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THE MOENING ASTOItlAN, ASTOItIA, OREGON.
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The Following
? Suits
$25.00 Suits ::
22.50 Suits
20.00 Suits.'.
17.50 Suits... ; ;
15.00 Suits
12.50 Suits : :
10.00 Suits.;;.;..;..;.:
Dress Shoes
$5.oo Dress Shoes ; $3.3
4.50 Dress Shoes 3,25
4.00 Dress Shoes - 3,C3
3.50 Dress Shoes : 5,75 '
3.oo Dress Shoes ... 2,25
2.75 Dress Shoes 2.C3
Young Men's Suits
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CHARLES LARSON Prop;
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A G3rJ and j
A Garden.
I 3ty rronK II. Wllllaou, '
Ownghivd. Itmt, by AuoeUt
"I could luv you," snld Jhe pretty
neighbor, ami then it the muu luipet
uouitly reached for hrr she added quick
ly. "for your garden !'
The man's fnee foil.
"Now, I cull tbat downright mean,"
declared the quid vigorously. "Yoa're
ulec, pretty neighbor, litrt I've been
courting you and tuaklug tort to you
for months, and now 1 Hod that If i not
rue, but my garden, that'll made to In
presalon, 1'lt tell the garden," be add
ed roughly. .
The pretty neighbor clasped her band
In reul dltrM.
"Oh. don't!" aha cried, "You don't
really moan that) Think how long If.
been In your family! Think how much
car your mother and your grandmoth
er and your great-grandmother apent
on all those dear flowers!"
'Tlme t was soiling It!" growled the
man. "I'll get an old factory, bakery
or aomethlng of that aort here!"
"Oh, oh!" cried tho pretty, neighbor. '
"I mean It!" cried the man, , 'Til
tart right away."
Wholly distressed, the pretty neigh
bor, her hands tightly clinched, watch
ed the man aa be went down one of
the patha toward a gay little anmmer
house. ' ', ., . ;..
She was standing-near a wall, beside
a little fountain, and all about ber the
garden was a bower of beauty, yistns
between the tree radiated from the
apot where ahe atood. Dlrda aang In
the treea. She could hardly realize that
the big, hurrying city waa Just on the
other side of the wall. '
From the aummer honse ahe saw the
man come out , In one baud ha car
ried a big white board, In the other a
bucket of palut and a brush. When be
reached the pretty neighbor he placed
the board against the wall and with
out a word took up tha bruah.
"What are you going to dor the girl
asked somewhat tremulously., 7 j ; ,
Taint," answered the man laconic
ally. r ...
With fascinated ees the girl watch
ed him as the letters grew tinder his
brush. Across tbe top of the board.be
pnlnted lit big brutal lottors tbe words.
"For Sale." - v-.,,- ,,,
The pretty neighbor caught her
breath aa the cruel sentence, Oaring
red, stared at her from the board." Un
dcmiUb these words tbe man worked
lmliuitrloualy for a little time.
While he worked tho girl gazed back
at the garden with tear dimmed eyes.
When he hnd flnlttbed tbe man gave a
little.. hJk1i of satisfaction. Tbe girl
Our great clearing sale b a success because experience in previous sales has taught the public that our values are
real, THey come to us expecting-bargains, knowing they will get them and they find them. The object 'of
this extraordinary sale is to entirely clean out our stock. Everything must go regardless of price to make room for our
new goods. H you have been waiting for the most favorable time to buy, you better buy now, no lower prices cart
possibly be made this season .
$7.E3
I5.C3
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-12.25
1 1. CD
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SI4.C31 ( $4.oo Trousers.
1 2.25 3.50 Trousers
I0.ED 3.oo Trousers.
8.75 2.50 Trousers.
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iiMinea at tne aign again and gasped.
"Fur Rale." it reaC. "This Garden.
Suitable Fur a Factory. Apply Wlthlu
to Martin Connor."
"too you aren't going to nail that
sign up, are yont" questioned the girl
perilously close to tears.
"Sure!" ejaculated the man.
The man picked up the sign, holding
It awkwardly to save bis clothes from
pnlnt, and, with the bucket and brush
In the other hand, again went toward
the gsy little aummer bouse. Be whis
tled as be went, but tbe girl, who fol
lowed, with dlfJlculty stilled her sobs.
At the summer bouse the man de
posited bis pnlutlng utensils and se
cured hammer and nails. Still whis
tling, he led the way through a se
cluded little Iron gate to the street
Once outhlde, the man carefully nailed-
the sign to tho wall, When the
work was finished be stepped back a
bit to admire It. The girl, who bad
watched tbe proceedings, cried out at
this. .... . ' .,
"You're perfectly horrid!" she cried.
"I bate you!". ,
Then the pretty neighbor, frantically
dabbing at her eyes with an absurd lit
tie handkerchief, ran across the street
to her own home. . , , ;
When the pretty neighbor awoke the
next morning ahe could not think at
first what sorrow was near her. Then
It camo to hot lu n Jtuup. ; The garden
was to be sold! She shuddered as aba
thought of the heartless slgu and de
cided, that she would never, never
look st It again.
A moment later she was at the win-
low, peering pat at the garden wall
opposite. Uet heart gave a little
bound as the blank face of tha wall
met her gaise. The sign was gone.
It was a tery merry pretty neigh
bor tbat balled Martin shortly after.
"Ho," cried the pretty neighbor, bold
ly walking through the little Iron gate
Into the garden "ho, I knew yon
didn't mean to sell your garden! Ton
thought you'd scare me into loving
you!" '.
The man, who bad been weeding,
looked up at ber. He wore an old
broad brimmed straw hat that In
some nndeflnnble way made him seem
even more strikingly handsome than
"You're wrong," ba declared slowly.
"It'S S0ldt"...f'. , . ..j
"What!" cried the pretty neighbor
In consternation.
"Ses,' replied the "man.
"And some one's going to put up a
horrid, grimy factory beret" walled
the pretty neighbor. -
"Perhaps," Bald the man listlessly.
"I'm glad you came over," ha went
on. "I was afraid I'd have to go with
out saying goodby to you."
"Goodby?" asked the girl, her face
a picture of surprise and dismay.
"Yes," the man went on, "I'm going
away. ' My train leaves at noon. You
may never aoe me again." -
"Why why are you going?" stam
mered the pretty neighbor very woa-
Bargains G
Overcoats
$22.50 Overcoats $I5,D
20.oo Overcoats SI4.C3
17.50 Overcoats 2.25
15.oo Overcoats fO.53
12.50 "Overcoats i 8,75
TOP COATS
$15.oo Topcoats S10.C3
Loggers' Shoes
Best $3.oo Logger Shoe made $5,75
Best 7.00 Logger Shoe made 5.43
Best 6.00 Logger Shoe made.. 4.53
Men who are In need of anything In this
line will do well to buy now.
Men's best all-wool Pants
WORKINOMANS- STO
"The Bond Street Bargain Store"
fu(y.
The man looked up et her quickly.
"There's nothing for me to star here
for," he replied without animation,
evidently not finding what he hoped
lu the girl's face.
"I'm sorry," enld the girl Anally. .
flie t'Xtt'iitlnl her hum. In silence
he shook It. Slowly she went toward
the gate. When she whs almost there
the muu called to ber.
"I'm n brute," he rioclnrcd contritely,
"for letting yon ttitnk for a minute
that I'd ever runlly let a factory be
erectwl here. 8lneo yon love the gar
den so you're lUlu to know that the
nutn who ban bought It Is your father
lie will not SIfturn It fur some time
not for the rr;-wtt ct Un-t." : s .
"Oh!" tried the girl. For a moment
her face waa radiant, then enddeuly It
went sad a.tlu. . .
"Wouldn't you-wont you come back
some time 'd visit my father's gar
den?" r.he nf-l;t'(l. , t
"No, I'll not come back," the man re
plied. "It-It would hurt too much
Goodby," . .; ,
' "flocdbyl" rented the girl and
slowly we::t through the little Iron
gat, across the street to her homo.
Several times durlnir tbe next hour
ahe looked nt the clock and Involunta
rily sighed. The morning waa going
very fast, it seemed. Faster and fast
er the time Hew on toward noon. Pres
ently It was 10:30, .then 10:45 and then
U o'clock, v, j !,',
, When the morning reached this
point the pretty neighbor was sudden
ly galvanized, into action, .
"Good gracious!", she cried, Jumping
from the chair where she bad been en
deavoring to read a book. "Good gra
cious, be may be gone, and I haven't
found out where he is golngl"
Without more ado the pretty neigh
bor raced out of the house end across
the street to the little Iron gate. The
gate was locked! Wildly sha ' tors
around the wall to- the great front
gate. ; Through this she ran up tbe
shady, curving path to the big bouse.
Suddenly, as at high speed she bore
around a particularly sharp curve, she
plumped right into the arms of tbe
man. The latter, when be saw tbat
It was tbe pretty neighbor, dropped the
suit case he had been carrying and
drew her closely to him.
"Dear; dear sweetheart" he cried, "I
simply can't leave you! I can't do ltf
He hugged her so tightly that she
fairly gasped for breath, However, the
pretty neighbor had enough breath left
to gasp a reply-a very faint reply. ; .
"Dont go." she said, burrowing her
head Into his coat "Don't go. It's not
your garden I want It's not your gar
den I'm in love with. It's you!"
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if
it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S
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Jons' Van Dyek.
People told Jones that his youth waa
against him be looked too young. If
be wanted to rise rapidly In his profes
sion be would have to grow a few hb
sutorlal decorations. , ,i
He started a Tan Dyck. His wife
watched ltd growth critically. She
didn't take to lt-sald she married a
young man, not a professor. Tbe whisk
ers grew and grew,' and hubby looked
more and more like a pirate. Wifey
tried to talk him out of them, but he
Insisted they were an actual necessity
in his profession. 1 1
One morning Jones woke up with his
chin feeling moist and sticky. He
rubbed his hand over bis face foliage
and fonnd It wet Then he opened bis
eyes and saw his wife standing over
him with n bottle of peroxide In her
hand. Filled with alarm, he jumped
out of bed and over to the mirror. Al
ready the stuff that makes blonds to
order had done its work. ' That prime
val growth was red, yellow and maize,
e'en as the growing corn. Jones had to
wipe tbe dust off his rasor and remove
the chin weeds.
"I suppose you think- you've done
something pretty smart," he observed
to Mrs. lones grouchlly as he removed
another bunch. : VYon've mined my
profession, that'a what you've done."
"Hather smooth shaven competency,"
averred bU wife sweetly, "than whisk
ered luxury." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Moving Fere. .
A teacher after giving some lessons
on physical force asked, "Now. boys,
can any of you toll me, what force It
Is that moves people along the street?"
He waa greatly surprised and tbe
class highly amused at receiving from
one of the boys the unexpected an
swer: . .
"Please, sir. the police force."
Good Cough Medicine For Children.
The season for coughs and colds
is now at hand and too much care
cannot be used to protect the chil
dren. A child is much more , likely
to contract diphtheria or scarlet
fever when he has a cold. , Ths
quicker you cure his cold the lesi
the risk. Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy is the sole reliance of many
mothers, and few of those who have
tried it are willing to use any other.
Mrs. P. F. Starcher, of Ripley, W.
Va., says, "I have never used any
thing other than Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for my children and
it has always given good satisfac
tion." This remedy contains no
opium or other narcotic and may be
given as confidently to a child as to
an adult. For sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists.
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High Top Working Shoes
$7.50 High top shoes $5,53
7.oo High top shoes 5X3
6.00 High top shoes 4.E3
These values in ' working shoes are posi
tively the best obtainable and will not last
long at these prices.
All-wool Sweaters
In sweaters w e are pretty well cleaned out
but we have a few in the following sizes
34-36 and 3S-4o at the following prices;
$3.oo Sweaters for J2.C3
2.oo Sweaters for 3.
Dress Shirts
$2.50 Dress Shirts.. -Sf.75
2.25 Dress Shirts (,P
2,oo Dress Shirts j,35
I.50 and 11.25 Dress Shirts.-. 3
SCALP1KCL
iMIIan Tradition That Tell, the Origin
of the Custom.
According to the, Indian tradition,
scalping arose In this wise:
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, ' of
years ago, when all the Indians In the
world were of one tribe and under one
chief, there arose a dispute in the tribe
as to who should succeed the old chief,
who had Just died without Issue. There
were two principal aspirants to the
honor, each having a considerable fol
lowing. The dispute finally ended
with strife and war, and for the first
time in t-j history was "brothers'
blood shed by brothers."
Tbe chief of one of the factions had
a beautiful daughter, and one of the
bravest warriors was a suitor for her
hand. Her father consented to the
match on one condition that the
young brave should Journey to the
camp of the enemy, many miles away
through the deep snow, kill the chief,
his rival, and return with some unmis
takable token of his death. In spite
of the snow and the distance, the
yonng man immediately set out on his
journey and, after lying in ambush
for several days, finally entered the
camp, boldly attacked tbe chief In his
tent, slew him and cut off his head.
Next morning the murder was dis
covered, and the tribe set off In hot
pursuit Little by little they gained
upon the fleeing warrior, who in his
anxiety to elude his pursuers cast
away all his impediments, to his very
clothing, retaining only his stone knife
and the trophy which was to win him
his bride.
His pursuers gained rapidly until
finally so near did they come he could
hear them on his trail. His grewsome
burden grew heavier and heavier, and
aa a last resort he whipped out his
knife, b tripped the scalp from the head
Of the dead man and,' thus lightened
of his load, reached his own camp in
safety, presented to his chief the tokeu
of his prowess and was wed, amid
great rejoicing, to the damsel of his
choice. - . . ' , -. -.,.,,',
From thenceforth he. was permitted
to wear an eagle's feather In bis cap.
and to this day tbe eagle's feather re
mains the sign of tbe successful war
rior, the number he displays depending
upon the number of scalps he has tak
ea. Chicago Record-Herald.
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Boy's School Shoes
The kind they can't wear cut
In. sizes from 11 to 2 2X3
In sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 2.25
Boys Hightop Waterproof Shoes
Inr. sizes from 11 to 2 ....2.113
la sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 2.13
All-wool Underwear
$4.oo all-wool Underwear $3X3
2L5o all-wool Underwear ,75
This underwear is of the (best make and
guaranteed to be all-wool.
l3-5o all-wool
3.oo all. wool
2.75 all-wool
2,oo all-wool
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TREED BY A BEAR.
Broke Out ef Cage and Got After a
a Keeper.
CHICAGO, Dec 22. -Samuel
Rocks (colored), employed as keeper
by the owner of an animal show in an
amusement park, was treed by a large
black bear last night when it broke out
of a defective cage. Rocks was forced
to remain in the branches -until the
bear was shot. When chased up into
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the trees he shouted for aid and was
heard by pedestrians who telephoned
to the police. The, two patrolmen were
sent to the scene but were drives
away by the bear. A citizen with a
reputation for marksmanship was sent
for and he brought down the animal
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