The Forehanded Man
* or woman makes a list of those to be
~ remembered at Xmas; writes a sug-
ve gift by each name. Appropri-
ates a sum to be expended and gets the
. Shopping done in a jiffy. Sees most;
Hm sat choice, and sits back and
8 at the eleventh hour shopper.
No Store Has Gathered
More Carefully
from all the markets because no store
‘within a radius of 20 to 40 miles enjoys
such strong connections with various
makers. We wish everybody could
get first choice; it's so fine; but that
charm is for early Somos | only. Yeo
. Sharoughl Saw an y bought
the L prettiest things devised
for personal use and adornment. as
well as the things going for house fur-
Toyland in the Basement
and a Santa Claus mail box at foot of
"stairs on main floor for use of children
| wishing to mail Saint Nick a letter.
To Simplify the Finding
of the various gifts we have placed
them in the departments as already
established. Articles for men in Fur-
nishing Department, fancy articles
and small wares in Notion Section,
china, bric-a-brac, pictures, Japanese
goods, Basement. Toys, sleds, swing-
ing horses, dolls, etec., Basement. Fur-
niture, specislties, novelties for home
furnishings, framed tapestries, and 2a
hundred and one other useful articles
—Third Floor. Dressing sacques, ki-
monas, bath robes, cluny lace waists,
garments, furs, etc—Second Floor.
Shopping is Made Easy,
plenty of clerks, and yon get a selec-
tion here only equalled by similar
stores in the larger cities.
10c articles here at from 7c to 10c
25¢ articles here at from 18 to 25¢
50¢ articles here at from 19 to 50c
75¢ articles here at from 60 to 75¢
etc., ete,
Shop Early in the Day,
shop early in the week, and shop
where most everybody else shops—
the reasons are many.
Ruler of Turbulent People.
* sald the apartment bouse | A very busy man is the ameer of
“life in a flat seems an | Afghanistan. Sometimes he even for-
All Is Vanity!
“At first,
philosopher,
| interesting study of humanity, but |
| “oon you lose your urbanity, part with |
vour Christianity, fall inte profanity,
and pass by swift stages from mental |
inanity into violent lonsanity
The World's Demands.
A man who cannot afford to return |
hospitalities will fiad that he need
sot expect to avall himself of those of
| his acquaintances to the end of his
career, unless he Is an extremely en.
| gaging person. — Frances Hodgson
Burnett
Advice to the Girls.
{ If you are not pretty you can be
| attractive and charming by cultivat-
ing a pleasant expression, by having |
a cheerful disposition, and by train.
Ing your body to symmetry and
gracefulness —Exchange
and Ranges
From $10 to $75.
We repair stoves! where'd you keep your peroxide? I've
| got to dye to beat this game”
-
and furnaces. | Cheerfuiness.
| The sovereign voluntary path to
cheerfulness, If our spontaneous
be heerfulness be lost, 15°10 sit up cheer
| fully, to look around cheerfully and to
| act and speak as If cheerfulness were
| already there —Willlam James
Resourceful Youth.
| vartisement calling for a red haired
es
Check on Scorchers.
Cycilists in Roumanlia, to facilitate
| entification, are compelled by law
to have their names on the lamp
glasses of their machines, 80 as '0 be
Misguided Man.
A Pennsylvania man asserts
! years. Yet the misguided man is so
ling for a divorce —N, O. Times Demo
or to | crat
Overworked.
Ia the city of Newark the other
| Louls Capragangakostoules applied for
a peddier's license and got it. Now (a
the time for the Newark license clerk
to apply for an increase of salary.
Perhaps Put to Better Use.
A church In London still draws an
income which was bequeathed it for
the purpose of buylag wood where
with to burn heretics.
A Clever Device.
A mother with many stockings to
darn has hit on the device of basting
a bit of net over a large hole and using
it as a foundation for the darn
A Golden Rule.
Never deay your assistance, nor
ever do anybody asy hart.—French
peasant wing
| gets to have his meals and is obliged
|to ask his courtiers whether he has
i caten his dinner or not. He goes to
bed at five or six In the morning and
{Kets up at about two in the afternoon,
iand always has his horse ready sad-
{dled at bis door. fresh bread in the
| pockets of his clothes and revolvers
| and swords close at hand, In case he
Is compelled to go on a sudden jour
ney
| Man-of- War.
Man-of-war {s a phrase applied to a
line-of-battle ship, contrary to the usu
{al rule In the Egglish langnage, by
| which all ships are feminine. It arose
iin the following manner “Men of
| war” were. heavy armed soldiers A
| ship full of them was called a “man:
of-war ship” In process of time the
| word “ship” was discarded as unnec
{essary and there remained the
| phrase “a man-of-war"™
Beauty and Character.
A famous poftralt paluter says that
beautiful women do not take the best
looking pictures Mere beauty Is
never successfully reproduced by
brush or camera, unless the model
expresses character fo the lines of her
face and eyes. In other worda physl-
cal beauty aloge becomes common
place unless it Is eariched by some
beauty of expression
Child was Observant.
Miss Marle Shedlock lately re-
{marked during a lecture on storytell
ing for children “You have to be
dramatic toward children or you are
likely to hear the response which was
once given to a mother. A child, after
hearing a dull story, looked up and
sald: “Mother, do you know when you
talk your upper jaw don't work?"
Families of Venomous Snakes.
Venomous snakes of America are
comprised in four familles—the rattle.
suake proper, the copperhead and the
moccasin, the coral snake and the
ground rattler. There are several va
rieties of the rattlesnake apd two of
the coral. Most deadly of all are the
copperhead and the diamond rattler.
Short Skirts for Street Wear.
Frau Schubert, a prominent dress
reform advocate of Hanover, says
that trains ft for the drawing room
are not siutable for the street, and
that women with Jong dresses that
out of doors sweep up all sorts of
germs, are a "serfous danger to them-
selves and to other people.”
News Agent Rewarded for Kindness.
Wilmington, Del —Willilam E Ham
mond, of East Fifth street, has been
ieft $5,000 by a stranger whom he be
{riended some years ago while rua-
ning As a news agent on the Delaware
ralircad. An aged man became ill on
tie train sad Hammond nursed him
natil the fala Jetted Ca
Before.
" F. A Gillette asd wife ret
from New York last evening.
Mrs. Ellea Pitcher of Deaver,
Colo, is visiting her niece Mrs,
Robert A. Nicol.
Miss Mary Hunsiker returned
from a visit to New York and New
Haven today.
Christian Hay of Waverly has
been granted an inc ease of peasion
to $12 per month,
Charles F. Kellogg and Harry
Crandall weat to New York today
to see the automobile show.
Miss Bessie Cangley and Mame
Scanlan were in Ithaca Thanks
giving and returned yesterday.
ee —————
Eljih Haaton an uncle of J. L
Young died in Ithaca yesterday
and Mr. Young went to attend the
funeral today.
J Paul Phillips has resigned as
clerk at the Campbell house and
will go to Watkins, where he will
cocduct a saloon.
Mrs. N. P, ‘Moody of Asylum
bas been the guest of Mrs, Carrie
Chubbuck a few days, returning
home this morning.
Miss Alice Ransom went to Uls
ster this morning to stay on the
the farm until Saturday, whea she
will go to Chicago to make an ex-
tended visit with her sister, Mrs
Harry Noyes.
Mrs. Margaret Seeley will give
aten cent supper to the Ladies’
Aid society of the Universalist
church at her home, 10; Desmond
street. Thursday evening. Every~
body invited.
Mrs. J. N Allen of New Albany
has been visiiing friends ia Spencer,
N. Y. and stopped om her return
journey last night at the home of
U J Frisbie, resuming her journey
home this morning.
The exhubition of the pictures
of the Turner art exhibit will com-
mence tonight at Masonic tanquet
ball acd will be of great interest
The proceeds will be used for
schoolroom decoratioas ia the high
school and should be liberally pats
roaiz d a
FAIR WELL ATTENDED
Athens-There was a big attend-
ance at the Presbyterian fair in Els
bree Opera House last night. The
pretty booths with their fise display
of articles have a wond ‘rful attrac
tion with th.ir charmiag lady at-
tendants The play “The Cool
Collegian" was rendered in remark
ably fine style. Archibald Stew-
art Maurice and Miss Lou Murray
were the star performérs, so natur.
al ard jolly and resourceful that
every stage of the play was like a
chapter in real life. The play tans
gles the characters up so complete-
ly that we had serious doubts as to
whether they would ever regain
their individual identity, but the
usual denounement unraveled the
mysteries and brought the climax
as natural as a serene summer day.
Miss Corbin as Fanny Morrison
was charming and Miss Potter as
Fanny Wainwright gave proof of
Prince as the Irish servant was per-
fect in action and brogue. Dr.
McClarty as Free Pardee and Ned
Drake as the colored servant acted
well their parts. It was a splendid
entertainment and will be repeated
tonight. It will have a full house,
Bruin Chases Negro Steward.
Pittsburg. — James Kennedy, of
Grove City, shot a targe cinnamon
bear three miles souih of Conneaut
Lake. The bear, the first seen In this
section for 40 years, chased James
Washington, negro steward of the
iroquois Club, through the woods back
of the clubhouse Saturday. Washing
ton found refuge in the cottage of D.
A. Stewart of Pittsburg. Brula disap
peared when a posse of hunters went
after him.
Freak Chicken Says “Hoot Mon"
Chester, Pa.—Mrs. Ellen Elliott, of
Rockdale, is the possessor of a freak
chicken which was hatched a few
days ago. The fowl is half
bait owl, and shows little signs of
Ls } F H b 2
NECRO DIES ON SAME SCAFFOLD,
————
Expectation That Alfred Moore Would
Make Confession Before Death Was
Net Fuifilied=Crime a Doun-
ble Murder.
VALDOSTA, Ga, Dec. 5.-With a
declaration that he had told the truth
and that his sons had no connection
Rev. J. G. Rawlings, a former Baptist
minister, ascendéd ihe scaffold and
paid the penalty for the murder of
Willie and Carrie Carter in July, 1603.
Alf Moore, a negro, whose confession
connected Rawlings with the crime,
was banged at the same time Both
men stepped upon the scaffold without
a tremor. They stood on the trap to
gether and fell together.
The expectation that Moore would
make a final confession, exonerating
Milton, Jesse and Leonard Rawlings
from participation In the murder, was
not fulfilled. He reiterated his previ
ous statement and declared that Mi
ton fired the fatal shot
The Georgla prison commission will
eel tomorrow to consider the petition
for commutation of sentence for MIL
ton and Jesse. Lsanard has been sen
teuced to life lmprisonment on the
recominetdation of clemeucy by the
trial jury.
——
Terry MeGovern Reported Insane,
NEW YORK. Dec. 5—1It Is said that
Terry McGovern, the pugllist, was
found hunting for “hidden treasure”
in the ash barrels of his neighbors on
Eighteentli street, Hrooklyn, has gone
out of his mind and was taken to the
psycopathic ward of the Kings County
hospital. The report says that, strik
ing his chameteristic attitude, the for
mer featherweight champion showed
how ‘he'd do ‘ein up.” “When I've
licked Jeff I'll take on the hull string—
Sharkey, Corbett—yes, John L. too.”
Texas Floods Carry Death.
EL PASO, Tex, Dec. 5.—A special
from Morenci, Ariz, says: “Eight lives
are said to have Leen lost In a great
flood at Clifton. The Detroit concen
trator dam broke, sending a wall of
water down Chase creek. Wires are
down between Morenci and Clifton,
and no definite news can be obtained
until messengers return from Clifton
The Central telephone station in CHF
ton bas been abandoned, having Leen
pronounced unsafe.”
Ice Closes Hudson Navigation.
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 5. — Earliet
than usual and with unusual sudden
ness came the closing of navigation in
the upper Hudson. The big night boats
of the I'eople’s and Citizens’ lines left
last evening for their final trip to New
York. The lines of smaller hoats run
ning from bere will also suspend trips
at once. Zero temperature has frozen
the river from shore to shore, and the
unusually low water hastened the clos
ing
Weather Probabilities.
Rolu; east winds
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Stork Quotations.
Meney on call strong at 13 per cent!
prime mercantile paper. ¢Us8\; per cent;
exchanges, JM1.913.13; balances, $3,211.92
exports of general merchandise from the
port of New York for the week ending
Dec. 1 were valued at $11.1%07¢
Closing prices:
Amal Copper.
Atchisod
B&O...
Brooklyn BL. T
C,C.C.&SLL
Chess & Ohlo
Chi. & Northw
D.&H.......
Erie :
Gen. Electric 1's .
I, Central... 173 Texas Pacific
Lackawanna... M3 Union Pacific
Louls & Nash. .16'; U.S Steel
Manhattan 10% U. 8 Steel pf
Int-Met.., ny West. Unlon
Missourl Pac i,
N. YX. Central
Norf. & West
Penn R R
Reading
Rock Island.
St. Paul......
Southern Pac
Southern Ry.
South. Ry. pf
13%
108%
115
Wi
ay,
TT,
x5
0
Ht,
AY
L135
Sugar
New York Markets,
} LOU i — Steady, but dull; Minnesota
patents; HILO, winter straights, 8 0y
wees extras, §2%{210; winter pat
ens,
WH AT The early wheat market was
steady at Hc. advance on light offerings
sleddy cables and In sympathy with
strength i the northwest, May, My
84 5-16; July, 83%¢
3c. creamery,
BU TTE R~ Dalry. ex.
IU. seconds,
*y
tras, Wc. Arsts,
Die; held, extras, 30. frets, 32gYc
. Beg
onds,
~State, full cream,
y aR fancy, 144c.;
, large and small, 13430. ;
small, 12% GIN: Iuferior,
half skims, Lest, small, a HH , large,
0%. part skims, prime, $.0%c.. falr
to gow, TOs
IGGS- Fresh gathercd, extras, per doz.
en, 38. nearby, fresh gathered, Arsis,
large and
October,
late made,
Jena: :
v..
TALLOW-—-Qulet; he,
Selec
HAY Dull, shipping, W0§iic.; good to
cholce, $191.10.
BTRAW Quiet; long rye, adc
BEANS—-Easy, marrow, 3209254
dium, $1.6; pea, SLLGLETY; red kidney,
$laof zany.
HOPS -Qulet;
city, country,
state, common lo choice,
158, 0624c.; 195, 8G813.; Pacific coast,
196 12018c.; 196, 105 14c.
POTATOLES — Steady. New York and
western, cholee, Jer bushel, W§sic. ;
falr to good, per hel, HU 8c; Penny
vania, choloe, per bushel, Stic
LIVE POULTRY—Unchanged: fowls, i
lc; old roosters, 9G%4c.; spring chick-
en®, 13913. ducks, 12y13c; geese, 129
13¢.; turkeys, 16@1%c. |
RESSED POULTRY-Steady and In
fair demand; fowls, choice, 13c.; do, falr
to good, 12@1%¢. oid roosters, Pie; near- '
by chickens, Linc. ; weslern, do, 12
pet Inikers choice to fancy, nearby, 1
. western, 18G1%¢c.; do, pi) ls
good. dire ducks, nearby, spring. da
ise. ; western, do, 13914c.; 0,
llc.
Live Steck Markets.
CATTLE-Supply light; market steady;
choice, Rg prim
calves, $§4 50
HOGS — Receipts light: market active]
and higher; prime vik ; mediums |
heavy Yorkers oat ing =
a and wo
SHEEP A D LAMBS — Buppl
market steady; prime welhers, 4
culls and comman, $293; lambs,
William's Carbolic Salve With
yAsnics and Wich Haat
e, 057; veal
New Lot of Stylish
JUST RECEIVED
Squirrel Sets $10.50 to
fl Last Year'sFurs at Paroain,
Ask About Our Guarantee Against
We Are Now Opening
Up our large line of Toys and Christmas
Novelties t> accommodate the wise
buyers who come edrly and
avoid the rush.
McLoughlin's and Tuck's Beautifolly I-
lustrated Children’s Books
We have this year an usually fine line of
children’s paper and linen books
from Sc to 25¢.
Henty Books 20c. Alger Books 20c.
Gregg's Racket Store, 7
Cor. Broad St. and Park Ave., Waverly. \ 4
It 5 Not Too Late
To have a mod-
ern steam or hot
wa'er heatip
syslem installed
before extreme
coll weather sets
in. We can make
your houss ¢"m-
fortable in every
corper ard your|
coal bill will be
no larger. let
us give you ap
estimate on an
up -to - date sys-
tem. We sell the
well known
Cheerful Home
Furnace
which can't be
beaten. Plumb-
ing, Heating and
Tin work.
Gas Fixtures.
Burpers and
(Glassware.
fo ee
ent a resident of Sayre. Theta
ings today are just as bright,
and useful as the day they
made. We will tell you the name
the party, of you with lo sm
yourself,
There are variaBiens in
workmanship, Just as thers. are
ferences tn the view brands
year ov two, you should gv slsesolil®
Let do ok do tha Bind f HD,
H. R. TALMADGE,
Ba "Pheses. Elmer Ars.
H. TUTTLE, M. D.
Specialist
Prictioe limited to diseases of the Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat. Glasses
fitted. Hours10 to 12 a.m, 2004 7 to
8 p.m. Office and residence, 311
Elmer Ave. Valley ‘phone 158x.
&. H. HURRAY, NK. D.
SPECIALTIES:
Diseases of the Bye, Ear, Nose and
Dr in is sos
a
appointment. Office, Wheelock Bloak,