The Clinton News-Record, 1909-12-30, Page 26.
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One year ago, Mr.
George Wakeman was.
earning about $100 per
year as farm laborer. Now
he is earning at the rate •
of $962 per year.
Six months' training •
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CommEnCIAL
The Montreal Finance COmmittee
has voted the VOn.trollers salarieS of
tea thOusand dollars.
The Railway Commission has de-
cided to allow the telegraph compan-
ies to put their new short code regul-
ation into force on July first.
C. W, Hammond was eonunitteed
for trial at Hull for assaulting Mrs.
Weight, his employer's we, and ut-
tering bogus cheques t:011 the Bann of
Montreal.
John A. Smith of Torouto was
acquitted of the charge of smuggling
jewelery at Detroit. It Was shown
that the jewelery was his own person-
al property and he tried to sell a ring
to raise money.
Vessels on the Atlantic experienced
very severe weather last week.
John 111, Fogarty, who led a com-
pany of Fenians at Ridgeway, is
dead at Nuffala.
Repeat it :—"Shiloh's Cure will al-
ways cure my coughs and wide."
Col, Kagicoff, Chief, of the Russian
Secret Police, was blows to piece's
by a bomb in St. Petersburg.
Arthur M. Jackson, Chief Magis-
trate of Nasik, in the Bombay Presi-
dency, was assassinatedewhile ata
theatre.
John Burns told his constituents
,thah Britain would take a lesion from
Gerhiany and avoid protection and
conscription,
The London correspondent Of the
Freenian's Journal says the Union-
ists will not carry more than twenty
seats in London,
Commander Peary intimated at/- a
banquet at. Nev York that the ex-
pedition led by him to the North Pole
might Make an attempt to reach the
South Pole.
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Otter Berns ssizect.
Pain NathonjVille Marie, Qrfebse,
which is situated across Lake Terms-
kamin rg from Hailee bury, lied 29 otter
and 429 muskrat skins in 'his rooms
at the King Edward Hotel, Teen -len
recently. He has teem endeavoring to
dispose of them to local clealere. '
Provincial Inepector Greer • got a
clue to the presence of the skies. • He
met Nett= by appointment •and the
seizure followed. .
•The law is striet about the killing
of otter, and the minimum fine is $11u
for each skin.
The next morning Mr. Nation, with
a lawyer, spent some time in the of-
fice of Edwin Tinsley, superinteedent
ofgames and • fish'eries. Nation's
elaim is that the skies were. obtained.
in Quebec and are consequently, be
yond • the •jurisdiction of Ornate° .
mites. •' •
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PRINCIPAL • OPPOSITH POST °PROS.
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'SANTA CILAIJS, SANTA AND THE • THE POWER OF ONE
IN PORTO MCI 4 LITTLE MOUSE - •
EGGNOG. n
URISTNIAS in Spein Is a rein
gious festival rather tban a so.
chi,' one. It was so originally Is.
Porto Rico. but the population
hes been infiueueed partly by the
sitirit of the uew world and partly try
kbe many American merchants who re-
side in the cities and who exert an in.
dueuce umeli greater than the num-
item would seem to warrant
l'be churches welcome the day with
chimes which begin at midnight and
last uutil the midnight of the next day,
What with oue clutrela beginning ten
minutes too sotto aud another ten min-
utes too late nud a Mini at the right
moment what with belis which t•Ing
every fifteen minutesand bell ringers
who under some aucleut custom will
sound the great bells every half hour,
the air is filled wan niuslc which never
seems to eud.
It you are near a campanile the ef-
fect is not altogether pleasant on ac-
count of tbe volume of sound striking
lie ear svith too much force, but fu
public square several nundred yards
from the nearest belfry, where trees
Byr fR,Aelnie TAYLOR.
(CoPYrhillt.. i/9, r AmerIcan Prose .44110-1
cuition.j
GEE •Ohrtattaaa eve when Santa
O Claue
Came to a certain bons*
To All the eltildren's stockings there
Re found iUttle mouse.
14A merry Christmas, little friend,"
Said Santa, pod and kind. ,
suThe same to you, sir," said the
mouse,
thought you wouldn't mind
"If Ishonld stay
awake tonight
Andwatch you
for awhile
"You're ver y
welcome, lit,
tle mouse,"
Said Santa,
with a smile.
A n d then he
filled the
O stockings up
Before the
mouse could
wink—
From toe to top, from top to toe, ,
O There wasn't left a chink,
"Now; they won't hold another
thing,' I
O Said Santa Claris, with pri4.
A twinkle came in mouse's eyes,
But humbly he replied:
"It's not polite
to contradict.
Your pardon
implore,
But in the
s t stocking
there
I could put
one thing
more."
"Oh, ho," laugh.
ed Santa, "di -
13r mouse!
Don't I know
how•to pack?
By Siting stockings all these years
O I should have learned the knack,"
And then he took the stocking down..
• From wereit king so high •
And said':' "Now put in one thing
more. •.
O I give you leave to try,"
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The monsie
DATTOBTElt Mays ON BE GMTAlt.
• andbuildings break the sound waves,
or In suburbs on the iffileide, the .effeet
is unspeakably delightful.
O Pleasantest of all is It when you are
, sitting in the inner court or quadran-
gle of' a Porto Rican home:, Around
you ou four tildes the house. rises above
. you,. and in the grounds or in great
tubs and porcelain nets rich floteern.,
graceful vines aud.restful trees arneed
shade., color and perfume.. The soundO :
01 the bells . descends • from the stir
Above very inocli 'like a benediction.
You sit in an easy chair, and servant;
bring. you tea- Or steaming coffee,
sweetmeats and .btecults, confectione
and cigayettes. While a daughter or sou
• plays aucient'nongs or dances upon it
mandolin or guitar, '
'The churches are crowded; so are Vile
O clubs and most of the places of recrea-
tion. Every vehicle is lu use, 'and:here
and there can beiseen young ttnen and
wOrnen trying' to Imitate 'English mod-
elS. Some of tbe people of the tootle -
:lain districts carry out. nutnenof their'
• early .superstitions In regard to 'Christ-
mas, They hang over the doors of
their houses bOughs of trees which are
shpposed to • POSsess cite ries . and oftee
conduct Marriage ceremonies , under.
groat Canopies , wade of.. these charmed.
treee. • ' • .•
• A great many; wild flowers are in
bloom et Chrliarnaatide, obit these are
. Worn be children of the inoputitin dts-
trlets in wreaths ond garlands about
their heads, necks and waists. The
ChriettoaS giving Is sadly missing in
our new • possessions., ..The. churches
hold uo Christmas tree, and there are
few charitable•societies to give feasts.
However; One hespital for old peepte
and orphans in Ponce gives a Christ -
inns fete, and the inthateS have a good
meal and reeeive warm clothing,, ined-
leines•and• other needful gifts.
The Anierit•tut oreupatiou -has brought
.• extra. Clittistuing theer to the people or
the Island: • The. An3ericanresidents
celebrate' the day' to • good American
fashion,' and, best of all, they put
utoneY into circutation end giv,e eestto
industry aud ,Lusiness.. "
'When Shepherds Watched by Night.:
Some, historians eoutend ,that tlie
.shepherds could not have watched by
night On the Bethlehem plains in De-
cember, ir•heing a period, of great: le-
cletzteuey,e In answer to this it welt
knoten student says: "Bethlehem is
not e cold region. '1"he meteury. Usual,
ly stands all the Month of December
at e6 degrees. Corn 18 sown• during
this time, and grass, and herbs spring
up atter the refits, so that the Arens'
drive their flocks down from the moun-
tains into the plains. The meet delis?
cute 'hover make fires till about the;
end et November, and same pass the(
Whole winter Without them. From
these recta .1 think it is •established!
withoOt doubt thut. our Saviour was!
born on the 2.5th day ef Deeember, that
day which'the Church throtighout the
World has netted to celebrate in honorh
et Chriet's coming In the flesh." --Wash. I
higton Star.
The Most Popular Christmas Poem.
The most popular Christmas poetu
ever 'Written for children was that fa-
miliar to the world, beginning:
'Twits the night before Chrieitmea, When
all through the house—
The poem was written by a very
learned man. Dr. Clement Clarke
Moore, a profound Greek and illebreW
schOlat tre was a profeasor in the
General Theological seminary in this
City. He was born In 11/9 and died
In 1868. --New York Globe.
chuckled t o
himself, •00
And •thenb he
O softly stole
Right to the
stocking's
. crowded toe '
.And gnawed a
little ho1e 0•
"Now, if y o n •
please, 'g o o d
Santa Claus,
O I've put in one
• thing more, .
For you will own that little he
Was not in there before."
HOW Santa Claus did laugh and
' laugh! .
And then he gayly spoke, -
mWelli you shall have' a Christmas
cheese
O For that nice little joke."0 0,
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Ar.,K about the trials of a WO'
wati whose hustotted• is late
for dinner or doesn't come'
when be Is expected," saya
the wornau who bas bed experiences;
It Is unnoying enotign at atlY
O but It la uothing in a civilized country
to wliat It is **lieu you are off la the
wilds somewhere and dinner and din-
ner netting are two of tbe most 'moor.
taut tblugs In life.
"When Mr. Blank took me and the
' baby some years ago to try life on 4
Texas sheep raneh we found there
*ere a good many things in the world
that we bad no conception of before,
and life took on a different aspect- It
Was a happy life,, hut It was not an
O easy one. 1 bad to do alt kinds of
housework, the hardest kind of house
worit, and cooking in a house situated
in a Texas chaparral Is not cooking as
is done even in a New York tint
We lived chiefly on game which Mr.
Blank shot as we Beetled it Our veg-
etables were all canned—peas, corn
•and a certain number of things we
kept always on band. •
"1 suppose I made myself a great
deal more work than was necessary
end did twice as much cooking.' but 1
was used to everything..M eastern
Style, and it did not occur to rne that
could have things hi any other. Way..
We ajways bad dessert every day for
dinner. I made cake, and practleally
we lived In the wilds of Texas exactly
as we coold here. .
"Well, the day when Mr. Blank did
not come home to dinner was New
Year's, There was not so much differ-
ence between be days—they were all
working days --but 1 had prepared'
specie' dinner. Mr. Blank was going
off the, dipping vats, but. he 'was to
be back at 2 o'clock for dinner, and 1 •
Prepared a good one, It was rabbit, I
think, that. day. Our nearest neiglibors
were a family of Alsatians whom we.
knew very well and who had been•
very kind to tut. . That morning. before
breakfast Mr. Blank had ridden :dyer
there on 'business of Some kind. They
had made eggnog to celebrate the day,
'and of course be, must accept their'
'hospitality and take a glass. . • •
"Now. a geed strong eggnog is not
e.xectly a before breakfast drink for a
,nittu who -Is -not accustomed to talileg
It at that hour in the Morning, anti the.
•eggnog wawastrotig one. It 'was New
Year's day, and eggnog') ngred len ts can
be found In TeXIIS .wilen Potatoes can-
not. When Mr, Blank came home he
December 30th 1909
THE CHEERFUL
WAX CANDLE,
B y ALICE LA BAIIGN,
•[Copyright, 19051/4 by American Press Asso-
ciation,'
NCB upon a tine two little can-
dies lay sine by side in a big
bei. Both were pure white.
Said one: "1 wonder wbat
will become Of us. to you think we
O could be meant for a cortstame tree?"
For you must know that to be put on
a Christmas tree Is the best possible
thing that Can happen to a candle.
"Of course not," said the other, who
was cross. "11 we are meant for a
Christie:le tree It will be for some
sitabby little eitildren—see if ItO Isn't"
"IF we are," ettiel the first, "I'll shine
my very briginest, tor the eyes of even
poor children with only few pleasures
in prospect are eneugh to rival little
caudles on Chtestmas eve,"
• "if we are," grumbled the second, "1
angeot sure that 1 will allow myself
to he lighted at all."
Christmas eve drew nearer and near-
-eh Sure enough, the two little can-
• dles,- with niapy others of blue and
pink and yellow and red, were bought
for a Christmas tree.
On the day before Christtnas..while
It still Was naylight, some young girls
came to arrange the presents end make
O the tree -ready for the evening.
"Oh, what a lot or pretty little can-
dles!" said one of them. "They are
such lovely colors—all except those
• two white ones. We will put those
out ef sight, because the red -and pink
ones are prettier."
"Didn't I tell you what viould bap•
pen?" said the cross little candle in a
whisper.
"Yes, but wait," replied the other.
."just shine your briglitest . all the
won't," supped the cross one.
When evening came, ringed all
round the tree were happy boys and
• . THE. 'DEAR • OLD TREE. •
• B' FRANK H. SWEET.
There's a dear old tree, an evergreen
tree •.
And it blossoms once a year.
'Us loaded with fruit from top to
• root,
. And it brings to all good cheer.
For its bloSseltie bright are man
candles white, •
Ana its frtiit is dells and toga,
And they all are free for both you
and Me '
If we're good little girls and boys
1111 MANA0142) 0 Oit,4W1.. ye.
could not eat' I)IS breakfest •and only
took an few. senillows of coffee and.
mounted his 'horse and. rode a Way. -
, "I went to work and -cookie! dinner'.
:in my best style. 1 bad a little*. ell..
&Mee, for It was alWayS warm where
wewere," eseept when A nokher cante
ylverythinsg was done •to peeled.
tion arid ready to .put on the teble,at I
2 o'clock, but r. t3lubl 010 not cinne.
.1"looked oat. .kiut he was nowhere in
sight. • Two. en.inelt snittei'led....2:30; 3
• O'elocn, and atilt he did not eon*.
O ."Any one would have Supposed that
*mild have been frightened .and
think sinnething had happened to' him',
for he is one of the Most contilderate
ot men and this wee a -most unusual
occurrenee... net I was not frightened.
If anything: 'had happened probably
thenen ,would have brought me word.
.1 had a good dinner preparedatid he
did not come, and alt New Year's' dmi.
grew mere Andmore angry as the
time partied. until by.nin-lit .1' Was. hard -
Ir• In a eondItIon to !Meek. By and by
he rode .sp..- He seemed io • feel ney
mood. Anyway, his.iirst words were:
'" '1 supports,' you are '.nrovoketie
'Teen 'I maid, 'I a inn •
"Ile wart 'etigty thene and he went
aft to stake but hie -Merge without an -O •
et lzer . word.. It. etichtl last tong, how-
ever, Anil :we came to tin Understand-
"lt Rieetns .that 'thee ..eggneg. token
the then thingin the morning, hat .
neon too mueb Inc hint He had hard-
ly left the house hefore Se wits over-
. eonte with an . irresistible desire to
Sleep. snys he never knew how he
reittlied the. Memel; vets, for OttO Inept
meet of the' way on his horse's back.
O When he got there ho found working
nets Mutely en iltipOssIttillty.• The 10011
Sad 11 Mile Mid' he Managed
to ern w I up there, throW himself on
the floor, And there he slept all eltty
long Without Stirring until 'sight, When •
he hed slept off the effects et the egg-
nog.
"I do not .look upon eggnog nOW aFt
euell intioeliolls drink as I tild tit otie
time, ,and 1 [MOW there Was never
Wife Win) liveCtbrongit :Melt '0 long
day as 1 did waiting for Mr. Monk 10
tome home that New Year's day III
Texas."—NOW Iliork Times.
niii .Pay a Subseriptitiii 10..
• . • the end of J914 • •
"PUT IT ON TUB Yam' TriTOP!! '
girls. Soon every bough on the great'
O tree blossomed with little lights. Some
of the dames' were faint, but many
were bright. When the little white
• eendles were lighted the . cross one
/list spintered a minute and then
O went out. Tbe other shone so brightly -
that a gentleman standing near said:
O "Oh, what a brilliant candle! But It '
Is almost out of sight arnong the.green
branches. • We ought to' put it where,
it can be seen better." •
O "Put It on the very tiptop," said a
little lady. .
And that is Where they , did put it—
on the very tiptop of the tree. wttere
It nodded and gleamed in anewer to
the sniffing faces around it
The Barber's Joke.. •
•
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Christtnas morning and the barber
erinlratherbuSy.sha
"ve ten Germans than
One American.'
• .The rubicund brewer in the chair
smiled broadly tbrough the lather.
"Goot," be chuckled. "Dot. •vos
'tight!, :But vy?"
Tbe barber took a Omer hold upon
his •victiesits MOSP as he, replied:
O "Ten Germans pay. me a dollar and
a half—one American only 15 cents."
And you eould have heard the ther-
moineter. drop.
Popcorn! • •
O "If Santa. Clam; has corns the same
58grandpa," said a wee girl the other
day, ,"I fink be'.0 be 'frail' to coin*.
down the .chlainey over a hot lire for
fear•bie corns would pop," .
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Cannot harm healthy human bodies..
We cannot have healthy bodies unless-
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• This great medicine hip an un-
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purifying and enriching the blood.
It cures scrofula, eczelfM, eruptions,
catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervous-
ness, that tired feeling, dyspepsia, lost*
of appetite, general debility, and builds
up the whole system. :•
It •effects ite wonttertal cares, not
simply becanse it contains sarsaparilla
but because It combines the utmost
remedial values of more than 20 differ-
ent ingredients. If urged to buy anr
Preparation said to be "lust as ,good"
you may be sure. it is infertor, costs
lese to make, and yleies the dealer a
larger prone
Get it today of your druggist, Pre -
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Mass, t. S. A,
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WAS A FAMOUS EDITOR
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LATE
OHRIS,f0PHER W. BUNTING.
The nournalist Who For Se Many
Years Ran The Toronto Mail Start-
ed as a Printer in The Globe Office
—Worked at Sugar Trade Until He
Entered the Commons -•— Ran Sir
John A.'s Pereonal Organ. . •
The late Christopher W. Bunting'
nweaceteldi veuitatit: to$Ilitimanoneevr at, obub coL rio,iot:
• ronto newspaperieeti speakiiwith
kindliness anu even 'with veneratien.,
not only for his abilities, but for his
genuine good ieliewship. nhough he
has been •dead uow for over twelve
years, tut old -tinier returning from •
California or some distant locality
. weeders into fl•tie Mail utiles, witn
which he was sd long identified, and
asks for Mr. hunting and is shocked
to 'learn that he 14 ciead, his capac-
ity was such that when he went into
Tne Globe composing room as a lad'
O to learn his trade as a igniter, he Was
made foreman before his terni. of aP-
preuticeship had expired. • Later •
.when he bit the newspuper business
and went -te Isiagere Vans, Ont., to
engage In the sugar business, he was
. ere long prozninent as a Conservative,
and in the seventies was elected •td
the Hope of CO/11111011S. •
Old Conservatives on the Niagara
peninsula used to hold 'a friendly
grudge agaiust Mr. Bunting, for the
reasoa• that hardny had he tenet' his
seat than he removedto Toronto to
becothe editor of The Mail, 'whicli•had
been established as a personal organ
of Sir John A. Mahdonald; andin
which in •company with :the present
owner's he had obtained a financial •
interest: Later, when in 1889 a breech •
O arose between himself and Sir John,
•he essayed the dangerous and very '
•
diffieult game cif independent journal-
ism. He 'weathered the stern) for
eight yen.rs; indeed Until several years
aften Sir John had been laid in his
grave. •Then it became apparent that
O the cityof Toronto was the most ab -
00 ,
surdly 'over-newspapered" burgh on
the continent of America. tind then
O Bunting by his ituperb diploinacy ef-
feeted an amalgamation without the •
sacrific of a single man, whereas the
etaff of The Empire backed by /tee . • •
power of Mackenzie Bowell adrnitine
tration was turned into the street ellen
. hardly a thank you for the up -hili
work they had done. • It in said of .•
Mr. Bunting that though a merger : •
• of some kind was ebsolutely necessary
he:resolutely stuck to his guns and
'saved the estuetion of every employe
. from ngllat• to - garret.: "
O There are many anecdotes illustrat-
ing Mr., Bunting's dnsposition and
temperament and one used to be fold
with great gusto ..by hie '.old staff.
, There. was in his day e politician;
stnce dead, • who was ambitious and
thee ght that fatne was to be. achieved
by the space given 'to his. speeChea in
the newspapers. He Was the type of : .
man who, if the organ of his own. par- • .0
ty gave him , three' columns, would
O come round And whioe 'that the re-
pertees had not done their °duty, and
if the oppositien neempaPer gage ntwo
sticks" to the same • 'speech; .would .• .
• unettiousin 'thank the reporters of
•
that journal • for 'the consideration '
Oshownb him. Mr. Bunting yeas an ex-
pert in handling gentry of ,this kind,
In his way he was a consummatti
actor andwhen the politician would
come around .with his complaint, he
would send for the reporter and with ., 000
a twinkle' iii his eye that the young
man thoroughly understood, thun-2 •
derously asked him: • . •
• "Why, in the Mee. of my explicit
• orders, did 0• you fail to -report 0 this O
gentleman's speech verbatim? How '
often have 1 to tell you a thing to .
rne*e ?I:oft understand it? Let me warn
-you,sir, that if this sort a: thing .
goes on you will be dieznissed." • . -•
• The reporter would help' out the. ••• '
'farce by nimenuring apo.loy netieell
•about not having time to transcribe
. all his notes.. The politician would go
away mollified and Ur. nuntitig
would laugh heartily after ne had de -O •
parted and say to the :reporter: "gut
the old o grouch. down td two •stielts
O next time." 0 '
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