Carpets At Less Than The Duty

"Notwitustaiiding the cry of high tariff prices and ttlat gooda are going up, we will make a nother cut in prices for this week," said an advertiser yesterday. "Here are some astonishlng barguins: CARPETS. "Clioioe and select patternsof tipestry, 35 cents, 45 cents and 55 cents per yard. Body bruasels 50 cents, 75 cents and 85 cents per yard. Wilton velvet cirpetf, 85 cents, 95 cents md $ 1.05 per yard." The duty on these tapestry pitterns, at 28 cents and 40 per cent. are 42 cents, 45 cents and 50 cents refpectively ; being jreater tlian the prlres in two casis out of ;hree. The duty on Imissi-N is 4-t cents and 40 er cent. ir, ut tin price given above, 70, 74 aml 78 ceni3 respeetively. Hert, too, erices are iess ili.-in dutics in two cases out or thiec. The duiy on is üO cents and 40 per cent , or, at the advertised prices, 04 cent?, üi ccnis and $1.02 respectively; ig.iici exrteding prices in two [Metalicen ut of a posible tliree. ' The tiuiffis a tax," is lt?