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All Ladies Dress Skirts Marked Down
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We Give You Genuine Bargains In every
Department of Our Big Store
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Ladles and Children’s Coats
at Low Prices
It Pays T o Trade At
To clean up we have marked all ladies and children's
Coats away down. If you have not already bought
your coats now is the time to buy. The prices we are
making on these garmenlp will interest you.
In Our Grocery Department
Everything’s Good
S u g a r i t C h e a p e r a n d C o ff e e Is H ig h e r
Wool and Cotton Blankets at
Attractive Prices
This is the store where you get special
sale prices everyday of the year, Sundays
excepted. We keep our merchandise
moving, always getting in something new,
and do not allow any of our merchandise
to accumulate or become shelf-worn.
A large assortment o f wool and cotton blankets that
are worth more money than we ask fo r them. They
are the kind that will keep you warm at the following
prices:
Cotton blankets 90c to $2.00 pair
$4 to $8.00 for all w ool blankets
Wool and Silk Scarf and Head
Wraps
It W ill Pay You To Get
the Habit of Doing Your
Trading at Baird’s Store
YOU WILL SAVE MONEY
Our new wool and silk scarf and head wraps are some­
thing you must have soon. You can find them here at
25c to $1.50 each
Outings and Kimono Fabrics
We have a swell line o f outing flannel and kimono fab­
rics in all the newest designs. The quality is guaran­
teed. Be sure and see them. We know you will be
pleased with the showing.
You will always find our grocery department supplied
with clean fresh and up-to-date groceries, vegetables
and fruits. We keep our prices strictly on the market
and will meet any fair competitor. We sell at the very
lowest possible prices, and give you the best to be had.
We want your trade and it will pay you to get the habit
o f trading at Baird’s.
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If you want
your feet
to be kept
dry, wears
pair of the
P ETER S
SHOES
T h e Best!
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LO U IS.
In our shoe department we handle nothing but the very
best solid leather shoes. We have them for father and
mother, brother or sister, in all the different sizes and
styles, and we will sell them them to you for yust a
little less than the other fellow charges you. Just try
it once and see if it is not correct
We Pay the Highest Market Cash Price for Eggs
TOMMY WAS A MAN.
A Trua Story of S«lf Control Itolatod
by 0 Chicago Merchant.
The following “ really true” inci­
dent is told about a little fellow
■till in the knickerbocker stage, who
works for a large Chicago paper
house. One day he was called to
the telephone and after listening
a minute turned pale and hung up
the receiver quietly and hurried to
the manager’s office. The manager,
however, hud gone out to lunch, so
the boy left a note reading, “ I hav
to go hoam. Tommy Barret.” The
manager found the note when he
leturned, but soon became busy
with important matters and forgot
all about the boy.
Three days later, Monday morn­
ing, Tommy Barret came back to
work. T o the other boys’ queries
o f “ Ben sick, Tom m y?” he main­
tained a rigid silence. He worked
as hard as usual, and finally the
boys ceased to question him regard­
ing his absence. Neither did they
insist again after his second re­
fusal to accompany them at noon
for the usual five cent lunch o f cof­
fee and bismarcka, having come to
the conclusion, as they expressed it.
that “ Tommy had a grouch.”
One day the manager was called
at noon to inspect a certain grade
o f paper in the storeroom on the
top floor. As he and his foreman
wended their way through the huge
rolls o f paper they heard the sound
o f low sobs. Silently they peered
down the long aisles of paper rolls,
and finally in the corner o f one
narrow one they saw the pathetic
figure o f a little boy. The aisle be­
ing too tubelike for the portly form
o f the manager, he bade the boy
come o u t
It waa Tommy Barret, his face
flaming with embarrassment, his
cheeks tear stained and dirty from
contact with the grimy little hands.
“ Why, Tommy, what ia it— fight
with one o f the boys?” questioned
the manager.
“ No, air,” faltered Tommy, now
striving manfully to raise his voice
above the threatening soba.
“ Then What waa it?” The man-
answered flm ly , “ My mudder died
last week.”
The manager turned away as the
chain of memory wafted him back
to his own similar loss years ago,
when it took the united efforts o f a
host o f relatives and the entire
community o f a sympathiain# small
country town to comrort nun witn
chocolate drops, “ little pies” and
miniature express wagons. And
here, he thought, was this little
chap working in silence and con­
trolling the misery o f his heart until
he could steal away at noontime
and sob it all out alone among the
paper rolls.
“ Have you come up here before
to cry V* the manager inquired
when he felt sure o f hu own voice.
“ Yea, air,” Tommy answered tim­
idly, adding apprehensively, “ but
don’t fire me, sir— I won’t do it
again.”
“ Fire you!” the manager ejacu­
lated. “ Well, I guess not. A boy
not as high as a yardstick, and
with a man’s self control.” Tom ­
my looked up thankfully at this as­
surance.
“ Now run and wash your face,”
the manager continued kindly.
“ Y ou’ re going to lunch with me at
2 o'clock.”
An hour later Tommy, with face
gloasy from recent battle with
pumice stone soap, was
o f a substantial lunch with hit em-
ploye er, who waxed cheerful, confl-
denti
ential, even chummy, t o put the
boy at his eaae. As they finished
the dessert he nominated and elect­
ed Tommy “ boes” o f the twenty-
four boys at the envelope table, bat
not the slightest reference was
made to the boy’ s bereavement, for
the manager understood the fine­
ness o f Tommy’ s feelings and re­
spected them.-—Chicago Tribune.
Oaatli For Kissing.
In ancient Egypt it was consid­
ered a high degree o f politeness to
kiss one’s hand and then place it on
the top o f the head.
Men o f rank occasionally kissed
each other, but in the land of the
pharaohs no man ever dreamed of
kissing a woman.
In Rome kissing was at one time
a serious matter. If a slave kissed
« free woman he was liable to be
torn to pieces by wild horses. •
It was the great Cato who pro­
mulgated a law making it a punish­
able offense for parents to kiss in
thepreaence o f their children.
Tne Greeks put to death any man
kissing a woman in the publio
street
In Austria today a man kisses a
woman’s hand only. In Russia the
forehead ia kissed among equals.
But a Russian peasant salutes his
lordly master by kissing his knees.
The Pole kisses the shoulder o f
his superior.
FAMOUS TEA
DRINKERS.
TH E ESKIMO.
roughly, “ why all the ladies ask me
such
questions.
It
is
to
save
your­
Johnson Ones Took Tw enty-flv* Cupo
What Ha Loaka Lika and tha W ay H a
self trouble, madam, and not me.”
at a Sitting.
Draaaaa and Livaa.
The lady was discreetly silent
Napoleon, like Johnson, was a
What
is
an Eskimo like? His
lardened tea drinker, and so a cen­ and resumed her task.
portrait ia easily sketched: A small
tury later was Mr. Gladstone, who
person (five feet five inches is the
H i« Stag« Madicina Waa Raal.
confessed that he drank more tea
average height o f the men and five
“
Taking
medicine
on
the
stage
is
between midnight and 4 in the
feet that o f the women), with a
morning than any other member of not only realistic— it is real,” said
grayish
copperish and oily skin,
the house o f commons and that the an old actor. “ Anyhow, it was so in
thick lips, deep' set and oblique
my
case.
Here
is
a
copy
o
f
a
pre­
strongest brew o f it never interfer­
scription that I had renewed eighty- eyes like the Japanese, a flat, oval
ed with his sleep.
face and fat cheeks, a low, retreat­
The dish o f tea was one o f the three times in the three yean that
ing
forehead and black, glossy,
most important factors in John­ I played the part o f an invalid. I
straight
hair, which is allowed to
son’s life. Proficiency in the gentle really did suffer terribly most of
grow to its full length. The hands
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that
time
with
indigestion,
and
the
art o f tea brewing was regarded by
and feet are remarkably small. The
him as an essential attribute o f the medicine was prescribed by my phy­
sician. He had been hammering nose ia abnormally flat.
perfect woman, and there can be no
The faces o f the children are
doubt that his feminine friends (and away at me for months before 1 un­
generally
so fat that the eyes al­
dertook the part, trying to penuade
their name was legion) did their
me to take something. When that most disappear, and the nose is
best to gratify his amiable weak­
role was assigned to me he saw his funken between the cheeks instead
ness.
of protruding.
chance.
Richard Cumberland tells U9,
The Eskimos have a happy, care­
‘ “ Y ou ’ ve got to take a dose o f
says the London Gentlewoman, that
something in that second act,’ he less, optimistic look about them.
his inordinate demands for his fa-
said, ‘so why not make it real medi­ Nordenskjold used to call them
vorate beverage were occasionally
cine and cure your stomach trouble “ big children” and stated that
difficult to comply with. On Sir
and earn your salary at the same “ these unfortunate creatures, who
Joshua Reynolds reminding him he
are deprived o f every com fort, are
time?’
had already consumed eleven cups
“ That seemed sensible advice. 1 conceited and jocular. They are
he replied: “ Sir, I did not count
got the prescription made up, and, hospitable, too, and when brought
your glasses o f wine. Why should
although I have eaten many a fake into contact with Europeans they
rou number my cupe o f tea ?” And
meal on the stage and have drunk grow civilized quite rapidly, though
aughingly he added in perfect good
many a pint o f fake wine, never they retain a number o f their old
humor, “ Sir, I should have released
once have I taken a doee o f fake habits.”
our hostess from any further trou­
As regard« dress, it is almost the
medicine.” — New York Sun.
ble, but you have reminded me that
same for women aa for men— a
I want one more cup to make up
A Sensitive Polioaman. *
close fitting sealskin coat, with a
the dozen, and I must request Mrs.
An irascible policeman o f Paris hood fo r the head and breeches o f
Cumberland to round up my score.” ' arrested a peaceful citizen for call-
the same material.
When he saw Jhe complacency : ing him a “ geometrician.”
The
Needless to say the Eskimos dis­
with which the lady o f the house ! citizen waa talking rather loudly to
like water aa a “ cleansing agent,”
obeyed his behests he said cheerily: the proprietor o f an old curiosity
and they lack fascination. But
“ Madam, I must tell you for your shop, with whom he was at variance
they do not consider Europeans as
com fort you have escaped much as to the value o f alleged antiqui­
very attractive, and the refinements
better than a certain lady did ties offered for sale in the estab­
of civilization are repulsive to
awhile ago, on whose patience I in­ lishment. The policeman in an ex­
them. The same Nordenskjold once
truded greatly more than I have on cess o f zeal entered the shop and
told a very amusing story on this
yours. She asked me for no other expostulated with the citizen for
matter. He gave a bottle o f eau de
purpose than to make a zany of me shouting at the top o f his voice.
cologne to an aged Eskimo lady to
and set me gabbling to a parcel of
“ You are a geometrician,” was smell. She almost fainted and
people I knew nothing of. So, the retort o f the person addressed.
called the scent “ dreadfully stench-
maaam, I had my revenge on her,
“ What is that vile name you call­ ing.” But she dwelt in a sordid
for I swallowed five and twenty ed me ?” queried the policeman.
hut, where the air was “ unbreatha-
cups o f her tea.”
“ Go and study Euclid,” replied ble,” and lived on food o f which one
Cumberland declared that his the other, who was then seized by hesitates to think.
wife would gladly have made tea the collar o f his overcoat and
The Eskimos have no religion
for Johnson as long as the New inarched to the station. There the
worthy o f the name. They are ex­
river could have supplied her with too sensitive policeman was inform­
tremely superstitious. But how
water, for It waa then, and then ed by his superior officer that there
could they help being so, surround­
only, he waa.aeen at his happiest was not even a shadow of a case
ed as they are by truly fantastic
momenta.
against the person arrested.
scenery— mysterious caverns and
On hia Scottish tour hia inexora­
grottoes, mountains o f ice, bathed
ble demands for tea sorely tried the
Target Praetlea.
in the weird light effects o f the arc­
patience o f Lady Macleod o f Dun-
Subaltern— What on earth are tic atmosphere or in the awe in­
vegan, who after giving him his vou fellows doing? There hssn’t
spiring gloom o f the polar night?
sixteenth cup suggested that fur­ been a hit signaled for the last half
The Eskimos, however, have
ther suppliee in a small basin might hour.
much respect for the “ head o f the
be agreeable to him.
Private— I think w e'm u st ’ave family.” Funerals are a complicat­
“ I wonder, madam,” he answered shot tha marker, sir!— Punch.
ed affair in Greenland, and the
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most carious custom in connection
with such ceremonies is the bury-
; ing o f a dog’s head— meant to act
as a guide— together with the dead
body.
They live under tente during the
summer and under snow huts dur­
ing the cold season. They possess a
skin canoe called kayak, a sledge
and a few dogs.
They marry at an early age. The
bride brings to her new home her
clothes, a knife and a lamp. The
husband gives her a cooking p o t
Eskimo etiquette compels the bride
to object to marriage, and she must
pretend to escape from her husband
two or three times before settling
down to her duties and accepting
her share o f responsibilities.— Ex­
change.
f
Whiatling and Waaping Tress.
Among the curiosities of tree life
is the sofar or whistling tree o f Nu­
bia. When the winds blow over
this tree it gives out flutelike
sounds, playing away to the wilder­
ness for hours at a time strange,
weird melodies. It is the spirit o f
the dead singing among the
branches, the natives say, but the
scientific white man says that the
sounds are due to a myriad o f small
holes which an insect bores in the
spines o f the branches.
.The weeping tree o f the Canary
islands is another arboreal freak.
This tree in the driest weather will
rain down showers from its leaves,
and the natives gather up the wa­
ter from the pool formed at the
foot o f the trunk and find it pure
and fresh. The tree exudes the wa­
ter from innumerable pores at the
base o f the leaves.— Chicago Jour­
nal.
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Irish Qoeaeberriea.
An Irishman or an Irishwoman
is rarely at a loss to give quite as
good as she gets. The American
[ tourist who figures in Sketchy Bits
. found this out to hia coat.
An old Irishwoman who kept a
fruit stall had some melons exposed
for sale. The Yankee, wishing to
have some fun with the old lady,
took up one o f them and said:
“ These are small applet you
grow over here. In America we
have them twice the size.”
The woman slowly looked up at
him and in a tone o f pity exclaim­
ed:
“ Sure, sorr, ye must be a stranger
in Ireland and know very little
about the fruit o f our country whin
ye can’t tell apples from gooeeher-
n es!