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 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