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Show ( ms A imAA I B&tivh.. & Bro Rare Opportunity! IXTOTSUErST. OUR SHOE HAVING ENLARGED DEPARTMENT, Wu iiittmil io remodel tlie same and renew our entire stock. swop we olTer 810.00 wortli of Ladies', Mistin and Cliildivns desirable Slioes every pair warranted, at a tli.'count of 135 pir cent, from our regular In order i nu;ke ;i prices. In order to convince our patrons that our DIsCOllllt SillC is genuine, every pair of Shoes sold will show on the Bales tickets our regular price. For instance: lMia Kiioi: nsM'or.vr .u:r 3.00 err i.tt.v 3.73 OWN DEFENSE. "Haw I your honors permission to make a statement? Your honor, cried Lawyer Lang; springing to his feet, your honor, before you pass on this request, I should like to make a statement myself. What la it, Mr. Lang? asked the Ite just this, said Mr. Lang judge. with something more than his usual acerbity; you remember of course that when this man, Cephas Lore, was first brought to trial he was without counsel, that he refused to secure any, and that you therefore peremptorily appointed mesa such. The apoointmeut was useless, for the defendant has absolutely and unconditionally refused to say a word to me concerning his case. I wish it to be distinctly understood, however, that this silence of the defendants lias been maintained in the face of my most diligent efforts to break down his reserve, for while I first accepted your honors injunction perfunctorily, I ended by becoming deeply interested in what is certainly a unique case so far as my practice goes. What I wish to state with particular stress is that I am absolutely and entirely ignorant of the nature of the statement which Mr. Luve has asked permission to make. In fart, sir, all I can officially claim to know of this man is that on the 14th of this month of August, 1890, he was found in the very act of throttling another man to death at No. 863 Pins street; that he was arrested in flagrante delictu by Officer Thomson, and that he has been confined in the city prison ever since. He is no more a client of mine than he is your honor, and it would he a gross misuse of terms to style him a defendant. As Mr. Lang sat down ths man referred to aa Cephas Love shook hands with him cordially, and repeated his request for a hearing. It is a rather unusual proceeding at this stage of the trial, said the judge, for a person in your position to make a statement, hut the whole proceedings in tbie case have been unusual. Moreover I have uot the right to deny you. Do you wish your statement to appear as evidence? Yes, sir. Take your place on the witness stand then and be sworn. lie repeated the clerks mumble-jumbl- e of words with slow emphasis, and laid an intonation upon the concluding words, So help me, God, that gave them a reverential effect not often heard in that court room. The sketch which the artist of a morning paper waa at this moment making showed a tiny, neat man, sitting primly with crossed legs and smoothing out the folds of a red silk handkerchief spread over his knees. II is hands, face and scalp were of a false ruddiness that was caused by a netof small veins in the skin, and that - work was made all the more vivid by the contrast of a fringe of flax white hair and two patches of close trimmed whiskers that lay on each cheek like small powder puffs. His eyes were light blue and moist, his lips thin and straight, and the rest of bis feat ures ordinary and inexpressive. lie was dressed in a suit of dark gray clothes, and looked something between an upper serWe are oll'eving a lot of Carpet Ilcmants, ranging from vant and a small lawyer. There had been even more than the visual Interest felt in at 1 yd. to 2o, In Ingrui: n. and Brussels, Body 'Tapestry the case, the court room was crowded, and when the prisoner began there waa a remnant on hand. prices to close every strained attention to hear what he had to say. My name is correctly given on the documents in the case, I believe, he began, besides which it has been on the city direcyears. It is tory for the past thirty-tw- o Cephas Clavering Love, although the middle name is very Beldam used. I am 63 years of age, onil was born at Memphis, Tenn.,' on the 13th of April, 1837. I came to San Francisco thirty-thre- e years come next Christmas eve, and for twenty-on- e years thereafter I was a clerk for the law your is receiving additional novelties in Ladies and Childrens firm of Kitt ridge & Shaw, as I believetwelve honor well knows. For the post in the law staCloaks, Ladies ready-ma- de Dresses, Wrappers, Surah and years I have been engaged tionery department of Messrs. Rocker & Co. These gentlemen, together with many Skirts, of latest designs at popular prices others, I understand I have the right to summon as witnesses to testify as to my general good character, but I shall put none of them to this inconvenience Proceed, Mr. Love, said the judge, for the witness had stopped, an was nervously rubbing the palms of bis small, withered hands with his handkerchief. Thank yon, your honor, said the old man; Im not used to making long speeches. All I need further say in any preliminary way about myself is that I am a widower, with one married daughter living in Norfolk, Va.; that I am a member of Dr. Walls church; that I live temperately, drinking but little and smoking leu; that I am a quiet, law respecting, God fearing old man. Yet I sit here today in this court a murderer. Your honor, exclaimed Mr. Laag, once more springing to his feet, I must Insist that the witness be instructed. Your honor knows that a plea of not Curtains and Portieres, from cheapest to finest, prices guilty was entered in the court of examinato please you- - Boys and Children's Clothing, Overcoats, tion, and a similar plea has been formally entered in this court of arraignment. This closest man is on trial; he has not been convicted, Waists, Hats and Caps, and Gents Underwear, and I coll upon your honor to Instruct the witness that he must not use such terms prices in the city. of self accusation, as well as to Inform the jury that they pay no attention to ths wild of the witness. We are offering a splendid line of Plush, Silk and Knit words The witness is thoroughly conversant with legnl practices, I believe, Mr. Lang. Hoods, m latest shapes at pric.-s- , ranging from 75c to 83.50. said the judge, and fully appreciates the gravity of his position and the necessity for carefully weighing what he has to say. if Ladies' Saxony Wool House Jackets, with or without Nevertheless, Excuse me, your honor, said the old man Ixve, gently stretching out a some-whsleeves, from 81.00 to s 2.75 each. shaky hand toward the judge; you need not caution me, your honor. I am, as say, thoroughly aware of the gravA splendid line of Black Chantilly and Guipure Over- ityyou of my words and position. What I is simply the troth, and the truth can dress Laces, Tinsel and Thubroideivd evening materials, fec. say murderer, and I injure no one. I am a of purpose telling the story my crime in newest shades, at less than New York Prices. oat attempting any palliation, There was a atir in the court room, and a veiled woman the mother of the victim, it was said leaned forward In her chair and sobbed. Your honor, cried Mr. Lang, 'again on those ready feet of his, there is an attempt at sensationalism here, with a vibrating forefinger pointed in the direction of the sobbing woman, and I ask that it be stopped. Well, now, said the prosecuting attorney with hot sarcasm, we must say we like that. Daring the whole of these proceedings we havent said a blessed word. Weve alio red you to put your man on the We witness stand with all the stags effect yon wanted and without a boo, and now, bora use this poor, bereaved woman this heart stricken mother gives way to her natural grief when the damnable crime that rnhlied her of her darling ia brought to her mind, you, you, sir, who should be the last man to make a sountb go to blabbing about sensationalism. Why, sir That will do, gentlemen, said the Mr. Leng judge quietly, but firmly, for hia was actually bounding about in anxiety Go on, sir, he added, to make a retort. turning to the defendant, who daring ths It wil! pay von Io buy Shoes at this sale- sr Our Silk Sale having proved such a success we continue same for another week. . at at nt OUSTS PRICE TO SlXjXj are never Undersold. Established 1864. Oome 033.0. 00330.0 all! discussion had busied himself folding thend handkerchu f into a neat, square packiff Since workiag for Messrs. Rocker & I have Coe, Cephas Love continued, been in the habit of walking down to the store along Pine street each morning from of Larmy boarding house, at the corner 10th of kin and James streets. On the June last, or it might have been the ITth, having been I noticed that No. 863, after vacant for many months, waa about to he tenanted. The next morning, and it waa a Friday, I remember, my attention was this time again attracted to No. 863, and The two winby a very peculiar incident. where the pardows on the ground floor, lor was evidently situated, were draped with heavy curtains of some maroon colored stuff, after a fashion which used to be In vogue for dining rooms when I was a boy. As I was passing the house, the curtain nearer me was drawn aside and a face peered out such a face as frightens a child in what are called its had dreams. Describe it, Mr. Love,, said Attorney Lang. I cannot, said the witness, putting out both hands in a gesture of repulsion that was strangely energetic in a man seemingly so placid and undemonstrative; it waa more of a mask than a face. Not one of these grotesque masks, you understand, but one of utter vacuity a blank, an emptiness, a soulless nothing. The eyes were big, wide open, with the white showing all around the pupil between the fixed lids; the cheeks pale and flabby, the nose a line, and the mouth half open, with the lower lip drooping. Here a strange thing happened, for while the prisoner described the face bis own took on that of the creature he was delineating, until in the place of the little old gentleman of aspect there appeared the doddling head of a mowing idiot. The red handkerchief had been snatched up from where it lay smoothly folded over on his knee and was now grasped in both hands like a ball. I could only see his face, said Ijove dropping back, so to speak, into himself, because be brought the curtains close up about his neck, like a garment like a dressing gown. After I had moved on a few paces I turned round, for so strange was the impression produced on me that I can liken it to little less than fascination. The face had not moved, but tlio great staring eyes were still fixed on me as the eyes of a portrait done in oil painting always seem to be, no matter where the observer may move. More than once during the day I found myself thinking of this vacant, fatuous face, and then toward the afternoon I managed to dismiss it with the resolution that it undoubtedly belonged to some poor, unfortunate being, whose friends preferred to take private charge of him rather than to send him to an asylum, and that his presence at the window was due to the temporary absence of those whose duty it waa to look after him. But with all this common sense view of the matter, I found myself stupidly excited and nervous os I drew near the house next morning. Well, sir I mean your honor the fellow must have been watching for me, for as I came opposite the windows again a thin, white hand parted the curtains and the vacant face was turned once more upon me. This time I thought that the eyes, though fixed and wide open, had the light of a nasty smile in them and that the drooping lower lip was shot out in a grimace of contempt. I had a stout walking cane in my hand, said the witness, jumping up, and I threatened the fellow Hero he shook ont with it In this way. the red silk handkerchief and waved it rapidly toward the jury boxjyqlhaugb-i- t were a danger Ugnal."Control yourself, Mr. Love, said he, and tell yonr story ns calmly as possible. I will, yonr honor, he replied, with meekness and an instant change of demeanor, although it was noted that great beads of perspiration had broken out on his forehead, and that, now and then, these merged themselves one in the other and then ran trickling down his face like an overcharged raindrop on a window iane. For two or three days I changed my way to the office, lie continued, uud took another street, so as to escape the sight of this oppressive face. It was a useless precaution, however, for whut had been a day horror now became a nightmare. For the first time in my life I became the victim of insomnia. The horrible blank features covered the walls like a patterned paier; they were as visible in the darkness os in the light, they kept my eyes open and stared into them, and they covered me like waves rolling over my bed. The void, meaningless face was with me in a hundred fantastic and distressing shaes, and I felt that I could have strangled tho beast of a possessor had he come within my grasp. The little mans voice rose into a screech, the dull blue eyes flashed like a moving mirror, and hia chest heaved, while he twisted the red silk handkerchief into a scarlet rope. On the morning of the third sleepless night, he went on, sinking his voice into a hoarse whisper, while the crowd in the court room leaned forward as one man to on tlie third hear whut was being suid morning I got up and determind to put an end to it alL I took out a razor; threw back my collar In this way, and was going to cut my throat, when the ides entered my head that I would first go and squeeze the life oat of my tormenting devil, and then conic hack and make way with myself. Dressing hurriedly 1 ran downstairs and into the street. I was in front of Np. 863 like a flush of double greased lightning. Quick as I wns the monstrous villain was just as quick. Back went the curtains, as though jerked by red Zamiel himself, and ont aliot the face a scarecrow that would frighten the very blue birds of heaven. No donbt about it, the ghost like thing was mocking me now mocking my misery, mocking poor old me, who hod been cursed by it for 40,000,000 years. 1 dont know what I said. Call them block, bad words, To hell with wbat I thought! All the b)ood rushed to my head, until my ears rang like the seven bells of kingdom come. With a one, two, three, I was in the house; and with a four, five, six, I waa squeezing his damned windpipe like this. Look out, judge! yelled Mr. Lang, while a cry of horror rose from the people. The judge lad been gently swinging himself around In a quarter circle on his chair, looking keenly now at tlie curious witness and now inquiringly at the prosecuting attorney. As he swung around the last time the prisoner leaped out from his place, sa though moved by a steel spring, and flung himself upon tho judge like a cat. The shock threw the judge out of the chair, and both went down together. There were snarls and screams from behind the desk, and when the bailiff leaped in the prisoner had wound the red silk handkerchief around the judges neck and was tugging at it like a demon. A dozen other rescuers were on hand the next minute, hut it took nearly the whole of their misdirected strength to tear away the shrieking, frothing maniac and carry him down stairs to tlu: safer pcpuinmpdutiou of the tanks. , Argonaut. semi-cleric- al - The Ideals of the Masses. Have tho masses any ideals? Regb nald B. Brett in The Nineteenth Cent nry (English) thinks they have. They are awakened as they never were before; they are striving for greater and better things on certain narrow lines. The li nes themselves are what Mr. Brett calls in question. By the masses he means the working people, mechanics and those who live either in poverty or in the state only just removed from it. They do not care for religion as a living, vital force, says Mr. Brett, though most of them nominally give in their adherence to tlio church. Theology does not interest them in the least What they do care for is the bettering of tlieir condition financially. They have uo lofty ideals of sacrifice or individual or state duty. Still they ore beginning to think. I hey Btir uneasily. They awake. Questions come before them like these: Wluit are the social relations of classes to e:nh other? of labor to capital? of in.ui to woman? of both to the state? Mr. Brett's masses look hero and there for some one who will enlighten them, some great leader who will throw liimself into the arena and tell them what is tlie ideully best for them. They have no idea of self sacrifice in tho large, true sense. Who will show them that the man who surrenders his private interests tliut many may he benefited is a truer, nobler man than he who stays in out of the storm and looks ont for number ono? Where is the great leader who will thus sacrifice himself, showing them once for all how good is altruism? The masses wait for him, look hero and there for him, will follow his lead when he comes. Finally Mr. Brett says: Material Improvement, betterment of social conditions, more equal distribution of wealth, all those are aims excellent in themselves. But these objects as they .resent themselves in a practical shape to men con scarcely be attained should they make any demandt upon personal sacrifice, unless behind the cITm-- to achieve them lies some strong unselflslt motive power. That seems to be s fair inference from tlie story of the pest. In former strugRleB Englishmen liave keenly felt this stronger motive. It lias been relied upon by statesmen in ths past to obtain tlie consent of their countrymen to great sacrifices. Burke's appeal to the national love of liberty was necessary to carry through the great war against Napoleon. Wilberfurco would have had a poor chance of abolishing shivery had he not felt liiniHclf and known how to awake in others the love of abstract Justice. And finally Mr. Gladstone, hy applying Christian morality to international quarrels, was able to avert a fratricidal war with America, which under the aristocratic government of forty years before could not liave been prevented. At tlie present time; is any question more full of grave import for the future than to determine what are the deeper motives in the working classes to which an appeal can be made, and whether their leaders ore willing and competent -to make It? Buys, Sells ?.nl ivvcliangcs Estate, Merchandise, Real J Hooded and t(' won torses Parc Buggies,c.'&C., and. Cattle alo 'o: - STSTitV - cf. 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The land office business brought to the government daring the past year $7,780,-51- Z: sZtoxrxn G!t. cm-T- CZly, Tors or TBS wobld. Daniel F. Tj catty, of Beattys Cel lira tid Organs and Piano. Wa.hiniu JiT.ey, ha. returned Iiom. iir irffh world. K rad his fiEATri8 Ni-w- r mlvrr-Mcwr-- nt 1 hrj hrj thu in ji.u O O O O O 1 r ami &ir r:. I luit'i - : . ri Mrt . - v or i - Ih- : t.-- ' v ii f n-'ir- Kroa F I a ' rsv. ", 1.3 .Vn. In : ft ft I. !;, n ? 1 I'.'fl S'i .. tftn Tim 1' ft. non wfl cT : fi ft ?rSJ. I :! y snlO ro mo v. lt ftnin- w ni.l ono mi'i y hftih r:d : rj !; ir. I ini, tr. Riiupriil market ..?' , . . ni) ! rvfl tve t u n i i r I. t to rrft. bffidutrlj imp, ft h won 1 It . f r any . in or!- r one cf nr m w will oAr ym o. prea . Inri.c !r aui ' f totiaia-ll'i- n V Ail '. X I hp cr r.': wIG.in v.rao s fnailtJ out ti.'M r i n? t? ' , f itporreuc Flr lh ..t l n i l? t fti rr.m i ;;! .i.ri u. 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