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' VOLUME 4, NUMBER 46
WE DON'T ASH YOU TO BUY AN
Gray
boat
Ulster
on faith, but wo do sug
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gest that it is tho part of
wisdom to investigate our
claims before buying any other.
If Costs You Nothing
to investigate, and
it helps you to buy
more intelligently.
We only ask for a
chance to show you.
Send for name of
nearest agent Cat-
alogna and dairy
booklet free.
Empire Cream
Separator Co..
nioomfleld, N, J,
Chicago, HI.
Mlnn-apoUs, Minn.
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UNIIW
$270TooI Set
SIpIJ ilPffi Ihl inigin iTT
18 warranted tools of best quality just tho
lot to koop nvound tho farm or Iioubo. Tho abovo
cut sbowB our 18-plcco Star sot at 82 70, complcto
28plodc sot, $7.30: 36-ploco sot, 80.70: 41-ploce sot,
? 10.70 1 CO picoo sot, $10.75, and up to our Oarpon
ors OJ-nioco sotftt $39.25. If you want Tools of any
kind wrlto ub for our wholosalo prlco list. Wo havo
tho largest stock ot hardwaro In tho world for salo
wwv v aiaiu unvk nvviD ' jjm.j tMuw wMbvva
supplies, hulldtug inatorlal and building hardwaro.
Wrlto at onco for our 634'jpnco Mechanics' Catalogue
a book quoting lowest wholosaloprlcos on standard,
guarnntood goods. Oataloguo f roo to any address.
Montgomery Ward & Go. ls
Michigan Ave. Madison and Washington Sts., Chicago
inuimi i a mm i
-C taught thoroughly. Initltutton eiUblUhed 1874. En
floricd br ofllolalf Railroads sad W. U. Tel. Co. I'oiltloni ic
jniiro cubi, iuiuuu icirRrapnj su typewriting),
ml room, 0 mod, course, f 81). Ja bo reduced.
nml 4.j1 Inn itlnh Klitnn f1ilalAHii it fna
cured
board and
Home instruction nlio
Catalogue XJ free.
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DOPUK'S USTITUTK MV TKJLKUIUTUT, Yalparalio, lad.
STUMP PULLERS
Seven Sizes
175Q
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CATALOG
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CO LACROSSE WIS
$80 A MOHTH SALARY tTiS8rsj
to Introduco our Guaranteed Poultry and HtocK
KcmedloM. Send for contract j wo mean business and fur
jUsb. bast reference, U.U.lilGIKKCO., X2S7 Bpriagfleld, W.
The Coo.1 Btxrorv
Got us on the hip once more,
Mr. Baer.
Up your prices higher soar,
Mr. Baer.
Think because you own a mine
You've a perfect right divine' ' .
To "hold up" along the line,
Mr. Baer.
When the air begins to freeze,
Mr. Baer, " ' r
Then do you begin to squeeze,
Mr. Baer.
Helpless widows, orphans, too,
Pinched an'1. starved and cold and blue,
Owe their freezing state to you,
Mr, Baer.
Babes that starve at mother's breast,
Mr. Baer.
Must freeze stiff with all the rest,
Mr. Baer,
Just because with stroke of pen.
You can raise the price, and then
Declare dividends again,
Mr. Baer.
Did you ever gi e a thought,- v
Mr. Baer,
To the misery you've wrought,
Mr. Baer?
Mis'ry wrought that you may pour
In your vaults a golden store
And pile riches more and more,
Mr. Baer?
If you haven't, well for you,
Mr. Baer
That you give a thought or two, '
Mr. Baer.
For the wealth you pile below,
Though to mountain height it grow,
On the oher side won't go,
.Mr. Baer.
All the wealth you make down-here,
Mr. Baer,
Won't outweigh a widow's tear,
Mr. Baer, ., , ,,
When upon the other shore
You must pay the final score
And be judged forevermore,
Mr. Baer.
who had accidentally found a news
paper that had floated ashore from a
shipwreck. "But I am of the opinion
that we would do well to investigate
first."
"But what is there to investigate?"
queried the first speaker.
"We ought to investigate and ascer
tain 'if we have anything here that one
of the 'world powers' might want. If
not, we may proceed. If we have, we
need do nothing, for the aforesaid
'world power' will step in and insist
on teaching us self-government as long
as we have anything worth taking."
GASH
for your real estate or business
anywhere. I can sell It. 8cnd de
scription nnu lowest cash price. A.
P.Tone,WilonJr.,Topeka, Ks.
you
Thankfvil
observe Thanksgiving
Christmas
Buying
4
amM
"Did
day?"
"You bet I did; Saw seven fellows
half-killed at the football game."
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Supply your Christmas neods
at wuoiesaio. direct irom tno I
natlon'a Holiday Hendquart-
ors. Tako a look In ovory store '
In your homo markot, mnko a
list of tho things you wonld
like to buy, with tholr prlcos,
thou turn to our Latost Onta
locuo and from n $3,000,000 stock
soloet a list thut suits yon
much hotter In every way mad
aavo about ono-thlrd. '
Our prices are not advanced
at Christmas tlmo. Thoy
aro always tho same al
ways tno lowest, when
An Artist
"Miss Homestate is one of the finest
artists in the west."
"Is that so? I didn't know she
painted."
"Paint, nothing! You ought to" see
her bread."
youbuy direct from us you
Isavo all dealers' and mid
Fdleinon's profits.
We cuarantoo ovory pur
chase to bo satisfactory
your monoy refunded
choorfully If you wish it.
Wo will annre ci a to tho on.
portunity to send you our
Valuable Catalogue froo,
Will you ask us for It now
wnno you tninjc or It! A
postal will do.
Montgomery
Ward Co.
Michigan i Ave, Madison
and Washington Streota
t , Chicago
Established 33 years.
Universal
can learn anything bv
mail
"You
these days."
"That's right I used to forget to
mail the letters I had written, but after
forgetting to mail one mv wife wrote
I've had my memory wonderfully im
proved. This education by mail busi
ness is simply wonderful."
After Investigation
Tile inhabitants of the island, after
seeing the light of civilization, met in
mass convention to discuss the matter
of organizing a government of their
own. .
"I move, you, Mr. CJhalrman," said
one man, "that wa proceed-to organize
& repuT)licTNUM',,,,',"M'),,'',,v,A,'
"Pardon me," said another member
Tho Borrowing Box
The chief merit of this little tale
Is its truthfulness. It actually hap
pened, and because it may provide a
hint it is given in its entirety.
Several years ago there lived in a
Missouri Tillage a woman whom every
body called "Aunt Sally," because she
was one of those goodly and lovable
women who never vas found wanting
when her services were needed. Her
stock of patience -was wonderful, but
i,t was exhausted onceand only once
so far as known.
Aunt Sally had a neighbor who was a
chronic borrower. The neighbor meant
well, no doubt, but her eye for meas
urements was very bad. "When she bor
rowed a cupful of sugar she always re
turned a little less. It was tho same
with everything else. Aunt Sally stood
for it a long while, tyut one day she
said to her husband:
"Taylor, I want you to make me a
little box with about six or eight small
compartments."
"What for?"
"Never you mind, Taylor. Just make
me the box and I'll tell you all about
it after while."
The box was made and Aunt Sally
filled every compartment with kitchen
condiments coffee, sugar, flour, aalt,
spices, tea, etc. Whenever the neigh
bor sent over for "just a little" of this
or that, Aunt Sally furnished it out
of the box. When return was made
she dumped it into the proper place in
the box.
Of course the compartments were
Rnnn omntv. one by one, and when the
neighbor sent over for something not
to be found therein -Aunt S'ally would
say:
"I haven't any in -the box."
Gradually the story leaked out and
"Aunt Sally's borrowing box" became
a village tradition.
Brain LeeJcs
Giving is not always charity.
Charity is not always giving.
One good thing- about doing right is
that you so seldom have to undo it.
Agitation keeps air and water pure.
It might be tiled more in politics.
The man who does his own work
well seldom has time to criticise the
work done by others.
The man who doubts that the world
is growing better is too blind to notice
that the light is growing brighter.
The old saying that "two can live as
cheaply as one" has been productive of
a whole lot of marriage failures.
Going in debt is like falling out of
a balloon. Getting out of- debt Is
like falling back into a balloon.
When a man's nlcr or hnrnA tmna a-
tray he Immediately advertises' tho
fact, and hustles around lively to re-
Mado of Qonulno Ornv On.
Wombat, $14. 60. Write iitoneS
for pur special fur catalog
S?2H&nte a, c?Plotfl i "how.
Ing of .Mon's Heavy Winter
Coats, fcvorythlnnfrom Un
keMlnod Pea Jacket? atf m
up to Boavor and MlnkUlstnVi
at $175.00. Tho flnoit iln0sg
eeloct from in tho United
Btatos. Hpnestly-ra ado, roll,
ablo coods-no imitation...
oosiowortnan uosoofanr
other Arm. Ask for Spoela1.
FurOataloeuo; wowlllsondit
froo by return mall. Don't
buy until you havo scon oar
prlcos. 8ond a postal to-day,
Monfgomtry Ward
WAianAve.,llMaaaaWaBhinf5tonSta.,(njtcMo
cover the animal. Ever see any ad
vertisements of boys estray?
Some men spend so much time ..av
ing tobacco tags that they have no
time to consider plans for saving
money.
When a man begins to feel quite
sure that Le does not look nearly as
old as he really is, it is a sure sign
that he does.
Some of these day- a political party
is going to choose its spellbinders from
the men who write the patent medicine
advertisements.
Boys take a delight in doing what
they are told not to do, probably be
cause so many people insist on telling
a boy not to do the things he would
like to do.
Recognized Them at Sight
The patient teacher; for the purpose
of impressing the lessorl of '"The Crick
et on the Hearth" upon the minds of
the children, had procured two or three
crickets.
"Now, children," she said, exhibit
ing them, "do you know what these
are?"
"Yes'm," said the little hoy witu
the golden locks, raising his hand.
"Tiiov'rn rh hiiiTa vou see when you
open the closet under the kitchen
sink." Chicago Tribune.
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