OnPennsylvania Clincher Tires OLDSMOBILE MODEL A DETROITTOCINCINNATI 350 Mile N MOTORING IS UNATTENDED WITH ALL THOSE INCONVENIENT AND TREMENDOUSLY EXPENSIVE TIRE ACCIDENTS THAT DETRACT SO MUCH FROM THE EXHILARATING ENJOYMENT OF IT. CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE PROVES THE OLDSMOBILE the car that does things-the car for any exploit-for touring, for hill-climbing, for general utility. The Oldsmobile Model "A" Touring Car for 1907-a thoroughly tested car, built along the successful lines of Model "S" for 1906, but with greater horse-power, greater capacity and more finished qualities. The conclusive evidence of the capacity of these cars continues to accumulate. Can you get away from the following convincing facts: The Hill-Climbing Ability-Again demonstrated by the recent record climb up Twin Peaks, San Francisco. Here Model "A" not only sets a new mark of 2 minutes 29 seconds, cutting 1 minute 1 second from the record, but was the first and only car to ever make the run to the highest apex. Motor Endurance-Again demonstrated on November 20 at Cleveland, when Model "A" completed a 100-hour non-stop run. A copy of sworn statements giving details of this run will be sent to those interested on request. Touring Quality-Demonstrated on the 350mile non-stop run made by Model "A" from Detroit, Mich., to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 14 hours and 12 minutes, actual running time. This run was made on the high gear. When Cincinnati was Roadability-Demonstrated by the 75-mile run from New York to Poughkeepsie over difficult hills and trying road conditions, with the highspeed lever sealed in. Also in the Santa Barbara, Cal., run, and the St. Catharines to Toronto, Canada, high-speed-lever-sealed-in run. If you are an Oldsmobile owner send us your name, address, number of model and date of purchase, and we will send you regularly the Oldsmobile News Letter, a weekly publication devoted to the interest of Oldsmobile enthusiasts. Annual Sale At "The Linen Store" Our Annual Sale of Household Linens, French Lingerie, etc., will commence on Wednesday, January 2d, and continue, as heretofore, throughout the month. As Linens of all kinds have been steadily advancing in price for more than a year past, and as we believe they will continue to advance for some time to come, this sale will offer a most favorable opportunity to secure goods of the very best quality at especially advantageous prices. The lines offered include: Table Cloths and Napkins Hemstitched Sheets and Pillow Cases Bed Spreads, Quilts and Blankets French Lingerie 32-page booklet, giving details and prices, mailed free on request JAMES MCCUTCHEON & CO., 14 West 23d Street, N. Y. COULD WE INSPIRE YOU Your Selection Designed by electrical and mechan- BAKER ELECTRICS THE BAKER LANDAULET. PRICE $4000.00 Our new factory is the largest in the world devoted exclusively to making electric automobiles. We employ the choicest materials in every detail of their construction and finish, producing vehicles which in every minute particular cannot be equalled for thorough excellence. The Baker Electric Landaulet our latest production, is the most exquisite creation known to the automobile world. It is absolutely correct UCH complaint has been heard in France during the past summer on account of the excessive dustiness of the otherwise admirable roads. This is ascribed mainly to the increasing use of automobiles. It is asserted that houses and châteaux with beautiful grounds and gardens have been rendered virtually uninhabitable by the clouds of dust raised by passing automobiles, and even garden plants have been seriously damaged by the thick carpet of dust spread over them. It seems to be agreed that the remedy is not to be No.10 80th St., N.W. sought through any change in the structure, or the "I HOPE this time you've brought me matches "Yes, mother,' said the little lad; "I've tried The Troubleless Auto-Tire The Goodyear Detachable Auto-Tire is 15% Larger Than the Ordinary Tire Cosiest Made Irving as a Barnstormer URING his last American tour the late Sir DURING Henry Irving told the following story on himself one evening at the Players' Club: "My barnstorming days seem very distant, and yet very dear to me now. I recall with particular pleasure a melodrama of crime in high life when I barnstormed the provinces for two successful seasons. "My part called, in the first act, for a dark stage. In this darkness I fought with an old earl, threw him heavily, and, when he did not rise after the loud thud of his fall, I cried out: "Great heavens! What have I done?' "Usually this scene impressed and moved my audience tremendously, but I remember one night in Birmingham when a coster, with one little witticism, turned my outcry and the darkness and the old earl's tragic fall into ridicule and laughter. I have never seen that coster, but I remember his voice well. It was a slow, dry voice, like Mark Twain's, and it manifested itself just after the fall of my aged and noble antagonist. The old earl had dropped heavily, and in the silent obscurity I had cried: 'Great heavens! What have I done?' when the coster spoke up: "Strike a match, young fellow, and we'll have a look.""-Lippincott. ACCORDING to the Philadelphia Record, William Bradey, a veteran of the Civil War and a devoted son of Ireland, who lives in Germantown, told a good joke on himself at the last campfire held by the comrades of Ellis Post, 6, G. A. R. It appears that Bradey was out of sorts a few days ago, and his wife sent for the family physician, who wrote a prescription after examining him. Handing the prescription to Mrs. Bradey, the doctor, upon departing, said: "Just let your husband take that and you'll find he will be all right in a short time." Next day the doctor called again, when Mrs. Bradey opened the door to him, her face beaming with smiles. "Sure, that was a wonderful wee bit of paper you left yesterday," she exclaimed. "William is better to-day." "I'm glad to hear that," said the much pleased medical man. "Not but what I hadn't a big job to get him to swallow it," went on the wife, "but, sure, I just wrapped up the wee bit of paper quite small and put it in a spoonful of jam, and William swallowed it unbeknownst, and by night he was entirely better." "It's all right for you to be a member of the hats are for the discriminating. church," replied Richard, "but if I join who's Knapp-Felt DeLuxe $6. 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Like a monkey, always full of mischief, he up set the bucket of paint, which ran down the scuppers as far as the mainmast over the clean white deck. The second mate, as soon as it was found out, caught the monkey and swabbed the paint up with him till he would hold no more, and then threw him overboard; but this made bad worse, for the monkey caught the side ladder hanging over by the main rigging and came up, and before any one could stop him ran the whole length of the bulwarks, leaving the black paint all over the fresh straw-colored paint, and making an awful mess. The man who owned him caught him and hur KNOX PROPICIO NEW YORK. YOU get the same wear and satisfaction for five dollars invested in a KNOX HAT that you get for ten to fifteen times that amount in a good suit of clothes. Knox Hats might well cost more-they could not cost less ried him into the forecastle, but it was "All hands to clean ship"; for the decks had to be scraped and wiped off and then painted again, for Sunday must find the ship in perfect order. As for the monkey, the men turned to and shaved him clean, and he was the worst-looking animal that was ever seen. The second mate was as angry a man as could be for a time, but soon got over it after the ship was set to rights again, and he never molested the monkey, who was a great pet.-Youth's Companion. Rule for Hospitality WASHINGTON, GA., the first town in America named for the Father of His Country, lived Gen. Robert Toombs, one of the brilliant lights of hospitality in a country where social instinct is second to nature. A committee once waited on General Toombs to consult him about erecting a hotel in the town. "We have no need of one," said General Toombs, simply. "When respectable people come here they can stay at my house. If they are not respectable we do not want them at all." -Youth's Companion. DURI URING the siege of Kimberley the editor of the only daily paper there was often hard put to find enough news. One day in a club-room he found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairly new paper from Cape Town. He borrowed it and rushed to his own office, where it soon appeared as a special edition, selling like hot cakes. That same evening he met Mr. Rhodes, who inquired: "Where's my Cape Town paper?" "Oh, I cut it up for the printers," was the reply. "Please don't do that again," said Rhodes, mildly. "That paper came through by native $1,000."-Argonaut. runners and cost me "A pint's a pound the world "NESTOR" Cigarette is a quarter every- Therefore we are making |