X . X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 1 X X X X X X X X 4? X ip X X X X X ip X X X X X X X X X X ip X V r : X X A Ch ristmas ions Dont Waste money on Holiday Gifts, it is not necessary. Useful gifts are as welcome as any, and they are practical. We advocate a Sensible Christmas and supply Seas onable and Fashionable goods for gifts GOOD THINGS FOR THE BIG FEAST. APPLES For baking, for roasting, for pies, or for eating out of Laud, ire havo tho Lost of tho popular va rieties, such as Jonathan, Genitalis, lieu Davis and Grime Golilen. They are all well selected and clean stuck. 20, 25 and 35c a peck. CRANBERRIES. Good borrii for the suuuo or jelly are just aa improtant as a good turkey. Y havo just received a barrel of the largu late keepers. Thuy arc big, ripe and full of good, rich, tart pulp and juice. 10c per quart. CURRANTS Nothing short of the best is good enough for Christmas cakes and puddings. Our currants are good sized and well cleaned. 10c per package. CELERY Of course you want perfect celery. W have it. Nice, large stalks, and every peico good to eat from leaf to root. Very crisp, white and juicy. 5 and 10c per stalk. CRACKERS Oyster crackers, fresh, clean and crisp, in bulk per pound 10c. Salted wafer for serving with salads or coffee, fresh and crisp, 15c balk or package. Our cracker st ck will all be new and fntli for Christmas. DATES I:i'.;, fat new dates, right out of the box in which they wore packed at the date orchard. Fards, 10c per pound. Dates this year arc very fine. FIGS Your choice of the big, fancy imported washed figs at 20c per pound, or 12 oz. package domestic figs for 10c. FRESH GRAPES The new sweet and luscious imported Malaga grapes are the big favorites at Christ mas. Every one good. Per Pound 20c. MINCE MEAT The celebrated New Kngland "None Such" mince meat for pies like mother used to make. 10c per package. NUTS The new crop is very uniform and very good. Ther are feww poor ones among them. Large, soft shelled English walnuts, almonds and mixed nuts, 20 pound. Large Missouri hickory nuts, G 1-4 cents per pound. Black walnuts, 25c per peck. OLIVES There is a certain tone and quality that a dish of selected olives will give your dinner which cannot be gotten any other way. Don't forget them. Bottled olives of various kinds from 10 to 35c per bottle. OLIVE OIL If you serve a salad of any kind you will of course want some of that best olive oil. Our French or Italian oil will fill the requirement perfectly. 25c per bottle. PICKLES Dills, sweet and sour, all the new cfrop. Brittle and appetizing in flavor. 10 and 15c per dozen. PUMPKIN Canned pumpkin ready for putting into the crust after seasoning and adding milk. But up from the finest custard pumpkin grown grown for the purpose. 10 and 15c per can. RAISINS For all purposes. Our best seeded rai sins are 10 and 15c per package. Seedless raisins 10 and 15c per pound. Cluster raisins for table eating 20c per pound, put up in fancy table boxes. All our raisins are selected stock. SWEET POTATOES Nice, fat, Kansas yellow po tatoes, just right for baking. 4c per pound. CANNED VEGETABLES You will probably want some tomatoes, corn, pens, succotash or string beans. We know you will want the best, and by the best we mean the kind that will please Christmas appetites. Let us supply you with our well known high grade brands. FRUIT Fancy ripe golden yellow bananas, 20c per dozen. Navel oranges, sweet and juicy, 15 to 40c per dozen. Florida pineapples, 15c. CHRISTMAS TREES AND DECORATIONS Holly, Magnolia, Evergreen and Holly Wreaths. HOLIDAY HOSIERY Because of thoir utility no less than the spirit whioh prompts the giving of tuou a desirable gift hosiery ocei pios a prominent place oa the holiday list just now. Get tk good kiud by supplying yuur uocds here, 15c-25c-35c. COAT SWEATERS FOR WOMEN AND MEN In casting about for an appropriate gift for a lady r man don't overlook coat sweaters. Thoy are very pop ular this season and usoful as well. We havo a line of coat sweaters undo of all wool, fiuoly knitted and come iu grey. These sweaters are 30 inches long, siuglu broastod. Tkey come iu all siacs and sell for $2.50. EEBR0IDERY HOLIDAY GIFTS No form of a gift gives greater pleasure to an appre ciative recipient than something the douor has made with her own hands. For this and other obvious reasons, em broidered pieces are very popular as gifts. Those of you who have something of tho sort iu mind still have time to take the matter up and finish some dainty article that will bring joy to a loved one. Wo are showing many new and effective ideas not likely to be duplicated later on. GIVE MOTHER A NICE LUNCHEON CLOTH Many a good housekeeper would appreciate a linen luncheon cloth from a son or daughter or any other friend or relative for that matter. At the linen counter we arc sh ing beautiful luncheon cloths in drawn work at 35c to $3.00 and the embroidered ones at $2.00 to $1.00 each. HOLIDAY GIFT HANDKERCHIEFS Choice of literally thousands of handkerchiefs for holiday selling a bigger, better and broader line than ever before, and you know we have been handkerchief head quarters in I'lattsmouth for many years. Extra good values from 12c dozen to 50c each. BLACK UNDERSKIRTS Are worn by most every lady and we have failed to hoar the lady yet who says she has too many. Why not look at the line we are showing. We are sure the values will surprise you. 69c to $3.00. LADIES HOLIDAY NECKWEAR Many a lady friend would appreciate a gift of one of our new collars or bows. Our assortment is complete now and we are sure you can get just what you want 25c and EOc. SUSPENDERS AND SOX Why not give "That Man" a pair of our suspenders or sox or several pair for that matter! It's a safe bet you woidd rather have one than almost anything you'll get, so would be. FOR THE MAN WHO SMOKES Most folks have on their list a man who smokes for most men smoke and enjoy it too. Our collection of "Smokes" afford a wide range of selection, making it possible to choose just the rights ize box at the right price something that will gi pleasure alike to giver and receiver. Here you will find boxes of 12 cigars at 50c, boxes of 25 at $1.00, boxes of .r)0 at $2.00, and the best 10c cigar in boxdes of 25 at $2.00. Come early. DONT DELAY ABOUT BUYING FOR CHILDREN Less than two weeks till Christmas and what a lot of things to be bought yet in that time! Let out store be your source of inspiration in buying presents for the young sters. Gloves, mittens, stoekinit caps, handkerchiefs, sweaters; these are all useful and practical holiday gifts. A WRL PLATTSM0UTH, NEB. TP A VP Y X TP X X X X X x x x X X X X X X ip X X ip X ip X ip X X rsp X ip X vp X vp X Miss A nne s Christmas Visiters Vy Lena M. McCnuIcy ll':e a truly homa tr Tom. "And you kno I'd pick out If I hud a tOliyrlght.) V the board U wait for HO IS willing to piny Santa Cut us? What shall we do with the children?" Tali being the final question, the chairman of managers sat down a answer. St. Ellxa- tsta's orphanage was losing a Chrlst mtm without festivities, owing to the saaitiage ( the inatre, and a dis abled heat!! pkiat Am Interval of aliens followed Mrs. Blue's appeal, the every one of the motherly hearts of the women present oversowed with sympathy for the it keaoless boys and girls with out prospeet W Christmas cheer. They had ceiae prepared with check books sad the usual offerings of cake and eesfestloBs for the holiday, but the personal entertainment of 45 shiver lag children was something they had ot looked for. Little Mrs. Thompson, confessing a brood of six hoys and girls of her own, was the frst to speak. "Suppose we Invite the orphans homo with us; I know many towns folk would be glad to help us out It will be a treat to them. I can take two." "Bravo!" said the chairman, clap ping her gloved hands. "I will take two little girls myself." "Of course they wLl have their com pany manners on. I wlil t.V.;e a boy with curls. Mr. Jones dotes on boys, and we have only girls, but I must be permitted to pick him out," cried the secretary, Joining in. "I'd rather have a child choose mo. I'll go Into the school room and ask those who would like to visit mo to leave their names on the desk. If they choose me, I am sure they will like me. I can take four just us well as two. Our house Is so large," said Mrs. Cliff, the Lady Bountiful of the village. When the chorus had quieted, 20 children were provided for, and there was every reason to believe that all X rWWjSVl I X X X vp X X vp X ip X ip X vp X vp X vp X X ip X X X X "Of Course I Want You." xxxxxxxxxxxi x&xy.xx 3Z 1 THE NEWS-F LD JOB DEP MENT Is one of the most complete in the state and the Work is Perfect. SEND US YOUR ORDERS. would be settled In homes before night. Thnt afternoon a score of hos pitable villagers visited tho orphan age, and it proved that there were more invitations than were needed. As tho children Mere checked off from tho monthly school room list, It hap pened that a group of live quarantined in the attic hospital for the mumps were overlooked. It may be that the overcautious doctor had omitted their names, or that some vlllagor had hes itated, but tho days slipped on towards Christmas, and they received no Invl tatlons. Up In tho sunny attic, Alice Martin and her brother Tom had long since recovered, and said lessons and plnyed games in the sun-parlor with John Roll, Jane Smith and little Mary Moore, who had been held on suspicion, and who remembered too late that they had had the mumps years before. They relieved the lone liness of the nurse, who had become attached to the happy group, and she was In no hurry to send them down stairs. The morning of Chrlatman eve came, and the five were permitted to take breakfast In the big dining hall. The nurse herself was going home for Christmas. They heard tho great news for the first time. The three girls and two boys realised that they had nothing In view, but youth Is hopeful, and they argued that the next hour might bring an Innvltatlon. St. Klizaoetns naa never known so gay an occasion. All the orphans were dressed In their best, and one by one thoy were bundled Into sleighs and carried away, the last going at sunset. "I wonder who Is coming for usl cried Tom Martin, in vexation.. The five friends were gathered on tho steps watching the others go. "Some body must come before long. The kids said ladles picked them out, or they picked out ladles they liked. I wish I had a chance to choose." "Don't mind, Tom," said Alice, con solingly. "Mrs. Drown, the cook, prom Ised to let us play la tho kitchen, and have candles, and hang up itocklugni to-night. Wo can live with ber till tho others com back." , ... , , "7 ft-.oell ll.Slt," Mitltl .hU Ii house 'Lance." "I know." mild Janu Smith, "I know, it's th" l:iiusc with I'hrlhtmas trees in r' i It, ,nd tm Ley gobblers Itt the yard." That's where Miss Anne lives." said John Hell, 'it's a blj? house, and I'd think she would pet real lone some with only I'eter and Rebecca." "Is it the houvti where iho lump shines like s star all night?" askud Mary Moore. 'That's tho very one. Sh sh. I have an Idea," cried John, drawing the five together for his secret, for he was always full of plans. Mrs. Ilrown, the cook, looked out from her window and saw the confor ence. "Of course nobody wants chil dren getting over the mumps," she said to herself. "But I'h make then have a good time. I'll go upstair right away and gather all the candlo ends, and then I'll call them in and make candy." In the old colonial house surround, od by evergreens lived Miss Ann Armstrong. Her windows overlooked the pasture where the children playe4 beside the orphanage on the hill. Mlso Anne was the last of her family. Sho ordered her life carefully and saw that her maid Rebecca kept the hotuto spotless and her mnn Peter kept tho garden weedleBS, whilo she knit end less patterns of lace. Christmas was coming, she knew by the calendar, and that eveulng as sho walked home from the postofflce sho had witnessed the reception of or phans at more than one house of her acquaintance. Even Widow Simp kins, the washerwoman, bad taken a little boy who asked to visit her Jolly young family. "Dear me, I feol left out," said Mlso Anne as she saw tho young stranger taken In the door. "I wonder If any one would have elected to go with me. If I b:i l gone to the orphanage. I must i em, Mrs. Siinpklns some red Jonathans fur t! o children." Miss Anne saw the big flame of her astral lamp blaze in her window like a star sending Its light across the snowy fields to the group on the orphanage steps. Then sho met Rebecca at the door and seated herself beside hot bountiful testable. "I do not believe thnt I shall have a single visitor this Christmas," sighed Miss Anne, a feeling of loneliness creeping over her. "Hut why should anyone think of me, when I do not think of others ns I should." At that moment there was a clatter of feet on the porch, and the brass knocker dropped with a resounding clang. It startled Rebecca and Peter In the kitchen, and both rushed Into the hallway. Rebecca drew the bolt and turned the knob of the door which the wind tore from hr grasp, letting In a whirl of snowflakes and five children, hand In band. They went straight to Miss Anne at the table before the blazing fire. "We've come to ppend Christmas with you. We choose your house, bo caui'e you have lots of room, and It has Christmas trees all around It, and because you are kind," said John Boll, confidently. "Well, I never." said Rebecca to Peter. "Whet do you think of that! Come, girls, let nie take off your wraps." "Don't you want us?" asked Tom. "Alice said this was a really home." Then Miss Anne found her voice. She rose from her chair, and putting her arm around the shivering boy, said: "Of course I want you. I'm glad you came. Peter shall find you a Christmas tree." A little later when she looked at tho circle of happy faces around her table and the passing plates of cak and marmalade, she said to herself: "I have visitors, after all, and I shall keep them always In a really home." Little Mary Moore having finished her supper, slipped from her chair and climbed on MNs Anne's lnp. Thai lady did not see the orphanage ging ham nnd the clipped hair, sho only saw the divine hope of childhood. She drew Mary Into her arras and hei feeling of loneliness vanished forever. "Tell me, little one, why you cams to my house?" Mary looked up Into the kind facs and said: "I came because you wers all a'.otie, nnd your lamp shone like a guiding star." Peter, sawing at an evergreen In the yard, looked In at the window. He rubbed his eyes nnd shook his hoary head, saying: "They picked us out for themselves. Who would hav thought it?" CHRISTMAS. The onrtli hns grown old with Its bur den of rnre, But at C'hriHttnas It alwayt Is young. The heart of the Jewel burns lustrous and fair. And Its soul full of inutile breaks fortb on the air, When the none of the angels li sung. It la coming, Old Earth, It Is coming to nlKht! On the anowtluken which rover the tod The feet of the i'hrlHt-Chlld full gentW and white, And the voice of the Chrl-t-Chlld tell out with dellKht, That mankind are the children of God. On the a.id and the lonely, the wretched and poor, That voire of the ThrlKt-rhlld ahall Ml And to every blind wanderer opens u door Of a hope that he dared not dream of before, With a BiitiHhlue of welcome for aiL The feet of the humbleit may walk ta the field Where the feet of the holleat hav tretV This, this Is the marvel of mortals re vealed When the -livery trumpets of Christmas have pealed , That mankind are the children of bod, fclUlM Brook. ' J