow Is the birthday of that little
Jones boy next door."
"What of it?" he demanded?"
"Oh, nothing much," she replied;
"only I happened to recall that Mr.
Jones gave our Willie a drum on his
birthday."
"Well, do you think I feel under any
obligations to him for that?" he asked,
irritably.
"Of course," she answered, sweetly.
"That's why I thought that perhaps
you might want to give the Jones boy
a big brass trumpet."
"The most resourceful woman in the
world!" he exclaimed, delightedly. And
the Jones boy got the trumpet.—Chi
cago Post.
An Anomaly.
Agitator—Don't you know, sir. that
in this country the rich are growing
richer and the poor poorer?
Patrick—Then, it's rich Oi must be,
fur Oi*m a moighty soight better off
than Oi wuz when Oi landed,—New
York "Weekly.
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SOURCE OF OUR CANARIES.
In Milwaukee, and Not in the
Hartz Mountains.
Milwaukee supplies the United States
with the bulk of the Hartz Mountain
canaries, and there is no great crime
in the deception, for the Milwaukee
bird is really an improvement on the
imported article, having just as fine a
voice and being much hardier. Ex
perience has shown that the imported
singer loses the power of transmitting
his voice to the young after passing
through an American winter. This is
the case, also, it is said, with the Ty
rolean singers who come to this coun
try, their voices losing the peculiar
yodling quality when they have been
here a year. The native canary is
hardier than the imported ones, and
with proper training is every bit as
good a singer.
Before they are mated the hen birds
are kept in separate cages in the music
room, carefully fed and made to listen
to the music of the singers and the
machine used in training their voices.
In this way the hen Is enabled to trans -
mlt the best musical quality to its off
spring. The music-room is a large one
with a south exposure, and is kept
with the same scrupulous neatness as
the breeding-room. In the comer of
this room is the bird organ, and with it
the little birds are given their vocal
training. When the machine is started
the notes emitted are wonderfully like
the song of the untutored canary.
These notes are known to bird trainers
by the term pfeiffen. Gradually the
whistle strikes on a different line. It
is an improvement over pfeiffen, and
is called a klinsel role. A higher
step still Is called the klingel, and a
still higher step hohl klingel. Lastly
dimes what is called hohl rollen, and a
bird whose voice has been developed
up to that point is worth $50 in the
market any day.
There are innumerable small cages
made of wood and wire, in this room,
and also two or three large cages in
which a number of birds are placed
together. Near the bird organ is what
appears to be an ordinary cupboard.
The two front doors have an orna
mental opening cut in them, quite sim
ilar to the openings in the body of the
violin. Examination shows that the
affair is really built on the principle of
a violin, the front covers serving as
sounding boards. When the birds
have their voices trained they are
placed in this dark cupboard and also
in some smaller ones, constructed so
as to just take in one of the little
wooden cages each. Kept thus in the
dark they have nothing to distract
their attention from the notes of the
bird organ, and so long hours are
spent by the little pupils in piping up
their little voices to the lead of the
mechanical teacher. When their edu
cation has been completed in the lit
cation has been completed they are
shipped in the little cages to the New
T( 11 k. Cincinnati and Chicago markets.
Purchasers suppose that when they
buy a bird in one of these little cages
it is a guarantee that they have been
imported. Not so, however. The
cages are made in Milwaukee, even to
the little earthenware drinking jug
that is fastened within. And just here
a word of advice to buyers of canaries.
The male birds are. of course, the sing
ers, and it is important to be able to
tell the male from the female. The fe
male has a white shade or shimmer
across the feathers on the top of the
head. The eye of the female, also, is
surrounded by a little white rim of
flesh, easily detected by the fancier.—
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The "Rapid"
Hooks and Eyes, sc.
If you want the "Rapid" Hooks
and Eyes, no need to pay 8c a
j card. We are able to sell them
for 5c a card of two dozen. Either
darge or small sizes, black or white.
These new hooks and eyes seem to
"be an invention of merit. Require
less sewing. In attaching the
hooks the sewing will not conflict
with whalebones in the garment.
There are also other advantages.
j
Men's Hosiery.
With the opening of business to
morrow we shall place on sale
Men's Black and Tan Colored
Cotton Hose at a price below
value, namely
5C Pair.
If you are interested it will be
well to call promptly.
Band Concert.
There will be a concert in our
stores Saturday evening by the
Second Infantry Band, Chas. A.
Neale, Director.
PROGRAMME.
March, "The Crusader" Sousa
Romance, "A Night in the Trop
ics" • F. Daivid
Selection, "Pirates of Penzance"..
Sullivan
Waltz, "Jessie" Neale
Pilgrims' Chorus, from "Lombar
di" Verdi
Waltz, "Immortelen" Gung'l
Selection, "Maritana" Wallace
' Popular song, "Ma Caroline". .Johnson
; Spanish Dances, "La Palmera" and
"La Llanisca" Verguilla
(SPECIAL NUMBER.)
"My Beauty," waltz
Mrs. L. Dray-Perry
FINEST CLOCK ON EARTH.
Philadelphia Proposes to Have a
Remarkable Timepiece.
The time has come when the Building
Commissioners must decide uoon the
contract for the erection of the most
wonderful clock that has ever been
known, says a Philadelphia correspon
dent of the Chicago "Chronicle." It is
to be the final stroke of architecture on
the great city hall tower, is to be higher
and have a bigger face than any other
clock in the world, and will probably
cost more than any other tower clock
ever constructed. The question for the
Commissioners is to secure a clock that
will stay there and stay in order lon
ger than any other timepiece on earth.
The dial will be 23 feet in diameter,
and the hands will be so much bigger,
heavier and'more unwieldlv than any
other that new questions arise about the
shape and strength of the hands and
mechanism for movinsr them. With
such a dial the distance between the
hour marks will be nearly six feet and
the length of the hand about 11 feet.
The glass to cover the hands is a puz
zle. It cannot be in smaller sections
than triangular pieces as long as the
hands and as wide as the space between
the radii running: to the hour marks.
There must be ribs to sustain the glass
running from the center to the hour
marks, too, but these are to be so small
that they will look like hair lines, and
w ill not interfere with observation of the
time. It is expected that these big pieces
of alass must be made with a net of
wire running through them, so they will
not crack under the bonding force of a
high wind.
The question of illumination is an
other important one. It will, of course,
be possible to tell the time farther away
by this clock than any other clock in
the world. The size of every part of it
may be expected to be bigger than that
of any other clock, but the internal me
chanism is not expected to give any
trouble. The clock may be provided
with some electrical novelties that have
never been thought of before. The
w hole subject is now up for suggestions
on the cart of an interested public.
Books Caused the Trouble.
Philanthropist—What brought you to
this place, my man?
Convict—lt was all along of a fond
ness for books.
Philanthropist—Ah, literary charac
ter?
Convict — Pocketbooks, for instance.
—Eoston Transcript.
SWIFT'S
SPECIFIC
is far ahead of any blood remedy on tht
market, for it does so raucb more. Be
sides removing imparities, and toning nr.
the run-down system, it cures any blood
disease, it matters not how deep-seated 01
obstinate, which other so-called blood
remedies fail to reach. It is a real blood
remedy for real blood diseases.
Mr. Asa Smith, of GreencastJe, Ind.
•writes: "I had snch a bad case of Sciatic
Rheumatism that I became absolutelj
helpless—unable to take my food or handle
myself in any tear. I took many patenl
medicines, but they did not reach mj
trouble. One dozen bottles of S. S S
cared me sound and well, and I now weie;i
170."
Books on blood and skin diseases mailed free
by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
Our 25c Suitings,
If yon are looking for fall dress
goods in. dark novelty pattern, we
have remarkably good values for
j 25c yard. Some of these goods are
! 38 inches wide, while some of the
: best colorings in. all-wool novel
! ties are about 36 inches wide. In
this lot no choicer designs are
shown this season.
Special Price, 25c Yard.
Table Linens,
Napkins, Etc.
We had live buyers in New
| York City this summer and they
; devoted much attention to our
stock of linens. As a result we are
showing an increased assortment
of all the best things to be found in
the East.
Bleached Table Damask. 54
inches wide, 25c.
Bleached Linen Table Damask,
56 inches wide, 40c,
Bleached Linen Table Damask,
60 inches wide, 50c.
Bleached Linen Table Damask,
72 inches wide, 75c.
Bleached Table Napkins, 75c, $1
and $1 35 per doz.
Cross-bar Restaurant or Break
fast Napkins, 40c doz.
Bleached Damask Towels, knotted
fringe, fancy borders, 25c each.
Bleached Damask Towels, hem
stitched, 57c each.
Turkish Bath Towels, unbleach
ed. 10c.
Bleached Turkish Bath Towels,
extra quality, 25c
Bleached Cotton Towels, 5c and
10c.
Hats and Caps
for School Wear.
Boys' Xaval Shape School
Caps, of blue cloth with glazed
cover. The cover is for rainy wea
ther. Price, 15c. Some better
ones, 35c.
Boys' Black or Brown Crush
Hats, serviceable for school wear.
50c.
Attractive styles in Golf Caps
for boys. Light, medium or dark
colors. Price, 25c.
Bedroom Suits, $18.
W r e believe we are showing the
biggest value of the season in our
seven-piece bedroom suits at $18.
The bedstead in this suit has a
high head board with attractive
carving. The bureau is large and
roomy, with three drawers. The
chairs have cane seats. The entire
suit is w r ell made, and is decidedly
good value for $iS.
ELY'S CREAM BAIM is a positivecnr...
Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 50
cents at Druggists or by mail; samples 10c by maiL
*W BROTHERS. 56 Warren St.. New York City*
PADS SHOULD BE USED ON EVER
work horse, as the collar will better re-
Hun its elasticity, nor should they be left
on to rot. We have a 1,000 dozen of
them in various sizes and styles:. They
are paid for and will be sold "cheap. In
quire or see them at our new Saddlery,
Harness. Shoe Finding and Leather
Store, Stoll Building.
JOHN T. STOLL,
SACRAMENTO, CAL,.
I SUIT SENSE!!
Have a little this fail. Buy your %
<t Custom Suit of
!; Mc DOUG ALL S
S A:idgetafit. <>
*;<{> X St.. Next to Golden Ensle. *>
WATERHOUSE * LESTER.
(Incorporated.)
WAGON AND CARRIAGE MATERIAL*
Hardware. Lumber, Iron, Steel and CoaL
Horseshoers' and Blacksmiths' Supplies.
TOO. 711. 718. 715 J St.. SMuramuuto.
Kidney J
> jSP#f?!Pfck Bladder*
> f*M 11 IWi V & trou^'es at once. <
*fflTJ jiilpljf slTm Cures in <
48Hcurs I
V7n»la!o URINARY 3
niiliiiiilr WSCHARGES |
side bears the Mlirw ' 3
name IiiUUT Jj
Beware of ro-.irtterfeit l ;. X.
CROSSiIANS SPECIFITffIXME
WITH THIS REMEDY PERSONS OA V
cure themselves without the least ex
posure, change of diet or change in suml -
* JIMP .- - rem edy for o onorrhcE^
V nl" ni^ S « hltes ' Da natural dis-
JVV „ » charge,, or any infiamma
brl, ,r « . " on or mucous mora
■JWmTHEfcYANSUHEMirt'Co. branea. Nou-astringer.t.
Wgmc NC SKATi.O BH| So,d b 7 ISTacuKtx
C. S. i. J r B"nt in plain wrapper,
' 1 111" Wh ii fTll i l5 " "ipresH, pn-paiii. f. f
! '''IMIIPIHP 1 Ivl f' "■ ~r 3 bottifH.
■■immw ■ m Circular sent on revues*-