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Beginning Friday Mar. 22 We InaNgurate Special Sale Prices
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on different commodities in our store. These prices are going to be genuine
Bargain Prjces. It will pay you to take advantage of them.
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ON M ONDAY M ARCH 25
W E D N E S D A Y M A R C H 27
On S A T U R D A Y M A R C H 2 3
ON TU E S D A Y M ARCH 26
T H U R S D A Y , M A R C H 28
We will allow 10 per cent off from
. purchase price of all Ginghams
10 per cent off from purchase price
on all Wool Dress Goods
10 per cent off from purchase price
on all of our Shoes
10 per cent off from purchase price
on all Groceries, except sugar
10 per cent off from purchase price
on all of our Hosiery
10 per cent off from purchase price
on all of our Corsets
We do not give premium tickets on purchases made at the reduced prices.
Come in and let us get better acquainted.
We want your trade.
CASH-PAIDFQREBS
FIRE ISLAND.
About tho Worot Sootio« of th . At­
lantic Cooat For Wrooks.
No other section of the AtUntio
coast line, not even the shores of
Cape Cod, Nantucket and Block
island, can offer a record of disas­
ter surpassing the roll of shipwreck
and death which is inscribed on
the shifting sand dunes of Fire is­
land.
For the last 850 years vessels
have been going ashore on the
beach, and every now and then you
come upon their bones, rearing up
gauntly out of the sand. Of course
Die great majority of the wrecks
have gone the way of all things
earthly. But the sight of half a
dozen huge timbers projecting from
the face of a dune, making an ideal
shelter for a brief rest, suggests
reminiscences of a tragedy of the
put. Occasionally, too, the waves
wuh up some odd relic that the
sands have been toying with for
generations, and the old inhab­
itants of the cout, standing at their
cabin doors, with shaded eyes, will
point up and down the dreary per­
spective to the places where ships
and steamers and any number of
other gallant craft came to grief on
the sands.
There are a peculiar charm and
attraction about Fire island beach
that are only to be accounted for by
its desolation and the grim events
connected with its history. This
does not apply to the settlement
clustered about the lighthouse and
the observation towers, but to the
long stretches, monotonous in their
apparent sameness, that run east­
ward toward the sheltered waters of
8hinnecock bay. It is almost unbe­
lievable that such a barren, primi­
tive landscape can be found within
fifty miles of New York city.
At certain seasons of the year
you can walk for hours and never
see a human being. The only noises
that break in on the solitude are
the twittering calls of the sand­
pipers that flit overhead. At dis­
tant intervals faintly marked trails
lead up the lows and bluffs inshore,
tending toward the huts of lonely
baymen, tucked awav in the shelter
of the dunes, scantily clad in dune
grass and underbrush; otherwise,
save for the wreckage that dogs
the beach, you would not be aware
that human beings existed any­
where. This sand covert everything,
obliterating footprints as fast as
they are made.
All the flotsam and jetsam of the
sea come to Fire island Bits of
Now 8 h . Hat*« Him.
woodwork, parts of small boats,
A WARY ANIM AL
A
young
man and a young wo­
hatches, spars, balks of timber, wa­
man
lean
over
front gate. They
ter casks and chicken coops, bits of T raits of tho W histling Groundhog of are lovers. It the
is
moonlight.
He is
British Columbia.
all sizes, from a matchbox to a
loath
to
leave,
as
the
parting
is
the
derelict’s shattered hull, are washed The whistling groundhog occu­ last. He is about to gp away. She
over the outer bar. If the ghosts pies as unique a position in the af­ is reluctant to see him depart. They
of all Die ships whose bones have fairs of the Indians of British Co­ swing on the gate.
been bleached on Fire island sands lumbia as does the mowich, or deer, “I’ll never forget you,” he says,
could be mustered they would tell among the same people. This small “and if death should claim me my
the country’s maritime history in quadruped attracts so little general last thought will be of you.”
chronological order.
attention that its importance to
be true to you,” she sobs.
Bluff nosed Dutchmen out of natural history would no doubt be “I’ll “I’ll never
else or love
Amsterdam, stout English ships overlooked were it not for the fact Diem as long see as anybody
I
live.”
from Hull and Plymouth town, that it provides the source of im­ . They part.
rangy Frenchmen, stately Span­ portant supplies to the Siwash. I Six years later he returns. His
iards, like the last victim of the nave never heard of the white man
of former years has mar­
beach, and many a goodly Yankee attempting to rival the Indian in sweetheart
ried.
They
at a party. She
crew have listened to the thunder the chase of the groundhog, though, has changed meet
greatly.
Between the
of the breakers and seen the white no doubt, when he becomes more dances the recognition takes
place.
sand through the spray, stretching generally known to civilization his “Let me see,” she muses, with
her
for miles beyond their ken, bare of numerous tribe will suffer a con­ fan beating a tattoo on her pretty
human soul. But that was in the siderable diminution from white, hand, “was it you or your brother
days before the establishment of hunters. *
who was my old sweetheart ?”
the life saving service.
I
made
the
acquaintance
of
the
“Beally I don’t know,” he says.
Many a storied ship has met her “whistler” on a recent trip into the “Probably
my father.” — London
fate on Fire island beach. Mer­ interior
British Columbia and Answers._____________
chantman and privateer, frigate found his of kind
wherever
and slaver, coaster, fishing schoon­ open grass lands flourishing
were
to
be
Johnny Suopoeto Hi* Fa.
er, yacht and liner have pounded Pursuing the Indian trails, one found.
may
“Pa,”
Johnny, looking up
themselves apart on the treacher­ see them at any time. Their clear from his Baid
book,
“what is the mean­
ous bar that scarcely shows be­ whistle, in a single soft note much ing of ‘metempsychosis
V ”
neath the gentle swell on a pleasant like a boy’s first puckered attempt, A look of confusion
suddenly
day. A rapacious destroyer, Fire may be heard for a long distance, overspread pa’s countenance,
but it
island.—New York Poet.
and immediately all the groundhogs was only for a moment.
in the community within hearing of “ ‘Metempsychosis,’ J o h n n y ,
Dayssy KUymVi Social Plana.
sound scoot into their burrows, means—it means—but if I should
Daysey Mayme Appleton will en­ its
and
as the traveler proceeds the tell you you would very soon forget
tertain out of town company for warning
is passed from village to the meaning. Look in the diction­
the next two weeks and has issued village, and
the little mounds of ary for it yourself, and then you
the following cards and sent them dirt from their
excavated homes, will be more likely to remember.
to her friends: “I will have two serving as lookouts,
deserted Information that comes without ef­
girl guests from out of town for the till the strange intruder are passes.
fort seldom lingers in the memory.”
next two weeks. What are you
other times when they are not Half an hour or so later Johnny
willing to do for them? I gave a so At
or perhaps the wind is sought the dictionary in the library.
----- (blank filled out by dinner, dead watchful
or
unfavorable
may be When he got there he found pa with
dance, party, tea, luncheon, etc.) seen and approached they
within
the dictionary open at “Met.”
when you had company.” “Unless range. My companion said he rifle
hie Doubtless it was merely a coinci­
they come up to the scratch,” says shot many, but that they remained
Daysey Mayme as she licked the so close to their burrows when dan­ dence, but Johnny could not .help
stamps, “I shall have to announce ger was about that they always suc­ thinking that his pa was something
to my guests that 1 am in mourning ceeded in falling into the hole even of a fraud.—Boston Transcript.
and can’t do anything for them be­ if they weTe literally shot ,all to
Gladstone and a Hat.
yond taking them for walks and to pieces. The Siwash do not attempt
prayer meeting.”—Atchison Olobe. to shoot, them, but set steel traps The most famous hat incident in
the house of commons took place
near their retreats and, catching when
Sikoa’ Way.
Mr. Gladstone was premier for
Fullcash (waking with a start in them alive when thev emerge, kill the third time and had to intervene
the middle of the night and hearing them with an iron rod which is car­ on a point of order after a division
sounds in his bedroom) — Who’s ried for the purpose. They dry and had been called. The rules require
store the meat for winter use, which that in such circumstances the mem­
there? Speak! Who’s there?
Hoarse whisper from the dark­ is said to have a delicious flavor. ber addressing the chair must do so
ness: 'Tor goodness’ sake, hush! The pelts are tanned with the fur with his hit on, and Mr. Gladstone
There’s a burglar iust gone down­ on and pieced into beautiful quilts, could not find his hat. .In despair
stairs. I’m a policeman, and if which the hunter and prospector he grabbed that of a colleague,
you’ll keep quiet and not strike a prize even higher than the four which was at least four sizes too
point Hudson bay blanket. They small for him, and the spectacle of
ight I’ll nab him in two twos.”
Fullcash obeys, and the whisper- make a warm, dry cover for a frosty the minute headgear rocking about
sr, whose name is Sikes, ambles I night and are light and readily on Mr. Gladstone’s massive head was
downstairs and out of the back door j parked into a small compass.— one that tho«e who saw it will never
with his booty.—New York Jour­ 1 Brent Altsheler in Recreation.
forget.- -London Globe.
nal.
TH E
S TEALTHY
TIGER.
Whan Ha Movaa Quiatly Daath
Nat 8 a am Mora Sitant.
I have seen a tiger, sitting up a
hundred yards from me in the sun­
light washing his face like a cat,
move a couple of steps into the
shade and fade away like the Chesh­
ire cat in “Alice In Wonderland.”
But what is more extraordinary is
that he can “move without some
dry leaf or stalk crackling to be­
tray” him. Often in a beat in the
middle of the hot Beason the inex­
perienced sportsman’s heart is in
his mouth as he hears the crushing
of a dead leaf, the slow, stealthy
tread of what seems some heavy
animal, but it is only “moa,” the
peacock, the first to move ahead of
the beaten. Then after a period of
strained watching, when the eye
can and does detect the move of
the tiniest bird, the quiver of a
leaf, suddenly without a sound the
great beast stands before you. He
does not always care to move quiet­
ly, but when he does death is not
more silent.
The question of how a white or
otherwise abnormally marked tiger
can take its prey is simplified oy
the fact that, as a general rule, the
tiger kills at night or at dawn or
dusk and that it is only the cattle
killing tiger that takes his lordly
toll of the village cattle by day.
Again that wonderful voice, the
most mournful sound in captivity,
“which literally hushes the jungle
and fills the twilight with horror,”
is a powerful aid to him in his
hunting. Often as I have heard it
the memory of one occasion is as
vivid as the moment when it held
me spellbound. I was stalking
sambhur in the evening in a glade
in the forest when suddenly, from
not fifty yards above me, rang out
a long, low, penetrating moan,
which seemed to fill the jungle
with a terrifying thrill and for a
moment made the heart stand still.
The native shikari, who, in spite of
Mowgli’s * contempt, may know
something of jungle ways, believes
that the deer, hearing the tiger’s
voice and unable from the rever­
berating nature of the sound to lo­
cate the position of their enemy,
stand or lie still and so give him
the chance of stalking his prey.
There is probably some truth in
this, for unless you are following
the tiger and have seen him it is al­
most impossible from the sound
alone to tell with any certainty
where he is.—Algernon Durand in
London Times.
Wasting Valuable Tim e.
An old farmer died in a little vil­
lage in the neighborhood of Pans.
H js fortune, the fruif of years of
patient toil, was invested in a nice
compact litDe farm. A nephew of
the departed, believing himself to
be heir, called a few days later on
the lawyer and before saying a word
about the succession thought it only
right and proper to shed a few
tears.
“Poor uncle!” he murmured. “So
kind, so affectionate—to think that
I shall never see him again!”
The notary allowed the young
man to give full vent to his Borrow-’
ful emotions, after which he quiet­
ly observed:
“I suppose you are aware that
your uncle has left you nothing?”
“What!” exclaimed the nephew,
suddenly changing his tone. “Tm
not down in the will? Then why
on earth did you let me stand
weeping there and making a fool of
myself for a good half hour?”—
Paris Journal.
Sooteti Craft.
A drunken man was once lodged
in the cell of a Scotch country po­
lice station, when he made a tre­
mendous noise by kicking the cell
door with his heavy hobnailed
boots.
The constable who had charge of
the police station, going to the cell
doot, opened it a litDe and said:
“Man, ye micht pit off yer buits,
and I’ll gie them a bit rub, so that
ye’ll be respectable like when ye
come up afore the bailie the morn.”
The prisoner, flattered at the re­
quest, at once complied and saw his
mistake only when the constable
shut the door upon him, saying
coolly:
“ Ye can kick awa’ noo, my man,
as lang as ye like.”
N.w York’s Fir«» Ferry.
The first ferry by means of
which the dwellers on the other
side of the East river visited their
brethren in Manhattan was a square
ended scow rigged with mast and
Mils. The fare charged for a horse
was 1 shilling, and a wagon cost 5.
This ferry was in operation in 1735,
and three-quarters of a century
passed before it was improved upon.
The improvement consisted of a
hone boat, a twin boat with a wheel
in the center, propelled by a hori­
zontal treadmill worked by horses.
This was an eight horsepower boat,
which crossed the river in from
twelve to twenty minutes. Then
came the first steam ferryboat in
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