ASTRICH'S FIVE-DA Y SALE OF ' TRIMMED HATS ). ff \ at Unusual Price Reductions—featuring the greater part of OUR J*"'', •• / FRENCH MODELS, as well as many of our choicest Hats in our main ' / salesroom. Sale starts Tuesday morning, Dec. 26th. \ fQ/y V/K * THIS IS MOST UNUSUAL! However, before we inaugurate \A t) i our January sale, we give you this opportunity to have your first choice t^ese high class Hats at these reduced prices '' Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday See Our Special Window Display of These Hats—Note the Reduced Prices These Hats represent the newest ideas in Winter Millinery. A complete well selected and well assorted stock of highest class models to choose from. Now is the time to make your selections. Every Hat suitable for present wear and the-prices are as little now as you would have to pay for the ordinary kind of a Hat. We describe but a few of the Hats offered at this sale —to give you an idea what you may expect to find here. These Hats are very much out of the ordinary. Every Hat has a distinct feature, the product of our best designer—and no better nor more correct Hats are shown anywhere—even at the highest prices. Large Paon Blue Large Hatters' Plush Hat, Applique Medallion Large Picture Hat Picture Hat I The price of this hat was $10.98. (f QO I Draped tam crown of paon ant Reduced to P salmon panne velvet, silver With imported shaded Hackle p. J I J \7 1 , rp . lace and Georgette crepe brim; Breast; the price of this hat A. UrapeCl LyOll S Velvet I Urban the price of this hat was SIO.OO. was SIO.OO. Oft Embroidered silver thread Persian band. The dj CQQ Reduced d QQ Reduced to .... price of this hat was $8.50. Reduced to <P<3*7o Purple Lyon's Large Brown Mushroom T 1 • 1 Velvet Turban Velvet Hat trimmed 0M Ostrich edge and rosette of . ~ . . , .. * i j •i * j i, Gold cloth facing—wide ostrich appli - gold edge ribbon and novelty , b , . f wings; the price of this hat ue band " The P ncc of thls hat | T was $10.98. QQ was $12.00. Reduced QQ ft—l q f n Reduced to .... to *P 4 J. J. & I O Burgundy Velour Hat ~ WpWT With beaver band, pleated ribbon rosette; the price of AQQ With Gold LdC€ Brims / i this hat was $8.98. Reduced to and CrOWtlS --J Brown Draped Velvet Turban $9 fIQ J \ v \ i Wide guinea breast and wings; the price of this hat was (J* /I f\ O 1 Qflfl \ \ 1 SIO.OO. Reduced to Jp4.i7o ClliU . Brown Velvet Continental Qfi Gold cloth top; chenille rings and ornaments; the price A f\ Q /1 of this hat was $6.98. Reduced to (\[ SPECIAL NOTICE STORE CLOSED MONDAY, ALL DAY. Our Regular Monday Sale of Untrimmed Hats and Trimmings will take place TUESDAY. All Hats at Special Prices Red Monday Price Tickets Will Indicate Tuesday's Prices. TELLS BETTER WAY TO USE COAL Wilkes-Barre Operators Issue Circular Explaining Stove Regulation Details The Anthracite Bureau, maintained at Wilkes-Barre by the coal operators to compile trade statistics, has branch ed out a bit and has prepared a circu lar intended to tell consumers how best to use anthracite. It follows: Sometimes the combustion chamber is not sufficiently filled, or it may be too full. The top of the firebrick'lin ing in the range, cylinder stove, or hot-air furnace, and the bottom of the feed door opening into the steam or hot water boiler, are. the definite gauges by which the height of the fuel bed should be judged. Pill the fuel space of the furnace, stove or boiler according to these suggestions. I Sweeping Price Reductions I on Children's Desks, Toys, Automobiles, Doll Car ■ fiages, Velocipedes, Kiddie Cars, Bicycles, etc. I Come in To-ni^ht— I and share in the great price cutting. Every article I in our big toy section must be sold before closing ■ time to-night. We'll save you money if you'll come. I BURNS & COMPANY 28, 30 and 32 S. Second St. I A ii WASHINGTON D.C. OPPOSITE CAPITOL and UNION STATION I AbatluUlr New and Strictly Hod.rn Renowned for it. High Service and Low Rate.. A EUROPEAN PLAN Room p day $1.50 I without bath and ap H |i SnSSSSjh R#om •" $2.00 •• JeJ l l|l with bath and ip All Rooms Outside SATURDAY EVENING, heaping the coal slightly in the cen ter. The fuel space should be filled twice a day in winter weather. The last time should be as late at night as is convenient. There is loss in i both economy and comfort if smaller | quantities of anthracite are added to I the fire several times a day with at- I tendant shakings. The grate should bo shaken only until a bright light shows underneath, and this should be done only twice a day. Additional shakings permit un consumed coal to pass through the grate bars. When the furnace is fill ed at night the fire should be checked or damped down and be ready to give a quick heat in the morning. Steam or hot water boilers should have the fire space filled with coal at least to a point level with the bottom of the feed door opening, and one feeding should be sufficient for twelve hours, if the drafts are properly adjusted. Once in the morning and once in the evening are the only times when at tention is necessary under normal weather conditions. Ashes should be shaken down before the furnace stove is refilled with fresh coal. To Regulate Stove The common error of leaving open the feed door and admitting cold air over the hot fuel bed and at the same time cooling the heating surfaces should be avoided. All air necessary to combustion should be drawn through the bed of coal and fire and all checking of draft should be ac complished by shutting the ash-pit door and opening the check damper in the stovepipe. Thus all the heat pos sible is held in contact with heating surfaces. Keep the ash-pit empty. Do not let the ashes bank up under the grate. This not only prevents the proper i circulation of air needed for com- I bustion, but also tends to warn the grate bars. Removing the ashes 1 regularly once a day, even if only a ; small amount has fallen, is the best plan. | Kanges of ordinary domestic size | for the average family require "chest | foal. In larger size ranges j "stove" coal can be used to good ad- I vantage, but "chestnut" will surely ! give satisfaction. Base burners, with magazines eight : inches in diameter or smaller, pro j duce best results when "chestnut" is : used. In larger sizes use "stove" coal | alone, or a mixture of "stove" and : "chestnut." Steam and hot water boilers of i fairly large size are best operated with "egg" size anthracite. In small boll | ers of these types, "stove" size, or a j combination of half "egg" and half | "stove" gives best results. Hot air furnaces of all sizes gener j ally in use for domestic and other I purposes should be fed with "egg" size anthracite. ! No ash shifter Is necessary If the right size and quality of coal Is used 1 and It is being properly burned. The j coal should burn to a fine ash and its .first trip through the stove or furnace | should be its last. | Clinkers are usually a sign of either , improper use of poker or improper ! regulation of drafts. Too hot a fire ! either In the stove or furnace is al most sure to produce clinkers. Do not let the air in the house get I too dry. Dry air is a poor conductor I of heat and even warm air when dry ■ does not make one feel warm. The | air in the house should kept rea sonably moist at all times in order to | insure health and comfort. The I simple remedy is accomplished by : placing an open vessel on or near each i radiator, as much out of the way as | sKnmßwnfflH Coal For the Poor You' don't have to be a philanthropist to do good 1 work among- the worthy.! You can make the Christmas! of some poor family a com-! fortable one by sending them I a ton or two of coal. We will play the Santa! Claus if you phone us the directions. H. M. KELLEY & CO. Office, 1 North Third Yards, TenUi and State HAJUUSBURG *666* TELEGRAPH possible, but where it will get the heat and evaporate quickly. If proper attention is given to the operation of the heating stove or fur nace a perceptible economy in the domestic consumption of anthracito can be effected. Pennsylvania Loud in Praise of New England Philadelphia, Dec. 23. Two hundred and ninety-six windy winters ago those who were forefathers to New England folk leaped upon the immortal rock at Plymouth. Last night, in the ballroom of the Belleyue-Stratford Hotel, there gather ed 450 members of the New England Society of Pennsylvania to commemo rate the bleak but blessed occasion the thirty-sixth time the society had gathered for that purpose. With feast, speech and allegory the company harked back to billowy begin nings of a nation, and in reverence list ened to a former President of the United States, himself now a New Eng lander, and to other noted speakers extol the soil and sons of New Kng land. William Howard Taft was the guest or honor at the dinner, a New England feast in every sense of the word from lyttle broth of fowle" to "leaves of weede, beloveed of ye Pequots, tobaccoe rolled into cigars." The former Presi dent, and now Yale professor, spoke on "New England." The other speakers were former Congressman J. Adam 3®de, of Minnesota, who responded to 'The of the Mayflower;" the He v. Nehemiah Boynton, IX D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.. whose topic was "The Colonial and the Contemporary," and Cyrus 11. K. Curtis, of this city, who, as presi dent of the society, acted as toastnias j ter. Coal Board Hears of Vast Undeveloped Fields Potts ville, Pa., Dec. 23. The State Coal Commission, appointed by Oover nor Brumbaugh to investigate conditions under which this product is being mlied, completed its work, the upper part of the anthracite region having uef-n previously investigated. W. j. Ricnards, president uf the Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Iron Company, and many independent onerators were on the witness stand yesterday. Attempts to show that independent operators were prevented bv the MR , companies which own the lands leased I by the independents from obtaining con cessions In which they could keep up | their production or Increase it, aocord -1 ing to mnrket demands, were not suc j cessful. Most of the independents tes | tided they were either operating- to full i capacity or have been granted all the I extensions of leases desired, t Counsel for the commission, however pointed out that (he evidence showed I that a vast acreage of coal lands in this county belonging to companies gener ally included in what is known as "the Anthracite Trust," are undeveloped. The evidence showed that on the 12,<100 acres east of Tamaqua, owned by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company only one colliery—the Mary—is in op i eration. On the large acreage owned by the L,eliigh Valley Coal Company onP- ->ne colliery south of the Broad Moi * In is in operation. On the 5,000 acre# wned by the Delaware and Hud son Coal Company there Is not a single colliery in operation. Teiper Shrieks "Not Fair" on Second Degree Verdict Buffalo. N. Y„ Dec. 2.1. Guilty of murder in the second degree was the verdict returned by a jurv late yester day against John Kdward Teiper, charg ed with having killed his mother last January. The Jury deliberated twenty nine hours. As the foreman announced the ver dict Teiper staggered and would have fallen had not a deputy caught him "This is not fair; this Is not human'" he shrieked. In the balloting up to the last vote It was said, eleven jurors stood for a first degree conviction. One man re fused to vote that way because the evi dence was circumstantial. The sentence f.or second degree mur der is a minimum of twenty years in prison. CALF LOVE IS MOSTLY HARMLESS Alright Provided It Doesn't Result in Marriage, Says Dorothy Dix By Dorothy Dix. A youth of the tender age of 18 writes to mc that he is desperately In love with a woman tlva years his senior, and asks my opinion of the propriety of engaging himself to the lady. Don't do it, son! Calf love is as passing an ailment as the mumps or measles. It is just a hectic fever, mighty engrossing and worrying while it lasts, but in a week or two, with proper treatment, it will all be over and you will be well again. It isn't a chronic complaint, like a lesion of the heart, from Which one never recovers. There are plenty of chances in mat rimony, son, without taking any chance on what you are going to be and like yourself when you grow up. Therefore, give yourself the benefit of the'doubt. Don't tie a knot with I your tongue, 'while you are still a mere infant-in arms, that it will take heartbreaks and shame and divorce lawyers to untie when you arrive at man's estate, and find out what sort of a wife you really want and need. Of course, you say that you are very mature for your age, that you have seen a lot of the world, and are "wise," and all the balance of it, but It isn't true. Every boy that ever lived thought land said the same thing. A half-dozen I years later lie looks back and laughs at his folly, und wonders what on | earth he ever could have seen in that | brainless little chit Susie Brown, or | that, heavy-weight Marian Jones, that could have made him even fancy he rwas in love with her. And then he fetches a prayer of thanksgiving that he didn't marry her, while a cold shudder chases up and down- his spine as he thinks just supposing he had! For a man's taste in women changes and the feminine charms that attracted him in his boyhood no more appeal to him in his maturity than do the pink ice cream and chocolate soda water for which his soul used to hunger in his youth. On the contrary, they both give him that same sick, sinking feeling of having had enough and too much. There are no more pitiful tragedies in the world, son, than those in which high-minded, penerous-hearted, ro mantic boys fall victims to their de lusions about being in love. For, look you! You are not the first lad who ever thought himself in love: and the mere fact that you are In love with a woman five years older than yourself proves your case typical. Practically every boy that ever lived has been through the same experi ence, for the minute a youth finds out that his pulses can flutter, and gets to the place where he can distinguish between a pretty woman and an old one, he diagnoses his case as one of undying affection. Sometimes there is one to stretch out a saving hand and keep him from committing suicide by marry ing while he is under this hallucina tion, and he lays upon shoulders too weak and young to bear it the heavy load of matrimony. If he is poor; by that act he seals his doom, for he can never get ahead with a family to support, and you will find him, ex cept in rare cases, an old, worn-out, broken-down man at 45. The boy who marries also takes a 100-to-l shot at domestic happiness, because he risks his own development. The woman he marries may be good enough and intelligent enough, and cultivated enough for his mate when he is only a crude, raw gosling; but what if he grows, as so many men do, into a beautiful swan, with wide, strong wings, capable of soaring into the upper air? Observe the people you know, son. Do you think that Jones, with his broad, tolerant outlook on life and his culture, and his charm, would have married that stupid little Mrs. Jones if he had waited until he came to himself? Would Smith, who Is so brilliant a conversationalist abroad, who is the wit and toast of every dinner table but his own, but who rarely speaks at home, have married Mrs. Smith, who never understands a word he says, and who does not take the slightest interest In anything but clothes and servants, if he had waited until he knew what sort of a com rade he needed In life? No, no! You know they wouldn't. And, worse sttll, they knew they wouldn't. Nine-tenths of the matrimonial misery is the direct result of early marriage. It is the boy husband who becomes the middle-aged rounder. The French have a proverb that the roue makes the best husband. This is not because he has seen and known the wickedness of the world, but because he is old enough when he marries to have reached Ills own mental stature and knows what lie wants in a wife. Matrimony Is none too certain a game anyway, son; but if you sit into it. while you are still a boy, fate loads the dice with which you play, and you haven't one chance in a mil lion to win out. Recoming enlaced while you are still a boy is scarcely less haz ardous. What generally happens in a long Select Good Lumber even for the small jobs You start an endless chain of spending when you use "Cheap" lumber. It ''gives" here, "wears" there, springs, buckles, warps and in the end costs you a great deal more than the better lumber. iDon't let the price influence you when you buy lumber which you want to last a long time. United Ice & Coal Co. Forator & Cowden Sta. DECEMBER 23, 1916. Beginning This Evening At 6 O'clock All Toys in the Basement At Original Exactly Prices Store Open To-night Store Closed Monday All Day—Xmas) engagement is that, the poetry of it gets tarnished, the flre and thrill peter out, and even its sentiment sets moth eaten qnd dingy. It is a burden on the man and a cruel injustice to the girl, and no man has any business asking a woman to marry him until he can also set the wedding day. The young boy who asks a girl to wait for him while he goes out into the world to make his fortune can only justify his foolhardiness by his youth. He is so young he does not realize what he is doing. If he is honorable, he is tying himself down for life before he has even begun to live; and if he is dishonorable, he is wantonly sacrificing a woman's life. The boy goes out into the great uni versity of life. He learns, grows, de velops, changes from boy to man. He comes to belong to another world than that of his early love, but some day he knows that he must go back and make good on that engage ment. His love has flickered and gone out. His heart may even be another's. If he has the courage, he tells the girl that he has outgrown his boyish affection, and there is one more sour old maid In the world, a woman who has been defrauded of her spring time of love and happiness by wait ing on a vain hope. If he lacks the courage, and is of the stuff that martyrs are made of, he goes hack and keeps his troth, and marries the girl, and both are miser able ever after. So, son, pass up the early engage ment! Flee it as you would the pesti lence, and take this as an additional straight tip: Any woman of 23 who would he willing to engage herself to a boy of 18 Is a candidate for the feeble-minded asylum. There is some thing wrong with her thinks. $200,000 Raised For American Expedition Across Arctic Ocean Washington, D. C.. Dec. 23.—Arrange ments for the American polar expedi tion to be headed by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. Peary's navigator on his dash to the north pole, have progressed to the point where it is possible that the expedition, which is to be similar to another led by Captain Roald Amund sen, discoverer of the south pole, may get away next summer. Rear Admiral Peary, who returned yesterday from New York, where he conferred with Amundsen and Bartlett, understands that sufficient monev has been subscribed privately to carry through the expedition, which probably will cost about $200,000. Amundsen's expedition Is being organized in Nor way and will cost about as much. lilllllllNlllllllll'll'l'llll^ pecisorv I % That your holidays may 1 h ? be replete with joy and pleasant remembrances, | and with sheerest appre ciation of your generous patronage. S. Finkelstein 1322 N. Sixth St. 1131 Market St. whose mission on earth is Faultless Mining Promoter Dies When Sentenced to Prison Wilmington, Del., Dec. 23. Over come. by a sentence of three years in the Federal prison at Atlanta, Charles H. Miller, a retired efficiency engineer, collapsed soon after the verdict yes terday and died of heart failure a few minutes after he had entered the New Castle workhouse to await his journey. He had been convicted with Raymond McCune on the charge of defrauding victims through the malls, his scheme being grouped under the Peruvian Ex ploration Company, the Peru Gold Placers Company. Among his victims were several officials of the du Pont corporations. In addition to this prison term Miller had been fined SI,OOO, while McCune was given the same fine and four years in prison. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25c at all druggists. f "" """ \ Philadelpt ia & Reading Railway DON'T MISS THE Mummers* Parade PHILADELPHIA NEW YEAR'S DAY JANUARY 1, 11)17 SPECIAL EXCLUSION TRAIN ! LT. FROM Pure 1 A.M. I HAHIUSBIHG *2.50 .AA lluiumelstown :.*>o <1,40 Suataru '.'..VI 0.45 Herttlipy 2.50 tI.4S Palmyra 2.50 11.94 Aunvllle 2.50 7.02 •I'leonu 2.50 7.05 LKRANON 2.50 7.12 Avon 2.50 7.17 •Preacott 2.50 7.20 Myerxtown 2.40 7.25 Richland 2.30 7.30 Sheridan 2.20 7.34 Womelftdorf 2.10 7.30 KobcNonin 2.05 7.44 Werncuvllle 1.00 7.40 SlnklnK Spring I.SO 7.55 Reading Terminal, Arrive... 0.40 'l'amenKm from ntiitlona marked with Hlar can purchase tickets Iroin conductors of Special Train. HETI>HNINft Special Train 111 leave Philadelphia, Reading Terml llHl, at 0.40 p. m„ Maine date for above station*). Tickets Rood only on date of excursion on above Special Train In each direction. Children between live nnd twelve years of uj-c. half fare. 5
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