12 h=n °c p o?r 11 j I E T JDIREAL SHOE MAKERS = I I 217 MARKET STREET 217 PA -111 ft Au K,nd " ** | xt Opera and Romeo stvles Made V Juliets on aal« at 98c AA it' ;*? of soft black and tan 4%#% a P»'i- Different col- [IIJm Is. JS: kid. Flexible solid leath- f|On —ESP— V^PSfcr-A*L-A.>ii.xTf.J ored felt tops, Flex- *2lll er All sizes. An MQI" I 11 119 ible leather soles WW 'Jf # brother, $1.50 values, at, I Men's WOO Xmas Slippers Me , s lnm gfc (**£ft?S I I soft tan and black kid, |&'XS « ".- f £ W° n) EOle l AU ,iZeS " Flexible '&<£ SV'49 Horned 1 jjjj: r soles. AU II • Look, Mem «**■» $7 Jfi A Special Sale of Women's I & J Come in patent and dull 3j v J ■ TL S leather. Button or lace W > 4" 1 «a r irh c« r /T> £\ CB £: ;Jr styles. AU sizes. An extra |j V Sj§y frl g|f~ „ „ &: ) big Saturday offer, at < •/ r «7 W Ul« IT"'*®?"" & t BOOtS \ I; » Men's Winter Shoes The seasons most popular \ 2 f V Snnnlop /fx /* hi Cb'PW style—made in dull and 1 A «ir I Regular yen llf™ talcum kid with white stitch- A -" cr \ :Jw .m / H i S4 00 A. _1 ins or plain. Many other pop- I "® \ #■' *3j / I •II . (1/UtV V ular Winter Styles in all I ? \. • / V»\l »31UCS leathers. AU sizes and widths. J \ j® •J \id Good, substantial Winter- Women's Col. Top Shoes /*W Jj 2 5" f Dress Shoes in button, lace Worth up to $3,80 a pair. ISo ;W fy aw VjL or English styles. ran. patent and dull vamps J *%/ jf I M ; 'jf, ■[ ifcfcw patent and dull. elt with colored cloth tops. f y%/ \ 1 fk \i' so , es A [-Ace or button. All sizes. I :Jv I §2-95 $1.50 CS* I • 1 F™*«s 5 ,r™,. | £■ D OOIS to 2at * l - 25 ! QO_ children. Colored good, warm Jersey IT f 0; *" 6tolo *at 30C U t ? e P ath^ e sol'es cloth le K« rins - Slzes to \ 1 S Women's Itu'.bers (l ft I Storm or low cut. A VvrW' 1 , at ,'' 9c j f 5 on sale at ..... "*'** \' J « 1 60c grade. All OA a \ J ;S ff : I sizes. Special at «5»'C / .rt _ Women's Overgalters \ "j I Children's Itubhers Q||v Saltf of women's \ T ® 2 I , A good grade 60c white gaiters at SI.OO I 4 : W, i\ t '^ b Sg/to m Wack'at*" 49c 11 j W. J Men's and Boys' Arctics PHIinDrU'C CUDDCDP Felt SUppera / 1 V 5" Regular $1.50 jf™ S SLIPPERS „ For men and wo- 71S : f LT s ( grßde l r^ 1C - felt soles Sizes ""to men ' Felt U PP ( '" and # sl " s - 98c 2 - R ATIC li OX / B ood wearing leather soles. Ill" IUUS 4' 11 I Button or lace. Sizes QQ. /\ I \ I CI cn ,0 :f V '»/ SI.3U MISSES' & CHILD'S SHOKS tAt I .4 1 ~ A big table of girls school • I *| , a t A good rough and dress shoes. Patent and | You save 50c on 1 M ' ■ H 'weather shoe of Sizes to 2. Values QO. this offer: Girls' I 1 , I® 1 Bi J sturdy tan and U P to '-• Special. i>air, 3Uv $2 shoes, special m \ ■ if- 1 I! *1 b l» ck storm calf. CHILDREN'S SHOES I*' i l - 50 * Pa'r. / *•/ \ 'j } A | 1 4 Extra strong wat- Patent and vicl kid. with i f „'^ h '" ed . lun ?/ *+/ /\ 2 a } I m erproof sol es. , i o th velvet or kid rnm-i tops * ln patent# %»/ s » -J . : J. fl | fo 5%. tor,able "toe room"' l.^/»t iU i!t ,he 7v/ J ? 1 ft "' l to! eB t0 . 6 : , 75c . ,T a : ueß 49c AU I f :« \ - at INFANTS' SOFT SOLES pn :l| *f' > nce they are made to realize the 'lenefit of knowing how to protect hemselves in case of fire it will enable hem to better care for themselves in 'ime of danger. The most conservative buyer for an article like a piano where high rents and elaborate expenses are not pre vailing. Spangler Music House.—Adv. ARTIFICIAL SAUSAGE SKIN'S A German butcher has recently pat ented in this country a process for making artificial sausage skins from libers of animal sinews. According to the inventor of these libers, which may be purchased very cheaply from abattoirs, may be cleaned more thor oughly than the intestinal skin. The sinews are digestible and il will lio no harm If pieces of the skin are swallowed.—January Popular Science M iil il h lv. J RARRTSBURG TELEGRAPH HARD SHELL FIRE PRECEDED BATTLE Enough Wreckage Still Litters Field of Champagne to Show Effects TRENCHES DEATH TRAPS Soldiers Forced to Burrow Down While Explosions Roared Around Them (Correspondence of Associated Press.) Chalons, France, De£. 17.—There was still wreckage enough remaining on the battlefield of Champagne three weeks after the battle was fought to give some idea of the havoc of de struction when it was fresh after the advance. Within a space fifteen miles !n length by from one to three in breadth at least a million men were engaged on both sides; twenty-five thousand prisoners were taken; and [at least two or three shells for every man engaged was tired. That sheet of preparatory shell Are i which had descended upon fifteen miles of German front trenches had meant a swath of slaughter to start with. For three days, night and day, this bombardment continued. Accord ing to the accounts of German prison ers they could only hug the shelter of their subterranean chambers under their crumbling parapets. A wall of artillery fire back of the trenches kept the supplies from reaching them. In front of the trenches the continued crash of shrapnel blasts was cutting the barbed wire. For months the French had been accumulating am munition which they poured out from every caliber of gun. Smashed and Killed This shell fire not only killed and wounded Germans; not only made the most elaborate trenches into dust heaps but littered the field with smashed German caissons transport wagons clothing equipment and all the Impediments of an army. There was peace in the German trenches for the first time in three days as the wave of F'rench infantry rushed for the German trenches. Then the French guns stopped firing lest they kill their own men. The wave had not more than two hundred years to go. Esti mate the time that it takes the ave rage man to run that distance and you have the time it look the French sol diers to reach the wreckage which had been the German trenches and grapple with any survivors in the dugouts. In some places the wave swept on beyond the trench like the tide running up an inlet. The Ger mans between such forces were caught in a pair of pincers. This accounted for the prisoners who were taken in batches. They were surrounded by infantry with no way of retreat upon to them. "Only the little things now remain," said a French soldier who was sal vaging in the ruins of the German re doubt of La Poche—"The Pocket"— in the famous Trou Bricot section. "At the start, of course, we buried the dead and gathered up the broken ma chine guns which had been destroyed by out gunfiring," Yyros Is Example The town of Ypres in the British lines probably remains the most col losal example of shell fire. But Yqres was a town. It was not built to with stand shell fire, but as home for men in time of peace. In trou Bricot the Germans with the science and amaz ing industry, which characterize their operations, had set out to build them selves a bastion which would with stand the kind of fire they had visited upon Yyres. They had been at work for many months perfecting it from time to time, enlarging and strength ening it, busy as ants in a hill. It was a vast warren of sandbags bristling with machine guns—a knuckle-like salient in the German front line. Small forests of barbed wire guarded it right and left. It was as proof against shrapnel as a slate roof against hail. The explosion of any high explosive shell was localized in one of a multitude of chambers built with a view to receiving such visitors. Shafts in the earth underneath the whole offered further protection. In the center was sort of well in the midst of the walls of sandbags where the occupants might enjoy immunity from anything except bomb from the air. Tore Big Hole But the French guns showered tons upon tons of shells upon La Poche for those three days. When a cham ber was destroyed they gave the Ger mans no time to repair it. For sev enty-two hours the blasts of explo sions were tearing at that dedoubt — a hurricane of all the big calibers from six to fifteen-inch with some smaller ones thrown in for good meas ure. Underneath La Poche at the end of a French mine rested a huge charge of explosive. That was fired just be fore the infantry charged. It car ried Germans and sandbags heaven ward in a cloud two or three hundred feet high and left a crater of at least one hundred feet In depth and one hundred and fifty feet in width. Any Germans who survived were in the pall of dust from it as the French infantry charged over the bare space where the barbed wire had been de stroyed by guns which were given this part of the work to do. In ten minutes from the time that the French infantry left their trenches they were in full possession of La Poche. I "It was easy, monsieur," said a sol dier, "easier than some much simpler fortifications which we fought later on where the shells had not fallen so thickly. We rushed in and we look ed around —for somebody to fight with. But there was no one. For the most part there was nothing but the fragments of men; and there were men lying about trying to apply first aid bandages and a few stunned, un hurt. What could they do but yield. Those who sought refuge down that shaft, there, were all burled alive; and we dug out a few who still had the breath of life in them from that shaft yonder." From the highest point of the ruins one looked right and left along the front line of German trenches which had been so elaborately dug and were broken, half filled ditches as the re sult of that terrific concentration of gunfire; and the same thing was to be seen in the region of Loos where the British guns had wrought the same kind of havoc. INK ERASIJJO BLOTTER Take an ordinary sheet of blotting paper and steep it several times in a solution of oxalic add or oxlate potas sium ami dry. While the ink spot Is still moist apply tho blotter and the 11k will be entirely removed. If the ink » dry moisten and apply the blotter.— January Popular Science Monthly Only One "BKOMO Ql IM.N'K" To get tin* genuine, call for full name, LAXATIVU BKOMO QUININK. I,ook I for signature of K. W. GKOVK. Curebl m. Uota. la OIL* DULX. ZUA 1 Sec Is To-day Or To-morrow About Your Christmas Piano Or Playerpiano Many persons, acting upon our advice have already chosen their Christmas piano or player-piano, but to you who have yet to make selection we wish to say that TODAY AND TOMORROW will be opportune days—for we have just received our last Holiday ship ments, and can offer you first choices as follows: . Pianos Piayerpianos Chickering $525 up Frances Bacon ~5395 up Poole S4OO up Whitney $425 up Bush & Lane S4OO up Marshall & Wendell $450 up Kimball $350 up Autotone SSOO up Merrill $350 up Merrill $550 up Shoninger $325 up Kimball S6OO up Marshall & Wendell S3OO up Angelus S7OO up Weser Bros $250 up Bush & Lane SBOO up And Be Sure to Order Your Christmas Victrola Or Edison To-day Or To-morrow ill! ln A Any S FMsli Sfi ' mm sls $3»« 1 hut after tomorrow we may be y % obliged to say, regretfully, that all of certain styles have been be- H spoken. So clinch yours now. Liberal Christmas Terms Delivery Any Time Store Open Evenings Until 9.30 J. H. Troup Music House Troup Building 15 S. Market Square RUSH FOR LICENSE BREAKING RECORD State Highway Department Has More Demand For Tags Than Known in a Year The automobile division of tho State Highway Department received for 1916 automobile licenses to December 18 of this year within a few thousand dol lars of the total sum received by the i OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT—*— \LESTER PIANOS] G. DAY M 1319 Deny Streeet. Both DECEMBER 17, 1915. department for the entire year of 1910. At the close of business on Decem ber 13 the total receipts for 1916 motor vehicle licenses was $309,123. A remarkable feature this year is that the automobile division Is keeping up to the applications and tags are be ing shipped out oil the day on which the application is received. The auto mobile division is working an average of eighteen hours a day and each day's business is brought to a close before the employes leave tho department. The total number of pntumatlc-tired vehicle licenses was 23,328; the total number of solid-tired vehicle licenses was 2,758; paid drivers, 7,133; dealers, 1,260; traction engines of the first class. 4; traction engines of the second class, 1; trailers of the first class, 58; trailers of the second class, 1: motor cycles sti»; drivers, 4,957; transfers, 7; traction engine dealers, 12; traction engine drivers, 3. The subdivision of the pneumatlc tlred licenses Is as follows: First class, 2,282; second class, 17,352; third 3,405; fourth class, 187. The classification of the solid-tired vehicles is as follows: First class, 279; second class, 213; third class, 1,235; fourth class, 569; fifth class, 46J. CONKEY SAYSi— DON'T WORRY CONKEY'S ROUP PILLS are unequalled for curing cases of roup or colds contracted by show birds. 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