LIVINGSTON'P; 9 S. Market Sq. COATS! COATS! ' Women's t.Tss Seal Plush, Wool Plush, Zibclines, Velours, Peble Cheviots' $12.50 Women's Coats, #"<.9B SIO.OO Misses' Coats ... #(>.9B $3.00 Girls' Coats Spl.OSi $15.00 Women's Coats, SB.OB $12.50 Misses' Coats .. $8.98 $4.50 Girls' Coats #2.48 ,$16.50 Women's Coats, $10.85 $15.00 Misses' Coats .. $9.98 $5.75 Qirls' Coats $2.98 SIB.OO Women's Coats, $11.98 SIB.OO Misses' Coats, $11.50 $6 5Q Girls> Coats $3,481 $20.00 Women's Coats, $13.85 $20.00 Misses Coats, $1.{.08 $22.50 Women's Coats. $14.98 $25.00 Misses' Coats, $10.85 $7.85 Girls Coats S3.JB '525.00 Women's Coats, $16.85 A wonderful assortment of This is your last opportunity $30.00 Women's Coats, $19.98 Coats at extremely low prices, to buy Coats at such low prices. 1 . Women's and Misses' Men and Young Men's SUITS SUITS and OVERCOATS 1 Balance of Our Suits to Go Regardless Get Your Xmas Suit Here and of Cost Save Money. $15.00 Suits or O'Coats $8.98 •SIB.OO Women's and Misses' Suits, $9.98 $16.50 Suits or O'Coats $9.98 $20.00 Women's and Misses' Suits, $11.85 SIB.OO Suits or O'Coats. ...$10.98' $22.50 Women's and Misses' Suits, $12.98 $20.00 Suits or O'Coats. ...$11.98 '525.00 Women's and Misses' Suits, $15.98 a * sortmc,lt at " < "" lcrml •SWEATERS DRESSES SCAB yg"^ SI.OO Sweaters, < 9<* slo . o o Dresses $4.98 $1.25 Value ... 79<? $3.50 Sweaters, $1.98 sls ' oo Dresses *6.98 $2.50 Value .. .$1.49 '54.50 Sweaters, .1(2.48 $ lB - 00 Dresses $8.85 $3.50 Value ...$1.98 $5.00 Sweaters, $2.98 $20.00 Dresses $9.98 $5.00 Value ...$2,98' • Boys' Suits and O'Coats Men's and Boys' $3.00 Boys' Suits $1.98 Marlfinfiw® •$4.00 Boys' Suits $2.48 macKinaws , $5.75 Boys' Suits $2.98 SB.OO Mackinaws $4.98 ,$6.50 Boys' Suits and O'Coats. . .$3.48 $9.00 Mackinaws $5.98 112 tuls £d : tlil $lO - 50 ,$9.00 Boys' Suits and O'Coats. . .$4.98 Just Received a New Shipment. Xmas Suggestions Xmas Suggestions Xmas Suggestions ' Umbrellas 98^ 4 up Kimonos up Girls' Dresses.... up , Waists up Sweaters 49£ up Women's Furs; set 1 * 49 UP ' Scarfs and Caps .. 79<? up s 4 .c )B up Manicuring Sets .. 29<* up p p Children's Knitted , iToilet Sets 29<* up Teddy Bear Suits. .$1.98 Leggings (to " aist > 98^ | IVINOSTON'O I .9 S. Market Sq.^\ L. H. KINNARD'S XMAS SENTIMENT Former Harrisburg Man Tells Editor How He Feels About the Great Holiday The Christmas number of the Tele phone News contains a Christmas chat with IJ. H. Kinnard, formerly of Har risburg, now one of the big men of the telephone world at Philadelphia. The Telegraph lets the editor of the News tell it as he got it. Here it is: "It was the week before Christmas. r The Wonder 211 Market St. wishes its many patrons a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year. C & To Everyone— ] | AMerryChristmas3c j IA Happy New Year] I I ' | Miller j £ 7 N. Second Street i I' :1 to.::** SATURDAY EVENING, I Just because we wanted to, and because Iwc thought he might want us to, we turned the knob of Mr. XCinnard's door. We talked of Christmas. We told him I [ what it meant to us. and asked what it I meant to him. He told us; you too will I want to hear. I " "Vou ask that I tell you what j Christmas means to me personally. It ! is not an easy task; words that I can I assemble paint but a crude picture of ! this, to me, most beautiful of ull sea- I sons. | "'The hard, the practical, in life has had its effect; in other things I hav been disillusioned, but the Christmas of childhood, like the mother and father of childhood, remains unchanged save as to the mellowing and sweetening that the years have brought. It is real, not mere tradition; it takes such a hold, grips so hard, that it hurts with the. hurt of beautiful music. " 'A season for the young of all ages —when heart impulses dominate, when cold reason does not too much temper attitude, when wo stop pretending * • sjr — w 4 .T r v ;* .. f v ■ HARRISBURG 6SBb TEI.tGRAPH hard-heartedness and indifference; a time for sentiment, tenderness, rever ence. for love, 'sympathy, friendship, good-will—when we come nearer to achieving universal brotherhood. " "It has always seemed to be a season when no boy could be bad enough to justify Santa Claus in forgetting him. 1 revel in the forest of Christmas trees, the wreaths of holly and spruce, the lights, the tinsel, the blazing logs of the open fire, the Santa Claus trappings, the ripple of merriment, or, if you pre fer, the racket of happiness. 1 always v.unt it to snow tuespite telephone ' ' 'n"' I wish to hear the clatter of reindeer hoofs on the roof. I ,wii aitu nave no j apologies to make. I hang up my I stocking and, since the jolly old saint Ino longer brings me. mechanical toys, | hunt up a youngster who is more for i tunate and is unselfish enough to share | his treasure. ! " 'To me the stars of a frosty Christ- J mas sky are different; all nature seems | charged with carols; heaven and earth set>m closer: comes to mind shepherds who watched their flocks—a star of vivid biigmness appeared—a stable ; stall—a baby was born, His cradle a manger: 'twas but a peasant baby, but i wise men traveled far to do homage and I worship. It was the birthday of a ! strange King—one who desired to , serve, not rule; whose power wns love; ! Whose influence for nineteen centuries | has been only good. " 'The things we like about the I Christmas story—the joy—the cheer— ■ the sympathy, love and unselfishness— come from the heart. Doesn't Christ mas prove that strong bodies and keen minds alone do not achieve the greatest l successes —that a goodly portion of heart is needed?"' Grippy weather this. Better get a box of— cascahaDquinine The old family remedy—ln tablet form—safe, sure, easy to take. No opiates—no unpleasant after effects. Cures colds in 24 hours—Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine box with Red Top and Mr. Hill's picture on it—2s cents. At Any Drue Store ff Bet. sth Ave. & Broadway. £ Fireproof—Modern—Central, r | 300 ROOMS WITH BATHS, f JJ SEEEEEEEaSESSL i-cali: I able d'Hot* aad ala Carta WRITS FOU BOOKI.KT. 1 i> p. bitchet. rnnp. SNYDER SAYS HE WILL INVESTIGATE Auditor General-Elect Makes Some Tart Statements; Sproul Flays the Governor Auditor Generul-elect Charles A. Snyder, who intimated several times in the course of his visit to Harrlsburg this week that he proposed asking a legislative inquiry into various mat ters connected with the departments of the State government, declared last night in Philadelphia that he would "turn on the light" himself. The Auditor General said that he would start investigating as soon as the Sen ute met and continue as long as he was in the Senate and that the rest of the work of inquiry would be car ried on after he became Auditor Gen eral. Senator Snyder's statements were made coincident with a scath ing denunciation of the course of the Brumbaugh administration in fac tional politics, which was even more severe than that made by Senator Penrose a few days ago and which was characterized by Governor Brumbaugh as a "fabrication." Senator Snyder said: "1 will give the present administration and everybody else all the publicity that is wanted. For one thing, 1 will see that a dozen or more political derelicts who are drawing pay from the State while liv ing in Philadelphia and doing nothing in the way of service to the State are sent about their business if they have any. "Another thing I purpose that every department, from the Governor's on down, shall account for every dol lar of the State's money spent by them and accounted for monthly. It wlli be interesting to the people to learn how their money is wasted in the form of long distance telephone calls and telegrams by State officials who are strangers to their offices. I shall also demand to know how tele phone charges are run up by State officials playing the game of factional politics. The time is ripe for a house cleaning on Capitol Hill and it will be for the good of the Republican party in this State. "1 do not want to be misunderstood. I am not going to turn reformer, but I am going to see that any Republican 1 appoint, or who Is now in office, does a fair amount of work for the pay he draws from the State. It may prove to be a big job, but I'll put a lot of energy in it. What this State needs just now is less of the uplift-vision stuff and a lot more of the straight forward business method that kicks incompetents, loafers and political mountebanks out of office and gives the taxpayer a run for his money. "In my own good time I will give the voters an insight into the extrava gant, unbusinesslike methods that honeycomb some of the departments on Capitol Hill. I am not talking at random. I have investigated condi tions, and, if the time were propitious, I could tell of at least 10 residents of Philadelphia who are on the State's payroll without doing a stroke of work in return. "Some humbug uplifters said dur ing the campaign that X was unlit to 1111 the office of Auditor General, but the voters seemed to think otherwise, as they gave me the highest vote ob tained by any candidate. But putting aside the question of character and unfitness, I purpose to show what in dustry and a decent regard for the common virtues will bring about." The Sproul Charge** Senator Sproul's statement said: "Baldwin's candidacy has not been in State politics, but it is rapidly tak ing the shape of a protest against the prostitution of the executi\ depart | ments of the Government to e basest lof factional purposes. I have been in the Senate for 20 years and am I familiar with the political history of j the State for a much longer period, and 1 have never known or heard of I time when such practices as are now j being used in the cause of 'sweetness | and justice' in our public affairs were. I even considered. I "The business of the great State is being practically paralyzed and the ] important departments utterly demor alized by the dragooning of the offi cials and employes in order to bolster | up the factional cause into which the Governor has again been thrust by those who have him in their charge. Threats, cajolery, promises and what are, in effect, bribes of positions are being used in all directions, and the administration is again floundering in a mire of scandal and disorganization. Says Baldwin Will Be Fair "The result of it all is a net gain for Baldwin which will become a walk over when the caucus meets. Mr. Baldwin deserves the Speakership through a long and creditable record in the House. No man upon the floor of that body has held the more con tinuous respect of his associates in a long career. An examination of his record will show that no man has more consistently favored measures of public benefit, especially those in which the interests of agriculture and labor were involved. "He is not a man to advocate haif baked theories, hut he has killed more fool bills and kept off of the statute books more freak legislation than any man within my knowledge. He will be absolutely fair as Speaker, and no measures seriously considered need fear any influence of his will be used to prevent a full and free discussion. Baldwin's Attitude "The following letter wlilch he has sent to United States Senator Oliver indicates Baldwin's viewpoint in mat ters ot the kind: " '1 am a candidate for election as Speaker of the House of Representa tives and write to ask your support. If elected Speaker I shall consider it my fluty to see that all important meas ures are permitted to nave full con sideration on the floor of the House, and shall not use the influence of the office in any way to suppress meas ures. " 'I call your attention particularly to iny views on the matter, because I know of your interest in the local op tion movement, and I should consider it my duty as Speaker to see that any local option measure has fair and im partial treatment and shall be report ed from the committee for considera tion of its merits on the floor of the House of Representatives. My oppon ents have publicly declared that local option is not involved in this contro versy, and [ feel therefore Justified in appealing to all Republicans for their support.' " COULDN'T STAND FOR THIS CHRISTMAS CAROL Not approving of a Christmas carol tt number of colored men were "ren dering" in whisky tenor, John Jeffer son, also colored, slashed two of the singers in a Steelton saloon yesterday afternoon. Jefferson came to Ilarris burg and was about to bourd a train to Christmas abroad when he was ar rested by Detective George Shuler. CIL\RGED WITH LARCENY Charged with the larceny of sl4, Samuel Baker and Julia Jones were arrested at Seventh and Herr streets last evening. William Coleman was the complainant. BEAT WIFE, CHARGE William Davis, of 514 North street, was arrested last night by Policeman Cummingß, charged with beating hia wife. i , I The Season's Greetings From Bowman's A Merry Xmas New Year j j! The management of Bowman & Company takes this opportunity of wishing their many friends and patrons a ;! very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ! Safe in our physical isolation, happy in our pros perity, let us remember also that mockery of civilization 11 —War—that is tearing in its grasp the innocent, the pure hearted, God-fearing men, noble women, little children. Millions of our fellowmen, sons of the fortvard-look- } ing nations of the ivorld, are fighting, suffering the torture, j; sacrificing literally everything that makes life worth living for ivhat they believe to be the ideals of their own coun j! tries. Answering the call of the individual conscience, !| thousands of Americans are risking their lives in the j; trenches thousands of other devoted American men and !; women are toiling day an dnight, in a labor of love and I j; pity, behind those ghastly battlefields. And ivhat of us who stay at Home? Let our hearts and our practical aid go out to those |; in their dying moments, to those tending the ivounded, comforting the desolate, sheltering the homeless, feeding il the starving, clothing those who are naked also at this |l psychological time may the prestige of our glorious coun- | try and the other neutral governments of the earth reach those in authority among the fighting nations that ; | peace may speedily come and may it be a "lasting | peace." . ' if 11 Is there any better Christmas sentiment than this? il Can any act of mercy be more in keeping ivith the spirit j; il and example of Him, whose birth ive are about to cele- ; ij brate in this great Festival of Unselfishness? ji "Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give" ij <> 1 • In the sacred spirit of "Peace on Earth, Good Will ;, Toward Men," you again have our best wishes for A j; Merry Yuletide. J! i |! $25,000 Will Not Cover Cost of Presents Sent to U. S. Soldiers in Mexico Field Headquarters, Mexico, Deo. 23. —Twenty-five thousand dollars will not cover the cost of presents the people of the Unitii States have sent to the soldiers of the punitive expedition, it was estimated to-day by the commit tee in charge of the Christmas cele bration. Nothing of parsimony has been displayed by the senders. It was said that the value of more than ten thousand packages to lie delivered is nearly three dollars each. Although a majority of the gifts have come from various Red Cross chapters, hundreds have come from individuals. The six large tents where the pack ages are stored resemble department stores. Among the large consignments are forty-one thousand cigars, eleven thousand pounds of candy, three hun dred pounds of smoking tobacco, six thousand comfort bags, two thousand Christmas packages, barrels of home made Jellies and two complete sets of baseball equipment. The list of con tents of one shipment of comfort bags shows the usefulness of this class of Christmas remembrances. Each bag holds a complete "housewife," a pack age of tobacco with cigaret papers, writing paper and envelopes, dental floss, tooth brush and powder, pencil and shoe strings. Many of the pack ages come wrapped in handkerchiefs while one shipment was in the form fKBHBmi I Dry !: I j|j Cleaning | j|j| Phone us and we'll |j yji I call for outer gar ];!] inents to be cleaned or pressed. LJ— |J | S. Finkelstein | DECEMBER 23, 1916 of a big woolen sock, well stuffed with gifts. Major General Pershing stated to day that it is hoped to make the Christmas celebration the most enjoy able event in the lon months' sojourn of the troops in Mexico. English Girl Brings Peace Letter From Russell to President Wilson New York, Dec. 23. A special committee of the American Neutral Conference committee left here early to-day for Washington to present to President Wilson a letter from Ber Rothert & Company extend to you a wish I o x > for a genuinely joyful Christmas and j a truly prosperous New Year M AY your plum pudding be full of delicious I bits, the sauce piquant, your Christmas goose tender, and the New Year filled with the things you most desire, is the wish of S. S. POMEROY i Market Square Grocer 3 trand Russell, the noted British paci fist, lecturer and philosopher, appeal ing to the President to end the war in Europe. The committee consists of George Foster Peabody. Paul 11. Hel lo- - •"■><■! Miss Kmilv Greene BalelV. The letter was brought to this coun try by an unnamed and otherwise un identified messenger from England, a girl, in order to evade the British cen sor. After asserting that the President now has an opportunity of perform ing a signal service to mankind, "sur passing the service of Abraham Lin coln," Mr. Kussel states that it is with in the President's power "to bring the war to an end by a just peace," and that if the war be allowed to continue it may be too late to save European civilization from destruction.
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