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TIIE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1002. mm sale! Gent’s Furnishing Goods and Fixtures. Moss Building, Clayton Street. Commencing Wednesday Morning, December 10th at It O’clock, And again at 7:30 p. m. and continuing through Saturday Night. DearingJ& Co. will offer to the public at their own prices: $1,000 worth of Woolens, consisting of high grade Imported Suit Patterns, Trouser Patterns, Summer and Winter weights; $100 worth of high class Cravats; $25 worth of Socks; $100 worth of Underwear, Wilson Bros, best grades; $500 worth of Manhattan, International and Peyser, Stiff and Negligee Shirts; $150 worth Collars, all sizes, E. & W.; $50 worth of Cuffs, E. & W.; $10 worth of Jewelry, Cuff Buttons; $125 National Cash Register; $37,50 Triplicate Mirror; $15 Wall Mirror; 5 Chairs, one Office Desk Chair; 1 Umbrella Case; 1 Set Window Fixtures; 8 Pieces Glass in Frames 50x40 inches. All of the Above to he Seen at Moss Building, Clayton St, Next to Orr Drug Co. The Ladies of the town are cordially invited^to also attend these sales, perfect order, seats, etc. These goods must go by December 15th, and the public can get them at their own prices. A genuine auction. No by=bidding. All goods as represented or money refunded. FRANK H. DEARING, Manager. Moss Building. Clayton Street. vm*nmn El LI PI NO FUNERALS. Ploturoutine For the Rich und 3*n- t lie tie For the Four. One of the most striking things to he Been on the streets of Manila is a Fili pino funeral. If the* deceased was wealthy and had hosts-of friends, the funeral will be headed by a band play ing selections from comic operas. The body of the deceased follows in n hearse covered with IJjutk cloth ar ranged In a grew some design anti drawn by six black pottles, each t*e- dcckrd with headgear of long black feathers. The hearse will be followed by men on foot wearing knlckerlx*ck- ers and cooked hats, and after them follow Innumerable vehicles of every description. If the Ixtdy is to be In tern'd, the gravediggers will precede the band, with their tools over their shoulders. Most Filipino funerals, .however, are more pathetic. The father of a few Weeks old baby will trot out to the cemetery entirely alone, with the little white ootlln balanced well on his head, and if a man had not the price of a Vehicle his remains will be .carried out on lxunlKK) i>ol«*8 by four Chinamen, and the coffin will be one that has seen service before. The natives have different ways of burial. Sonic bodies are put info the ground, while the larger majority are placed in niches in the wall of the c« no-tery. A slab cemented into the opening of the niche contains a brief biography of the deceased. Thr Scotch Sunday. As an instance of the observance of the Sabbath in Scotland, an English jwtpcr tells of a postman having a route between Stirling aid Rlairdrummond. He was observed to ride a bicycle over bis six miles on weekdays and to walk the same distance on Sunday, arid when ask«Hl why he replied thtit he was not allowed to use the machine-on Sun day. An Investigation followed, and the postman’s explanation proved to be correct Tfct ash:. k a ;ic i.ilv In Italy. liable season In Italy, says in -Italian Life In Town Luigi \ ill and <’o..:ilry.” i> i'rmn <*hii>tmas to East. r. the Line generally known as carnival At Naples. Medina and some otlu r plains tie re is also a suill- • season. Loiium-hting on the pe culiarities of life among the upper classes. Mr A.11: r: says: "Italians, even in the grandest estab lishments. *1 * n<>t wear evening dress for dinner unless tin re is a party. A blaek eoat is enough for ordinary pur poses. A few men who wish to be par ticularly fashionable wear a smoking eoat with a blaek t.e, whi*h garment is sutlieient for all sa\c very large din ner parties and balls. On the other hand, there are oeeashms when a man dons his dress clothes by day. It is de rigueiir at court funetii.ns, even in mornings, and at weddings. Ladies wear hats at the theaters except on gala nights. They display more jew elry by day than English ladies. The Italian aristocracy hu\e luagn.liccnt jewels, and oxen in quite small towns, where there is no great wealth, the old families can make a tine display. The tall hat is only necessary at marriages, funerals and at court. Young men of fashion wear it also when paying calls during the season. Among the bour geoisie evening clothes are hardly ever worn at all.” the Poet Turned. Office Boy—I told dat poet* wot l cal led dat you wuz out of town. Editor— Good! What dld.be say? < Mice Boy—He said he thought he noticed an improvement In de#paper.— hew York Journal. In certain. •Tie’s a queer chap.” ••Yes. Just now he was saying that nothing was certain In this world but the uncertainty of things, and yon couldn’t bank on that.”—Detroit i Free Press. A Touch of SnrciiNm. Mr. Skilltl; 111 ton receiving a deputa tion from his employees)—Well, what’s the matter now? Clerk (spokesman)—We want to be paid every week instead of every month. “Ugh! You get all that’s due to you. don’t you?” “Yes, sir.” “And promptly to a day?” “Yes, sir.” “Then why do you want to be paid weekly Instead of monthly?” •’Please, sir. It’s so we won’t be get- tin’ the lumbago carry in* home our wages.”—Loudon Answers. Tutt’s Pills After catlnc, persons of a bilious habit will derive great benefit by taking one of these pills. If you have been DRINKING TOO MUCH, they will promptly relieve the nausea. SICK HEADACHE——. and nervousness which follows, restore the appetite and remove gloomy feel ings. Elegantly sugar coated. fake No Substitute. WISDOM OF THE WIDOW. lvcvv« of a Man \V lio Doc* Not Agree AVItli Tony Weller. The man who marries a girl just out uf sc!.ool has need of much shrewdness, l.iet and fortitude, for the first year of matrimony will produce a violent revo lution in In r mind. As she learns to know h<T husband she who has never t eii him ( xeept when he had his best i-oat fin she will deem him a brute and v, ill be disappointed and disgusted, for she will compare him with that Impos sible ideal of manhood which every girl has in her mind and of which ho, of course, falls short. But with ex perience will come wisdom. In time she will understand that her girlhood's ideal, if Mie were to have him in the fiesh, wot.Id be an unbearable prig, ai.d that her husband is nl*oiit as good as men go and even if she loves him— a little Uitor than ;he next man. A widow has all this knowledge of im ii and of the world, which a spinster lacks, a man talks to a widow freely as to «me w ho lias found him out. She is expert in the arts of pleasing him, and it’ a bright young widow sets her ego f« r a man lie can escape her only by fiight. A widow has no illusions and no ideals. She is well trained and used to going double, while the spinster is an unbroken filly and is bound to kick up u go(»d deal when she first feels a tug at the snuTle.— San Francisco Bulletin. To Market on Stilt*. An interesting and picturesque cus tom in southwestern France Is that of going to market on stilts. Groups of young men and women mounted on high stilts may be seen daily crossing the marshy plains known as “the Lan des. l’he Landes” arc cut up Into small ditches, pools and hummocks, and stilts are in consequence almost necessary to those who desire^p trav erse them. Ill* Insomnia Completely Cured. “They tell me you have cured your self of chronic insomnia.” “Yes, I’m completely cured.’* "It must be a great relief!” “Belief! i should say It was! Why, I lie awake half the night thinking how I used to suffer from it.”—Cleve land i’lain Dealer. Faithful to the La*t. In many Scotch families the v Id man servant is a permanent institution, lie enters the service of a family when he is a l»oy. sticks to his place nml re signs only when the infirmities of age are upon him. Naturally he grows in time to claim as rights what were at first granted him as favors and if he is opposed asserts himself with a spirit of independence. An English paper tells a story illustrative of this. A lady’s coachman, a crusty old fel low, who had been in the service of the family in her father's time, gave her great trouble and annoyance on several occasions by not carrying out her instructions. At length his conduct became unbearable, and she determin ed to dismiss him. Calling 1 im into her presence, she said with rs much asperity as she could command: “I cannot stand this any longer, John. You must look out for another situa tion. You will leave my service at the end of the month.” The old servant looked at her in amusement for a minute, and then the characteristic “loyalty” came to the surface. “Na, nn, my lady,” he said. ‘I drove you to the kirk to be baptized. I drove you to your marriage, and I’ll stay to drive you to your funeral.” NESTING WOOD DUCKS. Tin* A School of PolNonerii. A merciless school of i>oisoiiers once flourished in Venice. During the fif teenth century even the government of the state used poison without any dis guise as a weapon. A laxly called “the ourC.slilp Period 1* Followed by n Ye:-;. Pronaie MunTod Life. When a pair of wood ducks find water and a hollow tree to suit, little time is lost in preparing the nest. This T: si. and the cohering of the eggs are l>.*rf rniid by tin- female, for, to the 1 cst of my knowledge, the male does little un-re than sit around on handy limbs and 1* ok pretty. During the period of nc.-t budding and while the duck s.n laying l:e is the beau ideal of a handsome ami loving cavalier, ever at- t ntixe and seemingly most anxious as to her win ivabouls should she happen to get out of fils sight. But with the waning of the honeymoon he seems to f. el rather l ored with the whole busi- m ss. and gradually he gets clubby-i. v*. wanders from his own fireside and hunts up another drake or two to help him loaf away the summer. The busy little duck keeps her own counsel und "sits tight” on the dozen or more highly P dished ivorylike eggs crowded to gether in a bed of soft decayed wood and down from her breast. ijuite frequently the nest is at the bottom of a hollow several feet deep, and no doubt the strong, hooked claws of the wood duck are a special pro \ ision for the oft repeated climbing out of the hollow.—Edwyn iSandys in OUt- Wlt of Horne Took**. It is said that Horne Tooke, who ex celled in that- dm Hike controversy ex hibited bv two disputants when pitted against each other with only the breadth of a mahogany board between them, was exceedingly quick and sharp at retort. When he made his most deadly thrusts, it was with a smiling countenance and without seeming ef fort or emotion. Replying to a man who contended that only landowners should be allowed to vote at elections, he said, "Bray tell me how many acres does it take to make a wiseacre?” When asked by George Ill. whether he ever played cards, he replied. "I can not. your majesty, tell a king from a knave." What can be more uniquely comic than his saying to his brother: “You and 1, my dear brother, have in verted the laws of nature. You have risen In the world by your gravity, and I have fallen lc Evening Bust. my levity?”- Saturday Savedjat Grave's Brink. "I know I would have been in my grave long ago,” writes Mrs. S. H, Newsom, of Decatur, Ala., “if it had council of ten” was appointed to deter- 1 not been for Electric Bitters, For three Our Arlntocrtivy, “She claims. I believe, to be descend ed from a king.” “Yes. Before her grandfather struck it rich he was known as the poker king of White Hoss Flats.”—Chicago Rec ord Herald. Granite Is the only common rock which shows no traces of animal or vegetable life. mine who should be dispatched, and they dealt with the lives of princes, kings and popes as one would coal with superfluous trees in a wood. A curious document is still extant in which the proceeiLings of this council ure record ed. It shows that one John of ltaguba prepared a selection of pots ms and scale of fees. The fee varied with the importance of the victim and ti e length of the Journey to be made for his dis patch. For poisoning the Duke of Mil an he charged GO ducats, for the pope 100 ducats, for the king of Spain 150 ducats, for the “great sultan” 500 duc ats. To improve the appetite and strength en the digestion, try a few doses of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tab lets. Mr. J. M. Seitz, of Detroit, Mich., says, “They restored my appetite when impaired, relieved me of a bloated feel ing and cansed a pleasant and satisfac tory movement of the bowels.’* There are people in this community who need joflt each a medicine. For sale by all druggists. Every box warranted. years I suffered untold agony from the worst forms of Indigestion, Waterbrash, Stomach and Bowel Dyspepsia But this excellent medicine did me a world of good. Sinoe using it I can eat heart ily and have gained 35 pounds.” For Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles Electric Bit ters are a positive guaranteed cure. Only 50c at W. J. Smith <fc Bro., and H R Palmer & Sons’ drug stores. To Get a Divorce. When "love, cherish and obey” and “sickness, poverty and death” are left out of the marriage ritual, what do the happy pair “promise” themselves— merely to keep the peace?—Boston Her ald. The World’* Largest trah. IIow would you like to ha\ • a crab like this squeezing your toe when you go bathing? The gigantic Japanese crab, measuring twelve feet, is proba bly the largest crustacean in the world. The specimen*-is a type of the spider crab, which inhabits the waters of the group of islands forming the empire of Japan. The body portion is the size of a half bushel measure, while its two great arms or “feelers” could eas ily encircle the figure of a man. Its eight arms or legs resemble huge bamboo poles and are extremely elas tic, and If strung into one line they would reach to the top of a four story apartment building. < mu: of the ex traordinary peculiarities of this crab Is the faculty of assuming a disguise by affixing pieces of seaweed and sponges to the body. Feed Him. If you want to win the gratitude of a dog, feed him. As to men, the mate rial difference is the quality of the food.—Baltimore News. A laugh Is worth a hundred groans in any market.—Charles Lamb. N'ornny Hotel Syntrm. There is a capital hotel system in vogue in certain parts of Norway. In villages where no hotel exists one of the more prominent inhabitants is sub sidized by the Norwegian government and in return is bound to provide ac commodation for not less than four travelers. lie may take In four if he chooses, but four is the minimum. The accommodation and food supplied are excellent, and the charged are very moderate. CKiCMLSitn' Pennyroyal rills ■ Orljrltu.1 f.M.I r- * - F-OHBJSSASK. a:.,..,.:,.