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r ' ^ HUMOROUS ^ Mrs. Exe?"How often ^o your housemaids dust?" a Mrs. Wye?"Oh, they generally go within a week." Mrs. Peck?"I've talked to you till I'm tired, and what good does it do?" Peck?"None! You talk Just as much as ever." "How many kinds of flowers are there In the world?" "Really, I have no Idea. Some day I'll get hold of my wife's spring hat and count 'em up." i Hobbs?So you've struck it rich ana are now able to keep several sevents? Dobbs?Alas, no?only to hire them.?Boston Transcript. "She doesn't think much of her J husband." "No?" I "No, she says even the things he i says in his sleep are terribly dull ana uninteresting."?Detroit Free Press. ^ "Do you believe in intensive gardening, Mrs. Hoerake?" asked the visitor. "Well, rather," said Mrs. Hoerake. "I spent all last winter raising one geranium in a soapbox."? Harper's Weekly. "The Parvenus are furious at that society reporter for sayiug 'there wasn't a jarring note' in their last affair." "I suppose the poor wretch didn't know they made their money in : preserves."?Town Topics. "Here is a 3tory of a Chicago woman who says that present marriage laws make woman the slave of man," said the square-jawed matron as she looked up from the newspaper. "Why don't they enforce the law, then?" meekly said Mr. Henpeck.? Buffalo Express. "Where do you hail from?" asked an American of a traveler. "Where do you rain from?" returned the traveler. "Don't rain at all," replied the astonished American. "Neither do I hail, so mind your own business. "Poetry seems to run in our family," pratted the soulful sonneteer to the patient editor. "Just fancy, my twin brother. is also a poet. ^ "Yes?" commented the editor drily; "then there is some truth in the old saying that misfortune never come singly." , Young doctor (breathlessly)?I am told that a gentleman who lives in this house has just broken a leg. Resident?Yes, you are a carpenter? Young doctor?A carpenter. No, I'm a surgeon. Resident?We want a carpenter, not a doctor. It's a wooden leg. The Highest Ambition. Have you ever set yourself to a task, with the idea before you that you would do that task better than anybody else could do it, and have ? * you worked at it with that euthusivI - - v ?-?fc onuv; pleasure mat Kuowb nothing but success, then accomplish it , with a satisfaction and a feeling that you had clone it so that the most critical would approve? If you have, you have known one of the great pleasures of living, for i after all if we are not able to get j pleaseure out of work we will never know what real pleasure is. i It is more often than not that a man attacks a task with the sole j idea to accomplish it, to finish it in the shortest time possible or even in \ good fashion and do it well; but it * is the ambition to do it better that ( brings with its accomplishment the | greatest amount of pleasure.Given a job at which we must earn our daily bread, and given the knowledge of how we must set about to accomplish the end, there is often little else before the eyes of the over- 5 Bo.&r or superintendent, and though l the work may be done successfully . S and well though there may be no { m ** room for complaint nt the office there ; is still room for improvement in that ; room or mill, and that improvement ' will come, not with a radical change < In the methods in vogue, but, in the < attitude of the overseer or superin- j tendent to his work. The man is familur to us all who starts his room in the momiug and stops it at night feeling thatanother > day's work is done feels simply that J he has come to the end of another day, and that in the morning it must S all start over again, with the pleasure of seeing the night come when his work will cease. It is the case everywhere, and it the excep- 1 tion to find when stopping time , \ comes that the accomplishment of a certain task is looked back at with proud pleasure, and the taking up of work in the morning is anticipated because it is going to bring 1 up some new phase of work, some j new question as to the best way in t which to accomplish an end, and a new puzzle to solve. It is the pleas- ; ure of combatting the methods and accomplishments of others, the j feeling of comparing results with results obtained by others, and the constant ambition ever present that whatever must be done must bedone better than anybody will do that same thing that marks success. It i **r has always been this way, we can see it illstrated in the lives of any I J ' of the great men whose biographies we read, and we can see it illustrated in the everyday life any suecess#..i ? ui man wihiiii we may onscrvc and it is going t? be necessary to the success of our own lives, and the proper accomplish meint of an> ambition we may have ?Textile Munufucturer. And a woman eitlier poses, sup-potos ' A or imposes ? V* 4 g; THE L. SPECIAL I 1 CURTAIN GOODS- f\ I One lot pretty colored I curtain Madras ?"An J^J|J Unusual Bargain" going at the yard only 5 Cents BUT NOT DAYS **A sv heel, in black, pecially priced at IOATS v value, but speci Free as prerr Sets anc ly. See dis{ NCAS ?l ?Y v/ aiu j^AVJUIg num Roasting I to you personal special i a i GINGHAMS- JUlli i case best 6 cents apron ^in^hams in first f?rade full peices and clean patterns specially priced at only ?ZH I cents the yard J DAY 1 Note the n< goods at st tioned on 1 it is always bath ] Large, thick, and prettily design blue and white, and pink and \ value, at each only White Rugs in same quality, but wash: Nice size Wash Rags, in porous k neckv We are showing now a strc beautiful new Spring Neckweai some dainty little fixing for the i thing in this splendid assortment and Cuff Sets, etc., in white, ecr tions at 25c and 50c for single pie sets. PONGEE Pretty Pongee Automobile Coa and tastefully trimmed. Each priced at only COAT SI Ladies' new white and black and stylish, comfortable and popul priced at only BOUDOIR S We've just received a nice ass< Boudoir Slippers, with very lo Cool, soft and comfortable. S] PETTIC Black Satteen Petticoats, a dollai quick selling at only \A ANCASTER NE m ALL ltth: :s a i jw ari ill mc this p s a pie; RUGS ed Bath Rugs, ii vhite combinatior smaller size, at o RAGS nit and Turkish, i /EAR >ng line and big i t\ Nearly every icck and you can of Collars, Jabol u and the Bulgn ces and at 50e, $1 COATS ts? made of excel coat a splendid v $S aiRTS white Madras C< ar garment. Thi CLIPPERS ortment of Ladiei 1WS, MAY 6, 1913. , FOOL'S I Has Passed OF APRIL'S rfi CTnur ? n BARGAIN DA rivals and otl >re attractive age, and don _ m * asure witn us 1 i white and in One lot large White Cro( is, an excellent kind we've offered. T< $1.00 Other nice Hand Ba$ nly . .75c each One piece 36-inch Ponge< it only 5c each Coats. An excellent vj Our stock of Millinei issortment of prehensive, but is very st woman likp? ...:n ?" ? ? urn win uu weu we are s find just that GAK ;s, Ties, Collar ~ irian combina- 0na cas0 cxee lent qual.t .00 and up for "ic average) in light a 18c cloth, but having b at only BUTT lent material We have recentlv b( allIC' sr?dally "Butterick" Patterns, I i.50 and $10.00 stocked a very big line o stock arrangement and r efficient service in this d< oat Shirts, the Patterns. s lot specially Delineators 98c each I ^ kjujric 1JUUKS ^ Willi Monthly Fashion Sheets 3' pretty Kid GENTS' FUE tan and red. Up-to-date Spring Fi the pair only new stylish and comfort; $1.19 ing, Oxfords, Shirts, Coll ally priced for Ladies' Spring Coat Suit 89c each Every suit an excellent i Roasters liums on cash pure i shall be glad to day of these useful sets in our si TER MERCAI COMPANY? FECIAL ^UZE VESTS-One ; Ladies' full size 10nt gauze vests, iced for April at only > Cents Each GAIN ERY )AY1 pri e 5 BAR OR EV] Y HER ler attr prices L't forgt to show HAND BAGS ;hetcd Hand Bags, bi ) go while they last a1 ^s at very cheap price PONGEE e in natural shade. 1 line at the yard only MILLINERY y this season is not 01 ylish. up-to-date and i aire to buy your hat 1 A.TEA SPECIAL" y 30-inch Galatea (3 nd dark, solid and m ought it at a bargain ERICK PATTERNS icoine the local agen delineator, Style Boc f these* which enable! eorder system to give apartment. *n free) WISHING DEPAR1 urnishings for men an ible Straw and Felt ] iars, Neckwear and U COAT SUITS s in the season's newc > (liut* ui ?J>1'Z.0U $ :hases nic< explain cc how windows. WILEi> 1 Hu - ape L1': IMiCIAL VND TOWELS3est tfrade 25 cents ick Hand Towels, A*. ?cially priced for ril, at only 111 rents pair. ? >st and best styles. >, $15.00 and $20.00 i s Alumimditions ii 1 f ouc illy large and cornmoderately priced, lere. inches wider than L:cd patterns, an we have priced it . .. 12y2c the yard ts for the famous >k, etc., and have 3 us with our new i very prompt and 10c and 15c 15c 25c FREE 'MENT d boys. Crisp and Hats, Caps, Clothnderwear. Jti active i menit that goods ?s ggest value of the b only.... 50c each s. Especially nice for