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FOR ONE WEEK ONLY

SPECIAL PRICES ON

THE O-CEDAR MOP

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A Mop, Broom and Buster all-in-one

It has a wonderful way of Cleaning Floors, Woodwork and Furniture. On-Marhis, or Red Stand Fleurs, en Linalawar or Polished

Floors, an all Polished Surikoss it is a

Miraonions Labor Saver.

O-Cedar Mop Not only sweeps the flow but polishes it st

the same time.

Deck, Table, Chaire, etc., are polished and dusted simultaneously. Tall Furniture can be dasted and polished so easily without the disadvantage of watering the dat all over the Office.

TT will take the dirt from Wood, Paint, Varnish, Leather (Sofas, Motor

Seats, etc, Brass, Easmel, Marble and Glass. It will not match- there are no hard surfaces to knock or damage anything. It does not gun or veceer, but leaves a smooth, shining surface absolutely tree from grease."

WHEN a Map refuses any longer to shearb the dust which is about every three monthe-it is very easily cleaned by being detached, soaked overnight in soapy water and rinsed in hot water next day. When dry the application of O Cedar Polish will make the Mop ready for another 3 months' service without further attention.

NOTE

OUR

SPECIAL

PRICES

LESS THAN MANUFACTURER'S COST.

MOPS $2.25 each.

POLISH

4 oz. battles.

25 cts.

12 oz. bottles. 75 cts.

1-Gall, Tin,

$3.75

O-CEDAR DUSTERS 35 ots.

EACH."

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CHILDREN'S CORNER:

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it she was very surprised that Princă should have carried it back.

***Can we keep it now Auntie?*

My dear Children-A little girtased Das wrote to me one day and said that. she liked the true stories best, so I hope that she will see the one this week and will like R. FA

Your loving

-PETER PAN. -

Well I do not know if your mother will want replied her unt rather doubtfully but, Nurse, who was always interested in any initial, put in "Is it true that they eat cock roaches Ma'am, because if they do

we should find it useful in the kitchen ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, where there are far too many cock

roaches! Sarana que "Yes I believe they do eat them, Mary's Aunt told her, And if you can find a basket you can take it to London when you go to-morrow, We had better put it in the summer bouse for the night.”

S. C. Song. Thank you for your nice letter. I am delighted to hear that you were so pleased with your prize.

THE STORY OF A HEDGEHOG.

A TRUE STORY.

Mary and Daisy were staying in the country, with an aunt one sum

mer. -

Every morning after breakfast they went for a long walk with their nurse. Their Aunt's dogéã black and white-terrier, who was called Prince, went with them,

One day they came across hedge hog, which was lying curled fast asleep.

Mary and Daisy were delighted to hear that, Daisy fetched a saucer of bread and milk which it soon ate up and then they called the gardener, who put the hedgehog on a shortel and carried it off to the summer house...

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SUPERSTITIONS.

-HAIR AND STORMS

There came into New York the other day Norwegian steamer several days overdue because of heavy. weather. During the first half of her voyage she encountered gales and

emendous seas which threatened to engulf her. Then, when things were at their worst, the captain mastered all hands and had their hair cut. The storm cessed and the ship had good weather for the rest of the trip. The captain said he had ordered the hair cutting because he had heard that his viking" ancestors had performed the same rite in similar straits. Here is

to type." a most interesting case of “ reversion

It was true-his Name ancestors

had done that same thing in the days The summer house was in a corner when Odin glotied and drank deep in of the garden. It had not been used Valhalls. Among the ancients, the for some time but old chairs were hair, being considered as a peculiarly kept there and the tennis net and intimate part of a man-sometimes croquet mallets and balls. The walls as the seat of strength-was fre- were covered with pictures which quently eat and offered up as a Mary's Aunt had stuck on when she sacrifice to the gods. Juvenal says was a little girl. There was one that the hair should only be cut at picture of a girl in white with long sex in times of danger and as a final golden hair, called "The Lily, Maid of Astalos. Another one was of a affering to the gods; as it would In the Norse ages Odin is represent-

Daisy, who was only three years old, had never seen one before, though she knew all about hedgehogs tall dark lady looking out of offend them to cut it as other times. from reading the story of Mrs Tracked from side to side and thated as the great stam-god, sweeping | window and rear by was a mirror

gywinkle.

The hedgehog was rolled up in a tight ball and when Daisy touched it with her finger she found that its prickles were very sharpkė

We must be going home now children." said Nurse. Or we shall

be late for dinner.“

So on they went and were soon busy picking the yellow toadflax and hairbells that were growing by the side of the road.

All of a sudden Mary exclaimed "Do look at Prince! See what he is {carrying.” And when Daisy and Nurse looked round there was Prince coming along with the bedgehog in

his mouth.

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"Put it down Prince!” cried Nurse and Prince, who was an obedient dog dropped it on the road, but the next minute picked it up again and trotted

along faster than ever.

"Oh poor Prince," said Mary, "His mouth is bleeding from those nasty prickles, I do wish he would let it go.

was called "The Lady of Shalott Mary and Daisy loved to look at these pictures and their aunt some tîmes told them stories about them.

the seas with warriors in his train. So the vikings appeased his wrath by the propitiatory offering of their hair- even as did their descendants the other day on the storm-tossed Nor wegian steamer. A shom crew at a Brooklyn pier who have just sacrificed to Odin makes the persistence of the primitive," something more than

The summer house was old, as you can imagine, and there were some holes in the roof, but still it was good enough for the hedgehog So they left it shut up there and before they went to bed that night Mary and Daisy had a look at it to a theory. see that it was all right.

The next morning, as soon as they prickly thing. "But when were dressed, they scampered off to the summer house. Mary reached it found that it really did catch ever first and put her head round the door any black beetles she changed and then she cried "Oh Daisy the hedgehog has gone!**

her mind.

she

Mary and Daisy gave it bread and milk every morning and for a long time it lived happily there

country. The hedgehog was left Then they went to live in the

Let me look too, cried Daisy, as Mary was taking up all the room in the doorway, She squeezed past Bu and they both began to hunt in all

the corners. And at last they found behind in Landon for the people who the hedgehog with its prickles caught ed to it I am afraid I cannot tell came to the house, so what happen- in the tennis net in the corner.

You cannot imagine what a busi. you. ness it was to get it out and Nurse. even had to cut the net in orie or two places: But at last it was free and packed into a small basket with shavings in it and Nurse and Mary and Daisy all travelled home to London.

But Prince had made up his mind that he was going to bring that bedge hog home and nothing would make him change-his-mind, though-what he meant to do with it nobody knew. At last they reached home and Prince dropped the hedgehog on the grass and went off to get a drink of water.

When Mary and Daisy's Aunt saw

There the hedgehog was handed over to the cook who said at first that she did not like the "nasty

PETER PAN.

There once was a baby of Cork,

Whose favourite toy was a fork, Til his Daddy said," Fiel He will put out his eye," When Dad took it how baby did

squawk!

What crack is it impossible to see? -The crack of a whip.

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