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Show t3.W'"eTW Alj. ImvtajMMsai A j AS A SHOPPINQ -J CENTER . "THIS STOKE OF, LITTLE PRICES" Stands Out in Bold Relief as Does a Single Tree on the - Broad Prairie. OUR SHOE DEPT. NEW ARRIVALS OF SPRING, STYLES OF WORLD FAMOUS JULIA MAiLOWE SHOES tsl OIFCIDS THE SHOE THAT FITS PERFECTlit; WltriTor;Witho7rrrElastlln3tep NucciuiNs am rat raii trmsoj NccirTs sussTrmES. " SPECIAL CUT PRICES FOX TEIS WEEK LADIES'- JULIA MARLOWE OXFORDS OX-FORDS and Southern Tie Low Shoes, J2.50 grades; this week C- t r only - LADIES' JULIA MARLOWE SHOES, McKay Sewed, Best $3.00 Shoes Ever Sold; this week - C only -jb LADIES' JULIA MARLOWE SHOES. Hand Turned, plain cloth top, and all kid, patent tip. EQUAL TO ANY, 34.00 SHOE. This week C - only EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR ABOVE SHOES; also C. P. FORD & CO.'S (first prize Paris exposition) Fine Shoes; also DREW, 6ELBY & CO.'S FINE SHOE3. AND OXFORDS. I J IT PAYS TO ELY SZZIS CF CS. AMERICA'S TOBACCO BILL. Leslie's. The trust has gone into the-manufacture of cigars. It has been in business less than two years and during the past twelve months it produced about a billion bil-lion cigars. As the total production of the country Is approximately 7,000.000,-000 7,000.000,-000 this represents a very fair amount of business for an infant concern. This has been a period of remarkable expansion expan-sion In the cigar trade, however, and the production of the American Cigar company com-pany represents Just about the increase for the year, so that the new enterprise has not Interfered seriously with the independent in-dependent manufacturers. - The enormous extent of the tobacco business In America may be realized from the fact that 7,000.000,000 cigars, 3,000,000,000 cigarettes and 2S0,00O,0OO pounds of manufactured tobacco and 15,000,000 pounds of snuff are produced every year. The retail value of all the smoking and chewing tobacco, in its various forms, approaches $500,000,000 annually. It Is indeed a business of royal proportions, and Us control Is worth fighting for. - i |