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THE mcmiOKD PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEOHAM, THURSDAY, DECE3IBER 17, 1908.

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- 329 Main Street In order to realize on our winter stock In due season, we have decided to give our friends the benellt of low prices to Xmas, and add many new patrons to our list ol regular customers. We will save you money and, doing a wholesale with retail, are going to give our customers the advantage In extra low prices, as: - - -

Men's Guaranteed Patent Colt Skin, strongest, Lace or Blucher, White House Shoes, were $4.00, Clearance Sale price .... $2.98 Men's Gun Metal, Weber's $3.50 grade, button ...$2.79 Men's High Top, eighteen inch, viscolized leather top, tan f ;or black, regular $6.00 grade. Clearance Price $4.72 Men's Snag Proof Rubber Boots, first quality, guaranteed, for $3.43 Men's Heavy, Rolled Edge Rubbers, Tip or Plain, formerly $1 .00, now - - -- - .... . ; : .v- - - - 75c Men's storm, light, self-acting Rubbers, now ....... 69c

Ladies' Guaranteed pure gum tip Rubbers, 60c grade,now go at -. 50c Men's Storm Alaskas, $1.25 grade . ... ...98c Ladies' Storm Alaskas, $1.00 grade 73c Ladies' Cushion. Soles,. White House Shoes, regular $3.50 grade ............... $2.85 Holiday Slippers galore. r Men's Fancy Leather House Slippers, black or tan . . .47c Men's Velvet Slippers - - -------------- 35c Men's Nullifiers $1.25 Ladies' Nullifiers, fur, all colors, 85c, 95c, $1.15 to $1.25

Extra Special on Ladies' Overgaiters, black, tan or grey, per pair 39c 3 dozen of Ladies' Black Cheviot Overgaiters, warranted fast colors, 6 button, to go Satrrfay, only... 23c Men's Army and Navy Duck Leggins, wear and waterproof, now 47c Boys' 43c Child's Curly Bear Skin Leggins, $1.25 grade ...95c' Peerless lamb's wool sole for men, 20c For Ladies, 1 8c A most complete line of Babies' Shoes, all colors, styles and designs, 75c, 85c and $1.00 all go at .... ..4Gc 52 pairs of Babies' Shoes, black, lace, 50c grade at. .23c

Notice our - windows for prices; Everything marked in plain figures. Open every evening until 9:30, Saturday until 11 p. m. , : : VNow is the opportune time to save money on footwear Come in and see.

JJ. WILL MOUNT SON

529 IMAIIIJ STT.

CHANGED HER MIN

Wife Did Not Appear to Testi

fy Against Her Accused Husband.

COULD N()T GO WORK.

It was real tragedy of the melo-dra-

ma type, that was enacted in the city

court this afternoon, when Judge Oon-

hrerse was required to continue the case

in which Frank Hood," colored, was

'charged with assault and battery upon this wife. Hood said he is employed at the railroad shops and earning $61

jper month. ' He- has about S30 due him and wanted the court to accept this as security. , He told the court he .would! hate to be back to work, this afternoon or he would lose his job. That would mean a period of privation' for his wife, ''who is sickly," and the two might become dependent on charity. But the wife, who is the prosecuting witness against her husband did not appear Jn court to, testify. ; As the result a '.'continuance bad to be taken and Hood's bond was fixed at f 100. He was unable to obtain this anftunt and went back to' Jail with tears in his eyes and bemoaning his fate. . If Mrs. Hood had appeared in court , the trial would hare been oyer in time i lor her- husband to return to work,

pad he been convicted and his fine

'paid, or had he been acquitted.

J Mrs. Hood, in her ignorance, believed she could be of more help to her husI band by staying at home and not go- ' Ing to court. Because of her attitude J in the matter a writ of attachnmt has been issued for her and she may have to stay in jail until 1.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Her husband must ! stay in jail also, and his job probably i Is lost. Last night Mrs. Hood" claimed her husband had abused her and- run her ' jut of the house. She stood under an. slectric light at Thirteenth and North IT streets and screamed for help. To ler frightened neighbors she charged

her husband had beaten her. In :ourt this afternoon Hood ssHd his wife regretted her action and did not want to appear against him.

C. W. Fairbanks' Ananias Club

Vice-President Thought to Be Considering the Advisability of

Establishing One, Following Lead of Roosevelt

Washington, Dec. -17. Vice

Presl-

lent Fairbanks, waa - indignant over report which appeared in several newspapers, and it was stated at his office in the cajitol that Jie is thinkng of starting an Ananias club of his own. , The ylee ' presidential Indignation was brought about by the fact that it has been reported that when the president's message, concerning the Panama canal scandal and mentioning the name of Delavan Smith, of the Indianapolis News, a relative of Mr. Fairbanks, came to the senate, it was delayed and that the vice president left the senate rather than listen to the strictures on the. Indiana editor. If the Incident had , been noted in the congressional directory, it probably would have been in this vein: 0

"Instead of permitting Senator Carter to finish his speech on postal sayings banks the vice president sent a note asking the senator to desist, which he did, and the " president's message on Panama went ahead, an unusual procedure." The vice president, durln-g the reading of the message, it appears was called to his office for a few minutes and Senator Dixon presided. At his office, however, it was said he has no interest in the charges about Paaama, and that he regretted being put in that position. There was talk among republican senators that they would stand by the. vice president if he would try to have the offending correspondents expelled from the press gallery, but the vice president would not countenance such a move.

DECIDE ON COUNTY ? LOCAL OPTION ELECTION

BOYS' MEETING HELD TONIGHT

BLIZZARD OFF

connersvtne, ma., Dec. n. -a meet- The meetmg this evening of the ing of the temperance people of Fay- . , .. . . , ette county was held in the auditorium members of the ?oys Dement of of the First M. E. church yesterday the Y. M. C. A., in the Commercial club to consider the matter of holding a lo- rooms, will be the last meeting held by cal option election. There were 200 the Dys until tne new building is ded-

'persons present. The vote fora Ick caiea. a special program nas Deen "Ut. . . . , ' I nrnaj-Ad thin pvpnlnc ajwi It la exnewt-

cu uyuuu nrwvu was uiuuiiuiuus- i - a - Dr. Barnard, representing the Anti-!e at tere will be a large attendSalooa league, spoke at length on the ance- Dr- Allen Bramkamp will

subject of lecal option elections. An P&k ooys on tne nenems or organisation was perfected and the fol- Bible Study," and Orville Branson, sec-

lowing officers named: President, R. N. Elliott; vice president, the Rev. W. F. Smith, secretary, D. W. McKee; treasurer, B. F. Thiebund. The election will come up at the next term of court provided a sufficient number of names can be obtained. 1 . ,

SCHEME WORN OUT

George Westlake Not Allowed i Freedom on Promise " To Reform.

COAST

St. JohnsrN. F., Dec. 17. A blix-

kard has' been raging sixty hours amd heavy, damage has been done to ftsh-

ng vessels, a number of which have

been blown ashore. It is feared that

several schooners have been blown 'tor

tea or sunk. Traffic on land is at a ktandstill. j

During the summer thrushes get up

before S o'clock in the morning and

Jfton't go to bed until after 9 o'clock at

gbt so thty work nearly nineteen

urs. Blackbirds are not so Indus tri

os. Tney wors omy seventeen nours.

ut during that time they feed their ttle ones forty or fifty times.

The One Exception. A certain suburban house contains five unmarried ladies who are continually sighing over "what might hav been." Recently a rag and bone col lector was pursuing his avocation ir the vicinity, and through an open win dow were wafted the strains of hi sonorous chant, "Old rags, old copper, old Iron, old brass, old bones, old bottles, old shoes, old hats," and so on, until he bad named almost every known object. Then he ceased, and one of the ladles mentioned sank down Into a chair, threw up her bands and exclaimed dramatically in accents of despair: Oh, dear! He wants everything but Id .maids! London Scraps.

retary of the department will speak on

the different phases of the work in associations.

Auction sales of thouroughbred cat

tle and swine are - sot uncommon in the West; but an auction sale of thoroughbred corn, wheat and oats will be a novelty to many of the visitors at the national corn exposition at Omaha. . After the show is over prize corn and other grain and grass seeds will be offered for sale to the highest bidder. The prices for corn, it is expected, will range from $1 an ear up to $150 to $300 for ten-ear samples.

An Incident of Travel. In Nuremberg, having . occasion to ask my way, I said In my best Melterscbaft to a gentleman passing: "Koennen sie mlr vlelleicht sagen wle man nach das Deutscben museum geht?" .-- Imagine my mortification when he replied: "I am going that way. X will show you." We walked on, and, learning that I was an American and had traveled In England, he said: "I am professor of English here. That Is why I speak English so well. But I didn't been in England already once yet." Llppincott's. '

IS AN ELOQUENT ORATOR. A man plead with the judge of the city court this afternoon and said if he would be released he, would stop the use of intoxicants or die trying. He told the court if a little bit of confidence were shown him, he would become a strict convert of the antl-liqui-datlon league and never more depart from "the straight and narrow way. But the court had heard such a plea from the very same man before and refused to have any confidence. The petitioner was told if he wants to be just as nice as he says, he may prove

it after he had lain out a fine of $10 and costs in the county jail. The man was- George Westlake "silver tongued orator of the city court" George was in bad last night and Officer Edwards - took him up. George had left his basket at home, but the package he was carrying was too much for him. It was only Nov. 19 that George had answered to a charge of public intoxication after a long and happy excursion on the water wagon. This previous conviction made things hard for him this afternoon. Westlake offered to the court a tale about gin and sulphur as a cure for rheumatism. He said a friend had advised him to try the mixture to secure relief. He said he ought to have had more sense, but he didn't-and about five hours after he had partaken of a copious draught he was going some and kept on until halted by the policeman.

Unlucky For His Side. "So you cling to that childish superstition about thirteen being unlucky," said the traveler. x -', "Yes." answered the other. "Can't get away from it." "But see how completely It Is disproved. This glorious country started with thirteen colonies." "Very true. - But I am an Englishman." Washington Stan. "

, Innocent. Mrs. Knleker How did you know your husband was working down lo the office? Mrs. Toungbrtde I telephoned, and central said. "Busy." New York Sun. . .

PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY.

THE POOR WHIFFLETIT. And the Lew Down Trick by Whioh It Is Subdued. Seating himself at a restaurant table, a Chicago man said: "Waiter, what kind of fish have your "Oh." said the waiter, "all kindswhlteflsh, blueflsh, graylings, sea bass, weakfish, perch" "Pshaw!" yawned the customer. "Cut that out I'm tired of those common fishes. .Ain't you got some new kind of fish some kind I never ate before?" "Well." said the waiter, "the whlffletlts is very fine this morning." "What to thunder is a whlffletit?" . "Why, doesn't a fish sharp like you know what a whlffletit is? Common enough here.- ,You see, the whlffletit lives only iiv circular lakes. You go out and find a circular lake and hire a boat Then you row out all alone to the middle of the lake, about a mile or so. and anchor. Then you take an augur and bore a hole In the water and bait it by putting a piece of cheese on the edge of the hole. The whlffletit comes -up to get the cheese, eats it. and It makes him swell up so that he cant back down the hole." "Well." said the customer, breathless, "what then?" , "Why," replied the : waiter ss he filled a glass of water, "you lean over the side of the boat and laugh the whlffletit to death. Want a few?" C2Tln4 Lsadstv

A LUCKY ESCAPE. Thrilling Experienoe of m Cyclist en a Swiss Mountain. A Dr. Bach was cycling down the pass near Goschenen, in Switzerland, when his brake snapped and the machine darted forward at terrific speed. At the foot of the mountain Is a bridge spanning a deep river fforge. The physician tried to guide his flying machine on the bridge, but the front wheel struck a side wall, and he was flung over the parapet While falling through the air he eaugbt a chain hanging from a girder. The momentum of his body, suddenly arrested, nearly wrenched his grip loose, but he was a strong man and kept his hold. While swinging in midair suspended over the raging rivei and unable to improve his perilous position an automobile came chugging down the pass. The hapless man shouted for help, but be could not be seen from the bridge, and his crlej were drowned by the noise of the motor and the sound of the river. A few minutes after the automobile had passed a carriage drove across the bridge. Again he cried out for help, but In vain. Tbe awful strain on arms and fingers was becoming Intolerable, and the doctor was about to drop 'into tbe torrent to an Inevitable death when two peasants came by and saw him. They flung a noose over him and pulled bim up. He fainted and was ill for a long time. Strand Magaslne.

Couldn't Remember Hie Star." As Illustrative of the fits of abstrac tlon to which some men are subject in an extraordinary degree. Sir Henry Irving was fond of relating a story of his former manager, Charles Dillon. Some years after "The Bells" had made Irving famous he chanced to meet Dillon and was outspoken In his

Dillon looked him over, finally remarking that he had no recollection of bim. Irving reminded him of the tour they had made together and mentioned bis name. Dillon thought for awhile, and. recognition appearing to dawn upon him, he extended Ms hand. "Irving? Oh, yes. I remember the name," he declared reminlscently. "And what are you doing now, Irving?" Chicago Record-Herald.

A Poet's Breakfaet George Meredith and Rossettl were to take up house together, but It occurred to the former to go and see what the house was like first He arrived at noon. Rossettl was not up. But on the table was his breakfastsix eggs on as many slices of bacon. The repast had been waiting some time. The eggs were draining out their llfeblood on the coagulating bacon. Rossettl came in In a dressing gown, otherwise just as he had got out of bed. He sat down and "devoured the plat like an ogre." Meredith sent him a check for the quarter's rent next day, but he and the poet never kept house together.

HAND MASHED. Frank Drathrlng Receives Painful Injury. By the fall of an oil tank on the member, the hand of Frank Drathrlng,

storekeeper at the Panhandle round : house was mashed severely yesterday) afternoon. Drathrlng was removed

to his home and the Injury dressed. He will be unable to work for some time.

CAR SERVICE DELAYED. Street car service into Glen Miller was blocked today by the falling of a large wood trolley pole. It had become ' rotten at the base and. fortunately toppled over when no one was in the immediate vicinity. The wires after grounding burned fiercely.

TWO PONIES ARE SOLD. Charles Cooler of Brookville, O., today purchased from Paul Underhill of this city two fine Shetland ponies.

Can Only Qo Three Feet Deep I knew an Institution with wide, rolling fields all about It There are exceptional privileges here. A brook sparkles and splashes Its way through the wood, and every summer afternoon at the ringing of a bell the boys are marched down there for a swim. A placid faced lady to whose care they are Intrusted selects the locality, and they may not go one bush beyond. "They dassent go In only three feet deep!" pityingly explained the farmer's boy who was telling me. "TJs fellows swims nine feet deep!" And he trudged off down the road whistling joyously between bites of a green apple. There was a lilting note to the tune and an energetic swing to tbe shoulders. It takes green apples and' swimming boles nine feet deep to make the best men. They know bowto breast tbe deep places In life. Over against this picture I could see hundreds of boys marching In regular step who all through tbe world are go Ing to be limited to places three feet deep. But an Institution must have Its boundaries If It Is bringing up boy v by wholesale. Mabel Potter Daggett in Delineator.

The Aid society of tbe Second Presbyterian church was to have met tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Charles Grace, has costnoned ltn meetlnr nn til

piter the holidays.

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