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CANDY
Christmas is coining ! And who ever heard of
a Christmas without candy ? Half of the pleasure
would be taken from the day if there was no candy.
We have the largest and finest stock of Candies in the
State. A very few, if any, retail confectioners in New
York or Netvark carry such a complete line of candies
as we do and our candies are guaranteed to be pure
and fresh.
SPECIAL
UNTIL JANUARY 1st
MIXED CANDY
15c 20c 25c 30c & 40c
AMERICAN MIXED CANDY
10c 3lb for 25c
Old-Fashioned Broken Candy loc lb., -ill) for 25c.
Boston Broken Candy 15c lb.. 2 1b for 25c. Candy Toys
15c lb. Popcorn 5c quart. Popcorn Balls 10c doz.
Candy Canos from lc to 85.00. Candy Baskets,and Candy
p Apples 10c per doz. Cornucopias from lc to 25c. We
¥ also carry a full line of tree decorations such as <Bass Balls
¥ from 2c up to 10c per piece. Tinsels and Wrappers. Mot
if' toes. Candles and Candle Holders. High grade Chocolate
I’f and bonbons In fancy boxes from 2<>c up to 85.00.
n All our specials for Cbristmas are put up in handsome
l> candy boxes, if desired. Bb. lib. 21b. 31b and dlb free of
jy charge.
| VIEDT’S
| 18 Park Place Tel. 342=i
Branch 5I Main Street, Madison.
.Tamos Mosedale, Robert Esvart Mosedale
m. it. c. v. It. M It. r. v. s
Veterinary Surgeon. Veterinary Surgeon.
Veterinary Hospital
31 Mount Kemble Avenue
Tel. 30. MORRISTOWN, N. .T.
A Spooial Department for Dogs and Cats.
Madam, Is Your Toilet Table Properly
Pin-pa redj?
You may imagine it is, and it may
be, but noli unless Aseptikon, the fra
grant antisept ie tooth powder, is prom
inent. This preparation is perfection,
favored try fast id ions folks and indorsed
by deni i.-is who know. Price 20 cents.
For sale by Henry M. Smith.
Some New Books
Life and Adventures of “Jack” Philip
By Edgar Stanton Maclay
The Daughter of a Magnate
By Frank H. Spearman
A Doctor of Philosophy
By Cyrus Townsend Brady
Pa Gladden
By E. C. Wait/.
half a Dozen Housekeepers
By Kate Douglas Wiggin
At
Runyons
WASHING ION.
Holiday Tour via Pennsylvania Rail
road.
December 28 has been selected as
the date lor the Personally-Conducted
Holiday Tour of the -Pennsylvania R.
R. to Washington. This tour will cover
a period of three days, affording ample
time to visit, all the principal points of
interest at the National Capital, in
cluding the Congressional Library and
the new Corcoran Art Gallery. Rate,
covering railroad transportation for
the round trip and hotel accommoda
tions. $14.50 or $12.00 from New York,
$13.00 or $10.50 from Trenton, and pro
portionate rates from other points,
according to hotel selected. Rates
cover accomnfodations at hotel for two
days. Special side trip to Mount
Vernon.
All tickets good for ten days, with
special hotel rates after expiration of
hotel coupon.
For itineraries and full information
apply to Ticket Agents: Tourist Agent
263 Fifth avenue, New York: 4 Court
street, Brooklyn, or address Geo. W.
Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Broad
street Station. Philadelphia.
Fourteenth Street Thejtti-e.
A big audience welcomed Robert B.
j Mantell back to the Fourteenth Street
Theatre where he made his first
success. Robert Mantell is in an old
fashioned ••thriller." in which he
.shines. He is still the sterling actor
j that he was in the days when he sup
i ported Fanny Davenport in "Fedora,"
and his voice rings the changes from
' melodrama to comedy with the old
time ease. The audience wept with
I him. laughed with him and cheered
j him until he must have been glad that
! he was back in New York again.
There are many more stars whom we
can spare more gladly than we can
Mantell and some of the newer stars
of the made-while-you-wait order
might profitably study his methods.
He was ably assisted by Miss Marie
[ Booth Russell, Miss Charlotte Lam
bert and a good company.
GREENWOOD « DeCOSTER
Contractors and Builders
Careful Estimates Given on ail kinds!
of Carpenter Work.
PROMPT AND PERSONAL ATTENTION
GIVEN ALL ORDERS.
Shop on Spring St., near Morris.
P. O. Box 87. MORRISTOWN, N. ,T.
Established 1872
DAVID H. WILDAY
Carpenter and Builder
CARPENTER WORK IN ALL
Ml
Estimates Cheerfully Given on all kinds of
work in my Line.
Office and Shop on Morris street-, below the
Depot.
pr- AH orders left at Shop or mailed to
DAVID H. WILDAY.
Washington
Market
FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA
ORANGES
OR APE FRUIT. PINE APPLES
FINE SOUTHERN VEGETABLES
FISH, OYSTERS
and CLAUS
i ,
KRONENBERG’S
3 i WASHINGTON ST.
ACKER. HERRALL
a con co.
WHOLESALE
GROCERS
Sell Direct to the Consumers
See Price List
MORRISTOWN BRANCH
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The doctor had told young James
Ridgely to hunt up a quiet place and
I give himself six weeks' rest, and
j Cressville was the locality selected.
The young man found himself the only
stranger in the village.
While he proceeded to rest the vil
lagers proceeded to size him up. At
the end of a week Josiali Flint, who
could tell the difference between a po
tato buyer and a lightning rod man
forty rods away, announced that he
was satisfied. Young Ridgely belonged
to neither class mentioned, said Josiali.
but was the son of a banker and there
fore a perfect gentleman.
llis announcement was followed by
that of Miss Ituth Williams, who was
also satisfied. Miss Ruth had seen her
twenty-fifth birthday. Slie was the
daughter of a poor but proud widow.
She herself was also poor, but proud.
The widow did dressmaking and mil
linery and was assisted by her daugh
ter. Poor lwt proud people must do
something to earn their bread and but
ter.
It was Miss Ruth's opinion that the
young and good looking stranger was
a missing heir and that he ought to be
made to feel at homo in Cressville while
waiting to be "discovered." Her moth
er looked up from her work to add:
‘‘Ruth, you are twenty-five years
old."
“Well, you needn't throw It in my
face,” was the reply.
“You ought to get married.”
“Well?"
“Set your cap for the stranger.”
“I'm going to.”
She did. She had been setting her
cap for various and divers men since
she was twenty, and if she hadn't met
with luck it was not her fault. It had
always happened that they died or got
married to some due else or had to
leave Cressville to avoid the sheriff.
The young man who had come to rest
his nerves took long morning walks.
Ruth Williams found out about it from
the innkeeper’s daughter and took a
sunrise stroll. She took it in Just the
direction and just at the time to lie
rescued from an old lame horse by
young Ridgely. He dashed forward
like a hero and beat the old horse hark,
and Miss Ruth duly expressed her
gratitude and almost fainted away, it
was an auspicious beginning.
In three days more it was the talk of
Civs ville that Ruth Williams had
“captured" tljk.- stranger. They went
_IK.. —
HE DASHED FORWARD LIKE A HERO AND
BEAT THE OLD HORSE BACK.
riding and walking together. She ex
hibited him to the neighbors and held
her poor but proud head higher than
lever before. At the end of the second
week they were supposed to be en
gaged. If anybody had denied the ru
mor. it would have been asserted that
young Ridgeiy had sat with her on the
front piazza two successive evenings
till after 9 o’clock.
“Ruth, have you got him?” asked the
mother as the rumors reached her ears.
“He hasn't proposed yet, but”—
“I see. Ruth, don’t let him get
away.”
Ruth didn't mean to; but, alas, young
men will stray. Uncle Jason Davis
was postmaster at Cressville, but as he
was in bed with rheumatism and his
wife had to nurse him his niece, Miss
Betty Sweet, came over from Akron to
help out in postal affairs. She was a
girl of twenty and fairly good looking.
She didn't set her cap for the stranger,
but in his calls at the postoffice he be
came acquainted with her and at
length asked her to go boat riding on
the mill pond. She went, and the wid
ow laid aside the lint she was trim
ming to say to her daughter:
“Ruth, that chit of a girl must be
crushed.”
“I shall crush her,” replied the
daughter.
But Betty Sweet refused to be
crushed, and young Ridgeiy refused to
devote his entire attention to either.
He was having a mild flirtation to as
sist the recovery of his nerves, and
time passed pleasantly.
On the evening previous to his de
parture he sat on the piazza with Ruth.
She had arranged it so. The mother
had goue to take home a dress, with
orders to “hang out” as long as pos
sible. It was an ideal evening for a
proposal, and Ruth divided the subject
j into twenty-four parts and worked ev
| ery one of them for all it was worth.
It was in vain, however. The nearest
the young man could be got to up
proacli the dangerous subject was an
admission that when he got married
he should have hollyhocks in his front
yard. When he Anally left, he said he
might write, and as the words were ac
companied by a sigh Ruth felt that
she was still Justified iu hoping on.
A week passed, and no letter came.
Then a second week followed. At the
end of that time Ituth understood how
It was. A letter had arrived, but had
been suppressed by Betty Sweet, who
was, of course, determined to prevent
a marriage. In another week it was
j public gossip that Betty had tampered
with the mails. She deified it. of
course. Some one thought it his duty
to write to Washington about it, and it
finally came about that an iuspectoi
arrived in I’ressville and proceeded to
inspect.
Ruth Williams had lodged no formal
complaint. All she bad said or would
say was:
"Mr. Itidgcly was to write me. 1U
must have written. What has become
1 of the letter?"
The inspector was forced to spend
several days in listening and ques
tioning. He might have doubled th
days had not the dead letter office
solved the mystery. It returned to Miss
Ruth Williams of Cressville a leti.i
that had been misdirected to Miss
Ilutb Wiliams of t’opesville. Sh
opened it in the presence of Hie in
spector end fifty of the interested vil
lagers. If was from young Ridgely.
and it r<
My Dear Miss Ruth—One of my sleeve
links has been missing since my return.
Did 1 lose it on the piazza the last ev ning
of my stay in your restful little town:
With kind remembrances to all—
"This is not exactly a proposal.” said
the inspector as the letter was read.
"N-no.” replied the blushing Ruth.
“But it may lead to one, and. while
I congratulate you on the one hand,
on the other I think you all owe an
apology to Miss Sweet."
Ills Dole Identified Him.
Bank clerks naturally and necessarily
require satisfactory identification of
persons who ask to have checks cashed.
The same rule is followed in the post
office by clerks who cash money orders,
hut what the nature of the identifica
tion shall lie and by whom are matters
which rest to some extent in the dis
cretion of the clerk. The Boston Her
aid tells a lory in which a dog bon
witness to his master’s identity.
A Boston business man called at the
postal order department to get an ol
der cashed, lint the clerk in attendance
had only recently been appointed, lie
said tlie caller would have to he identi
fied before payment could tie made.
"Why. I have had hundreds of orders .
cashed here." he replied, with a show
of impatience. '-Isn't there some one
here who knows me?”
“I’m the only one on duty just now.
The others are out to luncheon." smil ;
the clerk.
“Will you take the inscription on my
dog’s collar as sufficient identification?"
was asked.
"Yes: that will be acceptable."
The man whistled for his terrier and.
tnkihim in liis arms, “boosted" lain
up to the window. The clerk read the
name and address on the collar and
paid the order.
Coisfor: r --
A clergyman who had recently been
installed as the new pastor of an Epis
copal church boasted of his broad,
miudedness and orthodoxy. TI is ambi
tion was |o become a popular ci-o-gy
man. With this end in view lie em
braced every opportunity To announce
the fact that Ids advice and good of
fices were at tlie service of any one,
therefore, no matter of what creed,
color or religion.
One day he was urgently requested
to attend a house of sickness. On in
quiry lie discovered that the sick per
son was a Presbyterian. Regardless of
this, however, he wended his way. en
tered the house as a good Samaritan
and administered what spiritual relief
he could to the patient. On leaving
the house he encountered tlie wife of
the invalid and remarked:
"I uni very glad to have been of
any comfort to your husband, my good
woman, but tell me what made you
send for me instead of your own min
ister?”
“Well, sir, you see.” she replied, “it’s
typhus my poor husband has got, and I
didn’t think it just right for our own
minister to run the risk.”
Jack's Bride.
A bluejacket who was recently mar
ried gives the following description of
bis bride and her apparel:
“My wife Is just as handsome a craft
as ever left millinery drydock, is clip
per built and with a figurehead not
oft u seen on small craft. Her length
of keel is 5 feet S inches and displaces
twenty-seven cubic feet of air, of light
draft, which adds to her speed in the
ballroom, full in the waist, spars trim.
“At the time we were spliced sin; was
newly rigged fore and aft with stand
ing riggings of lace and flowers, main
sail part silk, with forestaysail of Va
lenciennes. Her frame was of the
best steel covered with silk, with
whalebone stanchions.
“This rigging is intended for fair
weather cruising. She has also a set
of storm sails for rough weather and
is rigging out a small set of canvas for
lighjt squalls, which are liable to occur
in this latitude sooner or later.
“I am told in running down the street
before the wind she answers the helm
beautifully and can turn in her own
length if a handsomer craft pusses
her.”
PRAYER TO THE JANITOR
THOU who, as Winsome Winnie say
Dost “turn the building on and
off,”
Give ear. 1 pray thee, to my prayer,
That’s Interrupted by a cough.
There’s gooseflesh on my personage,
There’s chilblains on my aching feet;
O janitor, please, janitor,
Give us a tiny bit of heat!
We’ve lost the iceman's friendship, for
We have no use for him or his.
The ice he furnishes ain’t half
As cold as all my family is.
My wife and little ones weep hail
That sounds like buckshot on the floor:
Please give us heat or, janitor,
We never will be warm some more!
Last night I lay awake and wept
To think that when the morning came
I’d have to get me up and dressed
And start once more the freezing game.
Each child is shaking like a leaf
Of poplar in a summer storm.
And now and then I see them crawl
Into the ice chest to get warm.
j O Janitor, hear now the curBe
That shall be thine if thou dost not
Give ear unto our freezing plaint
And make this flat all nice and hot:
May you through all eternity
Sit on an Iceberg stark and bare
The while a million palm leaf fans
Keep stirring up the ley air!
—Baltimore American.
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CHRISTMAS
FOOTWEAR
FOP
T.HE WHOLE BUN6H|
(jive Him Slippers!
YOU CAN’T DO BETTER
O UPPERS always make a, splendid Christmas
^ gift. Many will be tin* storm-swept nights
this winter and how comfortable will he be seated
in his chair, the heavy shoes cast aside for the
more comfortable slippers. How pleasing to con
template a pair of slippers as a year long reminder
of the giver.
Choosing Here is Easy
For our stock is large. All styles of slippers.
All Prices, 49c. to 2.50
THE GOODLUCK
SHOE BAZAAR
20 Speedwell Avenue
Next to Erench Millinery
Meadow Brook Farms
REGISTERED Guernsey Gnftle, Hampshire
down sheep, Berkshire Pigs. Plymouth
Rock. Black Minorca, Wtiire \ «~ghorn and
White Wyandotte Ohtakens, all standard bred,
j Our poultry breeding pens are now mated ui
with carefu ly selected prize-wnning mab** «*1
high quality. Eggs $2 per setting. Address
VIKA now BROOK FARMS,
Hcrnardaville, N. I.
Autumn Brings Its Irritation
And winter aggravates them. Sum
mer has its sunburn: fall brings rough
ness to t lie skin. Winter chaps the
hands and lips. Parola Cream gives
instant relief in all eases and contin
ued usage prevents return. A sover
eign balm. Delightfully perfumed.
Price 2fic. For sale by Henry M. Smith.
ROCKAWAY VALLEY RAILWAY.
Trains leave Morristown for a 1 stations to
Whitehouse, D., L & W. Station, 6.40 a. m..
5.05 p. m.; Park Place. 8 50 a. m. 5 15 P. m.;:
Wn n mg Ktktion 0 10 a m 5.30 p. m.; reach
ing Whitoh use at 11.40 a. m. and 7.00 p. m
Leave Brookside f r Morristown. 7 15 a. ra.
and a.20 p. m.; f-c Whit- house, 9 50 a. m and
n-UP ve Mendhara ♦‘or Mori istown, 7 05 a. ra.
and R.0* p m.: for Whitehouse, 10.05 a. m. and
5 LeaveWhitehouse for Morristown, 0.00 and
1,80 p. m.
JOHN B. AYERS
Insurance in alt its Branches
No. 21 South
MORR'STtiWN, NEW JERSEY
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