SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 19C&
Till: MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTOIilA, OllEGON.
DON'T WAIT FOR THE FINAL RUS
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SPECIAL FOR THE
WOMAN
Sewing Sets .. .25c fo 60c
Photo Albums. $1.00 to $5.00
rost Card Albums ...,5c to $0.00
Xmas Boxes... lQcto2.00
Purses 25c to $5.00
"Music Rolls $1.00
Pictures lc to $10.00
Gift Books... 10c to $4.00
Picture Frames .......25c to $2.00
Toilet Sets...... 50c to $10.00
Manicure Sets.. .. $1.00 to $5.00
Fancy Bdxes......,.;..25c to $4.00
Bibles 25q to $5.00
Statuary...... $1.00 to $5.00
Books .....10c to $5,00
FOR THE OTLDREN
Linen Books, Comic Books,
Games, Pictures, Cards, Sta
tincry, Balls, Boxing Gloves,
and Punching Bags. r
Patty Scries Books.
Little Colonel Books. '
Mrs.'Alcott's Books.
Little Cousin Books.
HAND-PAINTED CHINA
The celebrated Baur Studies
of New York. No two alike,
$1.50 to $20.00 each piece. Fin
est gift imaginable for ladies.
it-
VniiPVAXi:0Fr
I7Ar dainty 'and tbor.
oughly satisfactory pa.
pew, uch a will appeal
to the up-to-date person
as carry trig with them the
evidence of good Unte,
refinement and, excel
lence. Made In all the
iateit iitylet and finishes.
Ak to aee our new line.
, New York Novelties in Sta
tinery bought at the mill. Prices
lower by 30 per cent than
ever before and rxcs and paper
not found any where else in
Astoria, 15c to $10.00. Vv-.,v
LATE FICTION
Reg. $1.50 ; Our price, $1.25.
"Fly oo the Wheel," "Leaven of
Love," " Man from Broadway,",
" Trail ot - the Louesome Pine,"
"Duchess of Dreams." 'Tetcr." "Lit
tle Brown Jug''River Man." "Col.
Greatheart," "Kincaid's Battery,"
and "Halo,"
SPECIAL-
The last four days are always the busiest. Don't wait for
the final crush Thursday. Shop mornings you can be better
waited on and better satisfied with your selections:
200 Webster Universal Dictionaries, self pronouncing, indexed
and bound in Linx Seal Leather, reg. $2.50, now 5I73
800 Ilenty, Alger and Otis books, for boys and girls, regular 30c
rnd 35c, now.,.,...
25
800 Late Reprint Novels, such as "Man of the Hour," "Con
quest of Caanan," "Plum Tree," "He and Hecuba," "Battle
of the Strong," "The Boss," "Fighting Chance," "Phillip
Winwood," "Stephen Holton," regular 75c now .....438
200 Holly Boxes, Linen Stationery, regular 50c now 2$
200 Holly Boxes, good quality paper, regular 40c special, 23fi
500 Christmas Bells for decorating, special Jj, 0, 5, 20s ea-
Post Card Albums .1 20 per cent discount
Special 25c and 35c Cloth Books 5 each
Games, big assortment to close out ONE-THIRD OFF.
There are bargains and bargains too numerous to list. Come
and look them over.
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If You Stood By
and dictated the land of
pn point you liked best
and we shaped it according
to your pen preference
long and tapering, or short
and stubby yon couldn't
get a point that would suit
you better than yon can
select from the wide range
of styles shown in
Waterman's Idea!
Fountain Pen
Pens for shorthand, man
ifolding, bookkeepers,
oblique writing : fine, me
dium, coarse stub, turned
up points all sizes, every
flexibility stiff or resil
ient There is a special pan
for every writer
OPEN EVENINGS.
VvM
Ko. Pl! U't'd Bo. PUi
!2.t2.i!.tS.S If .$!.. $6 e
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If. 4.0H. 3.99 . U. I.Ot' .m
toKilM to l t OoM f
Our stock of Christmas Pens gold,
silver and plain from $2.50 to $20 is
most complete.
$1.50 SPECIALS $1.50
Mongram Fountain Pen, a good all
round pen for the price. .
MVS
SPEQAL FOR TOE MAN
Books 10c to 5.00
Pictures 25c to $10.00
Cigar and Tobacco Jars..., $t. 00
Book Racks. $3.00
Wallets and Purses, 25c to 5.
Calendars 10c up
Late Books : $1.25
Dictionaries 25c to t.7-"
Shaving Mirrors 35c
Brushes J 1.00
Shaving Sets" ." fl.Sj
Loose Leaf Memos v 85c
Diaries, 1909 25c
Waterman's fountain Ten
Christmas and Post Card Hue
is the largest in Astoria, lc to
50c each. See the show window.
IS
SUBSCRIPTION!
Nothing is nicer for a present
than a subscription to one or
more magazines.
We meet and make ALL
CUT RATE OR CLUBBING
. . . .
OFFERS. Ask for catalogue.
Spend Your Money Where
the Price Is Right.
W MIT MA I
Postal Station Stamps, Money Orders,
Christmas Packages Registered.
The Daily Market Report
PORTLAND, Dec. 19,-Trsde on
Front street wit of unusually tnull
proportion! today. Saturday ii slwsys
more or less quiet day, for the re
tailors generally are not in the mar
ket to buy to any great extent, but the
traffic was exceptionally light today,
and the bulk of the trade wat with
the peddlera and fruit atand operators
At many of the whole fruit stores
the customary sidewalk displays were
wanting, having been taken inside to
protect them against frost and snow,
and In tome quarters the atreet wore
a holiday appearance. In all I ints
yesterday'! prices prevailed, and busi
ness men said there wat not enough
doing to warrant any chances In qu
tations.
Receipts from the South included
five cars of bananas and one each of
oranges and tweet potatoes, but only
a small portion of the stuff wat un
loaded on the atreet More oranges
re coming early next week, to the
' chancel are that there will be plenty
of thit fruit, and bananat also, for the
holiday trade. But after Christmas
the tupply of bananas will probably
be tmatl, In view of the determination
of the wholesale dealers to bring n
small shipments hereafter.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Grain, Flour, Hay, Etc.
Wheat Track pricea: Club, 89c;
blue-stem, 95c; turkey red, 92c; red
Russian, 87c; Valley, 91c
; Flour Patents, $4.80; ; atralghta,
$3.95(84.20; exports, $3.70; Valley,
$4.45; li-tack graham, $4.40; whole
wheat, $4.65; rye, $5.50.
Barley Feed, $26.50; rolled, $28
$25.50; brewing, $27.
Oatt-No. 1 white, $31; gray, $33.
Hay Track prlcetj Timothy
Willamette Valley, fancy, $15; d
ordinary, $12; Eastern Oregon, mix
ed, $16.50; do, fancy, $17.50; alfalfa,
$11.5012; clover, $12.
Miltstuffs Bran, $26.50; middlings,
$33; shorts, country, $31; short 1,
city, $30;chop, $22.
Meats and Provisions.
Dressed Meats Hogs, fancy 7
7ic, ordinary 66c, large Sc; veal,
extra 8l9c, ordinary 67c, heayy
Sc; mutton, f. cy 67c.
llaeon Breakfast, I5(isiic, pic
nics 10c, cottage roll Uic; regular
short clears, smoked 1 3c, do on
smoked 12c; clear bellies, unsmoked
14c, do smoked 15c; shoulders, He.
Hamt-10-12 lbs, 15c; 14-16 lbs,
15c; 18-20 lbs., 15c.
Lard-Kettle leaf, 10s, 14c; do 5a,
141c; do 50-lb. tint, 131c; steam ren
dered, 10s, 13c; do 5s, 131c; com
pound, 81c
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Cheese Full cream twins, 151
16c; full cream triplets, 15116c;
Young America, 17c; cream brick,
1820c; Swiss block, 1820c; Lim
burger, 1820c
Butter Extras, 3637c; fancy, 33
34c choice, 30c; atore, 1820c
Eggt Extra Oregon, 40$421c;
Eastern, 3035c. .
Poultry Mixed chickens, 10llc;
fancy hens, lie; roosters, old, 8c;
broilers and fryers, lie; dressed poul
try, lc lb. higher; ducks, . 1516c;
geese, live, 10llc; turkeys, live, 17
18c; dressed, 2022lc -
'f ' s Frolta and Vegetables. 'X
Potatoes Buying prices, 808Sc;
per hundred; sweets, $2 per hundred.
Fresh Fruits Oranges, $2.50(33;
lemons, $45; grapes, $1.23(21.65 per
crate; pears, 75c$li5 per box;
qulncea, $1.25 per box; cranberries,
$1212.S0 per barrel; bananas, 55ic
per pound. '
Onions Buying prices, 90(395c,
per hundred
Apples Best Oregon, $1.25(31.50;
common, 75c$l box.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per
sack; beets, $15; parsnips, $1.25;
csbbabe, $1.50; head lettuce, 50$1
doien; cucumbers, hothouse, $1.25
1,40 crate; celery, 7585c doaen;
artichokes, 75c doxen; beans, 121c
pound; eggplant, $1.50 crate; toma
toes,' $11.50 crate; squash, I cent
per pound; peppers, $1.75 per box;
cauliflower, 75c$l per doxen.
Scraps' Christmas
(Continued from page. 4)
Oysters, Clams and Fish.
Oysters Shoal water Bay, per gal
lon $2.25; per sack $4.50; Toke Point,
$1168 per 100; Olympias (120 lbs.),
$6; Olympias, per gallon, $2.25, ,
Fish Halibut. 7c lb. black cod, 7
8c; black bass, 20c; striped bass,
18c; herring, 51c; flounders, 6c;
catfish, 9c; shrimp, 121c; perch, 6c;
sturgeon, 125c; sea trout, 15c; torn
cod, 8c; salmon, fresh, 8c; silver
smelt, 6c lb.
M1h AdtiHiUle sank back quietly, but
her eves were like two dim stars
among the pillows. Suddenly she heard
sn exclamation.
"I)ld yon cut youraelf, Vlrgtnlal 1
always Bald that broken glass was
tfangetoosr
XI In Virginia dropped white and
speerhleM tuto the nearest chair.
"Ob, what Is the tuatterr cried Mia
Adulatde, punning away the clothe to
got down to her alater.
"You lie still P came In a stern voice
from the chair.
Miss Adelaide crawled back and lay
there trembling. In a minute alius
Virginia came over to her.
"It's the pin." she aald quickly. "1
must have dropped It there Sunday
night when I went to the box tor your
cough drops."
"Oh. Virginia!" gasped her sister.
Ten so glad! I'm so sorry that poor
cUld"- .
Miss Virginia Interrupted her.
1 guess I know that as well as you.
Fin going to give ber this pin for
Christmas!"
As Christmas day drew near Scraps
found herself In a strange kind of
fairyland. The rooms were decorntof
with holly and greens, the air was full
of secrets, and, strangest and best of
all, everybody was so good to her,
In those few days of kindness the
girt seemed to blossom out Tbe old
restraint was banished and never re
turned, ' Love crept Into ber heart and
looked out of
her eyes, and
the old haunted
look fled for
ever. , ' -"
Btie crept Into
her little cot
Christmas eV e
with a happy
heart 8he had
left her Jlttle
gift at etch
door.
1 bhall always she felt that
KXBP IT." (OO, WOUld
not be quite forgotten.
"Just some little thing to show it's
Christmas," she prayed, and a bright
tar shone down, like one of God's
beautiful promises, and she lay there
content
Bhe never heard the five smiling old
ladles creep softly up to her door; sho
did not see until morning the Im
mense bag labeled KA Christmas
Bcrnps-bng." Then she was almost
overpowered.
"I don't know whnt to say," she
cried, "only I'm so happy,"
She dressed In ber new clothes and
visited each room, where she was re
oilvcd with admiring looks. The old
Indies snw no more the awkward girl
with ber penked face and rough,
short hair. They bad workedfor her.
(hey lovwl ber. and It was Christmas
day!..;,. ,.; ., . ..... ' .-. -
She went to tbe room of Miss Vir
ginia nd Miss Adelaide last, boennsc
her visit there was t" be the most Im
portant mid iikwi thrilling of all
"Miss Virginia, how can I thank
you?" she faltered, touching tb
brooch. "You flt so bad when you
thought you had lost It
Miss Virginia kissed her stiffly, but
there was a strange quiver in her
voice.
"It wasn't lost; it was only put aside
for you," she said.
"these shoes are so nice. And yonr
cushion bad a spot on it I'm aorry.
I don't know bow it got there."
Miss Virginia glanced warolngty at
her sister, but there was no need.
"I like it spot and an." aba said
nply. "I hall always keep ft"
INDIANS DISAPPEARING.
Man Who Knows Says They Will
Soon be Gone.
HELENA, Dec 19.-Three gene
rations more and I don't believe there
will be a real Indian left in the coun-,
try," said Special Agent Samuel Cone '
of the Indian Service today. Mr.j
Cone is here as a witness before the j
grand jury. He has spent the greater
portion of his life in the Indian serv
ice, "White men's clothing and houses
have signed the death warrant of the
Indian," continued Mr. Cone. "Con
sumption and other diseases of a civi
lized people have gotten a footing in
every reservation in the country, and
the ranks of the full bloods are being
decimated rapidly. This is particu
larly true of the older Indians Ii -
roamed the plains and mountains be
fore the creation of reservations and
who have not been constitutionally
fitted for the changed environment."
FLEET LEAVES COLOMBO.
COLOMBO, Dec 19,-The Atlantic
fleet sailed from here at six o'clock
this morning on its way to Suez.
DQiipociol
on
Pnnflnfir
In order to reduce our large stock of Car
vers we w sell them during Xmas week at
Per
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100 Patterns to Select From
$10.00 Sets Now $8.00
8.00 Sets Now 6.40
7.50 Sets Now 6.00
$5.00 Sets Now $4.00
3.50 Sets Now 2.80
3.00 Sets Now 2.40
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