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QUALITY TELLS PRICE SELLS WISHES December takinc extra offering an At Cost anic We are not trying to dec( placed on our 'goods. You n get goods at a most unbeard c do that some prices have been you ask the benefit of these k we want you to have what is c cut the life out of prices for t] stock of Dry Goods, Shoes, N< Saddles offered to you at POS For Wc Chi WARNER'S CORSETS R. M. C. CROCHET THREAD BLUE SERGE BLACK SERGE WOOL PLAIDS - TRICOTINE COTTON POPLIN - SILK POPLIN TAFFETA SATIN PI AID) SJIK GA LATEA ROMP~ER CLOTHI PERCA L D)RESS GINGHAMS APRON GINGHAMS YELLOW HOMESPUN COTTON FLANNEL COTTON HOSE SILK HOSE QUALITY TELLS 1 PRICE SELLS j ,JH To thank you for December "Comi in the gladsome h( d we also ask that Below Cost ive you in a single, solitary pric ust believe that at this sale you car f figure. You know as well as w< . reduced and in justice to yourseli wer prices and in all justice to yoi oming to you so we are going t< [4e month of December. Our entir< tions, Clothing, Also Harness an< [TIVELY COST and below COST men and Idren LADIES' CLOAKS LADIES' SKIRTS CHILDREN'S DRESSES CHILDREN'S.. CLOAKS CHILDREN'S CAPS LA DIES' SHOES SKIRTS LADIES' .JERSEY CORSET C~OVERS LA DIES' UNION SUITS LAD)IES' VESTS LAD)IES' P~ANTS Silk SHIRT~ WAISTrS PONGEE WAIST'S TIRICOLET WAISTS -VOILE WAISTS TURKISH TlOWEL~S ART PIECES MIDDlY SUITS PARASOLS J4 H E YOUNG RELJAB your liberal tra( non Sonse Sale )liday season and 3 yiou read carefully ALL SALES SPOT CASH NO ALTERATIONS NO EXCHANGES NO CHARGES ISTHERE A SANTA CLAUS? We take pleasure is answering at on1ce and thus prominently the communication below, expressing 4 at the same time our great gratifi eation that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: "Dear Editor--I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says 'If you see it in The Sun it's so.' "Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claius ? Virginia O'H[anIlon. "115 West Nineyt-tifth street." Virginia, your little friends ar( wrong they have been aflectel by the scepticism of a sceptical -,age. They do not. believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not compreliehensible by their little minls. All minds, Vit. gillia, whether they be mien's or children's, are little. In this great umiverse of ouirs mal is a mere in sect, an ant, in his intellect, as com pared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the in telligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and .knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is- a Santa Claus. Ile exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that, thev .abound and give to your life itt - highest heauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the woihi if thcre were no Santa Claus! It wouldM Ie as dreary as if there were no Vir ginias. 'Thire wouhl be no clild like faith then, no poetry, no ro manice to make tolerable this exis tence. We should have no nt joy mnent, except in sense and sight. The eternal light, with wiihii child hood fills the worbid woulbl b extinl gulished. Not believe in Santa Chius! You Imlight is well not helieve in fairies! You might get youri papa to hire mien to watch in all thechimnieys oil Christmas Eve to ca tch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Smaia ('laus, coming down, what wouli that irove? Nohoidy ses Santa Claus, hut ti.t is no sign that thetre is no Satnta (Claus. The most. teal thiungs ini the wvorbli are those that neitheri ciiren nor limen enn iiSee. id y'ou everi see I'oriies dlaningi ton the lawiO 'ourse~t inot, butt that's no protof t hat they are~ inot th ert. Nobodyti c'ain th ere:tie un seein motIi unseeable in andtt see wht. imakes' the nioise in side, but thtere' is a veil cotvterintg (lie unseiii witrbl which nt Olw stronlgest nlan, tnor t'ee the onite-l str'engthi oft all the striongest mien that ever li'vtd, ('0ub1 tear apart. Only ta it h, fancy, poetry, love, rtt nniniie, can push aisidet that e'urtainl 1indi view andi picturezL the supetrnal beauty matrl glory beyond. Is it all re l h,ti I ire:in ittta, ii in l hia iiay, ten tinmes tien thouasand years fr'omi now, he will cotinue to matke glad thie heait oft chilho..--.t lec tel. the' grave carriiyiing the scarie oft a fighlt thani tot admiit def'eat to avoidl a briuis'. T'lE D)O1,,ARI is a searc li'artttie. Oturi mierchlan e xchani ige ltif ul mterchandlise for this mostt pheitniminal "C(lono Sense Sale.'' 'IF" YOli wotubll dot youri fr'ieinds a k intl tdeetd tell thtemt oft Righy's 'Common Se'nse Salt'." i'he Young Reliable BY: LE le since the annour This sale will coy iour kind attention i! )ur center column. You Do. No o spend any more money than you ha, re many things in our enormous stock common sense" tells you that a dollai Ve certainly promise you that money ense Sale" will be coin well spent. TI .s well as ours and we believe you will ortunity. We haven't room on this p; ur entire stock so we just enumerate v ForMenl HATS CA PS SHOES SUITS PANTS -BE LTS TI ES MAD)RAS SHIRTS WORK S4-IR.TS WOOLI SHIRTS SPORT IIATS OVERA LLS SW~TEAT'ERS UNION SUITS UINDIERSlRTIS IDRA WERS CO LLARuS AND) EVERY OTHER THIING FOR THlE MALE FOLKS. IB, QUALITY TELLS PRICE SELLS icement of the itinue through 5 called to our it Want e to, but of course there that you must have and saved is a dollar earned. spent at this "Common is sale is for your benefit take advantage of this op ge to set. forth a list of I few. . nd 1 FAMIOlS H ART SCHAFFNER ,AND IMARZX St11'S FORi1 ME~iN ANI) M~ARTFH A W AS~HIN('TON SUITS ji(fOR. [ BOYS TO HE SA(CRIICRED IN . OPPOTALITYEL PRI(CE SELLiS