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/, THE AST1N GAZETTW HLST.ORIC.L VOL. L. ---NO. 17. HASTINGS. MINN.. SAT[$DAY, JANUARY 18, 1408. Larger and Greater than Ever. 111 per Tear In Advance. to per Tear ft not In Advenee. T1e Biggest Sale Ever Field in Iiastings. 1 JAMES P. GRIFFIN. BSG ANNUAL CLOTIIING SALE will commence on SATURDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1908, Sale of all my frne llaD Tailored Suits and Overcoats. i give you Unrestricted choice (except my finest black goods) of ANY SUIT OR OVERCOAT IN MY STORE My immense new stock of Kuppenheimer's Fine Hand Tailored Garments selling originally at S20, $18,' 16.50, S16, 515, l4, and' 513.50 Suits 2O, S18, S16, S15, S14, and S1350 Overcoats Young lien's Boy's, avid Children's Suits, Overcoats, and Reefers at a reduction of 35 per c#nt to 50 per cent off. All goods have original selling price marked in plain bold figures, you can figure off the discount yourself. Corduroy and Duck Coats, blanket lined, sheep lined, Wombat collar, Duck and Corduroy Coats, 32, 34, 36, 42, and 52 inches long, regular $15, $10, $9, $7.50, $6, and $5 coats at a reductio of 25 per cent. Men's and Boy's Heavy Underwear, Fur and Fur Lined Caps. Heavy Pitts and (loves, Wool Sweaters, and Cardigan Jackets, Heavy Wool Flannel Shirts, Heavy and, !`tedium Weigt Wool and Cotton Hose, etc., at a reduction of 25 per cent to 40 per cent t 4 800 pair of Men's and Boy's Wool Worsted and Corduroy Pants at 35 per cent to 50 percent off. Bishop's Fine Fur Lined Coats. North Star Fur -Coats. Biggest Reduction Ever Given in Furs. An elegant Black Martin Lined. ("tern -ran Heaver Shell River Mink Collar, $35 value, Reduced to $25.00. Imported German .Beefier Shell. Best Grade. Natural Muskrat Lined. Fine Dark River Mink Collar, every seam cable sewed, Our Leader at 145, Reduced to $35.00. Same Coat with Hudson Bay unplucked Otter Collar. Our 150 Coat Re- duced to $42.50. St. George Kersey Shell, Bleuded Jersey Rats, Finest Q,ter Cellars, regular 175 coats, Reduced to $50.00. 01 St. Alexis Kersey Shell Natural Muskrat and illeuded'llarmot and Thibet Lanib Lined. Otter or River Mink Collars, regular $50, 145, and $40 Coats. reduced to $35.00. Flue Bleck 1)ug Coate, Russian Calf Coats, Dyed Wombat Coats, etc., trimmed or plain. reduced from 033, 130, $25, 120, $18; to $25, $22.50, $20, $16, and 114 respectively, 1 Owing to the warm early fall and winter 1 am left with stock on hand double the -site o} former year's, and this wlIla bigger ive g you and better assortment than ever before. My plan is not to carry over a garment that was purchased the past season, and all 1907 goods must be sold in this sale. MORAL. -Only newoods every season. Hundreds of customers that took advantage of my sale a year ago will vouch for the honest values. Ask any of them. If you ever expect a bargain in your life on a Fur Coat, Fur Lined Coat Suit, Overcoat, and Furnishings, don't miss this sale. fly same guarantee as always on everything sold. Money back on unsatisfactory purchases. Come early and Get First Choice. Sale commences Saturday morning,1 Sth g January , and will last 3o days only. JAMES P. GRIFFIN Hastings, Minn. Terms of this Sale, Strictly Cash. CATGUT STRINGS. The Way They Are Made From the intestines of Sheep. Catgut strings, it is well known, are made of the intestines of sheep. The Intestines of the full grown animal are from forty to fifty feet long. The raw material train the stock- \ yards is first thoroughly cleansed of fat and fleshy fiber by dull knives ar- ranged on a drum turned by a crank. The white tough membrane that is left is then banded over to the split- ter, who dexterously splits the mate- ria, into even strands by bringing it • against the blade of a safety razor set upright in the table before him. The strands are then spun together and placed on the drying frames. An American E violin string re- rluires six strands, the European four. The strands, at one end fastened to an upright post, are twisted together while still damp and pliable by means of a spinning wheel. Taken from the drying frames, the strings are cut in lengths, coiled and boxed in oiled pa- per for shipment. To polish the strings • very fine emery paper laid on a grooved aluminium block is used. While the strings are still on . the drying frame the covered block is passed over the strings, polishing as many at one time as there are grooves in the block. It can be seen that from the manner in which the strands are twisted the et - feet of polishing is to weaken the string. In the essential features the process of making the fine gut strings for sur- gical uses or the heavy strings three- eighths of an inch thick sometimes employed for machinery belting does not differ from the method employed in the case of the musical strings ex- cept that the latter are handled with more care. -Chicago Record -Herald. Rural Claims. Through the influence of the daily Press cities and their needs have come to absorb such an amount of daily attention that the importance of the country and its inhabitants to the wel- fare of the nation le largely overlook- ed; hence the call to do everything that can be done to enlarge, to refine, to purify and to strengthen the life of our country people. And otle means to this end which has not hitherto been used as much as it might have been is the cnkivation in the school and in th e home of the habit ort rood - ere is no tyrant like custom and greater than the American. rsslated.-Bove,. DARING PHOTOGRAPHY. Perilous Feats of the Men Who Ma- nipulate the Cameras. A man who can stand or sit on the flange of a steel beam not so wide as the sole of your shoe and 600 feet above a roaring granite paved city street, there coolly to take successful pictures of the top of thecity far be- low him, must be possessed of three qualifications and each of the first wa- ter. He nue have judgment, patience and courage, these three, and, one may add without slighting the other two, the greatest of these is courage. So writes H. G. Hunting in the Technical World Magazine. The eager eye of the camera goes everywhere nowadays, and the man who makes picture getting his busi- ness adopts no peaceful, unexciting pursuit. 1f he is under contract to a great newspaper or magazine he may be called upon to secure a picture of anything, from a flashlight in the black depths of a metropolitan sewer to a portrait of the fairest white slave in a Turkish harem. He may be asked to "get" a female grizzly nursing her whelps in her mountain lair to illus- trate some naturalist's work at one end of the year, and before the other end bas come he may snap a shutter on the lip of some smoking volcano's crater. When you see a striking or a star- tling picture of man or beast in some extraordinary place or pose, do you ever stop to think where the photog- rapher was who made the negative or how he got there? Pepper In Olden Times. During the middle ages in Europe pepper was the most esteemed and im- portant of all the spices. Genoa, Ven- ice and other commercial cities of cen- tral Europe were indebted to their traffic in pepper for a large part of their wealth. Its importance as a means of promoting commercial activ- ity and civilization during the middle ages can hardly be overrated. Tribute was levied in pepper, and donations were made in this spice, which was frequently also used as a' medium of exchange is place of money. When the imperial city of Rome was be- sieged by Alarlc, the king of the Goths, in 408 A. D., the ransom demanded in- cluded 5,000 pounds of gold, 30,000 pounds of silver and 3,000 pounds of pepper, illustrating the Importance of this spice at that time. WASTED PRECAUTIONS. A Spell of Worry and Anxiety That Went For Naught. Ferguson was wending his uncertain way homeward, sorely troubled in his mind over the curtain lecture he knew was in store for him and casting about for some means of evading it. Sudden- ly a bright idea was evolved from his befuddled brain. He would slip into the house and get quietly into bed without awakening his wife. Accordingly he stole gently upstairs, carefully undressed outside the door and crept into bed, with his face to- ward the outside. He mentally congratulated himself upon his success thus far and went to sleep. When he awoke in the morning be dared not look at his wife, and after lying still for a few minutes and not hearing any noise from her he con- cluded she was still asleep. He then determined to arise very quietly, carry his clothes outside the door, dress there and go downtown to business without waiting for break- fast. He was successful in this, and, meeting the servant girl downstairs, be said: "Eliza, yon can tell your mistress 1 expect to be very busy today and therefore i didn't stay to have break- fast with her thls morning." "Laws, sir!" said Eliza. "Mlssis went away yesterday morning to her meth- er's and said she wouldn't be back till this evening." -London Telegraph. A Fugitive Bit. "Lend me a pencil," said the press humorist. "Thought of something twiny?" "No, but I've tbought of something that will pastes muster as a joke."- Louisville Courier -Journal. Betting Him Right. Re -Tell me, confidentially, bow much did the bonnet cost you? She -George, there is but one way to which you can obtain the right to in- spect my millinery bills. Be popped. Between Friends. Nan -Did you notice bow dreadfully that piano needed tuning? Fan --Why, no, dear; I thought It harmonised per. fectly with your voice. -Chicago Trib- une. In Nineteenth Century. Ing good books. -Bishop of Hereteed The English billion Is 1,000 times no freedom where edicts are not College Chums. A rich and well known citizen of au eastern city boasts of an extraordinary collection of books wherein the au- thors have inscribed their autographs. ,t is rumored that the envy and fre- quently the skepticism of his friends have been aroused by the flattering in- scriptions In question, and some cynics have even gone so far as to hint of a similarity In handwriting throughout tbe collection. The citizen recently purchased a rare edition of Montalgne's essays. One evening al dinner the costly volume was passed from hand to hand, and for a time the owner lost sight of It. When, however, it did finally come 1 back to him he was astonished to find on the fly leaf this inscription: "To John Blank, From His Old Friend and Classmate., Mike Mon- taigne."-Harper's Weekly. An Unmentioned Ancestor. Mr. B. Is very proud of his ancient lineage and never lets slip an opportu- nity to boast of it. At n dinner where be had been unusually rampant on this subject a fellow guest quieted him by remarking: , "If you climb much farther up your family tree you will come face to face , with the monkey." -Philadelphia In• ' ‘'►'boever Is not too wine Is wise.- oulrer. Martial. it makes you long for dinnertime t ,The Nood of Common Sense. I h d a really scientific man to see me the other day, and In the course of our investigation of a point we had in commou It was necessary to wash out a bottle. The bottle was empty. It was a round. wabbty vessel, and he had to hold it under the water a long time so that it might get full enough of water to hold 1t down. 1 asked him why he did not 511 It with water first, and he laughed and Bald he did not think of It. And that bears out my contention that It Is not because a man is as "clever as point" that be therefore grasps "the common sense of common things." -G. II. R. Dabbs in Fry's Magazine. Why Currants Are Nutritious. The reason why currants are so re- markably nutritious is that they con- sist to a very large degree of saccha- rin in its most easily digestible form - that of grape sugar. The piquant fla- vor of the currant, which adds so much to its pleasantness as a food, to deriv- ed from the valuable percentage of tar- taric acid which the berry contains. Potash is also present In the form of cream of tartar and is undoubtedly of dietetic value. -Ladles' Pictorial. CALUMET BAKING POWDER sa Best for flaky pastry, wholesome bread and biscuit -best for crisp cookies - best for delicious cakes, tooth- some muffins, doughnuts that will melt in your mouth. Everything you make well, it will help to make better, becaagiiit's "beet by test." Anybody can cook wail if tiny nee()slimiestt Baking Powder, Pallor, ebb it is almost impoastbie. It to anessleall Nmid d ram makes rawM e Wood. Prise le Moderato ENGLISH JUSTICE. Hard on Petty Thieves and Light en Wife Beaters. It is only about a century since the death penalty was inflicted in England for theft not exceeding the value of a sheep. Now some of the London jour- nals are making a merciless exposure of magistrates throughout the kingdom who keep up the tradition by sentenc- ing petty thieves to jell while inflict- ing only trifling fines upon wife beat- ers and even more brutal offenders. In one police court one defendant was tined 10s. Eid. for knocking his wife down in the street because she refused to give him money for drink. and another was sentenced to sixty days' it :prisonment for damaging growing potatoes and stealing two footballs. For cruelty to a borne, beating bis wife, who was 111, with fist and ham- mer and leaving her with nothing to eat one man was fined 10 sbilliugs, while auother, charged with stealing a pair of socks valued at sixpence, got fourteen days' hard labor. It would not be difficult to make up a list of similar cases from American pouter courts, yet the tendency in America Is rather toward a higher estimate of the value of human life. -Van Norden Mag azine. Australian Curiosities. There are some carious things in cen• tral Australia. Lake Amadeus in the dry Beason la merely a sheet of salt. Ayers rock, about live miles rouud, rises abruptly from the desert. For- merly vast rivers flowed here, and the diprotodon, a wombat -like creature worthy of its name and four times as large as a kangaroo, flourished on the plains. Now there are hardly any ani- mals to be seen. The flab live In water I holes of the hills until tbe floods wash them down to the valleys. At the end' of the wet season the water frogs till themselves with water, roll themselves I in the mud ate lie low till the nett rains, which may not Dome tor two years. Meanwhile the provident frog, like the "mouale" of Robert Burns. 1 may have the misfortune to furnish a I drink to a thirsty black. The natives also get water from the roots of trees. They are In the "totem" stage and re vers certain plants or animals which protect them. Men of one group can I only marry women from another single group. The West mouth is melodious. - Irish Proverb, A Memory of a Lost Delight. A fireplace any one may have, and Ito me the wonder is that our civilize- + tion has abolished the very soul from our northern homes. Fire is uo longer the joy of the household, but the slave, imprisoned in the cellar. Ah, but It was delicious when the old fashioned family sat together in the great kitchen around the huge; fire- place. A11 the evening we told stories, ate doughnuts, drank cider, all the time paring apples and hanging the long festoons of quarters from the beams. But the dear little mother, she it was who told the best stories while she was knitting mufflers and socks or mending our well worn cloth- ing. There were no parlors at all in those days, and as for thrummed pi- anos, we had not yet heard of them. At 9 o'clock, honelet and drowsy, we knelt and thanked God for life and love and home. Our bunks and beds and trundle beds were all in close proximity, and from every one of them we could see the flames, still jumping up the chimney while the big flrelog was 8iw Iy eaten through. There was not one millionaire In all the world, and, indeed, we were not worried over the affair. -E. P. Powell In Outing Magazine. "To Eat Crow." Although the use of the expression "to eat crow" in a metaphorical sense, meaning to eat one's words, may well bare dated from the time of Noah, when the bird was first looked upon as unclean and not fit to serve as food for man, It seems to have arlseu from the old tale of the officer and the pri- vate. A soldier, having shot a tame crow belouglug to one of his officers, was discovered by the owner with the bird in his hand. Seizing the private's gun, the officer commanded him to eat the bird no a punishment. With' the fire- arm pointed at his head, the soldier fell to, but no sooner had the officer laid aside the gun than the culprit grasped it and compelled his superior to join in the distasteful banquet. The private was court martialed the next day, and when he was netted by the examiners what had occurred be replied, "Nothing, except that Captain Blank and I dined togetber."-Wasb- fugion Star. A Little Hint. Mrs. Bakker -Henry, do you think a camel can pass through the eye of a needle? Knlcker-Dunno. Do you think the eye of a needle can pus though a button?