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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1906-12-13, Page 210 • The Clinton News.Reeord December lath, 19% * • *. 'A BLANK . * APPLICA,TION FORM * • fe,t illetriberShip intim * est and beet Bileliteee * • ning &heel * The Central Beeleese Co- *. * lege ,Oi Terento—from Jan. * * 2n4 fleet, tegetilee with de- * * tailedt inforeeetieh et the * • ercet .,edeanteeee te 'be 04- * * jeered, tvill be• scut free by * * rot= mail on request X* * wood or tater. ,write ti*, • de.7 to. * W. H. SRAW, Prtileiea1,. * teh Oh 'feline do Gerrard • SU., * .Toroitto. * 4+44444.4 ,S414444,4444.4 ?I( SO WINTER TERMS OPENS )t; • JANUARY 211.4. ' 4) CENTRAL airdOMOV 'STRATFORD, ONT. This school is recogaized to he one of the leadirig 4e; Comm,ercial, Schou it AM- OE erica,. Our greduates are in )d- demeed as Business College 4; embers. The most recent )); applicaelon lye receiveli for SIS• a teacher offered $1400.00 SdE per untrue We believe we aro running one of the ITIOS,t1 Pragreseive ansl 1ml-to-date MIE hesiness training schools in el; tbe province, The demand SO . upon us for office bc1 s ed several thriea the Supply. A' Write for free casteeogue. 'tee Elliott & McLachlan, ' • Principals. •ee' anatatetetae+Netame- dn'eseee•Oes.ese+4144:4O4O4+4hOes+Oes ess Wintet Term opens Jan 2nd. O. es Here are some of the re- <4, e• 'cent reemeter made .hy the.. ELLIOTT TORONTO, ON. . Oat 'of the last 250 calls from bus- es firms tve have fined FIFTEEN of the pesitions Welled no one.- else ready to send. We have alsohad 82 calls for business eollege teaohere, 101 ex -students of .other bUsiness.cole loges or shorthand echools were en - 'soiled here during the last two years. .We believe we Itave the best ComMer- dal school in Canada, Weethorougbly salisfy out studeets.Write to -day der catalogue. • eh • • • es W. J. Ellittt, .Ptincipel. es es Car. 'Youge awl • . ee <S,• Alexander Streets. de . . .. •:4; • • . . • " 'CI' . ' Patriotism, 1:44.14:••:**:••:444•:•.:•4:••:•44•:;•:•.!:••:••:•..+4",1* . • -,;,can you tell me WItiowae the great: .. . . - . est./etcher that ever II ved7". asked the , • -baseball fa u. •. • • .., . . . eTee greatest Pe:eller that ever IlVed Was ea- woman,"•-feplied the old teethe' rian..with a "A. Woman! . Abe:tole". "Nat a t all." -Then who erne see?".. ' . . ,. "Why, • • Molly.. letterer." re Chicago • First Student—Is your art school A pod one? Second. Student—Oh, ripping: 'One", they have a dance every month's -Tat. ler. Tee Nien7, Digs. Biggs—Don't you think that. all this talk of egging actors is all rot? Miggs—Ne I was epee on the stage for -awhile and. I lert it just on ac- count of eggs, Biggs—Indeed? Miggs—Yes. You see, like every oth- er eater, when the season started in I was filled with eggspectancy, but I found. that at tee best one could only earn a bare .eggsistence, and the con- stant eggsitement was eggsasperating. The one night stand hotels served eggs, eggs, eggs, •and. everything else was eggstra, The Olays were filled with 'eggsits, and so were the theaters. Fetch night when the play started. my fellow 'actors would egg Me an to do my worse andevben I didthe audience would egg um off, And the next morn- ing the critic would remark that geed actors. are now oggstlnet. So quit.— Judge. Her wish. A clergyman Was about to leave his church one eveninei when • he encoun- tered an old.lady =minion' the . Carv- ing on the fleet Finding her desirous of •seeing the beeutics of the ebureh. 1/e voltedeered to show her over, and the flusteree old lady; mucla gratified nt this unexpected offer of a personally conducted tour, shyly accepted it.. By. and by they came to a hem:kerne tablet op the right ef the pniPit. -• • , "Thft t," :explained t he good Mau, "IS • a Memorial tablet eroded to the meni- ory 'of the late viter." "There now! Ain't it. beautiful?" ex• - claimed tlie admirleg old Ailey, • still flustered and anxious to please. "And Pm sure,Me 1 else • it won't be -long afore •We see- one erected to you • on tether side."-eLoudoe .S1 PIP] "It's dreadful: tit teer," said the house- • wife, "that the potatoes you bring me 'shouldbe •so emelt bigger et the top of OM seek than they ere 'at the bot-. tote," • -• • • • , "Not at ali. Inoue.!' seta the honest farmer. "Ttjest thisit-Sva se • Pete toes Is eroWite so east test now filet by the time I dig n sackful the..last ones dug Is ever so much biggert the fust ones."—Ilarper's Weekly. THE FIRST • DAY oe. • The first day se otte ter term will he ; January 2nd, 19&h7 We Will then re -open with undoubtedly the largest cities in the history of this sehoel. If you want the edneation that prepares for good posi- tions, write for our catalog': It costs nothing, • Berlin Business College I heA-44 W. D. Euler, Principal. N444444-44-4-444444.444 • THE MEMORY ceP • Quctlity, Lingers WHEN' ?WOES A.RE FORGOTTEN We are prepared Its noyer be- • fore to meet the Christmas trade with •the beet seleeted neW Intikets, .0andied peels', ;rude, ete, end everythieg in •the line of groceries. Oteriaeleber we are never un-. dersoill by anyone. Call and see Our state' then. • you will be competent to judge for yourself. r • EWE PtOPLE'S GIWOBRY",, A.- D. 'Beaton, &LINTON. thone 111. ProMpt Delivery, Fancy furniture We Wish our Meech: to know that our More is filled with new goods, consisting of 13edroote Sets, hlattree- ses, Wire tiering, Sideboards, Ex- tension TAWS and Chairs. 'We Iliee eelra geed- valets in Parlor Settee, Couches. anti • Rockers,. We eatry large Meek of Cat,ptiA, Carpet. Sip,P, ares an Linoteurn at price e as low an the veiny will pertnit. J. E. Mellow BLYTH News. : • • • • • • • • • *reo Sick to See the Doctor.. • . .• The eonntey doetor had driven nine long miles' 40 the middle ot. the night over rough e dark roads to, answer an emergency call. 'Men be entered the hope a v•ilea plied fromabove, h`h ' that yon, doctor "Mee . • "Well, see; man is too sick 'to see you eoniglit. • You'll have to conie• agein."—.• Worninf Home Conlon Woe. • .• • 11,11C1-111,1111 ACIICY3I C111110 I bate been appointed agent , • for tile Meoseysidarris Com- pany in this district and will keep on hand. ge cote/A.6th list of supplies in my store oppose tie the edolsolis .Bank. • r am also air/diming the • flour, feed and seed grata bus- • iness and respectfully solicit a , a eontifillaste of your patron, - age. J. A. Ford. 0.. Farruere Poultry W� wnt all your Poultry*alive or dreased, and will pay Set RIMIEST PRICES for it. --PLAVELLES, --Lon cent. By INA WRBf HANSON Prm*...11 roopyr1ght,1914, by li.001 ere, rhillips& Ce.] ENRIETTA, on the rug by the fireplace, Was absorbed in her occupationwhieh Wee Outten eft ail of 'ArlizOnta latidelhee artleles Of Wearlug apparel and pet- ting thorn on Again. Whell tbe hurt tiny garment had been adjusted to her satisfaction she found tin:1e to look at • M. A.rfur, who sat by tbe window, a pletnre of doldrums. With 4 regretful glance at nvaugelitte Hell, who Was • yet to be attended to, the Mall mother arose and went over tO Mr, Arnie, Resting one hand. on his knee, she gar. ed Mixiously into bis ace. Tise young reap rouse4 himsett and • funned down at the squarely ent locke. the great brolvu eyes and demplett. "Flare you been bad, Me A,rtur?" she inctuleed sollettously. "I don't think I have been, ec, bad as • --the—bad man, Henrietta," he answer- ed, squeezing her small hand, • "I've been good as an angel," she re- eilarkett modestly, "so Santa Claus is going to bwing me anuver dolly In tossing Oh." • "In a what, Hertriettar • ".& timing cab," she repeated; then, as Arthur failed to grasp ber meaning, • she exemplified patiently, "like Shaer Wose's what she takes you witting In." • "Oh, 1 see! A touring ear, you ar1a. tomtit:. beet*. No more doll wagons and go-carts for you, eh?' he chuckled, the grew gloomy agate, "What do you want fob. Kwismasr "Something.I am afraid I can never, have in all this wide world, fleurlette." He tlfew a long breath. "If you are pm; Santa Claus"— "it's entirely out of the old. fellow's jurisdiction, my pet" The child gazed at lilia curiously. , 'it's a heart of fine gold teat I want, Henrietta, and only one person can give it to me, and if she won't, girlie"— "Is she a faLtyy?" Henrietta's tone was reverential, her eyes full of ex- citement. "The queen of theta all." "And :has 4 crown on?" "Yee, a grown of her own golden hair, and her 'eyes aro like brown Vel - Vet Pansies, and she bas the sweetest "Tile first time ever saw yoU watt lit 4 trolley Pe You sat opposite Ine., and When the car turned the sun shone tato your eye. There Was plenty Of room ou my side, where the SIM taire annoyed you, but Ins stee,4 of changing yotlr seat you got UP end pulled down the curtain. I thought to myself, 'There Jo a man who ivil4 be Mester of circumstances no Witter what they are,' and"— Rose stopped in confusion as elite re membered other things ehe hadthought about thie finelo formed, handsome 74111111 651 447`. he geld, leaning forward with great Interest "What else did you think?" "And now. to nod out that you fre nothing but a -clientele= after she wailed. "A, What?" Arthur exclainied • In amazement. ehanieleoll," he repeated tear- , fully, "If you are on A brown leaf you're brown; If on a green tree then You're green." "Well, green 1 aeleioWledge 1aM, for bleee me if I can see what you are driving at." "The other' day when auntie was talk- ing about the sin of wasting your tiros In dancing you said thet you agreed • with het that when there was work to do folks ought to do It roil geld you were uot going to the masquerade for that very reason.". • . "Well, I eldn'a Intend"— "You said eel' had several• Imre' work at the olliee that night • Then Grace Hereford came along and asked YOU to go, and you went!" Thep was a flicker of amusement on Arthur's Mee which Rose did not OP, being too busy wInking back unwel- come teats, I "Miss Hereford had nothing to do with it, Rose," he said gently. "I went to work, as I said, About 9 o'clock ?dr. Jones; the president, came in and geld that if I could fiud Hasson and/gable signature t� a certain paper and girt beck by le O'clock be would make it worth my while, I had an Idea that Hasson 'leas managing that .mtiequee- mle, and that's where I found bins. He buttonholed me at one to be judge Of the concern and wouldn't sign the pa- per unless I agreed. 1 saw I could get back by 11, to I stayed." "And had. plenty of time to deuce with Miss Hereford," sueplernented Rose sweetly, but unjudicially This time Arthur's smile Was certein,. "I looked for the cheysantheinura girl Mee and couldn't •find her," he saki strnthfully. "I danced only once., But What 'made you think ,Mise.Ilereford asked the to go?" - • ' • "She sahl she would wag& she could, get you to go and that,. you would dance with ber first, se I went to gee itoI didn't think you would when you said you wouldn't; but"— • • • • "I see," said the young man quietly,' Au leborn loyalty .to .womankind kept him from. telling' Rose that just as he 1141cl:started away 1lss Hereford had run to huxn, exclaiming that as he was', • so44nd to award her the prize She cer- tainly mustreward him •wlte the. first dance, etc. ' With a siracten'hutielse he took Rop'enttle heed In his. • ' . .She_ sprang up and started for the fireplace, but he held her geutly tack. , "Usteu," he sylespered.. • 'On the glowing coals smoked Evan- geline 'Bell; aud on the rug, with eyes turued to the ceiling, knelt Henrietta. "0 God," she was seeing, duo* I latt in down to sleep. • I give my precious dolly, so you will make the faiwy queen Wiv the cwown of her golden bath to bwing Arfur •the little beast he wants tor iewlismae. • Thade all, God, , only' please let me 'see her when she comes. Amen." •' "Amp!" echoed Arthur fervently. "Grace •Hereford' has biaeic hale" 'ob- served Rose inconsecmeetly. , • "She may hate green hair tor all it • • matters to me," staid Arthur, With , politeness. . "Rose, darling"— .• • 'I. wonder if God wile° Henrietta *as nit uring, withoad eyes fixed•on the moun f ashes" with& was once Evangeline Bell. , . • • • • Rose went over to the fireplace and kissed her small stster.7 ''"I ebittle God. Wine' she sald reverently; then slat went back to, radiant Mr. Arfue • '"TargrENI 115 warseerieo. red lips 'Henrietta. But yesterday raet'.her;..and she hurried by. ,scareely .speaking, .and • this morning on. the , street sbe pretended not • to see mee though I 'know she did, and all became. • —you -wouldn't. haVebelieved such a• Veen of a girl *would cate so much be- cause she didn't get • the peize at tee masquerade, .would: you, .oew?” • • "My!" ejaculated Henrietta. 'But her aext eager •question was cut short by • Mr, Arnie's sprInglog to his feet "$he ter Wose" had entered the room, and Henrietta,knowing trout ranch expert - 51100 thatshe was decidedly de trop witett they:two were together, went re- luctantly back to Evangeline Bell and the fireplace. ••• "Good morning." Said Sister Rose, her.•tone .suggestive :or a 'glare of ice and a flurry od snow, •"Ihave. an en- gagern6nt.". But. she set clown. -0e, I ate sorry. Thu 1. Will go," he oald gently,. but he.•also sat down. •. ••• ' In his .ey,es, honest end gray, Was 4 zoruptekity'of expressions as he -Watele ed. •ber trying desperately to appear very, much at her ease. • Love looked fromhis eyes—there was .zio doubt of that—and admiration andapproval, and yet te grOwleg weeder that, after all, his Idolgoeld lie so human. • . • "I am, sorry that you are angry," he began when the silence was getting tense. Ilry to realize -my position, Reset esat there, an uttWilitng jtuge— iny . duty aviardleg prizes to lite best sustained characters in the nuterplekade Artiongsthe maskers was one to whorn my bort went out—a slender little figurewhose white satin gown, caught loosely 'around the waist. with a silken girdle, fell 114 straight folds to her tiny feet. Crowning her smell head were chrysanthenuitns, lemon and gold, and a line of the royal dowers reached fonts one sWeet, bare shoulder to the hem of her gown. The ettrysituthenum girl was the loveliest sight In the rowel, but she Was Mit the best sustained telemeter, so"— "I hope you don't think I care he - Prise you awarded the prize t� Grace Hereford," luterposed the girl seem - fully. "and please don't' for. a minute think 1eht **We et ',00hing, • O men only disappointed In you." Her voice quivered a little. "I- terve stispeeted the ehrsetantbe- mum girl of imeing moods," Arthur db- eerved, looking at her eefteetiVely. "A, fellow I know has different names for her—Moonlight, Whitt Rost: Laughing Vater, Gentleness, Iteaute, Wirodonle The fellow has admired her when he was gtty and whet she was Selectee, but never before has he seen her *heti she wee Intreasonable" The ehrysitethenittle girl sniffed. "Wilt you kindly explain?" added Art Intr, "I had always been soprotid of your etrelettliof eitrometer,,,she began, • • Christine. For the Hard.• . A. traveler in Sweden tells of a beau- tiful Christmas cuetom In that land • which may weli be imitated in many lands. He days: "One wintry after- noon at Christmastide I had been *kat- • ing on a pretty lake three miles from Gothenburg. On my .way home I no- ticed that at everos farmer's house • there was erected in the middle a the • dooryard it pole, to the top of which , was bound a large full sheaf of grain, de answer to my questionas to the • meaning of it my companion replied: 'Oh, that Is for the birds—for the little wild birds. They must have a merry Christmas, toe you know.' "—Seleeted. • Hind Old Man. • Ai:Pm—What dld that rich old uncle of yours give you for Christents? • Something useful, I'll bet.*e• Ilauskeers—Yes, a little •device for • saving Pal bills. Ascum—Ab, an arrangement to at- trieh ddthe heater? ' era —No, to keep �n 51y desk. it's ale. .rt-te Poieldg. Organized le 1874.—ins and • How Recruits Art Might. • Regina Is the headquarters of Inc mounted police, the barracks being lo - gated on the 'plain outside the cite,t cease to the Clovernment Rouse, which is the. [Steele' .reeldenee of the .Lieuten- anteGoversioe of the Northwest Terri - tortes. It is a very complete establisb- ment, with -adrolotstrat:on. residences for the ementissioner and the other ofticere; barracks rot the men, guardhouse, tiot only for delinquents in the force, but als for prisoners await- ing trial or rensoval to the penttentlare, riding school, stables, theatre and a 4 church, There le a spacious athletics ground attached, where cricket, base- a ball and other gatnes take place, exile- ,11 ket, of course, being the favorite. A „t• •Very spirited game .cricket was In L progress when the correspondent Wait- k4; ed the post, and it seemed odd t hear 1 ,ltssistant Cotniniesintter eletlree apol- ogetically say that the team was some- what Crippled just now, two of its.best Players being stationed in the efackens zie Myer conntry, 2..000 miles to the o north, and above the Arctic circle. ti ti How Recruits Are 'taught. • There.are about 125 men here, not fer pollee duty alone, but beettuse this Is c otanliettuttet,t al,titiioigtrvi,40111, 10wool eltvtrtiheteores.rinill t taught -to' rfde arid instructed In ttfctr duties, Tbey are put through what might be termed a pretty stiff "course of sprouts," for the dlecipline mein- • tattles). is very rigorous, and, rammer, their fettles are Ha important anti at tImes delicate, requiting the exercise of judgment and tact where force w01114 be perhaps Impossible, that intelligence no well AA courage, activity and enilnr. a.nce Is an imperative requirement, Cif course, they must be able to ride arril Shoot well, since their effleleney largely depends, and otten their lives, upon these two aecomplishmente. speeter r; Church, for 15 years In the Engesh Life Guardia, and who is re. guested as one of the beet riding mas- ter* in' the world, trains •the recruits to ride, - • Mounting a horse which, two years ago, was brought in unbroken trout the prairies, the inspector gave am exhibi- tion ot both equestrian skill and what a horse may be taught by patience and kindness. The spirited animal galloP- ed at full speed, guided only by the pressure of the rider's knees or the swaying of his bodoe came to a full atop within a few feet and at a teueb dropped on its knees and then lay down, as lf to afford a breastwork from behind which its master might de- fend himself. * Carry Winchester Carbine;. • The men are armed with Wineheet carbines, soon to be euperseded .by t Rose, and revolvers. Outside the ba racks there is a lerge range, perha two miles in extent, and here they a taught to we their Weapons, • peering targets are used, and the ift are required to elee across the ran at full speed' when a target appear • when they dismount an have one mi ute to which they must Are as man shots as possIble, Then ;they remota and ride until the appearance of an other target, when the same procedure • fellows. The revolver practice is equtt thorough, with the result that t}'mounted police, who never shoot urge they are absolutely earnpelled to do s never shoot to miss. •• • , Dress and Pay. The ureform ot the mounted poliee a red coat or tunic-, dark trousers wit a yellow - stripe,: riding beets and white plains hat. Around the barrack many wear the little rakish cap, stuc on tine side of the head. All those see on. duty carried a riding whip. On ac tiVe service, in soul& sections the plain er but more serviceable ithalti Is Wer and up in the Arctic regions clothin at furs is necessary to protect the me ' from the awful cold. Until July 1 th privates were paid 56 cents a -day, wit 5 cents additional for each year's Set, vice. up to five years. Ration; Uniform • and horses are, of course, furnish& , therm It being desired to inet•eas,& th foz•-ce to about 1,000—there are now be • • twee:n 700 and 800. --,the pay Was in • creased: on that date 25 per cent. • Th .reasen for thls. is that it IS sconewha cliffloult 'get recruits .of the prOpe In the earlier days, when there Wa more activity and rontaxice in the life o a mounted policername recruits could,b had in- plenty, but new ZonditIonts ar ' becoming more • settled and there more work and •Iess rennunee, The fore Is Made up Of kinds of men, Cana. Mans,. English and other foreigners, an even Indians and half-breeds. Colleg men have been found M: its ranks,. an selons of ricii.and, perhaps, titled -faro, illes„' sozne drawn to it by the fasei nation Of the ,free life of the frontier others-ber a eause a failure In ether lese active ‘valks• of life. As a wir.ile the force is made pp of gond men; triore than ordinarily intelligeat,• brave' and taCtfuf and fitted to deal with the bet erodeneous 'peoples who inhabit the :great northwest. With u military or- garrization, they are only. civil oftieers • ••Organized In 1874, . • : The Northwest -,,•Nfourtteti Police was organized • itt 1374, starting with 200 Men. At first they dealt tnainly with • the Indians,, of whom, there were 20,009 in the Northwest. Pages might be Vitt - tea of .their first journeys. into the dis. tant interior Of what was then an al, • most Unknown land, After the Custer massacre in 1.276 thousand s .'of, 'Sleek • •fled front ,the -TJnited States across . -the Canadian boundary and the mounted 'police had hard work :0 ereeent their reieing below the border ',and to keep the Peace between theni andthe Cana- dian Indians, Who I Protested against their unwelcome guests killing what remained of the once vast buffalo herds. Sitting Bull, that .griin old chief, gave the Canadian Government 'muCh cOn- cern while a." fugitive &Menge thein, but they kept him and his • .unruly .bra,yes in good control, It is told that when these Indians had agreed to go back to the United•Stittes and surren- der themselves to the ,Government a strong detkachment of troops Was sent up to meet. an.d receive them at the tattereationai boundary. Trouble was, feared and preparations madesfor it, but to the surprise of the :United States officers the ,IndiartS who had. plaied. Misch 'havOt on • tire Little :Big Horn Were escorted to the boundary by two lone red -coated polieemen and turned over as. quietly as though they were iambs. •• • TH YVINTER EVENINGS., Purnish' 'Every Opportunity •For Cultr .• • vating Every Grace' That Belongs • to the Life Of the Home. • ' Every hey Of the Aes :days la the rotind Year containe s the sante nurnbt of hours -24 and no mores 'Yet sum - tiler day and a winter day are wholly unlike one anothee, and a summer even,: Ing Is' a :very far -away cousin of a, win- ter . evening. Steamier' evenings. aro made for horsy. people who have nosed memories and no den regrets. • They are meant for lovers, for lingerine•at the gate, for a' last kiss and hands clasp, while the moonlight bathes lawn 1 able and cheerrul for fill 'within. epee I Nobody should be left out of the tens der amenities of tbe home circle. DM from 15 to 18 bave often reached a pokiest, stage 34 their development, ' when they are very apt to *Up away , from borne if It be gloomy or fresiel or .heeny way v.earleome, let all nes taken, economien that which is too fru: gal of lamp -light In the ,winter evens legs is the most deplorable. Sesre porno - thing else if -you must, but have plenty , et light,' no living room should 'be • wellslighted anti wartnsligliteil, 'bat the • boy or girl who prefers to Emend Part of the evening in a separate roma shoulkl have the ehance to do so with a. shaded lamp and sudielent warmth • to make the room pleasant. I Sociability among neighbors laeionge , to Mere long evenings, and to promote sociability there should be mato mad games and Informal convereatIon, ftS well as sornethine simple in the way of refreshment A chafing -dish should be a family convenience, and ever"' home should have its well-filled cake - box and a good store of nuts and apples freestuoaoUP Ippeveryone enows that we may form any halet we choose a habit of being well-mannered anti .hospitable, , or a habit of being- °burnish and nig- gardly, A. thoughtful writer has said I that persons who mean to grow must ' • make automatic and habitual as many useful habits as they care "Down he • among the nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting, registering. and *•''' storing up our time to be used for good re or 111 when opportunity comes. No or• we ever* do Is, In strict scientific en literalness, wiped out. of .course, thiS has its good gide as welt as its bad one. ' If we become permanent drunkards bY n"-• so many separate drinks, so we Mao? become saints in the moral, authorities and experts in the practleal and sclene • tine spheres by so many separate acts asne hours of work." •. • What I vvish to emphasize is that • „ we may fermi habits of"applleation to '" study, of Rind greetings to friend,•and of knowing how to have a good time in ; the long• evenings, it •scre setioility 'dee termine,to put them to Pane good use. Is It will be the greatest et titles if we b let, the winter drift by Without a from it both pleasure and 'profit. • It is s the periodwiten the home lines may be It most closely drawn, and when we mOe have the roost healthful .fun and en- - joyment beyond our homes: - • I wish sonte ,our of mine could' be n, influential in bringing' about one Ur - g gently needed.reform. In our cities the n hoursofsocial gatherings of evOrY kind o are growing absurd/y late. People cOale h together at an hour When their grand- . fethers were going•to bed. They.leave s the festive scene not at Midnight, but iJ in the grayof the early dawn. young • Men who should, take clear heaels and -. lint/reit • muscles . to sbushiese the next' - • day are unfitted for duty by the pleas, e, ure verging on alefepation of the legiat ..before. The seasonet wear and tear -tells ✓ eardle upon tee• 'bloom of our girta.. A • retina :of teas; tecePtions, theatre pa'- . ties and dances, brings nervous pros, • tratiOn to young. women, who should' e never so much as hean of anythlng.be. e. yond- henithy fatigue.. Our late hours s rob the long evenings of their charm, e menace 'Quo eltalay end are really a „. • blow to the welt-being:of the commune The effort snouhl,be made to get e together earlier.: and. to -separate • at a. / :reasonable time. The arbitration of this is in the hands, not 4:4 men; but of ‘Yo - men', Who .are the tree' Octal: .queens,• whein. this country manage' everything • that 1tas. to d.b. With home, and friend-' ; ship, and who may, if they *like, make it the fashion to live more SinMik, and„ .tte.uri• AstItniorimlieh.sesrd:titsrpii• en:ilty.n.anioleids.e•adtrperroeszto.thine the tine of expenditure. There is no • reasen why our pleasures should •cost se much as they too often do: Because We 'can afford' to spend little,. some at us leettne to. behospitable at ail. Yet, there have been gatherings 'of refined arid sagreeable ...people evening after evening; in the Winters of the past, where the only refreshment effez•ed Was a. wafer and a cup of tea, and where there was no displitY, ':either of 'dress, .of costly catering,. or of riotons iuxurY, American Beauty roses SIrnpJicity .• . ehouto .be a Clutracteristid of our hos.: • pitatity when we dispense it In the long evenings. There ee the most svinsonie attract:On i11. the cordial geeetifig, in the showing. by voice and eye and hand thatthe holne is giad In itsheattbeat whentriends.-come in of an 4*o:dug. . and garden in its flooa of silvety sbeen. Darkness gathers early in winter, and the evenings are • long.- They give. opportunity for cultivating every grace that belongs to family life, writes Mar - petit l. Sangster. One winter night, some years ago, it man came home af- ter an absence and a• long ride ,over he hilts and saw sitting by the fire a boy he did not know. The farmhouse had so large st .crowd of curly heads that a boy more or less made little im- pression. Neiglsbors' children were ale ways dropping In, mid of ten some of' them stayed over night; tut this boy was it strauger. Tho tattler made sonic • "That boY," saki his wife, "came here ust at dusk last evening and asked he way to the nearest town; He was Ithey clad and very .0014, and seemed all starved, so 1 matte Mtn stay an Ight. Ile offered of his own aecord help milk the eows, and this morn - ng he went out and brought in my hulling wood. Ife teems a nice little Mow, without a home, and think he 'mild better stay Imre," . Ite 010 stay there for the next SeVell ears, with a plosse at*the table, :dotti- ng, food told schooling, Piet as ohil- ren of that home Mal. Tee told of. te wetter evenings had awakened he le begitedngs the kindly hospitality of le household. Such virtnee as genere idly and unseltislinese flourish in the °entry, When the long evertittge emile cele of he 'vital /mods is to make them agree- . No More Wanted. • "Merry Christmas, .old man! And. many more like it.", • The man addressed turns a baleful, • sleepless eye upon the speaker and replies: •-4 • "Many More like It Say, you hadn't heard -that twins eame to our house east night had you?"—Judge. • • n "Jcsmie Christmae!” •'Little Jessie woke tip on clarlstnine inoreIng ind palled to her. four-year- old sister "Merry. Christmas!" • • "Jessie CMS s tip s 1" prom istly n ewer- • ed the baby. unrIstiante • Little cakes that will please the chil- • dren either at the table or , on the Christmas tree are made as follows: Rake the cakes in little patty or 'muffin pans end frost the tops with a white icing. Dip a small new paint brush in Melted chocolate and draw a face on eaeb. Make some crying and others laughing, the different eepressions be- ing made by the curve of the mouth line. The merest outline will Ise suffis dent. Cut a cirete of tissue paper of white or May other color liked two hieing larger than the cake, pink the edge with scissors and run a thread round one inch from the edge. Put it Mike In the paper, draw up the threed, • and a cututhig little enp Is fornaed, • The pleasure of small children will • well repay the trouble of making these little cake bables.—Pittsburg Press. • Viret Aid to Sante Cleo*. ' . A. elever idea for a Christmas night party Is to have the gifts wine In on a sled piled high and strapped on and the Sled •drawn by tee lade dubbed Santa Claus' aesittents. The. place earths- at the supper Which f011OWS the distribu- tion' of the girth 81101110 be tiny sled§ made front cartlimerd nod •dipped In nittellage, then In diam67T1• dust, the tope to be Of silver cord and each sled drawn by 44. miniature Santa 'Claus about three inches high. The ebildretiN Mestivali, "And it little child shall lead theme' The entire meaning of the festivitl of Chriettnaft is eontained in these words. It is the festival of the children be- eauso on this day Clod, the Son, the Seeond Person of the Blessed Trinity took non, him human nature III the •Shape of a. helpless and beautiful thIld. (1 30)ln Talbott Smith, IAA 116., :i'resident Catholic &nuttier School a 0 kmerica. Ae Point of Etiquette. A despite!), from Vancouver, B. says: leaving *batten hones with 'King Novara himself, C'hief Joo Ctse; bead of the Squaenish trite, co vitoula be Infra dig for him to go to the Hetet Vancouver to oall on Hari Grey, "the leinght mare" when he are rivee here to attend the Foreetry cette vendee. Chief doe SaYS he *Will he On • hand with, some of his braves when the Oovennor-tieneral comes, but be waxed Indignant at the idea that Ila IOWA, Make a eall on Ins Excellency, ,11 "1110 pal go to 'hetet with my people," he 'saki. "Man Who eaw Xing and sheet; hands with him will shake the Ring's man by the hands it we Meet in the streets, hut what would eny people think if I went and called on the gimes mail?" The led chief indicated, that "Iola a thing was absurd. City Comptroller GOMM, to whom Chief Joe explained this difficulty, told the Indian in hie best cod000k, and also in his best non- Boosevelted Einglish, that he would do Ms best to so arrange matter o that Earl Grey arid .Toe should Meet ea man:. aed man, and. His Excellence WIli be requested to hear some apple' remarks) from the chief on the siatieet of the dedrnenei wrodgs. rritere Others.• ' i; Chrlstrnes Is corning • And Santa Claus. too, And, being dead broke, Lord, what shall I• do? The children will ery. Their mother will pout-, rit naye to go try Pot my watch up the spout. Times-trnion, ' "%me generous •gor000r- oata• nszsu- Soorates Buiginbrow of Roston, "heal been kind enoutsh to send me a copy' of Mother Goose's lyrics for Christ.' mas. Do you know, the theory that a, representative of the "bovine genus it one 'time leaped over the deer lumi- nary of the night leads te some inter- • esting calculations as to the muscular development of the eows of that dale. have ascertained that they must Wive been endowed with strength-- propor- • tionate to that of the flea of the pres- ent day."-erialtimore .A.reerican, • • .A Hard Headed Hoy. "Dares.jes' «Is about It" said Seam- • my Unnerve, gutter ban' dat Pick - weepy 'Jim over tide Society Voh de . Prev,ention o' Cruelty to Animels." • "What's he been dein'?" , OlVe• give him a goat foh, a Ottrisfe . mas Present, an" dire are de goat god to ‘plasslie nowt:, an' de flue thing ID knower] Jim be done los' hie temper' lie' butted dot goat stmos, fn Apra,' • .NNOT '11).1.oE.t.:-.1.3.7"a:liStS•beC• pBAI;F:11 ‘ot'iLsItE.tfif) by local applieretione, , ean- , ..tht.f. ear, There...is only one -way . to cure .deaineSS, and that.. it Lys coa- etitutional • remedies.Dertitiess • ' • caue:d. • by an einflameci. condrtion. i5 the noteotts lining Of die IsestaCteal • Tube. When this tube is iitlioned. yea • have • a rumbling sourel or 1"-o/sleet• • hvaring,. and .witen it is eatifcly 'cies- . cd, Deafivess is the' result, 'nee unless> tlte itfla tete edict/ Can, ee falsest ou . and this. tube 'Teetered to its normal vonsii don; beeringOwill be• ti t co ye forever,: nine. CaSes' eve of leo lac . caused ey. 'Catarrh, .whieh te welting but an infl•aene. corulteloh f Mee-. eus eurfaces.. •We will give eine • Iluedessi hellars for any 'case cf De.afecea desesed Cateerhi that COMO be t•lirtql Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send [ r eir- culars free. • . • F. J. CHENEY & Toledo, ' Sold by •Drugg.fsiS, -Tee. • ; Take Hall s .Family Pills '.fOr , stipation. Henri Sansgregre.t, a- Monter-el ma- • termati, .whose car tiled John. ii,lorrle •strierruyt ttlto .1'c laisiltosit ,•eas 111. jul tq, SIC, ;N.. FROM;1 111 .; . • Life' 'toe • rus le • but .we eau' t alt ge there ;together; „On cOniegficece, • worfy--Catt.'.t help it because 'nereee .are weals, vitality, is burnt . • up •and there is •tio staying :power left.' Cut out tite worry part and . Build •. Up, • Let, Perrozone help. yett.• • It's- a most Strengthening:. nutritive tonic; Fills the 'blood and iron,' supplies.:Imildies - Material for wornout • organs; Oesite,re etc.'s the, sort of vitality.. that melees you Want to do. thiligs. No niedirtinte More 'helped -for mon, wOtecti e,ne 'elaidren who need strength and • stay- ing power. Try Perrozone, fifty cut, per box' at all .crealerS. • • The feydney Cement Company eases received an order foe 71.10 barrels • et cement for Mexico. FOR OVER SIXTY YnARs . Mrs. WilsloW's Soothing Skrup has • • been Used by millions of mothers to• r. their children while teething If dis- turbed by` eight and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and cryinO with pain of cutting teeth seed ae once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Wilelow's Soothing, Syrup" for child- ren teething. It will relieve the poor little sufferer inunediatety. Depen:i upon it, Mothers, there is no mistake aboLt it. It cures Diarrhoea,' regu- lates the Stomach and BoWels, cures Wind Colic, softens the Gums, reduces ' Inflarnmation and gives tone and en- • ergy to the whole system. "Mrs'. : Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for child - tee teething is pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one et the oldest and best female, Physielatte and wages in the United States. price 25 cents a bottle. Sold by all drug- gists, throughout the world, fee sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth- ing Syrup." Montreal capi t all s t s have bough t, front he Toronto Coal Company, the old Collins' coal Area at Little Bras d'Or, C. B. ' THEY KNOW IT• , Thottsande of people throughout the. country know that the ordinary rem- edies, for ptlee—olitionente, suppositors les an: appliantes—will not cuee. The hest 'of them only bring pal**. Mg relief. Dr. Lectilia,rdt'S WM-Rohl Is a tab- let taken inthrnally that removes tit' tame et pile, lience.titi. cure is per- manent. Every pttekage Sold • eerily a gettralltee Willi it. It It; perfectly harmless to tit, most ttieat onsti Oaten . A mon tit's reatinent 14 eaCh paCkage. Sold a! II, dollar. et any drug eters, ne the Iletell 1°11r Co., Limited, Nia•Yan.', Pa 1 c:. (Int,