n.T ' OUTGO IT . ETATZZUAITl .TCZpAT, JA37TTAS.T 10, 1SC3, r-f. . , . - mm - .- - y - v iAffter liniveirtory -SfeJe ?" ; : IN ADDITION TO OUR. ' And Half-PHce Clearance Sale " Opened a little later than usual, but we have been planning very extensively for this grand event. 7Tlio; great purchasing public, eagerly watch for this annual event and $he cumulative response from year to year growing with each successive announcement evidences the widespread interest these sales - evoke which has. resulted in ivfng us by far the largest business in this branch in the valley. The basic and unaenying reason OT mis pnenomenai success is easuy expiamea: soluiely Evfetry, Article :Reduced-N6 Reserve Except Contract Good 111 Of Seasonable Dress Goods The most wonderful sale of dress gqbds ever inaugurated in this valley, whvre thousands of yards of the moslf desirable and seasonable goods are rt-duced much lower tnau Hneir actual worth Make your seie-cuoss eariy ana avom ine resn. inis tale includes the celebrated Priestley's Black Goods. . Silk Organdies In a great assortment of the newest and best shades. Now's tup time to buy; don't delay. Iteg ular 50c and C5j values, "reduced to ... 25 c Siciliiarvs In eolors'gry, tan and brown. The grandest values ever shown AH de ftiraMe patterns. K-giilar75c values Shower Proof Brand i'ew ehnwer-pro.f f mixture in aU desirable colors. Just the right thing for mat new c -at, sR'rt r suit. Il-srular &c value durfiiit: this sate 3 !-, bk tv -r 57Lc Skirtings Ten pieces of the newest and best patterns of 56 itch Wool Skirtings in all wanted wlnrings. These fabrics a-e our tegular $100 and, mm $1 25 values. f g Daring this sale v . V Suitings A grand bargain and onethat can not fait to attrac t widespread interest. Never before has such dependable dress goods been offered at such a sac rifice. V . Regular 91.50 to $2.50 values in Wool Suitings At one price, per j ard , Every yard of dres goods in this stablisiiment reduced except LANSDoWNES, VIYELLO, OLYMPIABRt ADCLOTH. Mil 0 - m In Our Ladies -to-Wear Section We offer exrentionllv ttrsUv uaiKii;B in esca aepaiimenc iteaa tbette: Ladies Jackets One hundred new ' fall ahnwinra nf . . . . . . p. tvereey jacseis in colors oiacK. tue, brown and fan. Values up to $25 00. Extra. Special During this Sale For your choice. Waists Our entire line of T.juIips' Wniofa in the newest effects, made up of 8ILK, VUZSSitZ.V,A. LiHAL KUSS, etc., REDUCED 1-5 and 1-2 Ladies Sviits, Skirts, Butcher and Tourist Coats, Cravenettes, Capes, Eide r d own Soccques, HaJf Price Waistings All wool tricot waistings, " real 25c values 1 Clearance price. Real S5c and 40c values. Clearance price............. 28c Flannelettes Hwansdown flannelettes. Regu lar 25e values. -1 Qr Clearance price.............. A Vicugna and Llama flannelettes. Regular 12Jc quality 12 yds. for $1.00 - Draperies Good, desirable patterns in SILK OLJNES, of regular larjo and O 16c quality, yard OC SteLnJ Covers, Regular art patterns of tapestry ana rep. gooas Half Price Percales t Thirty six Inch Windsor percales, best quality.' Kegii.arJPt5c value. Clfarance price...... 'C Gloves Iadi-s' full silk-lined Mocha . in hlark and hrown. beorular O ' $1.50 value. Special tale.. OC WednesdoLy Only Wednesday Special Sale 'No. 210. For this da v only we offer a superb line of fancy woq! in white, blue and red, others t fancy colored stripes. Good value. Wednesday only rith 50c 1 Blankets Full wight and size cotton Man sets in colors gray and tan. Heal 65c grade, piir ! , 59c better and larg'er blankets in colors !grey. tan and white. - Our regular i oo graue, pair 50c Lace Curtains Odd pairs and broken lines of lace curtains of which there are two and three pairs of a kind at specially Reduced Prices Corsets Rome special corset bargains are being shown n this department, of which we mention but two Regu lar $2.50 bias gored, jean, erect form corsets $1.50 An assortment of styles with val ues up to $10. Special 50c GR.AND CARMVAIL In (Men's arid Boys Clothing SEE LIBERTY ST RXET WINDOW - v ' . A sale never before attempted in point of value- giving, and ono sure to arouse the greatest enthusiasm, i Brinpr in the little lellow, for we can fit him out at a great saving to you. BUY NOW. V ' We have arranged a grand bargain for the men inthe shape of a gathering Of . A T'V f. Men's Sviits of high quality and desirable patterns and 8iyles, with prices ranging from $10.00 to $22.50 from which to select at ACT QUICKLY BUY NOW , Another Dig Special la ' Boys' Clothing in the best styles and fabrics, made up la two and three pieces. . . HaJf Price $2.50 talues now 4 00 values low. . (5.(0 values nw. ....... 8.00 vaius nor...... $ 123 Z.00 3.00 4.00 Underwear i Men's wool underwear, best of values and colors. Regular 1 1 25 and O C 11.50 values, now OJC, Tjam O'SKctiiters Iu coidrs red and Oxford gray. Ttraee wooly kind. - Regular 50e val- C uo. During thltalc..... ........ JLJC Meyers Shoes FOR MEN Acknowledged the best and most comfortable shoe to be found In the city. During this grand clearance sale w-, oiler our regular S3.i0 men's shoe at, pair $3.25 Queen Quality SHOES'FOKWOMENj alue-elvlng sale never equaled. During this sale we are offering special inducements to clean up remaining 8toek of thU well known brand of ladies' footwear. Regular S3 values $!i50 Studying The 1 Landscape ................ CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 7, 1905. The fii'anges that have beefi going on slowl -for the pa$t .ten 'years in the metaods of teaching the American school lxy anl s?heool girl have liad an interesting effect on the courses bf.studynn the collereu where -t'ue teachers of the comin J' generation are being developed Terhaps none of these "new-fangled" " itlens that in their earlier days met with bo much. opposition in the scaools hut now are being adopted so'generally ami with such good effect is is illustra tive of ihe trend of up-to-date pedagogy 9 the science of pnsiography. Those of us who we"nt to school fifteen or . twenty years ago recognize it as 'a 'sort of glorified physical geography a phys- iraT geography 4 hat is Jjingbt, as much natural history in nowadays, by field excursions, by laboratory work, and by all manner of scientific researches that give the student a living understanding .of the subject from personal contact, so to speak, instead of being a "matter of memorising from a book tho. work of . ofuers. ' . Physfography first came into being in this ciuntry berc in Cambridge and probably iias been developed moro hig'a 1.7 at Harvard and at Radcliffo College, the. woman's institution affiliated with tha men's . university, than anywlierei e.lw- on this side tot the water. In fact) amca of the pioaeer work in' America was done by Professor W. M. Davis of th Ilarvard faculty, while such is "the lemand for women, school teacners trained in this particular modern form of geography that tae courses of his department at-Radcliffe, which, are; the .counterpart of eourses given , at Harvard, a all Badcliffe i-nstruction is, nave become - among the" most popular in tue list of elective. 1 According: to' the progressive notion it is not enough to know that a certain driver 'flows in a eiven.direetion, or that the top of some mountain is so many thousand feet aVove sea-ieveu The girl vtho would become, ' teacaer of paysi pgraphpmust be able to take her pupils out. in the open and point out the .essen tial features of the landscape in such a way that the way "and wherefore of T everything will be : understood the reason'' that the river flows north , ia- , Stead of soutli, that some portions of valley are narrower than taers, that there "is a cape here and a bay tlero long the shores of the ocean,1 that this mountain peak buries its head amongj me clouds waile : its neighbor, xnough of respectablei proportions, looks like a mere foot-lull beside it. . ' - Eonghly speaking, "the starting pointr of this modern system, which bids fair, within a very short period,, entirely to uperseds the old-fasnioTied geography lessons, lies, iti the fact that nothing ia nature is- absolutely' permanent. Changes in th surface of the earth may require-" a hnnklred taousand years for taeir completion, bnt thev are coinc on Jteaddy every moment, as tney have wsn ainee the! beginning of time. Parts ?t the earth are still inevitably sinking in tha bee in while o'tner parts are patiently elevated above its surface. The wave of tho sea, day by day, are ' building -out toe coast in one place and gnawing it away,, in another. These changes and countless others that aave beein going on since long before man appeared on the earth are now visible hi the contour of hill, valley and saore line. - Physiography takes tae "ground that the greatest aid iu learning the conditions of the present is a knowl edge of what produced taem, not with all the details a geologist goes into, in deed, but wita a broader understanding of fas phenomena that are continually to be observed by those who know where to 'look for. them and 'now to see them. : For this new science concerns itself not only with the results of past ages of nature incessant labor but with everything that is likely to come hereafter, even thought its arrival may be another, hundred thousand years away! ', . ' ', The class room and laboratory, equip ment used in, this interesting study is quite different from that the geography class of a generation ago pored over. Topographical or contour map, as t'aey are called, like those issued by the United States Geological Survey, are the basis of the problems the Raddiffe stndent must woik out, learning not only to read toe meaning tf every line and shade but to explain the conditions they depict, referring toe effects repre sented to features that have come with in. Tier own experience. These charts, showing by a system of curved lines the exact elevation above the sea-level of every pdV on them, specially em phasize the -character of tae earth's surface. The width of even tae small streams that flow across tho country and the degree of the curves they make appear in mathematical precision; the caterpillar-like creation that represents a mountain range in the old-time atlas becomes now an exact statement jiot only of , altitudes but of the outline each, peak won Jd present were it cut off at a certain elevation 'above the sea level. i Stable as nature appears in most of the! regions of the earth the contour map. of the United States shows vast stretches of country--nearly the whole Atlantic and Gulf seaboards that have been under water until comparatively recentlv, - measured : by ' 'the scale of world history 4 that goes back far be yond the first: -sigh of human occupa tion. ; .' . Making contour-; maps is another side of the field work .of iho new study of -geography, which also devises and employs raised maps, on which the sur face of the earth shown in miniature, tbotigh these are too expensive and cumbersome to have become common except; in such laboratories as those at Badeliffe. where the subject is special ized. ' But physiography 'does not stop with! an examination,, of tne earth's sur face, for it i closely concerned also with. the study sof man ia relationto his", natural "environment. Often, in fact, ; almost invariably, this relation was lost . sight of formerly, although the centres of population today, for in stance, may be explained as due to ge ographical reasons controlling humanity in its search for accessible and suitable places of abode. And in this way the modern system of instruction includes the facts that arc considered of -first importance in the old-fashioned atlases, familiarizing the student with the names of mountains, rivers and cities not by a mere effort of memory but by the interesting taings one has first learned about theiF geographical char acteristics. There is a special advantage, and a somewhat curious one, in the study of physiography for girl students, as has been found acre at Badcliffe. The ex; perience of the faculty, a faculty of Harvard teacners, shows that men, not unnaturally, are moro familiar than women with outdoor conditions and cne of the peculiar incidental effects of ihe courses at the girl's college-seems to be to create among the students a greater interest in outdoor lffe and thus lead to a healthier mode of living as well as to a more intimate knowledge of wait has' been in the past an underrated and neglected branch of learning. From the geographer's point of view, howev er, the importance of university instruc tion on this subject that has only re cently been admitted to a university curriculum is its rccoignition as an item in a broad, general education the pur pose of which is to sharpen and inform the intelligence at the same time. YOSEMITE PARE. a reservation made-by ; the Government for tho Indians, extending, ten' miles around. It will, therefore, be an easy matter for the Government to take charge of its own. (California owns the Bedwood Park, containing the fin est redwood trees in the world, and the poop? want to return the Yosemite so that toey may take care or. tneir own park. They .do not-, desire any reim bursement from the lyational Govern meat for the money Spent, bat simply turn the park back again. ' 'Washing ton Post. "A bill will be introduce ir. the Cal ifornia Legislature at the session com mencing this next Monday for the pur pose of turning over to the United States Government the Yosemite Park, which has for forty years been held in trust by the state," said Judge John R. Aitken,.of -San Francsco, . at the Raleigh last night. Judge Aitken was forhierly superior judge of San Diego county, and is now practicing law in tne city or tne uoiu 'enGate, where he i president of the Thirtyninth Assembly District Repub lican JIub. "If this bill passes," he continued, '5f will An1 an i-ntrKtinr rhant(r in the history of the Park. The Yosemite ! valley was first discovered by the ear-, ly Californians in the '50s. They were' US, lu 4 muuu.u " " . . - - x Hetchys, a band of unfriendly Indians. At last they drove them into this val ley in 1S51, and exterminated them alL Capt. Boling was in command, and made a report to the Government, de scribing the wondrous I scenery there. fra Jmuia Fremont, the wife of John C,l Fremont, became interested and got prominent men to bring the matter tot l - . a m. t.A1 A. - 2 A. I the attention or- congress, w msi it might-Jbe. preserved for future genera tions. . This was done, t and -.in 1864 Congress turned ; the land over to the state, of California, in trust, where it has remained eVer since. The state has speat in improving it $493,000. Since then, I think in 1890, the . United States Government inaugurated a pol icy for setting" aside pnblie parks, and has spent mec lVWOQ,. 1 - fast pa rpose. ' ' -H" - "The Yosemite Parkl theenter of THE GENTLER SEX. It is said, by onr competitors of the opposite sex.' - that women seldom achieve the highest notch of success because of their inability to look above petty thinjrs. They want .to do ' too many things instead of making others responsioie for details and awaiting the results they dabble, here and there and fail to forge ahead. There is prob ablv more than a grain of truth in the Charge since a professional woman ! who set her new nousemaiq to worn, witn the remark that she did not care a but ton how she did her work provided the house was kept in first class condition, achieved an unwonted degree of notori iety., The woman .'waa too much ab sorbed in her great work to spare time for petty things, but not oblivions of thn importance of having, them atten ded to by somebody Svho should be held responsible for tho result. Pittsburg Post. : , Chicago. it is said, will try' the ex-1 perience of a woman's daily, to be printed on book paper and sold lor five cents a cov. The advertisements are to be restricted, and general local news will be summarized, not printed in full. - . ' ' London" has tried this planwi'thout success. " i . Women do not want a feminine daily paper. The 'modern newspaper is' made for them as much as' for men. ' The ad vertising pages of the threat dailies?' ap peal to women particularly. ;t M- 1!.!. 1 . . A , 1 1 1 . mo limit auveriisenie4)iji uu nuo.ii- The Funny Side of '''Uf- '- H t r A Clever Surgeon.. "i tell you," exclaimed tne young medical student, "our home surgeon is a clever fellow.' ' .'"''How's that." asked his chum. 'Well, a man was brought in with a crushed leg. The surgeon said it' must come off. .But br omv m.ans or othr he cnt off the wrong h'g." "But I don't call that clever. "wait a bit. I lie surgcou said M would be terriblt. for the ioor fellow to go about with iu legs at all, so he doc tored pp the crushed leg instead of rut tmg that off, , too, and now it is as good as ever. An ordinary surgeon would have left the fellow jetrless. Wonderfully, skillful, wasn't itf" Looked Like Cheek., x was out in .Kansas looking up a niwA si lotwl T rfttiflnmtil Cti, ' ' said the Massachusetts man. "And when I at length located it I found a squatter in possession. - lie had been on the claim so long that he considered he owned it, and I spent half a day argu ing and threatening without avail. When I was ready to depart the squat ter followed me out to, the gate and said: ,' 'Stranger, I'm sorry you've nad all this trouble for nothing, but being you are here, and being I'm in want of money just now, I'd take it as a favor if you would advance me about $400 xn a mortgage 'on the land! ' " - What Happened to Billnps. ' Mary Coles Carrington of Richmond sends us the following: . 'One of the curious characteristics of the old-time darkies is their ability to make themselves always intelligible, no- matter how twisted7 the long words, which are their delight. 4 ' 'Aunt Dilsey, what nas become, c-f young Tom BillupsT' I asked my 'main- the editor.!"! have called to get seme of the detads of the wedding." "tjroodneas! " replied' Mrs. Jones, in dismay. ' They 're all gone. (You ci ght to have come' last night. They ale every scrap." San Francisco Bulletin. , :r. ..fi. vnnn.v tir-.n my recently. Politics and Religion. seems hardly, .".'De.laa' akes, Miss Baby she re- 'CS is a likely way to secure women, readers. T'1 wih , uplifted hands and cy Xew York World. ' i lko fawers, f hg dun run on to de Lew - r ' . " " ; i iinnoitiii.. but we arn't heard ffii I'm a perfect model." Misa Cather-' him nary line, 'eepfn .'tis one o tlese e J ovCe told,. Judge Seabury .and a sumpn,n'er picttore cards, znrl . city court yesterday. "My believe, Miss Baby, dat, he's dun bia ts are: Bast, 36 inches; eat nipped "Atlanta Constitution. aist ' S." The in dire and! .'. ' "', jury in the measurements hioa. 43: waist. 5." The iudire jury looked interested and insoected wat . wanteo. the witness more elosclv. . j I passing through the country a tramp Miss Joyce, who ia a eloak model, 'stopped at a farm hoe and said: was a witness in the snit of. Max Sib; It ia -needless.to ask the question, vennan, a cloak entter. to reeoVer $1000 a&m. Yon know what I want." on a contract for salary. fromGold- .,Ye,, r-pUcd the lady. "I know ,tn S0? rTwil?lJie you wait baWfbt I've onlygot model testified that the cloaks Silver-' . , 7, '...'., man designed did no! fit her, perfect one Jar of ap in the nonse and the figure, and that therefore his disVharw Z0 l1 J" by the defendants was justified. Y other time," Philadelphia Public The jury looked her over aeain and jk"Ser - t " . then fornd a. -verdict against Silverman; , - - 1 . -Xew. York Sun. ; , , , j r ' . .Left. - ; . The editor of. flourishing journal in The time comes when si girl deems California town ; recently railed at it wise to pretend to "know all of Love, the "home of the bride's parents" the though she know nothing., . Later in day after the wedding. He wm d-iii-life she deems it wiser tQ pretend to ous ef telling his reader all sbout th-i know nothing of Love, though she know .event, and wished to give tne young aU! Life v' , j couple ' good, "send off" nSVelL .The - ' " j bride' mother met him. Jl V--' Legal Blanks at Statesman. Job OfSeeJ -"Geod i morning, Mrs. Jones," sid His First Attempt. - They were iu a carriage going to a ball. He was just of age and was wr fir ing his new dresn. suit. It was his" firt attempt, in "" doing things kip in stylo.')' Never before had he worn a dress suit br .taken a girl to a social function in a carriage, lie had dressed in nervous haste, and yet he tried his best to see that his raiment , was absolutely fault less. . , " As they were driven rapidly toward the hall they talked of the fine time they expected to. have. , Suddenly the girl stopped talking Irad gazed intently. at the. bottom of the hack.. The youth noticed that 'she was apparently inter ested in something down there, und he asked: "Mary, what's the .natter with youf What makes yo a be Bo'qui'Jtl" "John," ' she replied, "perhaps 1 shouldn't ask you such a question, but isn't there something wrong with your fceit" The young man looked down, lie was still in his old carpet slippers, sockless. Kansas City Times. . A Threatened Bmovl. ' CoL William fevelev .of Muskogee, I. T., was thoughtfully regarding himself in a looking glass that strangely enough wai within -his vision when that vision was not obscured by a man in a white jacket, 'fin some manner,',' Said.,. Col. Seveley, "I overdrew my-.account at one of the bauks in my flourishing town. Next day I hapjened into the bank. - - - . . - 'Mr. Seveley,' said the casbier '7011, have an overdraft.' - "A11 right.' I replied. Next happened in the bank" again lay r and wu reminded of that overdraft hnd tho. same 'thing happened on tho following day, t 'Then I slopped that jrrics itf an noyance. fXow, look u're.' said 'If . you don't stop postering inn. niout thst overdrsffi I'll1 move it to auother bank.' ' , - '. .. " ; 1 Merits His Fate. . "I see, that an Eastern editor sas that as a matter of fact wsraen form! clubs simply as an excuse for eating, and 'drinking between meals." "Horrid thing! Is he married or sin- glef" Why." ' "Because if he's 'either te doesn't deserve Dealer.; to be." Cleveland jfUIa A TEXAS VONDER HALL'S GREAT DISCOVERY. . One small bottle of the" Texas Won der, Hall's Great Discovery, cares all kidney and bladder." troubles, remedy gravel, Cures diabetes, seminal emis sions, weak and lame backs., rheuma tism and all irregularities of the kid neys and bladdvr is both men and wo men, regulates bladder trouble in chil dren. If not 'sold by your druggist, win be sent o- mail on receipt of $1. One small bottle is two months' treat ment. Dr. Ernest W; Hall; sole manu facturer, P. O. box 629, St. Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials. Bold by all drug rists and Dr. S. C. Stone's drug store. wun Tyrrg- ." . To Wnom it May Concern: ""' , This, 4s 'to certify that I was down for nine month with Sidney and blad der trouble, and tried al" known rem edies to ; no avail until a jreighbor in duced me to et bottle of Texas Won deryone half of which eared me sound and wdl; this I would cheerfully iwear to. and for the benefit of those wh? are afflicted -'and wishing to be permanent ly cured, they can obtain a bottle at wy bouse, located n West Jlth street, Yours truly, j . J.' J. SEALE, ' . Msdf ordV Or. Didn't Want a Lawyer. , ' "I began to practice law hi Dakota in territorial days," said the lawyer from Chicago.' Our judges were sent . to ns,and some of them didn 't knfrw . ' any more about law than they did about the political beliefs of the mound build- -era, One of them I H call him Jones ' 'was so appallingly ignorant that! it was a 'great relief . when, on. the. ndinU sion of .Vprth Dakota to the Union; 'a left t he bench and lx-gan 10 practl? law. His successor was a man wholly without a sc'nsd of-humor, and the only' good . tiling he ever said in his lif was wholly accidentaLf A man was-, broaghb to trial charged with selling' lifuor to tho Indians. The judge asked him if he had a Tawyer to defend him. " 'No,' raid tho man. 'I don't want -a lawyer.' , - ; , .' :-ir . 'WII,' said his honor, looking about the room tilt hU eyes, rested on, his predecessor," ''I ML pppourt Judge' Jou:s""to defend lurn. " ' . " The Wanderer Returns.', h While the 1 engine was taking yrnirr the pasnger with the Imposing watc.i -chAin '."and cytglfiKS .trolled out na thf platform and looted with inlcrctt about native who was sitting on a flour bar- ' rel, "this , village Jooks just exactly as it did twenty years ago, when I moved away from, here. I don't believe it has -A changed; a particle in all that time." "1 reckon not, mister," said the 'soj- ,r itary native, biting off a chew .of tnhac so. , Your; goin' sway don't n-tirt t have made much, difference in tho. duru- d old iowB." Chicago Tribune. , Spoiled Her Beauty. ' , Hsrriet .:. Howard, of W. Olth ( street. Serf York, at. on,- timw had her beauty KHcd with .kiu rCubn-. Sii writes:, '! had salt rheum r ,;c7.,;n3. for rs, but nothb'J wonM cnre 'iV nntit t.used Bucklen's Arnica i?alve,'r A quick aad' sure healer for ruts. burn aud 'sores.- Dan'l J; Fry's nrevo're ;" ' ' . .' ',". s Ik t r