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Ho! All ye who shoppe for ye Christmas-tyme. We have sundry and divers things to put in ye stockings that are liken to hang by ye fireside with mouths to be
filled. We have beauteous add costly presents for kin and for friends. Likewise wondrous and artful toys to mayke ye children happie and diligent, also those that
mayke them to grow in wisdom. ^ ()ur prices will please ye, for we have taken a little off here and yon and ye may read below what each price will buy. Comme ye
early, for it is ye early bird that catcheth the worm, and ve early shopper getteth ye best choosing. ^ We invite all to our shoppe and bid ye welcome.
Five-Cent Section
(In rialcony)
Decorated Mugs.
China and Glass Vases.
Nut Bowls.
Doll Heads.
Pictures in Frames.
Dolls.
Toy Dishes.
Decorated Plates.
Rubber Balls.
Etched Tumblers.
Stuffed Dogs.
Calliope histles.
Pig Banks.
Transparent Slates.
Horns and Bugles.
Musical Toys.
A. B. C. Blocks. •
Whips with Whistles.
Reins with Bells.
Jumping Jacks.
Celluloid and Metal Rattles.
Toy Lanterns.
Transparent Slates.
Decorated Metal Cups.
Glass Berry Dishes.
Salts and Peppers.
Pop Guns, etc. etc.
Ten-Cent Section
(In Balcony )
Decorated Creamers (Fine)
Gold Band Mugs.
Decorated Plates,
Cups and Saucers.
Irridescent Berry Bowls.
Post Card Albums.
Beautiful Pictures.
Bo* Stationery.
Stationery for Children.
Games.
Metal Carts.
Nodding Figures.
Wood Boxes.
Dominoes and Checkers.
Celluloid Horns and Rattles.
Jack in the Box.
Bell Toys.
Potts Flat Irons.
Horses and Carts.
Mail Box Bank.
Bisque Dolls and Heads.
Flutes and Musical Toys.
Rag Dolls.
Worsted Dolls.
Bisque Figures.
Humming Tops.
Dolly's Knife and Fork.
Roily Dollys.
Big Paint Boxes.
Many Other Beautiful Presents.
25-Cent Section
(In North Room)
Creamers and Milk Pitchers.
Tea Pots.
Pictures and Panels.
Berry Dishes.
Cups and Saucers.
Large Worsted Rattles.
Wagons of all Kinds.
Noah’s Ark.
Horns and Bugles.
Dancing Dogs.
Kaleidoscopes.
Stuffed Animals for Baby.
Air Ships.
Automobi les.
Climbing Monkeys.
Guns, Pop guns, Targets.
Perfumes in Christmas Boxes,
Mechanical Toys.
Push Toys of Every Kind.
Pocket Knives.
Doll Buggy.
Express and Milk Wagons.
Games.
Pacing Bob and Cart.
Kid Dolls—Dressed Dolls.
Dolls Cradles and Beds.
Cement Blocks.
Carpet Sweepers.
Post Card Albums.
And Half has not Been Told.
50-Cei\t Section
Gold Pens and Pearl Holder.
Fine Mechanical Toys.
Mosaic Puzzles.
A. B. C.Blocks—Building Blocks.
Magic Lanterns.
Post CardAlbums.
Pneumatic Alligator.
Accordeons.
Parlor Suites.
Work Boxes.
Pianos and Musical Toys.
Large Roily Dollys.
Stationery In Beautiful Boxes.
Esquimaux Babies.
Teddy Lions.
Pilzi Vases.
Cream and Sugars.
Dressed Dolls.
Drums.
Knit Dolls—Rag Bolls.
Ladles Hand Bags.
Choice Perfumes in Boxes.
Celluloid Baby Sets.
Glove and Necktie Boxes.
Games—Post Card Albums.
Mechanical Toys—Big Variety.
Decorated Dishes of all Kinds.
Doll Cabs.
Kid Dolls.
Great Values in This Sectiq^i.
Front Section
Music Rolls, from $1.00 to $2.50.
Dolls, from 75c to $4.00.
Ladies Hand Bags, from $1 to $10.
Perfumes in Boxes, from 75c to $1.
Toilet Sets.
Military Brush Sets.
Cigar Cases.
Shaving Sets.
Baby Toilet Sets.
Stationery 75c to $2.50.
Post Card Albums.
Desk Sets.
Manicure Setsr
M irro rs.
Leather Goods.
Jewel Boxes.
Sewing Boxes.
Post Card Projecters.
Magic Lanterns.
Air Rifles. *
Engines and Attachments.
Hook and LadderTrucks.
Fire Engines.
Automobiles and Wagons.
Mirrorscopes.
Trains and Tracks.
Childrens’ Dishes.
Hand Painted Dishes.
Waste Baskets.
Great Variety—Beautiful Goods.
C' SUS JRh 3L1 A beautiful line of Christmas Post Card—good ones from four for 5c- up to 5c each; |U| p ^ KM |Lf
w VI 1% Gw 3 Bm Christmas Booklets; Children’s Books and Books for Boys and Ciirls; Gift Books in I v I il & 4**\ i il
HJU H H f\ great variety and beautiful workmanship; Folding Doll Cabs, from 41.25 to $4*00; 1 lob- »j, f A^ AP+
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My \IUS \XXA KKAVia CIS IV
Set the house in order, a guest is
exported, \ guest most welcome;
one for whom we have planned and
longed with a yearning "half pain
and half rapture,” even to counting
th<> weeks and the days until lie come
again. And now the time of nis ar
rival is at hand. The last finishing
touch has been added, and a hurried
inventory taken to see Unit noth
ing is forgotten for1 this momentous
occasion: expectancy is written on
every face and happy throbbing is in
every heart. One and another of the
busy group exchange glances, now
and then, and it is plain to see they
have a common thought. Their
smiles are of the kind that rise from
depths of thought and linger a while
upon the lips; no words are spoken,
none are necessary, for they all un
derstand. Eyes grow misty with the
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verv thought of what is coming. Hear
absent one! how fondly lie is expect
•■rt and how carefully the place is
prepared for him. For months wo
have lived on tlie thought of this
hour and anticipated joy. we all know
is, at least, equal to the joy when
it is realized.
Eagerly this one and that peer
from the window out into (lie night,
to catch tlie first sight of the train
as It comes gliding over the rails,
long before it is due, as if watching
would add speed to speed; Imt it is
a way anxious watchers have always
had and always will, as long as there
is one away from home.
Ah! happy the home where the
watching is not in vain, where the
absent one is not gone to return no
more.
And there were others, also, count
ing" the days and all diverging lines
are not drawing toward one common
point. The trains are crowded to
night; there Ir. something astir that
is interesting all humanity. Every
seat is occupied; no man heeds his
neighbor; each has his own secret
that he is nursing and keeping warm,
but it is the same secret Here one
looks out of the window while the
lights of the village whirl by, though
he sees them but vaguely, so en
grossed is he in a vision of his own,
in which his own reflection in the
window becomes the face of another
waiting and watching somewhere,for
the man of business is going home.
A group at the far end of the car
.m> beguiling tin* time with laugh
ter anil song and an nit repeated wish
that the “'train would hurry." They
are restless and almost boisterous in
their eagerness to overcome the ob
staele of dislanee and outstrip steam
in its velocity, for youth is there, und
youth is always restless and eager
and never more so than now, for
youth is going home.
Nearby is another, who with his
head thrown back on the seat is
watching the uneasy spirit of the
youth ahead, and a sigh escapes him
as lie thinks how often this scene
lias been enacted before him in his
sojourn, and how near seem the days
when he, too, was restless and imper
ative, and yet how distant, for age
was tiler -, and ago was to lay aside
tin' strain of a busy life and be can
free for a little while, and no better
time than now. w hen the tide of hu
manity lias turned homeward.
The man in bis overalls and blue
jacket is there, another with the
evidence of wealth is tie-re; all
with one accord have become a part
of the universal procession. Tomor
row the clang of industry will be sil
ent and tin- "grinding cease." the mill
and tin- shop will be deserted, save
as a legion of echoes will whisper
together and commune with the win
ter wind over the strange Icings of
that strange creature, man.
The pick and the shovel will be
laid aside and a thousand work
horses will stand before their well
filled mangers awaiting the hand of
a master who has forgotten the hum
and the crash of the mighty engines
in listening to the love song of home.
The office and public building will
be- closed and the class room empty.
Friday the very atmosphere seem
ed surcharged with expectancy as
eager youth hurried through the set
form of study, simply because it was
set, for.the busy- little god of antic
ipation was playing havoc with the
grey matter within the cranium of tin
youth that was soon to go homo. To
morrow the room will be like a hollow
tomb from which an Angel of Glad
ness has rolled away the stone and
set. tin- captives free—the old clock
on the wall will hold undisputed sway
and tick away the moments with an
alarming rapidity in contrast to the
slow measured tick of a few hours
ago, when youth repeatedly scanned
, I
its face, fearing the hands Inal,
stopped, so deliberate were they in
moving.
Who knows hut that it was upon 1
I
some such tin occasion as this I
alien "tlie man with the line" per
haps, had left that weapon, in the!
field amid (he briars and stubble, I
and there with his little world about!
him had made such a picture of
sweet content, that falling upon the
vision of a lone wanderer, with no
where to lay his head, and who after
wards died in an attic, it reflected
down through the ages in letters of
living flame, "lie1 it ever so humble,!
there's jio place like home." It was
no "higher plane" of science, litera
ture or art that gave the world that;
song, but the "simple good folks at!
home."
The theory that book learning,
alone, lifts to a higher plane of liv
ing is out of accord with the facts
of history, and is contradicted every
year in the remembrance of a lonely,
lowly stable, where dreamy-eyed cat
tle looked on in amazement at the
strange mysterious miracle wrought
in their midst, while the winter wind j
swept over Bethlehem's plains.
Book learning is not. always w is ;
dom, and simplicity not always weak-1
ness, for they alone, are "simple!
good folks” who think good tilings!
and do gentle acts; good thinking is
the secret of higher living, for "as a
man thinketh, so he is." Such have
been the moving power of the world
and always will be until the words
"unless ve become like little child
ren” are forever blotted out and the
heavens will roll together like a
scroll.
But why this strange proceeding?
Why lias all mankind become seized
with a common impulse? Why have
the wheels of human activities been
reversed? Why should all roads lead
home on this one day out of the
three hundred and sixty-five? It is'
not much learning, for the least are
as the greatest. It is not wealth,
for the widows mite is as worthy as
the millions. It is not the strong
arm of the law. for love alone reigns.
It is not age. for it never grows old.
It is not youth no not Youth—though
if youth were taken out. the custom
would soon become a memory, that
rich legacy of age. It is not Un
wise men, for they came from afar |
to worship in a manger. It is not
i the "peace on earth" sung by cedes-!
tial lips, for even that was atiteced-j
jod. It was not the silent star in the
Christmas sky, for that was a herald. ]
What, then?
A voice said ages and ages ago
■m I »rr —!■wiywur—inn ittjkwaim.-. • <sw.'
"a little child shall had theta," and
it was a "little child” in the artnfl of
his young mother that established
tlu.' Christmas and the home coming,
in whose honor al! tmas carols
are :-.uni.>, a .d nil Ca tmas candles
lighted ttad all tiny stockings hung
and till "Merry Christmases” spoken.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke says: "There
is a better thing than 11, • observance
of Christmas Day—and that is, keep
ing Christmas.”
Are you willing to forget wlnit you
have done for other people, and to
remember what other people have
done for you ?
Are you willing to stoop down and
consider the needs and the desires of
little children; to remember the weak
ness and lonliness of people who are
growing old; to stop asking how
much your friends love you and ask
yourself whether you love them
enough; to try to understand what
those who live in the same house
with you, really want, without wait
ing for them to tell you; to trim
your lamp so that it will give more
light and less smoke; and to carry
it in front so that your shadow will
fall behind von; to make n grave
for your ugly thoughts and a garden
for your kindly feelings, with the
gate open. Are you willing to do
these things even for a day? Then
you can keep Christmas. And if you
can keep it for a day, why not
always? lint you can never keep it
alone.
Home-Made Fire Extinguishers.
A simple lire extinguisher may be
made at home, and If kept always on
hand, will sometimes prove of great
value. Take 20 pounds of common
salt and ten pounds of sal ammoniac
or nitrate of ammonia, which can be
bought at any drug store. Dissolve
these in seven gallons of water. Put
in thin glass bottles holding a quart
each, cotk tightly, and seal to pre
vent evaporation. When a tire breaks
out, throw one of these bottles so that
it will break in or near the flames, or
if this is not possible, break off the
neck of the bottle and scatter the con
tents on .the tire. This has been
tested. Sometimes it is necessary to
use several bottles—National .Maga
rine.
Just a Suggestion.
In Shakespearean days they used to
label the scenery. They hung out
placards stating that "This is a wood”
or "This is a castle.” We don’t need to
do that now. Still, we might use the
scheme to advantage. It would help
sometimes to see an alleged Thespian
bearing the legend, "This is an actor '
What Christmas Hearts to He
I’.y It. COOPER HAILEY.
In the rush of labor and duty that |
arc crowding In on one these days,
it is not easy to give in a brief para
graph a satisfactory answer to the
question. Out at first blush, the
thought that leaps to mind is this:
That the return of the Christinas sea
son is another call to the leaders and'
teachers of public thought and opin
ion. to seize the opportunity of tell
ing the world in tones of conviction,
that GOD LOVES and shows that
love by giving. And that if we
would be, “Imitators of God as little
children,” we must learn that we
can best serve God by "Giving to
God's Less Fortunate and Unhappy
Children Who Are Near to Us.” Oh,
that we might bring back to the world
the keen realization of the fact that |
God really cares for men, that Me
is interested in their sorrows and |
sufferings, their tears and groans. [
MUST CONTROL THE EYELID
Wink Is Absolutely Forbidden to Per
sons Engaged in a Number of
Vocations.
“Your eyes look strong enough,”
said the oculist to his new patient.
“What’s the matter with them?”
“I wink," said the patient, ht*lp
iessly.
“Ah-ha,” said the oculist. "What's
your business.”
“I have none just now, on account
of that wink,” said the hopeless young
man. “I used to be a clerk in a dry
goods store till that wink got the up
per band of me. That queered me
with the shoppers. They thought I
was trying to flirt with them. They |
complained, i couldn't make the boss
understand, and—here I am."
"Just so," said the oculist. "You
have my sympathy. I am treating a |
street car conductor, a druggist and a ,
young man who has just entered the
ministry for the same trouble. They
are also out of a job because they
couldn't help winking. It is all right I
for a longshoreman or a sand blaster !
to wink whenever he feels like it. but
a person who meets the general public,
especially the feminine part of it is
likely to be in hot water half the time
if he doesn't learn to control that
wink.”
Feminine Amenities.
Stella—"Yes, Jack saved my life.”
Belle—"Only one of them dear.”—
New York Sun.
Oh, tluii wo may surely catch ti -
real “Gloria in Elcelsls" and see tha
so far as we are responsible, its tru
meaning shall be told in song an i
story, until men shall feel the utinos
throbbing of the heart of the Lo»
ing Father. "Glory to God in th
highest, and on Earth Peace Anion.
Men In Whom He is Well Pleased
Tell that story to the traveler, to th
prodigal, to the faint-hearted and
socially ostracised, that God is well
pleased with men, and only longs to
help them to put away the unman
ning and dehumanizing sin in which
they are so surely enthralled. So
Christmas means another gloriou
chance to bring the angel song into
present day terras, another opportu
uity to tell people of the God who.
more than they ever dreamed, is onlj
waiting to be gracious to those who
may even have gone to the “uttc
most.”
Open-Air Barbers in Spain.
X'iiJ&eio ilict* biiltrti Oi fcciliil, Suit;
that gives no lather, a razor that ma\
have been used for cutting a raw
ham, and a flourish that reminds quo
of an executioner rather ti an of a
barber—such are the qualit 'unions <
the itinerant Spanish hand: iit. >!e
dares a writer in the Wide Worlii
The victim—we use tlie tei n • dvi • 1
ly—must tie a patient, I«i> . i to
man, neither the slave ot t’n . i <
any petty feelings such as delicac
and sensitiveness, as otliei •“ <■ < w
fare badly at th > hands of! ' ",
For tlie Spanish open air l-s-1 i
cairn man, who takes evmyt'.p
granted, and never for i
doubts that you are sati. I
attentions and will pay .
ingly.
Couldn’t See It That Way.
The nine-year-old daughter of a
Richmond lady was endeavoring to ,
teach the dusky offspring of the cook
the letters of the alphabet. Teeny had
learned the first two, but couldn’t re
member the letter “C."
“Don't, you see with your eyes?" de
manded the youthful tutor. "Can't you
remember the word see?"
"Yassum,” said Teeny.
Five minutes later Teeny again be
gun bravely. "A, B,” and there sh*
stopped.
"What do you do with your eyes.
Teeny?" demanded her instructor.
"I sleeps wif ’em," said Teeny.—
Sunday Magazine of the Milwaukee
Sentinel.