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Act Promptly-Own a Fashionable Walking Skirt at Price I It's been a great Suit Season and that's exactly why we can offer Skirts underprice because the Skirtmakers are beginning to clear their overplus stocks. Fortunate for the women folks as usual, An extra Skirt always comes in handy as a change, or to replace the one that's getting worn and shabby. Two prices on the Sale lots $3.95 and $4.95. Panamas and Worsteds for the lesser price black, navy and brown latest tlare model- trimmed with tailored straps, satin and taffeta, worth $8.00. Second lot Ghiffon Panamas, Sicilians and Striped Worsteds, newest shades flared and plaited designs some nlain.

others taffeta or satin-trimmed, usual lv $10.00. Sale-marked $4.95. You will be pleased in every respect commences Monday. with a skirt from either lot. Distribution T7 Rum I Re Re mnmi Rm Twenty-second and Greatest-Distribution of Excellent Rugs Made From Remnants and.

Odd Rolls In Our Own Workrooms! We EUBnlv the Bhaninc: our 40-fnnt Sincer Garnet Machine, sews them toe-ether thoroughly and sincerely home-made know, also, the quality of material which goes into these Rugs use the Odd Rolls and Part Pieces Brussels, Aiminster, Velvet so evervthincr but the vardaare is and Wilton Velvet Carpets which get first pick. come from our big Third Floor Salesrooms and we sell these Remnant Rugs more to advertise the department than for profit. OVER 200 ON SALE MONDAY and of course early-comers Axminster, Velvet Reran The Memmainiit BFnirssels Kuids The and Wilton Velvet Third Lot: 9x12: feet; stock price $26.50. $11 J.95 Sale price Fourth Lot: 10 1-2x12 feet; stock price $35.00. Sale price bsdUJ First Lot: 6x9 feet; stock price $10.

2S Second Lot: 8 1-4x10 1-2 feet; stock price $13.50. Sale price Lot: 9x12 feet; stock price tit5, no- Lot: 10 1-2x12 feet; stock $20.00. price jlkm skilled helm we do the desicTiinff and TT 07w latest a pair we Third Fourth price Sale 600 Ribbon Remts. V3 Less First Lot: 6x9 feet; stock price $16.50. Sale price Second Lot: 8 1-4x10 1-2 feet; stock price $22.50.

$11.95 Sale price jlkJJ Helvetia Underwear Samples Clearance Women's 50c Peeler Fleeced "Vests and lftj sizes, also vSr White Wool Vests and Pants, and Cotton TPCfc Shirts and Drawers 42 Wool brand Flat Fleeced Shirts "3Ff" all sizes Gloves Trifle Over Half Price Pairs two-clasp Kid Gloves colors only Monday European shipment all sizes 1,000 Pairs two-clasp Kid Gloves Seven-inch 89c Warp-print Ribbons yard Six-inch 50c Fancy Stripe Ribbon Five-inch 39c Fancy Stripe and ground Warp-print Ribbons 4V2-ineh All-silk 35c Stripe Ribbons shipment mentioned above tan sizes worth $1.25 a pair NTERNATI0NAL PROGRESSIVE THOUGHT LEAGUE Of BUFFALO; A MENTAL CLEARING HOUSE This Well Known Society, Founded on Advanced Lines of Thought, Is a Mecca for Thinking People. 'The greeting of universal peace to those who love the law of use, and seek after truth and knowledge. To them shall all things come, even powers and dominion and light; for nothing, that thought shall grasp or the human mind conceive Is Impossible. Love and light are the birthright of the human race, and free to all. The echo of good words once spoken, vibrates In space to all eternity.

The portals of the temple are open. Enter thou In." Margaret B. Peeke In "Zenla. the Vestal." and hand-made. We Satin Messaline Cents perfect Satin Messalines in rose, taupe, chandon, catawba, wood brown, bordeaux, navy, Uopenhagea smooth satin-faced Messaline exquisite new shades: that you mm DC CHILDREN WHO ARE, SICKLY.

Mothers who value their own comfort and the welfare of their children, shculd never be without a box ot Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children for use throughout the season. They break up colds, cure Fev-erlshness. Constipation, Teething Disorders, Headache and Stomach Troubles. THESE POWDERS NEVER FAIL. Sold by all Drug Stores, 25c Don't accept a substitute.

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AWARDED THB COLD MEDAL WHEREVER EXHIBITED. Sold by Leadlnr Dealers Everywhere. GERMANIA WINE CELLARS Hammondsport, N. Y. JOIN THE 74th REGIMENT Before Feb.

1. 1909 and Insure being eligible to have your name on the payroll for camp service this coming summer. Be In position to, take a vacation. en-Joying a healthful out-of-door camp Ufe, and receive pay from the State. Entire equipment furnished without expense to the man.

A military education combined with social enjoyment. Visit the 71th REGIMENT ARMORY, corner NIAGARA and CONNECTICUT' TUESDAY or WEDNESDAY even' 1 inr tnr frill (nrnK. .1 raids if wK i Imperial; cool summer fromVjune 1st to Nov. 1st of that year. Volcanic action and earthquakes must also have been very marked during the springs and early summers of several years following.

During the following discussion, which brought out many interesting points. Mr. Rollins said: "Last spring in a talk given before the League, I said, we will have a warm and late autumn, until about October 16th when snow will succeed much needed rain which will remain most of the winter. In using the word we, I did not intend to convey the fact that I referred to Buffalo as the center of the world, or the only place on earth, but I did mean the earth at large, for my calculations are world wide and not local. Everywhere about us, in Rochester and near Pennsylvania towns they have had much snow and some places six weeks of continuous sleighing.

October 15, 1908, the mercury registered six below zero in Germany, with heavy snow at the 43rd parallel. Out West at the same parallel there was ten inches of snow at that time and much snow has fallen since. Florida unfortunately, has had a taste of winter, and they are sleighing in Texas as an unexpected change, while Canada and throughout the Northwest they have more snow than they want. I keep a note of every prediction which I make, and marginal notes of its fulfillment. HAPPY HAPPENINGS.

We announce with pleasure, a talk by G. Rupert Lesch next Tuesday evening on "Spirituality and Spiritism." We meet as usual at Hotel Iroquois at 8:15 o'clock. Mr. Lesch has some original Ideas on this line of thought, and we trust that weather permitting, we shall have a fine audience to do him honor. 1 "The Stellar Ray" for January Is brim full of interest, and it has in.

its "Physical Regeneration" department a fine "In Memoriam" notice of the passing of Margaret B. Peeke, by her friend, Grace Carew Sheldon. Send for a sample 3,000 Yds, 59 Beautiful, brand new, the winsome colors of reseda, yellow, peacock, marine, champagne and per yard Choice of 50 shades full width, fast edge probably have not yet per yard copy to the Astro Publishing Detroit, which is only ten cents. "The Swastika" for January and "Toi morrow" for November are here. They will be reviewed later.

"The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Karthauakes." by E. J. Houston, Is well worth reading in connection with this talk. SIGNS OF PROSPERITY Increase of $46,000,000 in National Banks This Week. NEW YORK, Jan.

16. The Increase of $46,109,900 in the national banks this week was the largest ever recorded in the history of the clearing house. A large part of this is believed to have been due to the aeposlt in New York bank's of large sums disbursed in payment of dividends and interest. PILES CURED AT HOME BY-NEW ABSORPTION METHOD If you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind or protruding Piles, send me your address, and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment; and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with references from your own locality if requested. Immediate relief and permanent cure assured.

Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Write today to Mrs. M. Summers, Box Notre Dame, It la Presumption to gay Ton Havea't a Mind of Your Own, yet that is what is said to you when you ask for an advertised article and are offered a substitute by your dealer. ON! all Trunks, Bags, Dress Suit Bags and Pocketbooks at cost.

was there such a sale of Trunks, the store and we will iv you an SALE seen Dark give us a complete knowledge of vol canic action. It must be supplemented and enlarged by an Investigation of the traces of former volcanoes preserved in the crust of the earth. "The openings by which the heated materials from the interior reaches the surface include volcanoes (with their accompanying orifices), hot springs, gas-springs and natural arteslon oil wells. "A volcano may be defined as a conical eminence, composed partially of materials which have been ejected from below, and which' have accumulated at the surface around the vent of eruption, and partially by the condensation and crystallization of the elements which surround it. As a rule it presents at its summit a cup-shaped cavity termed the crater, at the bottom of which is the top of the main funnel or pipe whereby the communication is maintained with the heated Interior.

"A volcano may consist merely of one diminutive cone: or it may form or occupy a huge mountain, with many subsidiary rones and many lateral fissures or pipes, from which the heated volcanic products are' given out. Vol canoes may break through any kind of geological formation, even the strongest granite. "It Is usual to classify them as active, dormant or extinct. This ar rangement, however, often presents considerable difficulty in its application. An active volcano cannot, of course, be mistaken, for even when not In actual eruption it snows, by Its abundant evolution of steam and hot vapors, that It might break out at any moment.

"But it is in many cases Impossible to decide whether a volcano should be called extinct or only dormant. "Somma, In the first century of the Christian era, would naturally nave been claimed as an extinct volcano. No signs of Its activity had been known within human tradition; Its cast crater was a wilderness of wild vines and brush-wood, haunted, no doubt, by wolf and wild boar. Yet, In a few days, in the autumn of the year 79 A. half of the crater walls were blown out by a series of terrific explosions; the present Vesuvius was then formed within the limits of the earlier crater, and since that time volcanic action has been intermittently exhibited up to the present day.

"Some of the Intervals of quietude, however, have been so considerable that the mountain might again have been claimed as an extinct volcano. Thus in the years between 1500 and 1631 so completely had eruptions ceased that the crater had once more become choked with copsewood. A few pools and springs of very salt and hot water remained as memorials of the former condition of the mountain. But this period of quiescence closed with the eruption of 1631, the most powerful of all the known explosions of Vesuvius, except the great one of 79. "In the island of Ischla, Mount Kpomeo was last In eruption In the year 1305.

its previous outburst having taken place. It is believed, about 400 B. "Volcanic action may -be either on- foreign all Monday generally $1.00 part of th? and brown falls in heavy rain, carrying with it the finer particles of dust, in the form of liquid mud. "The water gradually disappears from the crater and for many days, dry, hot dust and ashes are ejected. This settles down over tne country for miles around, and is sometimes carried by the wind across the seas.

"When the water Is entirely gone the lava is forced up to overflow the lower walls of the crater and wind its way through the valleys to the se carrying with it death and destruction to all life and combustible matter, covering and ceiling all with a thick crust ol pomlcestone. "The rise and fall of lava in the craters are all in strict obedience to the expansion and contraction of the molten interior of the earth. These expansions are- produced by additional electric Influences passing- Into the earth at these points. The electric current causes a vibratory movement of the waters, which surround these points, producing chrystalization and solidification of the carbonate of lime held in solution in the waters, and coral reefs are formed. "The coral polypes (electric water plants) thrive in certain portions of this formation while It is In a plastic state, and die, decay, and are' washed out by the waters which soon fills the openings with solid lime.

They have no more to do with the building of coral reefs than the mountain goat or sage brush has do with the building of the Rocky Mountains. "The electric influence permeates the atmosphere, the soil and the waters, producing a vitalizing action, which causes rapid growth of vegetation, and has something to do with the perfect and rapid development of the natives, the coloring of their skin, and the growth of their hair. "The heat generated by this electric influence causes circulation of the waters, a gathering together at the bottom, to rise and recede at the surface. "In figuring backward to about 1600, I find that nearly every recorded case of extreme volcanic activity or seismic disturbance occurred at times of complicated planetary influence, and that the great eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, was at a time when Jupiter. Saturn Uranus and Neptune were all on one side of tne sun, and the earth passed between them and the sun in the order named, about Nov.

5, 1630. Jan. 12th. March 18th and April 25th, 1631. This would naturally have produced a very warm, open winter and an extremely HOT SPRINGS, ARK.

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Write for Illustrated noefe let to J. R. HAVES, Lessee aad Hot Springs, Arkansas. 1 Pants extra "Women '8 $1.00 Combination Suits Men's $1.00 Fleeced Wright's Health Men's 50c Jaeger and Drawers stant or periodic. I might name a num- ber of volcanoes widely dif ferent quarters of the globe, that.

from the earliest period in history, have been unceasingly emitting steam, gases and lava to some extent, but they are nevertheless exceptional. The general rule is that a volcano breaks out from time to time with greater or less fury, and after longer or shorter intervals quiescence. I propose here to give you a reasonable solution of these wonderful phenomena, and I appeal to the judgment of practical men, with trained scientific minds and shrewd common-sense. Let us see how the earth's internal heat is produced, and why it fluctuates. "A ladle of molten lead or Iron is not fire; there is no combustion connected with it, neither is there any combustion connected with the molten interior of ihe earth.

The intense neat forces all combustible matter towards the surface of the earth, and until it reaches a position where there is oxygen no combustion can take ijlace. Furthermore, there is not enough combustible matter connected with the entire earth to produce such heat, or maintain it for a single hour. "A cannon ball placed between the pads of an electric welding machine can be heated to a molten mass, and its interior will first become molten; yet there Is no combustion; no steam or smoke, unless water or combustible matter is brought in contact with it. "The interior of the earth must be heated to a molten state by an electric influence, produced by the co-existence of planetary bodies. The sun, being more than 750 times the mass of all known planets, asteroids and satellites, of the solar system combined, furnishes the greater portion of that electric influence, and is master.

They receive and give off Influence in proportion to their mass and location in space. If this direct influence, which is so constant and uniform, was all that the earth received, the elements of the earth would soon come to a point of rest. The variety of seasons would be regular. The movement of the atmosphere gentle, and always from west to east. There would never be any dense clouds, but always a thick haze and heavy dews would take the place of rains.

The earth's rotation on Its axis would be uniform; its orbit a true circle with the sun at the counter, and the interior molten mass always the same. "Upon Investigation, we find that these conditions do not exist; but that a secondary influence is re-acted from each of the other planets in proportion to their complications of these variations, and change the physical condition of the earth, hence, the cause of fluctuations in the earth's elements. "Electrio contact is made upon the earth through the earth's resisting atmosphere, and it is always strongest at mountain tops, at prominences that rise above the sea and at point In mid-ocean, where the bottom comes nearest to the surface. This is due to two causes: First, at these points the atmospheric, resistance (due to its varying: depth and densitv at different altitudes) Is less than It is at other points, and. secondly, because these points rise nearest to the source of influence.

Lightening flashes and other electric displays are always noticeable at mountain tops and at shallow places in mid-ocean. "The constant flow of an electric current from these points to the heated Interior, heats and melts Its way through the rocks, forming funnels or pipes, which act as safety valves to the earth. A complication of secondary Influences produces additional heat to the already molten interior, which means expansion and stress under the earth's crust. This can be relieved only through volcanic action. The lava or dross is forced up into the funnels, and when it comes In contact with combustible matter, gases and vapors escape.

"When It reaches water, explosions take place, and fragmentary substances are hurled high in the air. The water slacks the lava and produces dust and ashes, which is blown Into a dense cloud with the steam that Is generated by the heat. As the steam, wafted by the breeze, reaches the cool upper atmosphere, it is condensed and MM President Grace Carew Sheldon. First Vice-President John Harrison Mills. Second Vice-President Gertrude A.

Williams. Secretary Belle G. Lake. Treasurer Mrs. Mary M.

Hotchkiss. IJbrariak Sara Palmer Sheldon. 1 Corresponding Secretary Ida F. Moore. The League meets every Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock at Hotel Iro- fiuois.

You are welcome. Despite the many counter attractions last Tuesday evening an intelligent and interested audience met to listen to Mr. Charles L. Rollins talk on "The Cause of Earthquakes." The president said: "There is no need to introduce Mr. Rollins to a League audience, as since its beginning he had always gladly responded to It when crises arose which his knowl-, edge of astronomy would give a reason for.

and if the League continues to ex-I pand it will eventually have Mr. Rollins tor its astronomer, as it expects to at-. tract to it other students and masters along many lines." In opening Mr. Rollins said: "Ladies and gentlemen. I am flattered to And so fine an audience here tonight, and I trust that what I have to oiler you will reward you for coming.

"Seldom if ever before has the geolo- nS thinking public been so Interested and puzzled with any sclen- tine subjects as they are today, with the origin of volcanic action and the formation of coral reefs. I mention these two subjects together because of the relation which exists between them, the truth of which I shall at- tempt to show later. "The term 'volcanic action' not only embodies all the phenomena connected with tite expulsion of heated materials from the interior of the earth to the surface, but includes cause of con-1 densation and crystallization which aids in mountain building. "Among these phenomena there are some of an evanescent character, while others have permanent proofs of their existence. It is naturally to the latter that the geologist gives his chief at- tenjtion.

for it is by tnelr means that he can trace the former phases or volcanic activity in regions where, for many years, there has been no vol- canic eruptions. "In the operations of existing vol- canoes we can observe only the super-' ticial manifestations of volcanic action. But. examining the rocks of the orth's crust, we discover that in the lapse of ages, amid the many terres-, trial revolutions which geology re-' veals, the very roots of former vol-. canoes have been laid bare, displaying subterranean phases of vulcanism which could not be studied in any mod-' ern volcano.

Hence, an acquaintance aiy active volcanoes will not NOW FAREL'S going to move Cases and Ladies' Small Hand Now is the time to buy. Never Bags and Suit Cases in Buffalo of its kinL All goods at cost. 521 IVBain St. Cut this ad. out and bring it ainsv- 9 lassie.

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