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NO MORE Worn out carpets Carpets to be beaten. House cleaning. Backache. Dust to breathe. Germs to inhale. Brooms to buy. •••1 I I I 1 I I McCOLLOM ANNOUNCEMENT Provision Company Theit great health, labor and money aaver The So E-Z VACUUM GLEANER Keep This Under Your Hat Ifoon Thio llnrlor Vnur lint Has arrived in our city and is awaiting your visit of welcome. If you call and get acquainted you will form a friendship that you will nev er regret. Operated by hand. Cannot set out ot order. Gets ALL the dirt. Saves car pets. rugs, curtains, furniture, money, health and strength. Price only $12.00 Isn't your health and the health of your family worth that much? Come and see this wonderfully ef fective, wonderfully simple labor, money and health saver. E. D. WASHBURN The Hope We are not strutting around with a hat full of rocks looking for,glass, but if complete assortments of lumber to choose from is what you're after, we're your huckleberry. Just Burn That In Your Brain The whole secret of LUMBER BUYING is to "GET IN RIGHT". Don't be like the fellow who went to see his girl when pa was home. He went in the "WRONG WAY" and came out "ALL WAYS". If you "get in right" you'll "come out rieht". You can easily do that by buying what lumber or building material you need here. Yours for business, Beidler & Robinson Lumber Company =G. S. EGAN, gr ill The N. W. Hawkinson Lumber Co. 1 Dealers In All Kinds Of Building Material! PHONE 119 ED. W. HANSON. Agent. I re tuiiii.t a a li.i «i*iii« '"Tit Itm mnnni 0 0 0 $ $1.50 POOR OLD MARRIED MAN. It was a full moonlight night and the neighboring bells were chiming the hour of 2 a. m. "Martha," called the young husband, who had been pacing the floor Bince midnight, "Martha, the baby is cry ing for the moon." There was a slight twisting' of QUiltS. "Yum-yum, John," was the answer, and then more snoreB. Two hours elapsed and still John was pacing the floor. "Martha," he called in desperation.' ¥here was a long silence. "Martha, do wake up! I can't quiet little Henry he is still crying for the moon." There was a series of yawns and then: "Well, John, for pity's sake, if he 1s crying for the moon why don't you give it to him and not keep me awake all night?" And then she turned over for an other nap. He Got the Job. "Say, do you need a boy?" queried the little fellow,, as he Btepped inside the door of the ice dealer's office. "Ever been in the Ice business?" queried the dealer. "No, sir." "Know anything atibut arithmetic?" "Not much." "What would twenty pounds of ica amount to at 2 cents a pound?" "Eighty cents." "Qpod boy! Gome around in the morning and go to work." Idiot at the Breakfast Table. "I hope you are satisfied with our table," Mr. Idiot," said the landlady. "In the main, yes," replied the Idiot "But I really think I ought to regist^ a complaint against yesterday's flsh balls, madam." "Why, I'm sorry about that," said the landlady, blushing. "We rather pride ourselves on our flshballs. What was the matter with them, sir?" "Mine had a distinctly fishy taste," returned 'the Idiot.—Harper's Weekly. PLAUSIBLE EXCUSE. Jinks—Boaster claims that he never breaks his word. Winks—I guess that'B right. It's too flexible. Here's Another Purist. This verbal diagnosis I make for thee, O sis Don't say "apotheosis," But apotheosis." A Good Guess. "Ha!" exclaimed the pianist, bright ening up as he read the lines in the man's hand: "here is a lot of money." "Some one's been telling you," said the victim. "Telling me what?" "That I'm a plumber!"—Yonkera Statesman. Right Name. It was Florida. "Why do they call this Palm Beach, pa," asked the unsophisticated young ster. "Because there are so many Itching palmB following you around, my son,", elucidated pa, as he passed out the thirty-seventh tip since his arrival. A Mark of Importance. "Our friend isn't making the stir in statesmanship that we expected." "No," said Senator Sorghum, "he hasn't even made enough enemies to have the syllable 'ism' tacked to his name to provide a synonym for all hu man Iniquity." An Honest Confession. "Do you think you can take a good photograph of me?" queried the wom an who had not even received honor able mention at a beauty show. "I'm sorry, madam," replied the pic ture producer, "but I shall hav« to answer you in the negative." Great Mimic. "After all," said Hi Tragedy, soli emnly, "death is the star tragedian." "I don't know," replied Lowe Com edy "I always think of him as a low comedian—a mere mimic—because he's always taking some one off."—» Catholic Standard and Times. Overhead Dangers. Gunner—"These 'Danger Above* signs are met with quite frequently these days." Quyer—"Yes, one doesn't know whether a safe is about to fall on hint or a disabled airship is coming down." One Better. Clerk (twenty per)—Why, my I give a whole week's wages (or a suit of clothes. Office Boy (three jjer)—J^at^i Aothing I give a whole weerBw&gef 'or a nair of shoes.—Puet- SURE SIGN OF SEA DISASTER When Pish Get Premonition of Death They Wash Their Faces and Cling Close Together. New York.—A report received by wireless of miles of dead fish near the Diamond shoals, which was sent in by Captain Johnson of the steamship Morro Castle, is causing much com ment among mariners. The slaughter of fish was generally attributed to an earthquake. Later advices stated that some of the fish appeared to have been broken in half by the force of the quake. The story caused South street to gossip and the headquarters of the marine reporters at the Bat tery was visited by many in search of information. Captain Acheson, formerly of the good ship Lexicographer, which was lost in a West Indian hurricane some years ago, was among the callers. "Dead fish at Bea, as a rule, mean a hurricane or an earthquake," said the former skipper. "This Captain Johnson seems to have mistaken a school of dead ones for a reef a mile or so long, over which the waves were breaking. Now there is a reason for that. When fish get a premonition of death they cling closely together. I've seen a whole mile of them In death, so that they appear to have grabbed one another in a death struggle. "There Is a sure sign of a coming quake at sea. It's when you see a fish washing his face. A fish washes his face In sunshine. He comes up with his face all full of water and turns it up and keeps it up till it dries. Now, why does he wash it dry, when he goes right down into the wa ter again and gets it wet? Ain't 11 the same with a man? He washes' hie face by wetting it, and then dries 11 off again. "I'll bet that If Captain Johnson had got out and Inspected them fish he would have seen that inside of a few hours every one of them had beer washing his face." Captain Wood, who had sailed the seas longer than Captain Acheson, corroborated the statement that fish wash their faces before any unusual occurrence. KITTENS STOP A TOWN CLOCK Litter Gets Tangled Up With Im portant Part of Mechanlsrrh—Trou ble Located by Accident. Trenton, N. J.—For almost a week Trenton was without official time be cause of the sudden stopping of the city hall clock, by which the residents regulate their timepieces. The fac tory whistles have been either early or late and the working class has experienced the greatest of difficulty in trying to keep tab on the time. For years the city has furnished to, the in habitants the correct time, free ol charge. Such a thing as the clock stopping had never befwe occurred in the his tory of the city. Expert clock re pairers were Immediately put to work, but "old faithful" could not be gotten in order. The experts diagnosed the case as one of acute Indigestion, but as nothing In materia medlca, nor plain plyers or monkey wrenches would provide a cure, the city de cided that the old clock was dead, and arrangements were made for a fu neral. Janitor Walter Seruby of the city hall was hired as the undertaker, and instructed to give "old faithful" a decent funeral, Interment to be in some aristocratic junk heap. Bernard R. Walsh, an attache' of the city assessor's office, decided to as cend the tower and bid a loving fare well to his dear friend, "old faithful." With tears in his eyeB he glanced at the old timepiece. He was alone in the tower and as it was dark he was Btartled by "mow, mow, mow." He got a lantern and Investigated. He found a cat and six youngsters huddled together in an important part of the clock's mechanism. The secret was out. "Old faithful" today Is giving the city correct time and sounding the half and full hours, and Trenton la joyous. FORTUNES IN MUSKRAT FURS Delaware Trappers Richer by Thou sands of Dollars This Year— Animals Getting Soarcer. Mllford, Del.—The trappers' season this year was marked by the highest prices paid for furs in years. This sea son has not seen as many muBkrats caught as in previous years, on ac count of the ice keeping the marshes closed nearly all winter, but the high prices have made up for the small number caught, and Walter Bennett, pne buyer, has so far this season paid out to trappers nearly $5,000, having handled 5,000 muskrat hides, 200 rac coon hides, 1,000 mink hides, 800 opos sum, 12 otters and 3,000 rabbits. An other buyer, Thad Windsor, has paid out about $3,000. One trapper is re puted to have made $1,000 during the season, which lasts from November to March. The pelts are caught along the Del aware marshes and eastern part of Sussex county, some trappers maUng as high as $50 in one day. Probably the most successful of all of the trap pers, considering the time she gives to the work, is Mrs. James Jones of Cove Neck who expects to about $500 this year. 8enslble and Modest, "She's a very little woman." "Yes, and so sensible. She doesn't even brag about keeping a maid. She takes It for granted that everybody ^lli know that she can afford qnp" GIFTS FOR BEATRICE Allen found lying on his desk a mes sage telephoned by hlB wife while he was away in court It read: "Am downtown. Will take the 6:40 home. Can you?" He had been in court all day and was very tired, yet somehow his eye lingered on the date that had been added by his methodical stenographer. June 29. Why— He staggered to his feet, overcome with direful thought Yesterday was Beatrice's birthday and he had forgot ten! He took out his pocket notebook from habit. Yes, her birthday was the 28th. He remembered with a blush of shame his own birthday, not two months ago, when Bhe had had the Williams into dinner and there had been a birthday cake with Its gleam ing candles. He flung down his roller top wltt a clatter. It was 4:30 o'clock. If he could catch the 5:15 express he couk reach home before Beatrice and may be fix up something that would mak It up to her. Telling the office boy that he would not be back he slammed the door ant! rushed away without a systematic thought. He plunged headlong into a depart ment store with but 30 minutes to ac complish anything and make the train He passed before a counter laden Witt silk stockings and promptly orderec half a dozen pairs, adding hastily "I'll take them with me. Hurry the package!" As he left the counter remembered despairingly that he hac given her silk Btocklngs at Christmas "These won't do for the real thing then," he murmured. "Here's veils Does she want veils? YOB, for the Willlamses' auto, since we have none.' So he bought three beautiful lonf veils In shadeB of brown. "That's surely the shade to go wltt tier tan coat," he thought "Thougt why I should give her veils I can'' see. Handkerchief?" he muttered, ai he passed a counter laden with them "Yes, anything! I like them myself.' He beckoned frantically to a clerk. "A dozen, best quality. And hurry the package." Then came the disquieting thought "But these won't do for the real thing." So he bought two pretty hat pins and wasted several precious mln utes waiting for his change. As he turned from the hatpin coun ter he gasped at the sight of a clock pointing triumphantly at five. He rushed for the door. Perhaps with flowers and candy this helter-skelter choice of gifts might do. If he could Dnly think of something she wanted bis forgetfulness might be overlooked At the entrance the Inspiration came in the shape of a parasol. She had wanted one last Sunday—a pink one. This would be the gift, then. He ordered it eagerly. Pale-pink chiffon It was, with an ivory handle. On hlB way to the train he took time get a box of candy and some roses. Then he swung aboard just as the train pulled out. He turned the latch key of his own residence softly and slipped in with the air of a burglar arriving home with a rich haul. In spite of himself he smiled as he threw his bundles down and mopped his brow. He had reached home first! There was. joy In the thought and he hurriedly open Bd the bundles. He opened the pink parasol, threw the veils over it and the stockings over them. The hatpins and the hand kerchiefs were in evidence and the candy was unwrapped, displaying a festive bow. Just as he put the roses In a vase without water the door opened and Beatrice walked In. "Why, John Allen!" she cried. "Whatever In the world! Didn't you get my message? You're a day early at this, aren't you? ThiB is the 27th surely. It's like having presents Christmas eve, isn't it?" "Christmas eve!" he stammered, as be kissed her in apologetic fashion. "You didn't forget, did you, silly man?" she laughed. "Tomorrow Is the 28th, isn't It?" Allen had been an emergency man from his youth up and he seized the situation with mighty grip. "Of course, it is, Beatrice. But lon't you know that that stupid Carroll case takes me out of town tomorrow?" Then as he watched her exclaim over her gifts he murmured to himself: "It's that blooming stenographer again, with her 7s and 9s. If I had only thought of the Carroll case I'd have known." Raising Wild Ducks In Maryland. Passengers on an Annapolis car the »ther morning were much edified to see S. E. Edgerton, jr., who has a sountry place on the Severn, with a market basket containing 20 little blackhead wild ducks, says the Balti more Sun. "I raised them myself," said Mr. Egerton, "and they are now only two lays old. The eggs I secured from luck hunters on the lower Chesa peake. From 21 eggs I have secured these SO ducklings." It is understood that it Is a very un usual thing for wild ducks to be do mesticated, yet this very feat Mr. Ed trton has accomplished on previous Mscaslons. He has raised in a itate about 200 wild ducks, altogether trom eggs secured In Canada and points not so distant, his Intention be mg, he says, to stock bis place with variety of the fowl. COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS? Stop at flie HOTEL NICOLLET "Racognisad a* die RaathrGood" Washington AT.betwean Nicollat aad Haas. 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