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Dumps the qaestion: digestion?" rn 'When told to him, Jim." 1 will now re, =8 he is iim on is | Drew an Audience of One, But Gave His Lecture. Youth's Companion. Lhere are still people who remember the lectures that he used to give. One of his admirers still likes to.tell of his only meeting with the author of the ill-spelled aphorisms. When | was a boy Josh Billings ad- vertised a lecture in Bloomfield, about ten miles from my father's farm. 1 wanted to hear him. We were in pret- ty good circumstances then, so my father gave me some money, and 1 hitched up and drove over to town. 1 got in about seven o'clock and found that there was likely to be a poor house, for a free church fair was in full blaze, and the town was small and not very rich. { the little hall, which was lighted | dull, smoky lamps. | but | | went into by It was empty. 1 waited anxiously for people to come, none appeared. The ticket-taker walked around, nervously looking at his watch. About eight I heard him talking to some ome at the door. Looking around, I saw '"'Josh" chew- ing his thumb, and taking a melan- choly survey of the empty benches. In a moment he came forward and sat down beside me. "Well, my boy," wan smile, 'have the lecture 7' **Yes, sir," 1 said, thinking he would perhaps give it, anyway. "Well, there ain't goin' to be no lecture," he shid, with a droll squint. "Madame Patti, who was going to as- sist me, is ill." I did not know Madame Patti and looked at him, evidently showing dis- appointmend. "Of course," he - said, * vour money 'back. Let's pav $1 or $3.95 for your seat ?"' "Fifty cents," I said. Then, pluck- ing up my courage, I added: ""'And--¥ don't care for the money, but I've come ten miles to hear you." "Yes ? Queer how the country fol lows me! The last time I lectured a man came twenty miles to hear me-- just to be near me, for he'd heard my lecture manv times." "Will he 'be here «1 asked. "No; fortunately, no. I paid the bill and--he was the sheriff vou know." "Well," I said, rising. "I'm awfully disappointed. IT don't care about the money, but it's hard after I've driven all the way over." "Um!" he murmured. "You are not pressed {for-money; then ?"' "No." 1 had a dollar extra. "My boy," he exclaimed, "I have an idea ! You shall not lose the lecture. Of course, it would be absurd for me to get up there and talk to you alone; but if you'll recover yi fiftv cents before the management runs off with it, and put another fifty cents with it and come round the corner, we'll have an ovster stew and I'll talk to vou; really, I'n give vou all mv best jokes." We did it. He talked and ate, and I ate and listened. He told me story af- ter story-for two hours. Then he saw me drive off, and waved to me from the steps of the hotel. I never had a better time in 'my life. I bought mv ticket and he said, with a you come to hear 'vou will get see; did you to-night 7' These Hair Tonics. 50000000000 00 0000000000 Thirty Minutes With Santa Claus. A Christmas Story For Children. By Henry Folger, Kingston. Christmas Eve, Dec., 1901. Dear Boy--This is Christmas eve, Tuesday, Dec. 24th, 1901. I am careful to give you this exact time, because I am going to tell you a story different from what anv other little boy has ever heard; a narrative of something that has taken place in your réom, where Santa Claus has just called and talked with me. rns 1 have been very ill for several days and to-night the river is frozen over, and the ice thunders and crackles in the cold as you have heard it before when the old river was being nailed down and covered over with ice ky Jack Frost. The wind howls around the old house, and seems to say: "I have| got you now! I have got vou now !" I could hear it so plainly, and it shakes the windows of mv room so fearfully that I could not sleep there, for the wind is west and strikes that part of the house; and so I came into your old room, where all is so quiet and still that I dropped to sleep at once, but was awakened bv a noise on the roof, as if a hundred horses were pawing there, and a big stone fell from the top of the chimney (you know how large those stones are). It rolled from the roof, and fell offi and struck the balcony in front of your room, break- ing a piece out of it. In a minute saw what had knocked the stone off. I was lying on my left side in the bed in your room, with my face turn- ed toward the door, when what do you think I saw ? Why, there in the door stood Santa Claus, with a lot of things for you. He seemed surprised when he saw vou were not there, but laughed and said to himself, "Oh, I re- member Bert has gone to Brooklvn, and 1 will slip over there." He looked so funny and good natured that I was not a bit afraid of him, and so I let him know I was awake, and asked him if he had anything for me. Well, then vou ought to have heard him laugh ! "You are a nice kind of a kid to bring a present to," he said. 1 guess he only brings presents to little boys and girls. Well, I guess he thought I was sick and alone, and was sorry for me, and so he talked with me a little. He' just moved his hand toward the bur- eau with the mirror in it, that you remember stands in your room, and it moved right to the foot of the bed, and he swung himself upon it. I found it a good chance to see him. I can sce his back in the mirror as he talks, and so that:.gives me a great chance to look him over all around, which 1 did, so as to tell you all about him. * What struck me most was his laugh. It was soft, as the purring of a kitten, and seemed full of sunshine and the tingling of little bells. His eves were blue as summer skies, and were bright and sparkling, as if there were an electric light power plant be- hind them. They were full of mischief and goodness, and made me feel all the time as if he were full of fun, and joking with me. His complexion was the nicest you ever saw; just white and pink, like pretty cranberries. If vou have never seen such cranberries, vou must have your mother show vou some. There was a sweet and rest- ful look on his face, full of kindness and intelligence, but quiet and pleas- ant ad the water in front of '"Edge- water' when the moonlight falls on it, soft as melted music. You have seen his hair in pictures. Well, it is ot at @ll a mass of wool like that, but every single hair seems so perfect and full of life that it seems to talk. Not curly, but just a little cringley. I wonder if that is why they call him "Nym Cringle ?"' You will remember where the electric light is ? Well, he sat right under that, and each hair seemed to be soft as a silken thread, full of light. { > While he was talking Tuck came in- to the room, and he said: "Tuck, how are vou?" [It surprised me, and I asked him how he knew her name. He laughed again dnd said: "Oh, T know a thing or two, and I like the dogs because they are so good to children." " ¥ou know how afraid Tuck always is of everybody ? Well, she seemed to know him, and was not a bit afraid, and when she jump- ed up and touched her nose to his cheek, it seemed as if it would leave , his complexion was so per all the little boys and girls, and how he knew how good and bad they were, and what. to give them. Well, he said, it is not generally known, but he was really king of all the fair- ics, and every night in the year they brought him gifts for children, and talked = over what. they were doing; and. besides, in some families, the fa- ther or mother keeps an account? in which they put down whether the bov is good or bad. "For instance,"' he said, '"'Bert's mother gives him - three kisses if he is a good boy all day, and if not so, she gives him two. TRON-OXI| "It is with real pleasure that I certify to the efficacy of Iron-Ox Tablets. Having been in the Retail Drug business thirty-seven years, I have never sold any proprietary medicine that has given the same satisfaction to my customers, or has been such an 'easy seller." The package recommends and sells itself ; the Tablets 'do the rest.' Every box sold makes friends for the store and sells another box."-- JAMESE. SOMES, Pharma- cist, Terre Haute, Indiana. Iron.Ox Tablets Druggist--Now. here's something 7] ve selling with great for | It will a" huixuriant "head | been 'success years raise { of hair in a few weeks! | Hard or soft corns cured with three | applications of Peck's Corn Salve, 13¢ at Wade's. } 50 Tablets, 25 Cents when only a little gives him ome. She puts in a book, so I can see just what Bert is doing every day." I asked him what sort of a boy you were, and he said, '""Oh, there are lots of boys worse than Bert," but he did not say there were any better. I noticed every time he spoke he laughed, and when he laughed his eyes were full of tears. I asked him what made that, and he said: '"I'hey ' are tears of happiness; I never waste any of them. 1 save them, and when I find a little boy that is very, very good, 1 steal up to Rim some time when 1 find him asleep; 'and put one of those little tears' in eyes, and it gives him a sight so that-he sees the good in everybody, which makes him happy all his life."" "This," he said, "is my best gift." I did not ask him to give you one, but I hope you will get it. I was going to talk a good deal more to him, but he interested me so that I wanted Miss Clark, the nurse, who was in the next room, to see him and I called her to come. As I did so, he jumped off the bureau and said he would go, as he was too busy on Christmas Eve to hold a reception for ladies. I noticed when he got off the bureau he was only a little taller than you are. I asked him to wait a min- ute longer, and I would tell Miss Clark not to come im, and he said all right. Than he said: "What can I do for you ?"' "Well," I said, "I think you have done a good deal in making me this call; but if you would just wait a little, while I write to tell Bert of your visit, I will be glad, and then if you will take the letter with vou, he can have it the same time that he does your other gifts." He said, "Alright, I will do it,"" and he is looking at me now while: I am writing; but I must not keep him any longer, so | suppose you will have this in a few minutes, while you and I are sleeping. 1 would like to know if you get it alright, because it has a long way to go, and 1 have never known a letter before to be sent io that way. There are lots more that 1 have to tell you about him. We will talk it over when we meet. As soon as he goes, I shall call Miss Clark and Tom- my, and show them the very spot where he sat, so there will be three undoubted eye-witnesses to this strange story. Then, ood, she down Your loving, GRANDFATHER. S--e---- NAPANEE NEWS. Items of Interest--Deaths of 'Sev- eral Persons, Napanee, Dec. 12.--At the county court this week the cases heard were : King George Lawrence--Man- slaughter. Charged with shooting dead Bertie York, a child six years old. Jury brought in verdict of not guilty. King vs. James McKim--Larceny. Mr. McKim was agent for the Noxon company here, and last summer went on an excursion to Manitoba. The company brought him back to Na- panee. There were three indictments against him. Jury rendered verdict of not guilty in each case. King vs. Dr. Alexander Kennedy-- Charged with assaulting H. W. Huff, constable, who went to Amherst Isl and to arrest him. Prisoner struck Huff with a hammer on right hand and on the head, inflicting an ugly wound, as the constable stepped inside pri- soner's gate in the dark. Verdict, guilty, with recommendation 'to mercy. A second charge against the doctor for assaulting his father, his honor said had' not been made out, and the jury found prisoner not guilty. His honor sentenced the prisoner to six months in Central prison on the first charge. King vs. Frank M. Denyes--Conspir acy, the indictment charging that pri- soner had hired one Bill Grass to en- ter his house and commit, an assault on his wife. Not guilty. , VS. Mrs. Alexander air, Rolfert street, Napanee, died on December 5th, aged eighty-two years. Deceased was born in Montreal, in 1820. She was married in 18340 to Alexander Mair, of Fife- shire, Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Mair re sided for a time in Montreal, Quebec, Kingston, and Napanee. Eight child ren were born, two of whom, are de- ceased. Those remaining are George L., Peter, Mrs. T. G. Carscallen and Misses Lizzie and Jessie Mair, Napa- nee, and John Mair, Portland, Ore. Azuba Ham, relict of the late Solo- mon Wright, Conway, passed to her reward, in her eighty-seventh year, on 7th December. Deceased was a daugh ter of the late Rev. John Ham, Con way, and was one of thirteen of a fa mily, but five now remaining, Mrs. I. T.- Ham, Kansas City, - Mo., Mrs. Byard Detlor, Hawley, Miss kleanor Ham, Conway, and Messrs. Zina Ham, Napanee, and John Ham, Albany, \. Y. Mrs. Wright leaves six children, Mrs. Henry Allison, Adolphustown ; Messrs. George Edward and Charles Wright, Conway, and William and John (lawyer) Wright, Picton, Pie ton. Deceased was a lilelong and con? sistent member of the church. Elenor Fairbairn, widow of the late William Tilley, after a few months of severe illness, died on Saturday last, at the home of W.'S. Herrington, K. C., aged sixty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Tilley came to Napanee about thirty- five years ago. Deceased was devoted to her home and family, and was high- ly respected. The surviving children are Capt. William Tilley,» a graduate of the R.M.C., Kingston, now in his majesty's service in Inaa; J. Fred. Tilley, Toronto, and Mrs. W. S. Her rington. The complete returns for Lennox in the referendum vote are: For, 1,733: against, 468; rejected ballots, 21. lev. S. T. Bartlett has been official- lv invited to the Tabernacle, Belle- ville, but has declined, to the satisfac- tion of manv in Napanee, Owing to serious illness of the Rev. Dr. Briggs, the anniversary, sertices of the Eastern. Methodist church, are postponed for the present. A pleasing event took place in the Campbell House, on 9th inst., marri- ace of Miss Birdie, eldest daughter of the late TK8mas Havnes, and Robert Johnston Cousins, both of Camden i The bride looked lovely in black and | orange blossoms. Miss Gertrude (lan- | cv. Enterprise, attended the bride The croom was supported bv Thomas F. Reid, Enterprise. | Mrs. Robert Mowers, a life-long re- sident of* Napanee, died on Sundav last, -in her eighty-second vear. De- (ceased was the mother of a large fam- Methodist Give Him a Box of Good Cigars for Christmas 10 Excellent Cigars 75c. You can buy ten cigars in any cigar store for them for much less-- but you cannot buy a cigar seventy-five cents--you can bay that will even nearly equal ny SURPASS CIGAR WZ " / an 2 wi 7 ry A Truly Satisfactory Smoke, for anything like that price. 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Ebenezer Byron Hemstreet, Napanee, took the oath of allegiance to his ma- jesty King Edward VII., and is now a British subject. Alfred L. Bebee, of the township of Anglesea, James Banford, Flinton, and W. G. Rigby, Kaladar Station, township of Kaladar, have been ap- pointed county constables. Martin Switzer, Enterprise, is now in his ninetieth year, and is still hale and heartv. Alderman Lowry, not enjoying good health, is thinking of going to the North-west to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Switzer, Enter- prise, were in town Wednesday on their way to Sandhurst to attend the mar- riage of their niece, Miss Eliza Jane Hill, to Almon A. Withers. John W. Parrish, an old Napanee boy, was in town om Tuesdav. He served with Napanee Battery during the Fenian Raid of 1870, and has an- plied for a veteran's grant of 160 acres in Ontario. Edgerton VanLuven has purchased the pony and carriage from T. E. An- derson, Napanee. It is a nice turn out. Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Sanderson ex- pect to leave for Peterboro next week to spend the winter with friends in Peterboro, Tweed and Havelock. B. N. Hamm, B.A., a graduate of Queen's, is attending the North Pacific Dental College, in Portland, Ore. Mr: Hamm prophesies rapid growth of the cities on the western coast, owing to their commercial trade with the Ori- ent. Amos Huffman, Moscow, has just completed one of the best barns in the counties. Size, 44 x 66, with an eight foot wall underneath. It will stable fiftv head of horses and cattle. Cost over $2,000. To realize our folly and fail to rid ourselves of it is to show a double depravity. The Nurse | Testifies To Personal Benefit As Well as That of Patients Who Have Used Dr. Chase's Kidney- Liver Pills. None are better qualified to point to results obtained from any particular treatment than the nurse in attend- ance, especially if the nurse is experi- enced and observant. 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