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Close at Midnight.
There is the strictest enforcement of
the midnight closing law in the Brit
ish metropolis, and it behooves the pa-
trons of the public houses to dispose
of thelr repasts on or before the stroke
of 12, for the attendants will grant
you not & minute of grace. It matters
not whether you are only half way
through your meal, out go the lights
and It is useless to beg for more time
Respect for the law is one of the char-
acteristics of the Briton, and in the
world’s greatest city there is no laxity
in its observance
“Banana Canteioupe.
At Palisades, Col, a cantaloupe has
recently been produced that has the
taste and flavor of a banana It pas
been named the banana cantaloupe,
and promises (0 become popular
Queer Name
Ferjuary, Hungary's new prime min-
ister, has a name that looks as though
the first two months of the year had
been pled to make it.
Dangerous Job.
Platelayers are more liable to acci
dent than any other workmen. On an
average one gets hurt every 35 hours
in the United Kingdom
Come now
Strictly
One
Price
Bince She Left.
A city lady wrote to a farmer living
in the country, where she spent vaca-
tion with her family last summer and
told him she would like to comq again
this summer, but she objected to the
kitchen methods of the hired girl and
tO the swine being kept too close
the house She received an answer
which contained the following
“You may cum alright; Hacpah has
went, and there halu’t been no hogs on
the place since you left last summer”
Magazine of Fun
Tropical Frenzy
Dr. Plehn, a speaker at the recent
and Belgion officials when set to gov-
«rn black men tropencholer,” or
tropical frenzy. An official with trop
ical frenzy, says Dr Plehn is not re-
eponsible for his actions. however,
criminal they may Le The disease
gets hold of him like creeping paraly
sis, an affliction with which It bas
much ino common
to
Father— What were you and young
Hugger talking about last night?
Daughter— Really, father, | can't tel
‘vou; the lid 1s on the calbimet -N, Y
BU
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i
THE VAGABOND.
{ f eannot bide the sober town
| With decent villa, church and square;
Nor madam with her st) lish gows
Nor master with bis glossy hair
I cannot bide the sober towr
| Nor madam with her s(yilsh gown
{But 1 would over vale and bill
And draw the breath of distance free,
{ And roam from opal dawn unt!
The twhight! creeps across
Ob' I would over vale and hil
| And sieep in barn or ruin’'d mi
Le lea
For | a vagabond was bore
1 love to wander far and wile
And seek gut places most foriors
Ang evil hills where men have died
For | a vagabond was born
And love the twilight and the morn
I Jove ail wild and woeful lands
Where | may talk wiih =
sireams
{| Or walk on desolate sea sands
And tel] the ocean all my dreams
I love ali wild and woeful jards
And ocean's Jolorcus wet sar is
1 love to watch the sunset die
And bear the [arge night's »
And on the moonlit heather
And wake to gree! the morning bl
1 love to watch the sunset die
And on the moonlit heather Lie
emt words
ue
For oh! | hate the sober town
I hate the villa, church and square
1 jong te Knock the houses down
And ruffle master's giossy hair
For oh! I hate the sober tows
And madam’'s modish silken gown
But ak’ the country alr is pure
And ah' the courtiry Iade are true
And loving comrades they'|
They'll stand by me they
But ah' the country air ia pure
And country friendships long er dure
—Dougias Goldring, in the Acaflemy
endure
i stand by you
Mrs. Jenkins’
Bargain
RS. JENKINS is an
wolnan
[any strong
qualities But like
all strocg men and
women she has a
vulgerable point
Achilles’ it tuay be
remembered, was
ic his heel while
Silegfried’'s was, {f
rumor and report
be pot lying jades
between his shoul
ders Mrs, Jen
kins’ lies (in her
ilove of a bargalp
She. who disdalus
many of the quali
ties pf her sex as
frivoiocus and
petty, is truly and
essentiaily (wunnine when the question
of a marked down article 1s under discus
sion She is one of the wotuen who are
lost to the world and their families ou
Sunday That day she passe
the advertising pages of the Sunday pa
pers for the Monday sales and Monday
morning finds her ready to go forth ap.
do battle at the bargain
which lie innumerable articles waiting
for the hardy ones wh
force of will and sfrenc!! f mus
break through the besieging hordes sur-
rounding them
Her husband, who forgets all the
of chivalry when talking about hes
sion for securing merchandise at
less thau its quoted value calls her
ging by even a less pretty
i that He has an especial
| the many peddlers who swarn
| back doors. declaring that
she is an casy prey
To prove his contention that though
i® all other respects she Is a =aLe, uor-
mal and well-balanced woman, upon this
particular one she is a little be
declares that one morning he listened
to a couversation between her and the
swarthy skinned soft-eyed Greek frow
{ whom she secures ber bananas Mr
Jenkins, listening. says that he heard
the wily Greek remark Very mice
bananas, only ten cents a dozen this
| morning.” He also insists though Mrs
i Jenkins is vociferous In ber denial, that
bis better half responded lo determined
| tones ‘Well, that is altogether too
i much. If you'll give them to me two for
arta 1°)
estimable
of
reading
counter ot
thicugu sheds
les
AN-
3
than
on for
about his
they Know
nals
iver
daft
take a ~annle of Aaren
Now the question of Mr. Jerking ver-
acity or of Mrs. Jenkins’ mathematical
ability as opposed to her love for a bar
gain is at stake in the argutient which
always follows his recital of this anec
dote as illustrative of her dominant
trait But the story of the stove never
fails to reduce her to silence and as she
bas never denled it even when angriest
and most incensed at his revealing the
family skeleton It may be assumed that
it really happened
The Jenkinses, be it known by all To-
THE GREEK
terested
family
oan
enough
lary of their
lawns
not
live In a here each
vary of its
ven large
vocabu
name of
owned
a
actually enj
[hese
te
yards are
be dignified in the
Ly the
actually
owners
Aud they
retited That fact Is not so irrev
aient as it may, on the surface seem
It may even be an effect of Mrs Jen
Kins’ ruling passion her jlege
lord refuses to reason Inductively when
discussing her
are
though
weakness
They also Possess a
horse iu {t, and as
commuter who leaves home early and
fetuins late, and a: no sturdy son has
tome yeuluann wourk for their
bousebold, they vernacular of
"Keep looks
fur-
washes 1] ndows, _crubs the
porches and wa it n fact, makes
himself genera efu He sleeps
ir the bara. and is no fur-
pace in that building the room which
be vccupies Is heated by a small stove,
which Mr Jenkins, a large
aan, said would do as a watch charm
when of usefulness as a
But Mrs Jenkios
Larn with a
Mr Jenkins is a
to do
the
the suburb
after the iav
Lace
who
n re of the
who Is
its sphere
heater had passed
had different ideas So when the ad-
vent of spring brought other visions
than those of the coal man de
termined to sell it, as John, ithe man,
bad sald that the grate was so badly
broken that warm, glowing coals fell
through its ribs into the ash pan be
fore upon him the warmth
that they were supposed to diffuse
>0
she
bestow ing
ond
ns
og
city
Jen-
alter a long aud exciting
with oue of these afore-
ald gentlemen, he yielded to her Im
persuasions so far as to give her the
inaguificent sum of $1.50, though he
offered only $1.35 for the with
Lroken grate and three lengths of
stovepipe Mrs
picture a loug line of =
and gentiemen inovad.ng the don
of Mr. Jenkins while he was ilter
Lis duties in the stren
Also plcwure the delight of Mrs
Ailes, when
controversy
stove
its
fu seal the
senkius threw in the
bargain
oval sd
The nlghts
who is of a
utile
The summer
grew cold
sympathetic wistful
John's A
soul would so loterpret her eagerness
lo visit the second hand in
h of a new stove the
Mr
on this one polot
passed
Mrs Jenkins,
mind, grew
possible
Over
sufferings tolerant
shops
to replace
old one 301d 50 advantageously
Jenkins is, however
inything but tolerant, and only sniffed
oulemuptuously when one night at
dinper Lis better haif announced that
she had secured a wonderful bargain
in the way of a stove fof John's room
aud that it was already purchased and
se! in place In his room in the Larn
SCAr
It is already
stuve pipe.’ she added, ualvely 1 got
it 80 cheap. at such a really wonderful
PRICE ONE CENT
3
bargain, that | houestly could not ask
the second-hand man w give me a stove
pipe. | must buy some, and | must also
get another coal scuttle You remember
I got such a good price for the old stove
that | threw in the old scuttle. which was
good as new to clinch the bargain ™
Mr Jenkins sniffed again, but afters
particularly good dinuer, his mood wae
kindlier and be so far unbent as fo fol-
low her lead 10 the barn, where the new
stove awaited his inspection and hisap-
proval. His wife was confident that the
latter would be forthcoming, and ft Wha
with the flush of triumphant pride and
$successful bargaining womanhood that
she stood besore the highly polished lit-
Lic toy of a stove that gracefully fille
the place once held by her husband's
dull gray prospective watch charm.
Something on that husband's face sent
1 chill through the warmth of her self-
approval and self-congratulation. [§
wis a something so strange that to es
cape tt she stooped and opened the little
dour to display the grate which was s0
iofinitely superior to the old and broken
owe through which the coals had fallen
She had not thought to do that at the
second-hand shop. She had. Indeed, for-
gotten to look inside In her eagerness to
reduce the price from $9 to $5.76. a feat
which she had accomplished only after
at least half an hour's vigorous and anl-
mated talk
She opened the doors and then she
gasped. She looked appealingly at her
busband But he bad a far-awa
dreamy expression He was murm
soft words, pregnant with meaning. 2
Our old stove was No. 5.” he said In
a musical monotone as he caress
placed a finger on the No 5 of the new
stove. Then he moved the finger
meditatively along the letters spelling
the name of the new stove “G-o-m,
Gem [su't that the same jewel-like ap-
pellation that graced our former heat
bestowing joy, my dear? Yes? |
thought it was familiar. But our Gem
had a broken grate!” bending sollcitous-
ly down to peer within the mysterious
realms displayed by the opened d¢
“Strange, isn’t it, that this grate
be broken in the same fashion? Do
kpow iy dearest that were it pot for
the fact that this stoye has been black=
ened and that It is minus stoveplpe
coal scuttle and cost you $8.75, | believe
you said. while ours was sold for a doj-
lar and a half—were it not for these
strange and confusing facts, | would
that this Gem Is the same bright and
gleaming one that you so joyously sold
last spring’
But Mrs Jenkins had fled. And as
it has already been remarked, she has
never. even when loudest in her own de=
fense denied his charge that in her
search for a bargain she had bought
back her own stove. paying almost six
times as much as she received for it,
But she is still looking for bargains, —
Chicago Record -Herald :
A Disappointment,
‘So you've been lookin’ up your Ane
cestors Did you find they were states.
men or politicians ®
Merely statesmen.”
financler
[cent ut
Press
Sailor Superstition. 5
Friday was the day on which
new Hamburg-American liner A
*hould have called at Dover on her
tn New York. But it was made Thus
day in her case, Friday being consl
ered too risky on a first voyage.
Recognizing Women.
India has, for the first time,
recognition to women as alds to
government by appointing Mrs. F
ha! Ranade, widow of the late J
Ranade, a visitor to the Yenowda on
ual jail
sald the you
none of them ever made
of politics! “—Detrolt
Quite So.
“What a pretty woman?
warried *”
Oh, yes—three
Leader
Is she
times." —C!
Wrestling in India.
Wrestling (s the most P
pastime among the natives of India.
Good and Bad.
A man is never too old to }
to forget.-~N. Y. Times.
SILVER
The Cumulative
Prosperity
~~
Chatelaine Watches $7.50 to $40.00
; LEATHER 600DS
Purses, Wrist Bags, etc, etc.
All Leather Goods at Discount of
5 25 per cent.
Of six years foretells such
a demand for goods as can
be furnished only by a store
whose prestige and resour-
ces call on the best markets
of this country.
THE GOOD QUALITY GOCDS
Now in demand suggests the one
dealer who handles nothing else
the store whose reputation, stock
and methods, are alike above re-
proach.
THE
PROSPECTIVE SCARCITY
In staple goods suggests the one
concern that is best prepared to meet
instanter all the demands of its
patrons at any time or in any quan-
tity—today or the “day before
Christmas.”
THE INTELLIGENT BUYING
Necessitated by prevailing condi
tions suggests the one dealer whose
stock equipment and facilities insure
the promptest service and the most
helpful counsel in gift selections
Signet Hat Pins with initials en-
graved, 50c each
Signet Rings,
$1.50 to 820
Signet Scarf Pins, with monogram
engraved, $1.00 up
Signet Fobs, $3.25 up
with monogram,
Silver Tea Spoons, 50c each up
Gold Cuff Links with monogram
2 per pair
Silver Umbrella and Hat Markers
with initials engraved 25¢
Watches-—Our stock is complete.
Prices from $2 to $125
Gold Lockets with monogram en
graved from $1.50 to $20
Toilet Sets in Sterling <ilver from
£4 to 225
ud
Beautiful Gilt ( locks £1 15
ery one warranted
Ev
Equal to
Every Occasion
Embodies our reputation.
There's a sense of security
in knowing that you have at
your command the largest
stock in this section with
prompt, accurate and reli-
able service backed up by a
responsible and honest guar-
antee that you will get the
right quality at right prices,
EE ———
Chatelaine Watches, $4.50 10 $15.00
Nappies, (five inch) $1.00. |
WATER SETS, ....$6.75 8