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THE HANDICAP OF MEXICO.
It cannot be said that educated na
tions never go to war, nor that edu
cation and culture prevent wars. Such
claim is not true, as is evidenced by
the present European conflict But
education may act as a preventive of
war. It may show the way without'
.the necessity of resorting to arms..
;.. Can it not be eaid with at least some
eemblaace of truth, that if Mexico bad
been an educated nation, that much
of the turmoil : which has disturbed
her, might have been prevented? V '
The Mast majority of Mexican peo
ple are illiterate. Most of them can
neither read nor write. The educated
claw, taking advantage of the ignor
ance of the lower classes,' have im
posed upon the latter until the' rebel-
lion now coming to an end, was the
result.. '
: .-; Some eighty Mexican educators have
Just finished a tour of this country.
They came to the United States to in
vestigate our public schools with a
view of introducing a system of pub-'
He education m their forlorn land.
They did not hesitate to My that
Mexico has paid a tremendous price
for not having given attention year
ago to general education. V The rich
took advantage of educational oppor
tunities tnt the peons d the' lower
classes were, compelled to remain in
total ignorance.' ".'!'-. ,"!
Our aducational system appealed to
the visitors and in it they prof eased to
ae the secret of the progress and
prosperity of our country.' .'What im
pressed the Mexicans more than any
thing else, in connection with our
schools, was the attention paid to the
primary branches. They could under
stand our universities; tfivejf 'had
itibeiuselves attended colleges. ;' JBut
they could not understand our pri
mary schools, never having seen any
thing l&e them, ' ' -
Little Prices That Assure the Quickest Clearance
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. or Dress in the store at 1-2 price.
Regular $10.00 values at ...,....$5.00
Regular $12.60 values at .4, ....... $6.25
Regular $15.00 values at 1. . . .... .$7.50
Regular $17.60 values at . ...... .$8.75
Regular $20.00 values at ... . ... .$10.00
Regular $22.50 values at . ... . .'. . . .$11.25
Regular $25.00 values at ........ $12.50
Regular $27.50 values at .-. ..... . .$13.76
Regular $4.00 separate dress skirts $3.00
- Regular $6.00 separate dress skirt $4.60
Regular $7.50 separate dress skirt $5.65
; Regular $10.00 separate dress skirt $7.60,
One lot $2.00 flannelette Kimonas . .98a
$3.60 Children's coats at .$1.75
$5.00 Children's coats at : ..... .!. . . $2.60
$7.60 Children's coats at ........ .$3.75
$8.00 Children's coats at . . . . . . . . . .$4.00
Regular $1.25 grade wool knit sweater
: suits in white for children, extra spec-
. ial . i . . i . . .,. . ; ........... .39c
Qne lot $1.25 to $2.50 Corsets at 79c
r small sizes.
;- White Cafilhmerette gloves for women
pair ....16c
: HAND BAGS.
' One lot of $1.25 to $1.60 hand bags
; Clearance ;.25c
All $1.25 hand bags . . ... .1. ....... . ,96c
All $1.60 hand bags $1.15
MEN'S HATS.
Regular $3.00 Gordon Hat at .... . .$2.40
Regular. $440 Stetson Hats ......$3.20
.- Regular 50c Men's winter Caps 88c
Regular $1.00 Men' winter Caps..,. 75c
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! .LvBOYS; SUITS.,'
$5.00. Boy' r Suits now at ,J. $3.75
$6.00 Soya' iSuita now at .... . . . .$4.60
$7.00 Boy' Suits now at . .. . . . . .$6.25
$9.00 Boys' Suits now at . . . . . ... .$6.75
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. SHOES.
Ladies' black satin Shoes, Goodyear
Weft, very heavy grade satin, regular
$4.50 values ............ v $2.95
- Black Suede Goodyear Welt, also same
in grey euede $4.00 and $4.50 values'
Clearance . .u V . . , , . $1.95
All of . our Women's Pat: .i. Button Kid
Top Shoes in genuine welt soles, Ouban
heels $4.00 values most all sizes and
widths, clearance .............. .$2.75
. Utz and Dunn Gun v Metal Button
in Cuban heels genuine Goodyear welts,
regular $3.50 value, clearance . . .$2.95
. Wiomen's Vici Kid lace in low or Cuban
heels, welt soles, a few pair in turn soles,
regular 43.50 values et ...... ...$1.49
. One lot of Party Pumps in satin and
patent, $3.60 values, choice ....'...$1.95
WASH GOODS. X "
.. One lot Ginghams small patterns good
ginghams, regular 10c and 12 l-2c values
' special at yard .8 l-3c
One lot fine Zephyr Ginghams, dainty,
neat, in the best of colons and of the
best dyes ton withstand washing, clear
ance, yard . . . , 11c
All fancy genuine Windsor Crepes suit
able for kimonas, etc., sell anywhere
at 25c yard, celarance yard ...... . . .15c
. . Fancy Ripplettes, , chacks and stripes
very best quality ."clearance, yard . . . 11c
Fine quality fancy-Flannelettes, val
ues 16c, choice yard. .... . '....10c
ONE LOT MEN'S OVERC6ATS.
$6.25
V.:-.t. $7.50
.....i$8.75
....$10.00
...'.$12.50
$12.50 Overcoats, at ,.. . . .
$16.00 Overcotft !i ;.
$17.50 Overcoats at , . . .
$20.00 Overcoats at
$25.00 Overcoats at ........ .
. ' MEN'S PANTS.
Regular $1.60 Men's Pants at
Remnar $2.60 Men's Pants at .
Jtegular $3.00 Men's Pants at .,
Regular $4.00 Meirs Pants at
...$1.15
...$1.90
.$2.26
.$3.00
't Regular $5.00 Men's Pants at ..'...$3.76
;..,.3c
. .llt60c
. ...?:?oc
. . ;$i.oo
...,20
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,.,$9.40
. .$11.25
. SMALL BOYS SUITS.
in Dutch styles, middy styles and others,'
all new:. .-. fnt ...
Regular $4.00 Suits at ......... .1.42.00
Regular $5.00 Suits at : . j ;k$2.60
Regular $6:00 Suits at ......... . ...$3.00
BOYS' OVERCOATS. "
; Regular $4.00 Boys' Overcoats .
Regular $5.00 Boys' Overcoats .
Regular $6.00 Boys'. Overcoats
MEN'S FURNISHINGS.
Regular 60c Shirts -now at ...
Regular 75c Shirts now at , . . ,
Regular $1.00 Shirts now at . . ..
Regular $1.25 Shirt snow at . .
Regular $1.60 Shirts now at .,
All Ties reduced 25 per cent
Men's $10.00 Rain Coats at
Men's $12.50 Rain Coats at ... .
Men's $15.00 Rain Coats at . . ,
..$2.00
..$2.5Q
V$3.00
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WOOLEN DRESS GOODS.
One lot Dress Goods values to60c,
odd pieces etc., a bargain at yard .. .21c
One lot of Dress . Goods, odd pieces,
sold formerly to 50c yard, choice ...19c
r; ..One lot flancy novelty (wool Dress
- Goods,' small, pin stripe on dark blue' or
dark green and one piece solid ' blue,
reguar selling price 60c, clearance yd 89c
27 'Inch half wood plaids suitable-for
children's dresses, clearance yard, .1, 15c
One big lot of Dress Goods, every yard
"all wool, in plaids- checks, ana plain
' colors, American Broadcloth, Granite
Cloth, Serge, Fancy Suiting, Dress Ma
terials, former selling prices to , $1,50,
none less' than $1.00 per yard; width' 40
to 62 'inches wide, choice yard $6e'
i - - y-i FANCY ' COATINGS.-t k . I
, One big lot of $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 val
ues 60-56 inches wide extra low price at
. yard . . rv. . . . i . .-, jjj . .. . , $19.
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V : Dozens. -of short lengths, odd pieces,
remnants of the best selling silk' at
''especial January clearance sale reduc
tions. ' ; .'.-i. 1 - '
' CURTAIN MATERIALS.
Special purchase of 1000 yards of cur
tain ecrim, 100 --yards left of 86 inch
scrim, cream, special, yard ....... ..8c '
200 'Yards left of 38 inch scrim, fancy
open work border, cream or ecru, spec- -ial,
yard .12 l-2c
400 Yards of fine 'scrim, cream or
ecru plain or fancy border, special yard ' .
...... v.... i; i 22c
Regular 10c Cretonnes at yard . .... .80
Regular 15c Cretonnes at yard .... ,11c
Regular 26c Cretonnes at yard u..20c :
Regular 86c Cretonnes at yard .... .80c
Regular 60c Cretonnes at yard . . . . . .43c
All choice Tapestries reduced 20 per '
cent. J
SUIT CASES AND BAGS.
$1.00 Values' now at ...... . ...... .80c
$1.60 Values now at ............$1.20
$2.00 Values now at $1.60 .
$4.00 Values now at , . . . .$3.20
$6.00 Values now at i. . .$4.80
$8.00 Values now at $6.40
$10.00 Values now at $8.00 ,
'.. TRUNKS. 1 '
$6.60 Trunks now at ..$5.20-
$8.50 Trunks now at . ..$6.80
$10.00 Trunks now at-x; ... . . $8.00
$12.60 Trunks now at $10.00
$16.00 Trunks now at ...... ..t.. $12.00
BOYS' FURNISHINGS. . .
Boys'. 60c blouses at . . . '. .1. . . . .40c -
Boys'. 25c blouses at v. ... ... .20c
Boys' 50c caps now at . v. .88$ -One
lot. Boys? $1.25 felt hats ...... 7fc
75c Boys' Pants at .,.... v.V7e
$1.00 Boys Pants at ..',7fc
$1,25 Boys' Pants at ...;.'...'. 0M
' '.Vf. i-iME&'B SUITS. ,
$15 OO Men' Sui W at . .'. . . .$lLtS
$17.50 Men's Suits how at .... . . .$ VUS
$20.00 MenV Suits now at ... . . .11 SUM
$22.60 Men's "Suits now at .....$140
$25,00 Men's Suits now at ...... $18.T9 .
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1915 Review of the WarRussia.
Petrograd, Jan. t. Watchful wait
ing, that weH-known American policy
regarding Mexico some months ago,
sums up the .war situation in Russia
today, but watdhful waiting in Russia
has a meaning all its own. ":
Whereas Uncle Sam; after experi
encing a few pin-pricks in his pati
ence, remained passive, the ' great
Russian bear after sustaining a heal
thy, life-sized wallop on his tender
snout left out a roar that shook the
earth continents away. . .Reduced; to
plain' English the roar was: .
- "Give me munitions; I've got enough
men." . ," .
' That was Several months ago. Rus
sia's greatest arsenal, near Petrograd,
had been tloWn to smithereens; tlhe j
armies of Grand Duke Nicholas, 1
will keep Archangel open all winter
for munition-laden ships from Amer
ica. Heavily loaded trains are crawl
ing across the Siberian plains in al
most endless procession, stopping here
and there to deposit rifles and cart
ridges for the men who have been
training with sticks and only lacked
the arms' wherewith to join the armies
now preparing for Russia's future
campaign.' ' '
With the beginning of the New Year
various ' estimates place the number
of fresh armed Russian troops at five
million. At least two million more are
being turned at the rate of pvtor
half a million a month. An addition
al million of twenty-year-old youths
were called up on December 4. These
will take their places in the ranks
early in tne year,
yielding to the Austro-German steam . .Russia's . veterans already holding
roller, had been driven from the Car- the battle-line from Riga to the Black
pathians back into Russia and had Sea and operating in the Caucaus are
lost Warsaw and the whole of Poland;
there wns political dissension in Rus
sia, alarming semi-revolutionary out
breaks were occurring here and there;
the ever advancing enemy was threat
ening even Moscow, oind the greatest
estimated to total at least4.000.000.
all hardy fighters, making the total
of Russian military strength in sight
approximately twelve million men.
Like England, ' France, and Italy,
Russia is preparing to fight in the
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Fred J. Holmes, President '4, " v ' Q. C. Penington, Vice President 'i
F. L. HUrers, Cashier 11 x E. Zmdel and H. B. Coolidge. -;
, . , '' ,''!sAiaitant Cashiers.
Fredr.'Hoimes ."a- Bnodgras: JT. OonK -i,;
C a Penfeetea & 8. Brwnton (.'' H. B. Coolidge ' I..
in fh Bim, nwnr ' Balkans. This campaign, which is al.
to be about to fall. j ready under way is under the leader-
In Winter bears usuaMy hibernate, 1 shiP ,of Ge?er?,1. ritrieffJ exm'
but all these things are more what matoder of the Nmth Bulgarian Army,
happened to the Russiam bear in the ' np renounced Czar Ferdinand and
Summer and Fall of 1915 precluded omgurm, nu "f
any idea of his going into winter
Quarters this year. Russia is today
the most active "inter" bear extant.
Russia has now mobilized her in
dustries and shells and other muni
tions in great quantities have begun
to flow from the factories and shops
in every important Russian city; the
Russian cabinet has been reformed
with particular reference to a more
active onduct of the war; the peas
ants wuio used to drink vodka have be
come used to a vodka less Russian and
are puttincr their profits from vod.
kaless harvests hence bigger har
vests into the provincial banks;
Grand Duke Nicholas has been sup
erseded by the Czar as Commander-in-Chief
and has taken. hold of the
important camnaitm in the Caucause
Stirred to renewed vigor under its
Ruler, the army has used the shells
born or the industrial mobilization
and repulsed the enemy in the vicinity
of Riga, besides putting him on the
defensive elsewhere.
"These and many more things have
hspjpetoed m Kumia since the double
eagle whacked the (Mar on-the en out.
The roar for munitions which the bear
Jet .out aon ' reached' Japan, England,
and America, and for the last three
months rifles, aheMe and camion have
heen pouring. intAe'' Pstfr''n4
Arctic Mrta'toNtdfc4riealMVi
decorations tendered him by his form.
er sovereign. Dimitrieff's first ob
jective is Bulgaria, anticipation of
which early in December sent Austro
German and Bulgarian regiments
hastily to Rustchuk, the nearest Bul
garian' city to the Russian border.
It was Russia that delivered Bul
garia from the Turkish yoke. When
faced by the Russians as a foe, led by
a formed popular general of the Bul
garian army, wholesale desertions
from the Bulgar forces are consider
ed a potent possibility,
Russian forces too, have been sent
in ample inumbers to the Caucasus m
order, if necessary, to lend aid to the
British in the event the vuez Uanal
should be seriously tihreatened by the
reinforced (ierman-led TurKs.
Though Russia, has lost an esti
mated million and a half prisoners to
Germany and Austria, nearly a mil
lion men of the double enemy have
been cantured 'and sent- to1 'Liberia
where' they are in no danger of libera
tion, as are the Kusaan prisoners' In
Germany and Austria. ' 'The Austria
German losses durinir the -last ftKre
months, en the Russian' front, haVe'
been' enormous. - '.Russia's own losses
have not heen slight, hut -they un
doubtedly are Tar uMer those Of the-
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