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COAL OIL. STOVES 6 SOLINE STOVES SCREEN. D0DAS WINDOW SCREENS FAMOUS Wanted. "Togo to Hamiltod. a young girl to assist with light house work and the care of one baby. Apply to MRS. W. M. CURRIE, Port Perry. THE SECR'T OF 'A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION NOW REVEALED FREE What beauty. is more desirable than an exquisite complexion and elegant jewels. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY WOMAN TO OBTAIN BoTH, for a limited time only, The directions and recipe for ob- taining a faultless complexion is the secret long guarded by the master minds of the ORIENT ALS and GREEKS. This we 'obtained after years of work and at great expense, It is thé method used by the fairest and _ most beautiful women of Europe. Hundreds of American women who now use it have expressed their delight and satisfaction. This secret is casily understood and simple to follow and it will' save you the expense of creams, y cosmetics, bleaches and forever "give you a' beautiful complexion and {ree your skin from pimples; "bad calor, blackheads, etc It alone is worth to you many. times the price we ask you to send for the genuine diamond ring of latest design. We sell you this ring at. one "small profit above manufacturing cost. The price is less than hall. what 'others charge. The recipe 3s free with every ring. t is a genuine rose cut diamond sing. of sparkling brilliancy . ab- solutely guaranteed, very dainty, shaped like a Belcher with Tiffany setting of 12 Kt gold "shell, at your local jeweler it. would cost: considerable more than $2.00" + We mail you this beautiful com: plexion recipe free when yout: or: .. der is received for ring and $200 "in money order, stamps or bills: et your order in before our' sup: ply is exhausted. : This offer is made for a lim time only as a means 'of advertis| ing and introducing our good ANIMAL - SAGACITY. The Instinct That Leads the Ostrich to Protect Its Eggs. The nature-students--everybody is a nature student nowadays--were trying to outdo one another. "Eagles when he sun fs overhot shade their young with outspread wings," sald the first, "On August aft: ernoons I have seen a mother eagle stand patiently two full hours, her left wing spread like an umbiela; while in its cool shade her nestlings slept." "Squirrels," sald the second, "can tell whether a nut is good or bad with- out opening it, - A chestnut, a walnut, a shellbark, they lift it in their little paws, hold it to their faces a moment; then if it is bad cast it aside. How do they tell? "By the weight, by the sound? I incline to think they do it by the smell," "Ostriches never sit," 'sald the third, "They lay thelr eggs on the pale Sa- haran sands, and the sun does the rest, But before the ostriches depart 'from thelr eggs they place on the top of each a®pinch of sand, for they know that the germ will mount to the top and that the sun's heat would Rill the germ were it not protected." "A trained elephant," said the fourth student, "danced very badly at a mati- nee performance and was accordingly beaten cruelly by. its master, « That night, hearing a shuffling noise out- side, the master crept forth, and there in the moonlight he found the elephant carefully practicing its dance steps." A PRIVILEGE EGE - RESERVED. Ceremonies Witnessed at a Jewelers Ring Counter. "I want a plain gold ting fora lady. Best you've got in the store." "For this lady?" "Sure! = Who else would it ba for? Pull oft your glove, Katie, and let the gentleman measurd your finger." The girl withdrew. her woolen glove and" bashfully = extended 'har 'small hand, red and toil worn, toward the relerk; "There, that's 'about the size," sald the jeweler to the girl. "Do you wish him to put it on?" "No--not yet," gnid the blushing girl "When he pits that ring on, it's on to (3 quality and price at last were settled 'satisfactorily, 'and the young man pulled from his pocket a shining' Why the Amatioan Farmer, "Early tn Life . Any one Who 'has lived on 2's farm does rot need' to be told the reason' farmers grow old. early,' of the strain Under Which: the mart workday is 'from 4 or § in the prornfuy until 8 or 9 at night, inch fifteen 'to seventeen hotirs be huss: hard- est kind of physical labor, and every, minute of it at high tension, especial during harvest, Then in the year when he has just énough muscular exercise to Keep him in health; later, the winter season, "ap- proching "stagnation, in 'which he: takes on flesh, gets "logy, turious debauch of hard labor the' spring and summer again. i wonder that by forty:five he has md a sunstroke and "can't 'stand fi Beat» gives out," or a chill "ma matic," and when you add' rious muscular strain the farmer 'sees his incq every season and his bad year, #0 that 'ea change' in the weather sets on édge, it can 'be readily imagined that the real "quiet, peageful country life" 1s something sadly different from: the ideal.--Woods Hutchinson, M.D, in Harper's, AES bas Oid Re ap J. 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