Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Page 5

I Santa Claus just arrived from Fairyland ■ 2nd will make this store his headquarters w\ as usual and will be glad to see all the good I_, little boys and girls. [GAIN STORE’S HAS CARNIVAL frY OPENING.

rs. TOYS. brilliantly illuminated basement b first floor has been transformed [d for the children, Everything Pest play toy to the latest mechanbhown here. Quaint old Nuremasted an exhibition so varied and king- birds, mechanical toys, autopes, wag-ons, trains of cars, gots with mules and horses, drums, ck dogs, chairs, guns, building [pet sweepers, doll swings, balls, instruments, horses, wash sets, brns, watches, tops, toy dishes, baskets, bells, rattle boxes, rubwashboards, brooms, donkeys, bleds, wheelbarrows, bears, Jack nes, rabbits, doll cabs, etc. USEFUL GIFTS, , cuff boxes, boxes, glove i l—^ boxes, toilet ink stands, & frames, al- /*A j banicure sets, if L atomizers, ' shaving sets, 1' ff | llders, etc. NABLE \ JEWELRY. \ new up-to- X • lie-half less than usual price. All U guaranteed by the manufactures for 10 years*. Your name when each sale is made. Here p guaranteed goods: k $1 to $2.50 each, bh chains $2 to $3.50 each, pc to $2.25 each, to $1.25 each. bracelets, $2.50 to $4.50 each. $1 to $1.75 each. jom 50 cents to $2.00 a pair. [9c, 69c and 98c. h with sterling silver plate, nail bok, paper cutters, letter seals, loe spoon, tweezers, cuticle,glove, F s > blotters, etc. A bargain at ce, choice of lot only 10c. Pin jewelry from 5c to 50c eachi satisfaction for the prices ’

IDStrtxxient Store, B. FORSYTHE, Prop.

Men’s Holiday Neckwear. The finest, the newest, the nobbiest, j r ) - Tt:^ the freshest and most beautiful stock of these goods ever offered to this or any other public. Made and shipped from Boston all in December, 1901. See the new shapes and patterns in new multi scarfs, Imperial Ascot, Bat Wings, Club YjbSNLTyy Strings, Shield and Band Tecks, new W/ySJj narrow 4 in Hands, Imperial Puffs, Band Bows, Shield Bows, Tudor Bows, etc. 10c to SI.OO each. The finest are in individual boxes for Holiday Handkerchief Carnival iThe Bargain Store Handkerchief business is already athrill with the holiday spirit. We have planned to eclipse all former efforts. That mean* we will sell more handkerchiefs, sell better handkerchiefs and charge less for them than ever before. Switzerland, Ireland and Japan have contributed to this great Handkerchief show. Look elsewhere, then come in; your better judgment will do the rest. Over 400 dozen to select _ 250 dozen white and bordered cambric handkerchiefs, lc to 5 cents each. 100 doz. pure linen, all widths, hemstitched and fancy embroidered, 10c each to 95c each. 50 dozen men’s pure linen hemstitched, 10c each to 75c each. A full line initial handkerchiefs and silk handkerchiefs, etc. Mufflers In every style and quality. 25c to $1.50 each. Christmas Gloves & Mittens. Men’s, women’s, boys’, misses’ and Children’s. Not different from the good ones to be had here any time, but assortments have been kept very complete for holiday buyers. With every pair of ladies’ kid gloves at $1 a pair or more we give you a handsome gilt decorated Japanese Glove box worth many places 25c to 50c. A fine line of mdn’s fur gauntlet gloves and mittens, value sl, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75. Men’s fur trimmed Gloves, 50c, 75c and $1 pair. All kinds ladies’ and gent’s Scotch Gloves. Common Gloves and Mittens, 5c to 50c a pair. Special Holiday Ribbons, Notions, Hats, Caps, Silk Suspenders, Belts, Purses, Bill Books, Fancy Garters. Hose Supporters, Bed Spreads. Linen Gifts. We have laid in a great supply of linen Table Scarfs, Center Pieces, Towels, Table Cloths, Napkins, Linen Sets, etc : , all marked down to the liberal quick step prices.

Remember! . Come early. Beware of the inevi- . table last days at the Christmas Headquarters; the reliable, up-to-date, and only daylight store where you can get anything you want at MONEY SAVING PRICES. We have secured one more clerk, making twenty-two; and two delivery wagons, for the prompt delivery of all kinds of goods. You can select your presents and have them laid away to be delivered the day before Christmas. Nearing the close of the busiest year in the history of the Store, we take this opportunity to thank you one and all for your liberal patronage, and to wish you A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. § Clothing Reductions ~ /ffl FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Mg/ > Special prices on nearly every piece of the broken P 11^1 I lines. A fair stock of Yoke, long EStM | \ OVERC °ATS, Jill I„ \ very popular, ten per cent off the market price. H l ' Special Prices jII Jj^ ° n Men’s, Boys' and Childrens’ suits, Vulcanized >mnrnn^ Rubber Coats, Duck Coats, Mackintoshes, Cones’ / JM Grand Holiday Opening oHL SHOES AND SLIPPERS. The finest and most beautiful stock of these goods ever offered. See the Ladies’ and Misses’ warm lined ur Top Shoes and Slippers MEN’S and WOMEN’S Fancy Carpet Slippers, 25 cents per pair. AudafuH line of infants fur trimmed, fancy colored shoes twenty-five to fifty cents per pair. 200 PAIRS Justarrived ' Ladies light soled and heavy soled kid shoes, lace, all new. Cheap at $2.50. Special price, per pair $2.00 Special bargains in Lace Curtains, Portiers, Carpets, Linoleum, Floor Oil Cloth, Trunks, Suit cases, Valises, etc. -A. UNTIOE! PRESENT THE EASIEST RUNNING MACHINE MADE

CONDENSED STORIES.

How Klpllng’a Great Memory Serves Him In Btory Writing. “Thirty years ago,” says an An-glo-Indian civil engineer to a London correspondent, “I traveled outj to India on the same steamer as ai Mrs. Lockwood Kipling. She Wdj with her a baby girl and a boy of three. ’Ruddy/ as she called him, was a solemn, yellow faced little chap, with a big hat and frilly round the ends of his tiny trousers. We soon struck up a friendship. He would walk up and down the deck with me for hours, holding on to my thumb. In after years, as you know, Kipling obtained the subeditorship of an Indian paper. I was engaged about that time in building a great railway bridge. The editor of Kipling’s paper wrote to me asking permission for one of his reporters to come and write a series of three or four articles on the subject of the bridge, which was one of the biggest undertakings of its time. I replied, saying that if ‘Ruddy* cared to come he should have every, privilege, but I didn’t want anybody else. “Sure enough ‘Ruddy’ came, and a great time lie had. We showed him everything, and he took everything in. His eye for detail was wonderful. He was like a human camera, with a memory for names as well. Years afterward he wrote ‘The Bridge Builders/ and in it he used the information he picked up from me and my men then. It is all as accurate as possible. There’s not a technical error in the whole thing. As far as I can see every, one of his engineering stories is absolutely correct.” Helping Out Mr. Gladstone. The announcement from Canada! that the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall had to give up promiscuous handshaking while on their visit there recalls an incident of Mr. Gladstone’s memorable Midlothian! tour. At one time there was 8

HE GAVE EACH COMER A GRIP THAT HAD NO LACK OF CORDIALITY.

great handshaking ordeal at the window of the old gentleman's railway carriage, and ho was rapidly, getting the worst of it. A stalwart young policeman who accompanied Mr. Gladstone proved equal to the occasion. Crouching behind the great man and thrusting his haM under Mr. Gladstone's Inverness cape the muscular policeman gave each comer in turn a grip that had no lack of cordiality. “The auld man’s uncommon veegorous at his time o’ life,” observed one unsuspecting Scot as he stroked his fingers. “Ho is that,” concurred another of the policeman’s victims, “but did ye notice his nails ?” Testing His Wit. Charles Battell Loomis recently rave a lecture in a little church in Scotch Plains, where he makes his home. The subject of his lecture was “American Humor.” After the author had quoted from and criticised several so called American humorists and had eulogized a few that pleased him well he drew to the close of his lecture by reading what he called “several bits of really exquisite humor.” When the lecture was over, and the author was on his way home, a friend who had accompanied him asked interestedly: “By the way, Loomis, who was the author of those last few bits you gave?” J “Well, I’ll tell you,” said the author, lowering his voice confidentially, “I’ve received so many contrary criticisms on my ‘wit’ that I was anxious to know whether I really had any or not. I decided to put it to a test. Those last few bits which sent our rural friends into spasms of laughter were ‘poor things, but mine own!’ ” He Bolstered the Collection. A minister in a Kansas town recently adopted a novel scheme for bolstering up the church collection, which had been diminishing. He informed his congregation just before the plates were passed around that the members who were in debt were not expected to contribute. The collection that day was the usual sum.