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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-12-16, Page 2. • • • . . ' ' : •••nc.., •• • • ' • . , •. „ . ...„. G. D. lid.cTAGGART M. D. MOTAGGART • McTaggart :•Bros. BANKERS-. I • • • • • • • .• 'A GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED; ;COTES_ , DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE: POSITS. SALE NOTES rtut. CNASED. -- H. T. RANCE - NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY. ANbER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FTRE TNSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. W. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. . NOTARY PUBLIC, ETO. Office- Sloan Block -CLINTON 51. G. CAMERON K.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, ETC. Office on Albert Street oceuped by Mr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which ap pointments are made. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 6 pati. A good vault in oonnection with the office. Office open every week -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments for Mr. Cameron. • CHARLES 11. RILE, Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, - CLINTON DRS. GUNN & GANDIER Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.O.P., L.R. Edin. Dr. J. C. Gaudier, 13.A., M.B. Office -Ontario St., Clinton. Night calls at residence, Rattenbury St., or at Hospital. DR. J. W. SHAW - OFFICE RATTENBURY ST. EAST„ -CLINTON DR. C. W. THOMPSON PHSYICIAN. SURGEON, ETC. Special attention given to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nese and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and suit- able glasses prescribed. Office and residence: 2 doors west of the Commercial Hotel, Huron St, 011. F. A. AXON - DENTIST -.. Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago, and To. ronto. Bayfield on Mondays from May to December, GEortnr, ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of 'Huron. Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arraogements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by (sailing Phone 13 on 157: Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. a V E. OLO FIRME Toni Tone isthe heart of any piano. Its rich, round, flging tone; its brilli- ant treble and rich, organ -like bass, have made the Heintzman & Co. Piano the choice of the world's great artists. The Heintzman Piano is bought by people who want the World's A' est Piano Bran 7h Pliareroorns 38 Ontario St. STRIITFORD , I • • • • • • • • • .• • • * • Fertilizer We carry a Complete Stock of Stone's Natural Fertilizer. No better on the market. flay • We pay at all seasons the highest market prices for Hay for baling. A man who is completely wrapped up in himself it a bundle of. soncelt. • Seeds American Feed Corn, Red plo- ver, Alsike, Timothy and Alfalfa. FORD ee MCLEOD ALL KINDS OF COAL, WOOD, TILE BRICK TO ORDER. All kinds of Coal on hand: CHESTNUT SOFT COAL STOVE CANNEL COAL FURNACE COKE BLACKSMITHS WOOD 2% in., 9 in. and 4 in. Tile of the Best Quality. ARTHUR FORGES Opposite the G. T. R. Station. Phone 62. • Row is Your Cutlery Supply ? You know that Jewelry Store Cutlery is out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS is. It carries a distinctiveness - an air of superiority, that comes from being made with the greatest care and ut- most skill from the highest - priced materials. If you can use some of this Cutlery in your home, you will be proud of it every time you see it on the table. Carvers, cased, $3.00 up. Knives, Forks and Spoons, $1,00 doz. up. Knives and Forks, steel, white handles, $3.00 doz. up. Let us show you our Cutlery line, Let us tell you more about why it is the most desirable that you can put your money into. W. R. COUNTER JEWELER and ISSUER of DI MIR IA GE LICENSES. •NEWS-RECORTS NEW CLUBBING RATES FOR '1915 WEEKLIES. 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In remitting please do so by Post•offles Order Postal Note. Eknrese Order or Beg- latered letter and address, W. J. MITCHELL, Publisher News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Clinton News -Record • Christmas Morning. Before the wintry sun is up, Oh, what a racket greets my ears, The din is surely loud enough To wake the folks • of other spheres. The trumpets tot, the dollies squeak The woolly lambs in chorus bleat, The baby locomotives chug, The rat-tatoo the drumsticks beat, For this is Christmas morning, A toy piano tinkles out A tiny, teeny-weeny tune, So faint and sweet it might be played Away up in the silver inocm. The air with merry laughter rings, And shrieks of glee, and whoops of joy, And happy gurgles of delight From rosy, romping girl and boy, For this is Christmas morning. Wee Jimmy sports aseoldier suit, • And Johnny has a wagon red, And Susie -got a camera, And Bruce and Bobby each a sled, And Tom in Fringe and feathers gay, Just like an Indian chief appears, And mother hugs them every one, And murmurs "Bless Hee little dears!" For this is Christmas‘morning; CLINTON, - tINTARIO Terms of subscription --$1 per year, in advance; $1.50 may be charged if not so paid. No paper discom tinued until all arrears are paid, unless at the option of the pub fisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted oo the label. Advertising Rates - 'Transient ad. vertisements, 10 cente per non. pareil line for first insertion and 4 cents per line for each GUbSe• quent insertion. Small advertise ments not to exceed one •inch, such as "Lost," "Strayed," or "Stolen," ete., inserted once for 25 cents, and each subsequent in. aertion 10 cents, Communications intended for pub. lication must, as a guarantee •of good faith, bo accompanied by thio name of the writer, ,W J. MITCHELL, Editor and P'ropriotor. Why Ile Needed It. "There are things more valuable than money," laminated the philoso- pher. "Sure!" retorted the iconoclast. "That's thereason I need money to buy them." WANTED NOW . class condition. Nursery stock Is . selling well this year and good money can be made in this dis- trict. For particulars wnite Sales Manager, PELE.&M NURSERY CO. %Toronto, - - Ontariedg There is a Cold Day Coming Whv not prepare for it by ordering your winter simply of Lehigb Valley Coal. Nous better in the world. Rouse Phone 12. Office Phone 40. A. J. HOLLOWAY -TIME TABLE. - Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. Going East, depart 7:33 a.m. II II at 3.03 p.m. CI 5.15 p,m. Going West, ar. 11.00, dp. 11.07 a.m. " " depart 1.35 p.m. " " ar 6.32, dp. 6.45 p.m. " " departs 11.18 p.m. LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. Going South, ar. 7.33, dp. 8.05 p.m. departs 4.15 p.m. Going North, ar, 10.30, dp. 11.00 a.m. " " departs 6.40 p.m. Thu tleKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company Head office, Seaforth, Ont, DIRECTORY Off icere J. B, McLean, Sealortn. President; .1. Con. nolly, Oedema, ice•Preskient ; Tao.: E. Seaforth,, Sec.-Treas. Di“,Ct0113. D. F. McGregor. Sealorth; J. G. °neve. Winthrop; Wm. rt,inn, Sen., forth; John tennewols, Dublin; Evans, lieechwood; A. MeDwen, Brucefield; 7, 13, McLean, Setforth; C,onnolly, GoderIch; Robert Perris, Rarlock. A en te : Ed. Rinehley. Seaforth; W. Chesney. Egmondville, J. W. Yeo, Holmes, villa; Alex Leitch, Clinton; IL S. Jar nth h. Brodb a gen. Any money to bo paid in may be paid t Morrish Clothing.Co., Clinton, or at Can's Grocery, Goderien. Parties desirous to effect Insurance,.1. transact othe- business will be promptly attended to on notification to any of 014 above officers addreeeetl to their reapeet. Iva post -offices. Tosses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. NPIMONISOIMS•1310,23.. THE CHILDREN OF TO -DAY just as they are -in their in. door play, or at their outdoor play -they are constantly of- fering temptations for the KODAK Let it keep them for you as they are now. Let it keep many other hap. penings that are a source of pleasure to you. BROWNIES, $2 TO $12; E OD Ali S, $7 -TO $25. Also full stock of Films and Supplies. We do Developine and 'Printing. Remember the place: TH E EXALL STORE. CHRISTMAS DINNER MENU From the Old -Fashioned Meal to An Elaborate One -Many Delicacies for Yuletide. 1. Clear Soup. • Celery. Olives. Roast Turkey. Oyster Stuffing. Cranberry Jelly. Baked Sweet Potatoes, Mashed Potatoes. Peas. Creamed Onions, Lettuce. French Dressing. Wafers. Cheese. Plum Pudding. Hard Sauce. ' Coffee. 2: Raw Oysters. Tomato Soup. Steamed Halibut, ' Creamed Potato Balls. Roast Turkey. Giblet Gravy. Cranberry Jelly, Mashed Potatoes. Brussels Sprouts. 'Celery Salad. Wafers. Cheese. Illiece Pie. Orange Jelly. Coffee. Bon Bons. 3. Cream of Corn Soup. Halibut a la Flamande. Roast Turkey. Chestnut Stuffing. Cranberry Jelly. Celery. Mashed Potatoes. Spinach. Lettuce. French Dressing. Wafers. Cheese. Mince Pie. Plum Pudding. Fruit. Nuts. Raisins Coffee. 4. Little Neck Clams. Consomme. Coast Duck. Brown Gravy. Currant Jelly. Mashed Potatoes Cauliflower. Celery Salad. Wafers. Cheese. Plum Pudding. Hard Sauce. Orange Ice Cream. Coffee. Bon Bons. - 5. Raw Oysters. Mock Bisque Soup. Celery. Olives. Boiled Cod. Lobster Sauce. Potato Balls. Roast Turkey, Giblet Gravy. Cranberry Jelly. Sweet Potato Croquettes. Boiled Onions. Mint Sherbet. Roast Duck, Orange Salad. Mince Pie. jelly. Fancy Cakes. Fruits. Nuts. Bon Bons. 'Coffee. Mincemeat for Pies. -One pound of shredded suet, 1.1ai pounds each of shredded raisins and cleaned currants, three quarters of a pound of .brown sugar, one half of a cupful of mo- lasses, three pints of chopped tart apples, one pound of chopped beef, one pint of the liquor in which the meat was cooked or the same quan- tity of good beef stock, one heaping tablespoonful of salt, one cupful of brandy, one half of a cupful of wine, the grated rind and strained juice of one orange and one lemon, four tea0 spoonfuls of cinnamon, one teaspoon- ful of cloves, one teaspoonful of all- spice, one teaspoonful of mace, one half of a pound of citron. For those Who do not care to use liquor, cider in the same proportions may be substituted. Put all except the cider or tigers).- and suet into a large kettle and stew slowly until the apples and fruit are very tender. When cold, add the other ingredients and put away in stone or glass jars. Mincemeat Without Meat. -Boil six lemons until tender enough to pierce with a etre*. Drain and weigh them; take an equal weight each of pared and cored apples, seeded and chopped raisins, cleaned currants and finely shredded beef suet; one hall of their weight :each in Candied orange peel,andcitron, and one quar- ter of their weight in sugar: Cut open the lemons and remove the seeds then amp all together as fine as pos- sible. .Add to this one small nutmeg grated, one teaspoonful of salt, and ginger, one quarter of a teaspoonful of cloves and three ounces of crum- bled stale macaroons. Add sufficient aciwilneyr inglass or sherryjntros.moistee and pack Christmas Pudding. -One cup of chopped suet, one-half cup sugar, one- half cup molasses, one cup sour milk, one and one-half teaspoons soda, one egg, one teaspoon cinnamon, one tea- spoon clots, one-half teaspoon salt, one and one-quarter cups chopped raisins, three-quarters cup chopped currants, ooe-half cup chopped figs, one-half cup candied orange peel, three and one-half cups bread flour. Mix together flour, spices, prepared flour, salt and flour. Add soda to sour milk and molasses; add suet, sugar and eggs unbeaten, and then beat in the flour mixture. Steam in a well- oiled and floured mold for four hours, then serve garnished with holly, and surrounded by portions of hard sauce, sprinkled with chopped pista- chio nutmeats and capped with can- dled cherries. The pudding will be more attractive still if blazing when brought to the table. To accomplish this, pour over three tablespoonfuls of good brandy' and ignite it just be - fetes sending it to the table. This amount will serve twelve people. To Serve the Christmas Pudding. - Turn the hot pudding out on a -heated platted and in the top stick a sprig of holly. Dip half a dozen lumps of sugar in alcohol and place round the base of the pudding. Touch a lighted match to each lump, carry quickly to the table and place before the host - 053. Mint Sherbet. -Boil together for five minutes one pound of sugar and one pint of water. Pound well the leaves from one large bunch of mint, pour over them the hot syrup and set away -until cold, then strain. Add the strained juice of three lemons and freeze. When hard, remove the dash- er, add two tablespoonfuls of cream de menthe, mix well with a spoon, re- pack the freezer and set aside for several hours. Yule Dollies. -Cream together one half of a cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar. Add gradually two well -beaten eggs, one tablespoonful of cream or rich milk, one teaspoonful of vanilla and three cupfuls of flour, with which has been sifted two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder; then stand for an hour in a very cold pInce. Have ready a tin cutter in the shape of a doll about five inches long. Take a portion of the dough out on the board at ono time, roll out one half inch thick and cut into dolls. Brush each over With milk and dredge lightly with powdered sugar, use cur- rants for eyes and bake on greased pans in a moderate oven. When cold decorate the skirt of each doll with ruffles of frosting. 'Wrap each sepa- rately in sheets of waxed paper. In Packing place the doll in a long shal- low box, pack firmly with tissue pa- per and before closing the box add a tiny Christmas card and a sprig of holly, Tie the box with red ribbon. stailetaaa:ttaaMthitittaiiaaaaMtlaaSetrastalittial Holiday Gamest: staistataaltseatalt:ViMatat.aaa-OatatieStlall At out Christmas bazaar green canes (cut on the river bank and closely resembling bamboo) furnished the foundation of a most effective Japanese booth. They were' easily made into a latticed summer -house, over which wild smilax was trained. This keeps its glossy green leaves all winter in the South. When heavy clusters of loosely made pink paper flowers were added the result was beautiful. Several hundred of these flowers were made in one evening by simply scalloping two circles of pa- per, one slightly smaller than the other, twisting them together in the centre and slightly curling the petals. They were fastened to the leaves with pins. This little flower -covered booth, with its lanterns half hidden by the flowers and leaves, had a distinct- ly Japanese The "lucky bean': game can be played at any inforreal dinner, supper, children's party, fancy dress dance or masquerade. Each guest, on arrival, is asked to partake of a small piece of cake, a bean being hidden in one of the pieces. The lucky finder of the bean becomes king or queen of the evening, and is crowned with great ceremony. The sovereign holds full sway foe the rest of the evening. Whatever lie or she does ell .must fol- low suit. If he chooses to hop around the room, allanust clo so, if he drinks, all do the same; hisfact, every action has to be iniithted by the other guests, or the penalty is a forfeit. In the left-handed party the host and hostess have their right hands fastened behind thein in receiving their goesta. Any guest giving his right hand in greeting pays a forfeit rater in the evening. Potato races form a part of the entertainment. Potatoes are placed at one and of the room in a row. Contestants start from the other end, take alp the pota- toes in spoons held by the left hand, and return to the other end of the room within a given time. Then a large bowl of peanuts is put on the table, and eadlt iPeSt yea -levee as many as he can 00 the hock of his left hand, even to the partaking of refreshments, seeni determined to iilay "Quaker .Meeting" and nothing else, can often be roused from its starched stiffness by the highly intellectual game of Clot. Seat the players in a circle with one in the centre to be the cat. 'This enimal'at once proceeds to make his nioan at the publicity of his posi- tion, and with as wailful waouls its possible, kneels before some member of the party and tries to make him laugh. The cat can Make three pleas, each ms long and doleful as possible. Meanwhile the seated players inuet reach out his hand, pat the cat on the shoulder and say, "Poor pussy, POOr tlUsSy, Tool- pussy!" three .times without laughing. If he laughs he must become the cat. This is not a game that can be played long, but to break the ice it is very successful, since it is so utterly ridiculous that even the shyest must smile at least a bit. 1I'l ' Ei?j HOLIDAY SWEE7"M EATS ;rlil iiil 'There is no culinary secret so dear to the feminine heart as a recipe be- queethed• by tele'e great-giset4refid- Mothet.. • The recipes for these little cakes have .0On used for generations by the Moaevians ' whose mistiet Old World religious customs heVe with- stood our •fin-deteiecle civilization for a century and a half. To them the neighborly exchange of Christmas cakes is an institution as honored tie the singing of meets, and Much more gratifying to the youngsters . who re- vel in edible birds and beasts cut lifter the grotesque Moravian pat- terns. The cutters used to form these. -unimual. shapes are now Lound 181 some house -furnishing stores, . but they can he made by any tinsmith. • • Cakes made from these recipes will keep for. weeks if they are pet in a stone crock in a .cool- place. Pepper nuts are especially good for long keeping, because they contain no shortening to become rancid. . If they ere made before Christmas they Will keep perfectly until late in the spring.. All of these cakes are better if they are 'nixed' one •day .and baked the next. The dough should be covered and kept in a cool place overnight Pepper Nuts.. -t -Mix one poundend quarter of brown sugar, two table- spoonfuls of cinnamon, one table- spoonful of cloves and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Stir -into this three .eggs and add as much flour as it is possible to work in. The dough must be very' stiff.. Roll it out moderately thin, and cut the cakes 00 larger than a silver quarter. Bake in a very pool oven. These cakes will Puff up round, and are more.attractive if the flat side' is spread with a hard icing. This re- cipe will Make between .three and four quarts of cookies. Bethlehem Spice Cakes. - -Cream one pound of brown sugar and one pound of butter; add to thisone quart of Molasses, one ounce of cinnamon, one ounce of ginger, one ounce of all- spice, hall an ounce of cloves, the grated rind of one orange and flour enough to make a dough stiff enough to ion out very thin. Moravian Chocolate Cakes, - Mix together two cupfuls of light brown sugar and half a cupful of butter and lard mixed. Add two eggs, a hall cupful of grated chocolate that has been melted over hot water and one teaspoonful of soda. Stiffen this With flour and form into a long roll as large eround as a small beltimg pow- der can. Slice this down very thin, dip one :Ade in granulated sugar, and bake in a moderate oven, Nazareth Chocolate Cakes. -Cream two cupfuls of granulated sugar and a scant three-quarters of a cupful of better. Stir into this one cupful of water, two eggs, two small teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, half a cake of melted chocolate and four large cup- fuls of flour. Roll very thin and bake si°./‘tvillYn'ond Cakes. - Rub together a quarter of a pound of powdered su- gar and a half a pound of better, add the yolks of four eggs, three table- spoonfuls of cream and one pound of flour. Mix sufficient sugar and flour in equal parts to sprinkle over the dough bowel. Roll the dough on this until it is a quarter of an inch thick, then cut in diamonds, and when the cakes are baked ice them with the following icing: Beat together the yolks of two eggs and two tablespoon- fuls of water and thicken with confec- tioner's sugar. Spread this on the cakes and sprinkle thickly with al- monds that have been blanched and Cut fine, then set in the oven a few minutes to dry. Crisp Molasses Cakes. - Mix a pound and a quarter of dark brown sugar, half a pound of 'butter and half a pound of lard. Add to this one quart of molasses, two table- spoonfuls of ginger, two tablespoon- fuls of cinnamon, one tablespoonful of eloves and a small teaspoonful of soda. Work in enough .flour to stiffen and roll very thin. Bavariah Christmas Cookies.- Mix half at pound of butter with a quarter of a pound of granulated stigma add three-quarters of a pound of flour and moisten with three tablespoonfuls of orange juice. Roll the dough thin, cut into small round cakes and spread at little of the well -beaten yolk of an egg in the centre of each. Sprinkle pulverized sugar and a littth cinna- mon over the egg, and bake in a slow en. o 0 pound of butter and one pound of ovn.d CWI te hristmae Cakes. - Cream 7.- sugar, add five eggs and one cupful of sour cream in which has been die - solved 0 teaspoonful of soda. Stir in roll thie ea into round cakes and flour eno,ugh to make 61 soft dough, press half a a hickory nut meat in thantre' lticeCakes. - Rub together 000 pound or butter and one pound of su- gar, add two eggs and one polledof rice flour. After the dough is rolled thin and cut, weed a little beaten egg on each cake and sprinkle with sugar and dm:Mom Vanilla Wafers. One-thied of a cupful of butter and lard 'piked, One eepful of grant -anted sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, one egg, a quarter of a cupful of sweet milk, two and a quarter cupfuls of floor, one teaspoon- ful of baking powder and two tee - spoonfuls of vanilla. Bake in a mod- erate over. Why We Decorate at Christmas. Why clo we decorate at Christmas? Why the gifts on the Christmas tree? Why the holly about the walls and the laurel over the pictures? Why, above all and the centre of all, those green and Beteg growths, the mistle- toe boughs? Christmas Belau(' upon these things for the celebration of the :festival be- came of the Power that held them green, that kept there alive, that pre- served in them the beauty of life, not- withstanding the snow and sleet, the wind and chilling rain and the wither - mg blast. It is the spirit al these living growths that appeal to use when all the rest of inanimate nature appears to be sleeping end& the mantle of win'ther' Tho ancient Druids believed that spirits.. lived in the holly, the laurel, the bay, and the great green trees that formed the walla and living arches of their temples. They took the branch- es within their dweliing, believing that the spirits would follow, ancl there exercise their protecting care. 0:1 these spirits they believed none to be Mare pot -Voile], or capable of bringing greatee blessing than _those' of the mistletoe. These beliefs have gone from' the world, but we cling to the emblems of therm and rejoice amid the at the Christina:5 celebeations: full-grown sheep averages 152 lb. --sememesehstesesessesee11. company of boys and girls who in weight. • . Proud Father --"I believe, hay dear, that the baby knows as midi as I do.' Mother (gaSing at the infant) - "Yes, poor little fellow." GET RID OF HUMORS AND AVOID DISEASE Humors in the blood cause inter- nal derangemeuts that affect the whole system, -as well as pimples, boils and other eruptions. They affect 611 the organs and functions, 'Meal- branes and tissues, and are directly responsible for the readiness with which -seine people contract disease. l'or forty years Hood's Sarsaparilla has been more successful than any other medicine in expelling humors and removing their inward and out- ward effects. It is distinguished for its thoroughness in pnnifying the blood, which it enriches and invigor- ates. No other -medicine acts like it, for no other medicine is like it. Get Hood's Sarsaparilla today. Insist on having Hood's. . Under the Holly Bough. Ye who have scorned each other Or injured friend or brother, 'In this fast fading year; Ye who, by word or deed, Have made a kind heart bleed, Come gather here. Let shined against, and tinning, Forget their strife's beginning, And join in friendship now; Be links no longer broken, Be sweet forgiveness spoken, Under the holly bough. Ye who have loved each other, Sister and friend and brother, ' 'In this fast fading year: Mather and etre and child Young inan and maiden mild, , Come gather here; And let your hearts grow fonder, As memory shall ponder Each past unbroken vow. Old loves and younger wooing Are sweet in the renewing, Ueda. the holly bough. Ye who have nourished sadness, Estranged from hope and gladness, In this fast fading year; Ye, with o'erburdened mind, Made aliens from your kind, Come gather here. Let not the useless sorrow Pursue you night anti morrow. If e'er you hoped, hope now - Take heart;-uncloud your faces, And join in our embraces, Under the holly bough. -4, CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA. The Weather Is Altogether Different To That of Canada. The author of "Land -Travel and Sea -Faring" gives an interesting pic- ture of Christmas weather at the anti- podes. Australia all the year round is very different from temperate coun- tries, but Australia during the holiday season is hardly to be imagined by stay-at-home Minds. It seemed impossible that the heat could increase, and yet, as Christmas drew near, it grew hatter and hotter still; and although every day we de- clined, almost in terror, to believe that the thermometer could get any higher, still every day it went up some degrees. On Christmas day it was one Ilan- dred and fifteen degrees; four days later,• one hundred and twenty de- grees; and on the first of the new year it .stood at one hundred and twenty-five degrees, and remained there for three -days, This was in the shade under a veranda: What it was in the sun 1 did not have the courage to inquire or the capacity to calculate. The sky was intensely blue, with a whitish haze near the horizon; and the wind now blew steadily from the tropics, a north wind that slowly passed over nearly two thousand miles of burning plains, as it moved toward the south, gathering warmth as it came, until it was like the blast of heat that comes from at tapped fur- nace when the -molten metal runs in dazzling whiteness. The sheep and the horses stood all day in the shade, with their drooping heads towards the tree trunks; the fowls kept in shelter as well, and, like the quadrupeds, they, too, pant- ed, with open mouths and lolling tongues. The ground in the sun was as hot as fire, hardly to be touched with the hand, and even at midnight, metal was almost too hot to hold. Water left out in the sun for a few hours disa.ppeared almost as if it had. been. boiling. Birds -were found dead, struck by the sun in their flight, and there, was a sombre, melancholy look about everything. It seemed as if nature were ready to die, since hope was lost and strength eXhatisted. After the slow passing of those three long days, the thermometer went down with exasperating delibers ation, until the end of January, when it dropped quickly to one hundred de- grees, which seemed pleasantly cool. No Gentleman. "'l!hat young man Pufferley is the rudest person I ever saw," said one young Woman. "I reminded him that we weve standing under the mistle- toe." "And what .clid he do?" asked the othea "He simply smiled and said, 'By jovel The joke's on me.'" ----e "I understand Snaith and Jones had high words the other day." "Yes; and .they're going to have higher ones. Each :of them has engaged a lawyer," you feel inhous„. • ea achy and irritable - for that's tveign your liver is out of order. Your food 15 not digesting -it stays in the stomach a sour, fermented mass, poisoning the systeM. - Just take a &seed ,Chafirberfain's Stomach and Liver Tablets - they Make the liver do its work -they cleanse and neaten the stoniaeh and tone the whole tihro tlye system. You'll feel j111(1 in dm morn ng. At; all dregginta, 256., or by mail from .Charallievliiin Medicine Company, Toronto if, qiipa7FRii,rf TEM, - • D. es' - a