Arkansas City Daily Traveler from Arkansas City, Kansas • Page 2

i neaa me. LOWING; it will? i i 1 bAHLAlW 1L OFFICE OF BENDET ISAACS Manufacturers of MENS? CLOTHING, 71 0 Broadway. EW YORK, Jan. 23, '95 Mens' Suits- Men's Suits former price well-price 85. Men's Suits, former price well price $2.20.

Men's Suits, former price well price -12. 65. Men's Suits, former price well price $3.35. Men's Suits, former price well price Men's Suits, former price Trell price $4.90. Men's Suits, former price well price $8.00.

Men's Suits, former price well price $7.35. Men's Suits, former price well price $9.00. Men's Suits, former price price $11.00. MOE A. Arkansas City, Kas.

Dear Lou. Your favor of the 1 8th with draft for S90O received. If you were here to see how we are rushed you would not wonder at our delay in acknowledging receipt of your favors. We are working day and night, and then cannot fill our orders promptly. Ben and myself have come to the conclusion that we must have you hore.

We regret to have to give up our Arkansas City store, but at present we see no other course to pursue. You will therefore commence at once a closing out sale, and do it quick. Give the people bonafide bargains; cut and slash the life out of prices on goods, so that you can make a clean sweep. Advertise fixtures and leasetor sale. Now Lou, let her go.

Don't worry about a loss I will find no fault on that score. Get rid of the stock. Wait for no further instructions; use your own judgment as to the best means of advertising the sale. When you have sufficiently reduced the stock no doubt you can find a purchaser for the balance of stock on hand with lease and fixtures. Get to work at once.

With kind regards, yours truly, MOE A. ISAACS. Rock fordO Socks, former price. It' cents; farewell three pairs for 10 Turkey Red Handkerchief formtr-price 10 cents, farewell price two forr5 cents. Blue Handkerchiefs, former price It-cents, farewell price, two for 5 cents.

Fancy bordered i handkerchiefs, former price 10 cents, farewell price tw-for 5 cents. Black bordered handkerchiefs, former-price 25 cents, farewellprice 10 cents. "Suspenders, former price 25 farewell price 10 cents. Suspender, former price 50 farewell price 20 cents. Buck Gloves, former price tl 50, farewell price 85 cents.

Gauntlet Gloves, former price tl 25, farewell price 55 cents. White Shirts, former price $1 CO, farewell price 45 cents. Fancy Percale Shirts, former price II 00, farewell price 45 cents. Natural Wool Underwear, former price I 50, farewell price 00 cents. Random Underwear, former price 5 cents, farewell price 20 cents.

Heavy Canton Flannel, former prlte C5 cents, farewell price S5 cents. Fleece-Lined Underwear, fowr price $1 25, farewell price 50 cents. Camel's Hair Underwear, formtr price $1 50, farewell price 60 cenu. Overalls, Never-Rip, Riveted, former price 11 00, farewell price 50 cents. 1ST Overalls, Never Rip, former price C5 cents, farewell price SO cents.

Boys Overalls, former price $0 cents, farewell price SO cents. Hats and Caps. Prices cut to less than 50 cents the dollar. mM Trunks and Valises. Less than the co-t in the factory.

A fine line of MEN'S OVERCOATS. Come and get one of them at your ow price IS NOW IN FULL BLAST OUR FAREWELL SALE an opportunity offered you again. Come TflhKi! National Bank, Arkansas City, Kansas. $4.00, fare- $7.50, fare $9.00, fare- $10.00, fare $12.50, fare- $15.00, fare- $18.50, fare- $22.50, fare- HTBOYS' SUITS less than 50 cents on the dollar. EUHBOYS' OVERCOATS less than 50 cents on the dollar.

-CHILDREN'S SUITS AND OV ERCO ATS less than 50 cents on the dollar. stock Knee Pants, former price 40 cents to 50 cents, farewell price 15 cents. Men's Pants, former price $2.00, farewell price 75 cents. Men's Pants, former price $2.50, price $1.10. Men's Pants, former price $3.00, farewell price $1.50.

Men's Pants, former price $3.50, farewell price $1.75. Men's Pants, former price, $4.00, farewell price $2.00. Men's Pants, tailor made, former price $5.00. farewell price $2.50. Men's Pants, tailor made, former price $6.00, farewell price $3.00.

And hundreds of others to numerous to mention. Next Door to Home OLANG OP THE CIRCUS MAN. Jargon T7hich Is Unintelligible to All But the Traveling Showman. The circus folk not only have a slang of theff own, but as they are pastmasters in the general slang- 'of the day they talk a jargon which would be simply unintelligible to the uninitiated, says the Worcester American. They are in a line of business to catch every canfc phrase going, and any new word which is only a local invention.

To a circus man the manager or the head of any "enterprise is always "the main guy," while those in subordinate positions are simply "guys." The tents tops" to the circus men, and they are subdivided into the "bigtop," the animal top," the "kid top," candy top," and on indefinitely. The side show, where the Circassian girls, fat women and. other curiosities termed freaks" are shown, is termed the "kid show" and the man with the persuasive voice who seeks to entice people into the "kid show" is known as a "barker." The men who sell peanuts, red lemonade, palm leaf fans, animal and song books and concert tickets are known under the general term of "butchers," while that class of circus followers whose methods are outside of the pale of the law, such as pickpockets, gamblers and short-change men, are either "crooks" or 'grafters." To get a person's money without giving them any equivalent is "to turn them." A countryman is either a "Rube" (Reuben) or a "Jasper." Thus if a countryman went into a side show and was robbed of $10 there, a circus man would say: "The Rube went against the grafter in the kid top and got turned for ten cases." From tne combination of the warning cry of "Hey" and the word "Rube" comes the circus man's rallying cry of which is always sounded in times when a fight with outsiders is imminent. The cry of "Hey Rube!" has been in use among circus men for half a century or more, and in the old days it was often followed by bloodshed and even loss of life. Fights between circus men and outsiders are comparatively rare to-day, however, and serious trouble seldom occurs, except in the sparsely settled regions of the South and West.

The musicians with circus are known as "wind-jammers," the can-vasmen and other laborers are "razor-backs, while a man who drinks to excess is either a "lusher" or a "boozer. These last two expressions are not confined to circus men, but have been used largely and more commonly by them than by any other class. The distance from one town to another is always known as a "jump," and traveling.is "jumping." A circus that' travels overland is known as "a red wagon show" in contradistinction to a show that travels by rail. The showground is always called the "lot," and the dining tent, where most of the circus men get their meals, is the "camp." Horses are always "stock," and the horse tents are the "stock tops." Then there are scores of technical terms describing the work of the different performers, which, hardly to be classed a3 d. In- themselves, nevertheless add i to tho picture c' lis.

circus I 1 and get our prices. You will be sure IN A JUNGLE STORM. It I Something Terrible, Because It Cannot be Understood. People who have never been in a jungle talk of the sky, as a painter talks of the horizon or a seafaring man of the offing as if when you wanted to see it you only need use your eyes. But in the jungle you don't see the sky at least, you only see a few scraggy patches of it overhead through the opening's in the and leaves.

Neither do you jfeel the wind blowing, nor get burned or dazzled by the sun, nor even see that luminary; except by momentary glimpses about; midday. From which, it follows that a jungleman does not usually pretend to be weatherwise. If he does he is even a greater humbug than the rest of; the weather prophets. On the afternoon about which we were speaking I remember setting forth on my walk in the still glow of the tropical calm and wondering rather at the intense stillness of, the forest. Then the air grew cooler and the green of the foliage in front seemed to deepen, and presently there was a soiJnd as of a giant waterfall in the distance.

Waterfalls do not, louder every second, whereas the noise in front did so. Then there was a loud angry growl as of a dozen lions. A minute more and the whole jungle began to roar as if fifty squadrons oft heavy cavalry were coming up at a gallop. Then came a drop of rain and a peal of thunder which seemed to make the world stop. Then the storm began.

The sky above darkened, the trees clattered, the brushwood beneath hissed and bowed itself. A deluge of rain drops blotted out the narrow view. Down it came, soaking through the densest leaves under which one fled for refuge, striking the and sand with millions of dull thuds, dashing furiously against the leaves as if they were so many hostile shields, streaking the air with innumerable perpendicular lines, and hurling itself down with the force of bullets. In such a downpour one may as well walk and get wet as stand still and get wet. Unfortunately one did not know where to walk to.

The "circumbendibus system" presupposes the fact that the wagon wheels and bullock tracks can be seen and noted. But when the cart track is no longer a cart track, but "all turned to rushing waters," such tracks cannot be seen and unless you have a pocket compass you may as well try to fly as to get back to where you came from. When one reads of travelers lost in the backwoods they always steer by the sunand probably very badly; but when there is no sun what are you to do? Don't miss it. Our stock still unbroken. Take advantage of this sale: vou will not likelv have such to buy.

Goods marked in plain figures. 1L According to Lav. Judge to Witness. madam, I want you to distinctly understand that hearsay is not evidence. How old are you? Witness I don't know, judge.

Judge Don't know? Witness I have no evidence of my age. Judge What do you mean? "I am told that lam so many years old, judge, but it's only hearsay, and you know that isn't evidence." Should Work Both Ways. His Wife -George, you are be com Ing a confirmed smoker. Suburbanite My dear, I am compelled to ride in the smoking car so much that I often light a cigar in self defense. Same Suburbanite, a few hours later Amanda, you smell frightfully of raw onions.

His Wife My dear, Bridget frequently eats raw onions and I've been eating one in self defense. Another Reform Mrs. Thusiasm I have called, my dear Mrs. Hardfax, in the interests of humanity, to ask you to join with hundreds of our best women in signing this pledge not to wear another sealskin garment of any sort. Mrs.

Hardfax I shall be delighted to siffn it. Oh. what lovelv stuffed birds those are on your hat! Where Doubling: the Number. Lady This house would suit me, but there are not enough closets. Landlord The number can easily be doubled.

Lady Very well, then, I'll sign the lease. Landlord, half an hour later George, send a carpenter to that house to divide each of those closets Into two. Birds. Birds which fly highest and fastest have the most air cells. The air from the lungs, which is much warmer, and therefore lighter than the outside air, passes into and out of these cells at the will of the bird, some being able to fill even the quills of their feathers.

Top-Heavy. Four hundred tons of top weight must come off the new French battle ship Brennus before she can be made seaworthy; one of her fighting masts will be taken out and her upper deck will be almost completely dismantled. Just before the Zulu war tnere was In Mauritius a stamp collector who was a friend of the local postmaster. One day he learned that there was to be a clearance of old stock and obtained permission to buy it all as waste. It occurred to him that he might do the same at other small colonial p03to Sices and acquire stamps without difficulty.

One of his Mauritius stamps he sold not long ago for $4,250, and, according to the Manchester Courier, he has already made between $100,000 and $150,000 by his Investment. Bis Proposal. Courtenay When you proposed to tllrs Dexter did you get down on your twlsLPaseii' SCIENTIFIC SENTENCES. The extreme cold of the poles I fiainly due to the fact that the Arctic cean is certainly, and the Antarctic ftcean probably, a land-locked sea. Lord Kelvin estimates that' the rannincr slow" of the earth in it 3aily rotation round its axis amounts to twenty seconds per century.

Cats and several other animals have a false eyelid, which can be drawn over the either to cleanse it light. The mole is not blind as many persons suppose. Its eye is hardly larger than a pinhead, and is carefully protected from dust and dirt by means of enclosing' hairs. Voluntary muscles are almost always red; involuntary muscles are generally white; the most notable exception in the latter case being the heart. Lieutenant Colonel R.

W. King, U. S. of Willett's Point, N. has constructed an enormous magnet out of an old cannon, which will resist a strain of .44,800 pounds.

The blood flows almost as freely through the bones as through the flesh of very young children, but as age comes on, the blood vessels, in bones are almost filled with matter. Professor Newcomb has declared, from astronomical considerations. that the earth went slow and lost seven seconds between 1850 and 1863, land then went fast and gained eight 'seconds between 1862 and 1872. A Boston woman is lecturing on the newest of sciences, teaching that unpleasant feelings create harmful chemical products in the body, while benevolent and cheerful 'thoughts have a contrary and most desirable effect. Rats nust have access to water or they die.

A trapped rat may easily be tarn- by allowing no water but that offered in a spoon, for the creature soon learns to recognize the hand, which supplies this all-important necessary. Electricity is now used for coloring leather more quickly and deeply. The hide is stretched on a metallic table and covered with the coloring liquid; a pressure of a few volts is then applied between the liquid and the table, which opens tho pores of the 6k in and allows the color to sink in. Southey mentions that the first set tiers in Brazil paid $1,500 for a cat, and for kittens their weight in gold dust An offer of 52,500 for a Persian cat at the Sydenham cat show in 1869 was refused. In the reign of James the Second some English adventurers fitted out a vessel to search for and weigh up the cargo of a Spanish ship which had been lost on the coast of South America.

They succeeded and brought home 81,500,000 which had been at the bottom of the sea forty-four years. In Harvard college there are now 1,667, In the scientific school 303, in the graduate school 258, in the divinity school 50, in the law school 04, In the medical school 454, In the dental school 80, in the school of veterinary medicine C5, in the Bussey Ixustltuta 12. In tho whole university Trero icsi year c-. Among the riders there are rougn riders, pad riders and bareback riders and among the unmakers there are "patter" or talking clowns, singing clowns and knockabouts. A clown used to be called a "cackler" in the English circuses.

The three-ring tents with their great size have knocked the aged patter clown, common in the single rings in Tony pastor's day, out of business. Nobody without a voice like a speaking trumpet can be heard nowadays in the great tent. The knockabout business has come up in consequence and the dude and Reuben clown meander, among the audience, representing, eccentric spectators not belonging to the show. Locks of Foot Ball Heroes Miss Hellene Willis, of San Jose. is achieving fame as the origi nator of the idea of collecting the locks of foot ball heroes as trophies.

Recently the captain of a well-known eleven received a letter from Miss Willis asking for a lock of hair from each of his team, to be accompanied by their autographs, and explaining the unusual request by stating that she has a large scrapbook in which are placed the locks of hair and autographs of most of the prominent players of the past season. In Lieu of Muffs. At the Harvard-Yale football match a baker's dozen of pretty Boston girls in lieu of muffs wore "sure enough" footballs, from which the ends had been cut. They were whaleboned and stuffed inside, and made an exceedingly pretty show. Behind this feminine rush line came a cadaverous youth bearing a pasteboard horn that for size and capacity has probably never been equaled.

Boss. The word "boss," so commonly applied by an inferior to one of higher grade in the United States is not, as generally supposed, American in its man, and is 33ard frequently in Continental Europe. In Germany one often sees the sign "Schlaf-Baas," which translated means the boss of a lodging house: Hardware. Torpedo Scissors. Torpedo scissors," a new form of torpedo net cutter invented by a Danish naval officer, have proved success ful, it is said, in recent tests.

They are fixed to the head of the torpedo, and fall apart on striking the net, cutting- it so as to let the torpedo pass through and strike the ship. THE ROUND-UP. A man was sent to the work-house for thirty days for taking off his shirt on Fifth avenue, Pittsburg. The breechloading rifle is over 300 years old, but the principle only be- I came general after gun barrels were rifled. During his present term of office as" justice of the peace, Squire Jacob Kiser of Gaston, N.

has married 173 couples. Utah has 3,000,000 acres of arable lands watered by 1,000 miles of canals. One canal, that of Bear river, cost The bast, crop of gras3 found on zz'zzi in Iceland is on the' roofs Property Bights Among: Birds. Birds and other creatures apportion the earth among themselves just about as men does. A bear has boundaries beyond which his fellow bear doe 3 not trespass with impunity the wild rabbit you see on your lawn is the same little innocent creature you have been seeing every night all the summertime and even the robin that gathers the early worm for his breakfast from your garden will show fight when another comes marauding on his preserve.

Nor doe3 this last a year only, for there is good "evidence ihzt the Eone bird will cosieTjscIs to i. 4V r' 1 Vr '3g-.