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Floradora High Ball. None but. the bait qualivy of ma- :uinl is and, and folks tell us that we do know how to make Is sizzling and fizzing and bubbling with the J. S; Mcllraith' flarling’s . . and repairing promptly attended to. Shoes Made to Order Call and examine my stock of thresh- ers’ Mitts. made to wear, in calf and horse hand. before purchasing else- where. Also harvest Mitts in ten and fourteen inch lengths. THRESHERS. We have in stock a lot of different Shoe Dressings in liquid, combination and paste, going: at 10c. {50 and 95c. SHOE DRESSINGS. New Boot and Shné Stow W0. A. DARLING Remember the place. Jordan’s Old Stand. max: door to Dan. Campbell’s Implement Shop. Good Grain Cradles. Ion]; 50. but it’ 3 worth t. Just see if it isn ’.t Screen Doors. , “W but are you hollerin’ for, Bill?” Call and exemine our assortment asked u mother at the foot of [he of Trays. dOCOYflOd With pic- ; stairs one evening after her two 80‘s tureo of PO” L00 XIII. 3079”; had been put to bed. "Please, I“ the Brook, TWO F“? Maidens, .1 mother.” said Bill. “Jim wants half etc. ThOY “‘0 3011338 hat. 'the bed.” ‘° Well,” said the mother, “ let him have. it and you take the Fly Nets and Fly Oil .°‘he'ha”o” "Yes. mower.” says ' i Bill. " but he wants to take his half Protect your horses when driv- 0‘” 0f "‘9 middle and make me 3199!) ‘ '- ' 9: ing with some of our Fly Natl, on both ”“199 or him' and when in the field with some . ' “â€" . of our Eureka Fly ()i], Nothing, Jolts a lovclorn Youth him Ice Cream Soda Fancy Trays. M eta] Photo Frames. Most Delicious Drinks. Doing Business. Di‘pen’illfl (”J‘Ihifi’ 5 Delicious Soda Drinks. A few more of these celebrated Red Bird Grain Cradles in stock. and have them fitted with a pair of nice Boots, Shoes or Slippers. We have them in various styles and qualities at popuiar prices. )Ye have renewed our stock of If you have, bring them to the Ehmmocks. Screen Doors and Window Screens. Call and exemine our assortment of Trays. decanted with pic-. tux-es of Pope Leo XIII. Horses at. the Brook, Two Fair Maidens, ; etc. They are selling fut. fine you seen our fancy Maul Photo Fumes. We are still doing business in the old stand. in the seme lively mnnner. Why? Because we have the stock, the quelity. the vanety. end It right prices. Our Soda Fountain Hardware Try our DRUG STORE OI‘ .‘Jlss Aggie Brown i the home of her uncle, idington. Mount Patent. Mr. Z. Clark thrashed Thursday last for Mr. John Cornish ten hundred and twenty-five bushels of fall wheat five hundred and seventy five bus. of barley. A fine result for one day’s work and goes to show Mr. Clark a husuer and Mr. Cornish 'a first-class farmer. Miss Caivert- and Mrs. S. Calvert visited with Mount Forest friends for a few days. In the absence of Rev. Mr. Trnu, pastor of the Methodist church. Mr. Christie, 0! , Scotland, delivered a very impressive address to an ap- pg'eciative audience Sunday evening. All were pleased to hear he will oc- cupy the pulpit next Sabbath. When a wise man Speaketh all the small fry should give earnest ear, so as not to mar the symphony nor de- stroy the sympa’thy. A foolish man may often appear wise by keeping his mouth shut. They say a young lady requires a long time to dress when she’s going any place. How soon a man falls into the same habits when he joins; the Rebekahs may be learned fromg Frank Lenehan at the McIntyre; block. Frank was so slow that hel missed the morning train and he do», cided to wait till afternoon rather' 1 than run after it and overtake it at} Varney. ' A traveller engaged a room in a 11 ‘ hotel and was somewhat surpri.ed mi the meagreness of the furnishings } ," Is 'lzis all the soap there is in theE ; room ?” he asked the landlord. ' " Yes. sir.” was the reply; ”all, Axe will allow you.” I The danger of carrying: an argu- ment to its lagical conclusion is chm set. forth hv the Chicago Post: The}; were at a. picnic. ”Fingers were made before forks,” she laughed as: she helped herself in demccratic {ash ion., " Yes,” he admitted, “ and peo;'-e were made before clothes” She hastily reached for a fork. ‘- Well,” replied the traveller, “I’ll take two more rooms. I’ve got. to mush my face in the morning.” . â€" i, -,., . m- in-..“ ......,,. "w, ,Wum tin: other hand. after getting nippml! think that she could ever grow into the a couple of times a week, he feels? air of boredom inomnbcut on a society like kicking himself all over town for belie? What a 1:in it is that she can- beinp; so generous. f not stay as she is!” “Left here and left no address” is about as mean a way as a delin- quent subscriber can treat the pat.- lislner. Pieces of information similar to the above come in nearly eve-:3.- week from subscribers in arrears from one to seven years. It is haul for :1 local newsmper man to tell exactly what to do. He hates to drop a per- son whose intentions may be gem} and who will no doubt pay up, but on tho other hand. after nattlnu “had--1: When a fifteen-year-old girl suc- (weds in making a " mash” she in never satisfied until she appears in long skirts. 'I‘he cruelist thing: a woman can do to us me is to marry us. {Huge A little girl had been looking a pictures of angeis and she turned t4 her mother and said: “Mamma why is there no men in heaven?’ “ But there are,” replied the mother "Then why is it.” asked the clniid A Tennessee paper records birth of a girl baby with three bands and arms. Fortunate infant When she attains the age of long dresses she will be able to carry an umbrella in one hand. hold up her skirts with the second and keep the wind from blow- ing her but 03 with the third. Nothing jolts a lovclorn youth like asking for a. girl’s hand and receiving her father’s foot. K4 Jone 15' i he";£6;§'t§§} ‘31:: He wondered if eny other chap ‘ Ever drank from s mug like that. | *- ‘ Dr. W. N. Me 'icer, Bishop Coed- .‘ jutor of Rhode Island, tells a funnv experience at a. recent visit to Bos- ton. He saw some boys trotting ,down Tremont street and keeping 'close together. One of them kep: Isnying " Chm-2;! Cling! Chm: 3” at d Senother occasionally said. ” Toot I” ~The Bishop asked what they were :doinc and was informed they werel |playing: " automobile.” The one say-l ing "' chug ” was the engine and the one saying “ toot ” the chafl’eur and the one eeying nothing was a friend takingeride. The auto moved on. and the BishOp noticed a fourth boy. running along about fifty feet behind the others, and asked him what he represented. "Oh, I’m the smell.” was the perfectly serious answer. that we never see any picturPs of 45918 with whiskers or moustache?” Tran. but there are men in heaven.” as the rep2y, “only they get in by Jose shave. KITS AND W. Orchard. Brown ig‘visiting at Mr. J89. “Ed- up: at Bed to “You have new standards of meas- urement,” he retorted gayly. “When I heard you play, I was numbering you among those electâ€"even as St. Cecilia herself.” She shook her head soberly. “I am notâ€"I never will beâ€"a real musician.” “Then what are you? What do you do '3” he persisted. The girl flnphed gufltfly. “Iâ€"I play accompaniments,” she faltered. “And I," he said boldly, “sing. Will no 918,! m accompaniment: name The girl glanced up at him sanclly. “That ls only after they become great,” she said, with decision, “and I, you see. am still very small.” She stood up. Yes. she barely came to his shoulder. ! As he turni‘d he glanced carelessly 3 up at the tiny balcony. expecting to 3 see some long haired. spectuclod musl- ‘ chm presiding at the grand piano. He i started, for instead he saw a slender j figure swaying lightly over the keys. 3 a delicate profile. with red lips par‘u'd I in a smile. and gold bronze hair brush- ; mg a flushed cheek. “Cecilia herself!” 1 he murmured. “But I must have a ' nearer View of the sweet saint." Irving's eyes fivlnklcd as he an. swered gravely: “Pardon my mistake. But are not all musicians ‘madam’ or ‘mademoiselle? " Aniee stretched out her hand eagerly. “I’m not ‘mademoiselle,’ " she laughed. “only plain ‘miss.’ But I have been wishing for something to drink. and it was very kind of you to think of it." "I am Mrs. Van Tassel’s cousin,” he said, “and I thought you might like something cool to’ drink.” “Pardon, madcmoiselle,” a pleasant voice said courteously. She turned a startled face. All! It was the young man whom she had noticed talking to Mrs. \‘au Tassel. She had wondered vaguely whom he might be. The strings still reverberated with the last sounding chord. Auice leunnd back. with a little sigh. It was very warm and more exhaustiu" than she had expected. Would she have time, she wondered, to go down for a drink between dances? Irving, howcwx, uni‘wd for no 111)- swer, b1t ran on chcmfulh. "What dandy mu sic you ham! 1’ 11 just stroll off and hunt me up a partner. for I can't resist it." Mrs. V311 Tassel smiled in an absent fashion. She was more concm-ned with the problem of making every bashful Tom, Dick and Harry do his duty manfully and in seeing that no little miss tasted lllUS early the pangs of being a Wallflower. Irving 1:111g111311. “11:11‘11 you so little 12111111 111 1111' word. 1111113111?” 110 said 111111111. “' ‘111 1111111 1: 1 :1111 01'11-11 1111- 1111113 111' (111111111111 :11111 11111 11111)’ too 1101» 111'1111 1. 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She beamed at the broad shouldered fellow as she eald dellghtedly: “Oh, Ir- his way skillfully around the lab"; drawing room to where little Mrs. Van Tassel was as busy as the proverbial old woman in the shoe. As the doors of the Van Tassel man- sion swung open the sweet. high so- prano of children’s voices reached Ir- ving Ogdcn’s ear. Mingled with it were the rhythmic beats of a rollicking two- step. It set the young man’s blood to dancing. an afternoon of real enjoyment to o!!- set the stupidity of that dinner tonight. Oh, there she isnowi” And he thread- -3.- “It’s a gey bad bhslness for Pan; pulr man, but is’t his ain leg or the leg that helm t9 the toon that’- brdken “i" Naturally the mishap became food for town gossip, and one old wife in discussing the matter with a neighbor Wes overheard saying: A few months afterward, the town clerk, who was generally known by his Christian name. Paul, was unfortunate enough to have his other leg fractured in an accident. as soon as he was sufficiently cred. Which Let! In a small town in the west of Scot- land the town clerk. who was a bit of a “character," had the misfortune to lose his leg in a railway accident. As a mark of appreciation and es- teem tor his long services the council unanimously agreed to replace his loss with an artificial limb, which they did Emerson’s Courtesy. ; When Mrs. Mary A. Livermore was 3' a little girl she was monitor at the ' Hancock school in Boston, and it was fher duty to answer the door. One . rainy day the bell rang and she found . at the door a tall, thin man, with a dripping umbrella, who inquired { ‘ the principal. She was just at the hoidenish and disrespectful age, but there was something about this visitor which so impressed her that she led him in as politely as it he had been a prince, placed a chair for him by the fire, relieved him of his wet coat and umbrella and, after she had started to leave the room. came back to draw a fire screen between him and the blaze for fear he would find it too hot. She afterward expressed to her teacher some surprise at the unwonted civ- ilities she had felt impelled to show the stranger. He answered: “Ah. that was Ralph Waldo Emerson. and that is the eil’ect he has upon everybody. He is so courteous himself that it calls out the latent courtesy in all others." Society and Evolution. 3 ,3 “Society” is a emnparatively recent 3 , and almost local phenomenon. Its an« ' : cestor in Europe was feudalismâ€"the ' 5 fighting men, the natural aristocracy ' on one side and their victims and serfs f on the other. Today, the traders and . hucksters, grown rich, occupy the eas- ‘ tles of their late baron masters and -' sport their titles. though a remnant of 1 the genuine nohles stfll survives, terri- ; ble examples of what happens to a gen . eration that has outlived its em. But i the physical force regime, While it last- , cd, stood on a sounder and juster foun. , S datiou than does the money power at . present in possession, and the latter { will hardly last as long as the former 5 did. It is, I repeat, comparatively lo . cal as well as recent. It could exist 4 only in countries given up as are those of Europe and America to industrial- . ism. Nevertheless the world may still offer living example: of society in ali ? its stages, from the most primitive to i that which now passes. Africa and Asia has each its social organization, and so have the Marquesas, Patagonia and Eskimoland.â€"â€"Smart Set. Anice dropped her lashes, and a wave of color crept up to moot them. “Per- haps,” she nmrmurod. “It means,” she answered serenely, “that I did it for charity. You see, I :' was trying to whcedle some money out ,3 of Fred, my brother, for my poor chil- i dren at the home. He was teasing me, g and he said it was all very well to talk when I never gave a dollar that I had earned myself. He bet me a cool hun- dred that I could not earn even five. Then Mrs. Van Tassel’s music disap- pointed her at the last moment, and I heard about it, and she promised not to tell. So I won my bet and earned $20 as well as Fred’s hundred. And the children will haVe an oh-he-joyful Christmas,” she finished triunmhantly. “And you did it all for charity,” he said softly. “I wonder if you would do ‘ something for incâ€"for charity. You i remember what I asked you about the I accommnimcnts‘3” He looked at her eagerly. “But tell me what it all means," he lmplored when they were safely start- ed on the first course and partially screened by the rose branches which formed the center table decoration. And she did, but it was for love. “I am very glad to meet youâ€"~agalnâ€" Mr. Irving Ogden,” Anice said demure- 1y. w- “‘1. I He turned 'courteouéfy and found himself looking down into a pair of laughing blue eyes. “Mademoiselle. you ?" he stammered. His aunt’s voice recalled his duties as a guest. “Irving, let me introduce Miss Corbyn, your dinner partner." _ _â€"v -â€"-.â€"p uvvuln her. A. the remembrance of a tantalizing smile came back to him he cursed him- self for his stupidity. He might at least have asked her her name. while nowâ€"- I Irving Ogden stood rather moodily I in a corner of his aunt’s drawing room. What a bore dinner parties were any- way, he said to himself. That was the nuisance of visiting. You had to meet such a slew of people for whom you did not care a hang, while the one you wanted to meet kept out of the way. From which it may be seen that Mr. Ogden was in no pleasant frame of mind. The events of the afternoon still rankled. He. had hastened up to the balcony after the last dance only to find St. Cecilia vanished as if by magic, and Mrs. Van Tassel could not or would not tell him anything about I.-._ time?” She mailed in enlgmatlcal fashion. “Perhaps,” she munnured. “But seeâ€"they are looking up here. It is time to play again. You must go down. Yes,” as she met the look of tetusal on his face, “you must indeed." “But I will see you again." he pro- tested. “1 must see you.” Again she smiled. “Perhaps."