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Ru MEN AND WOMEN, Use Big @ for unnatural {irritations or ulcers: mucons merubrancs, Prevents Coatagion, inloes, and Tek asteige ri Eva-8 ONEMIZAL 00. i or by Drugsits, or Sod in plain en by express, fox Ta, or 3 Yok ot ® sctlal £208 ol Togas "cine. | considering the | -wvould find in all the Sierras. | gents as populated the graveyard was i mostly a lively and healthy lot up to | and Inclusive of the moment of their i claim on any dust they | He was just the kind of a chap for the { down In the behind the bar. | piece in a San Francisco paper, i with Doe, Ar A AL AM Ae el Sse slo oe ale fess TAR TETTRTETY ETT - pb NEW YEAR'S ad4 AT pbb BLUE RIDGE doo oe fe sfo eof feof of of of ooo > HC IIT yl) on Cy = fo fo 2 . fo bo . A 2 1 Looe * Zoid Lod AAA VOY <4 AMA ALA ae » V/V e PEAKING of New Year's" said the Nevadian, "I always call to mind this time of year the blowoff we boys give a young doctor chap who came up to Blue Ridge just at the time that camp was the liveliest, to which I might add that though the days of the Ridge was few in the land, as the book says, while it did last there was no camp on the Pacific slope from Puget sound to the Rio Grande that could furnish as much fun in a week as transpired in Blue Ridge every twenty-four hours. "But the sport didn't need no medi- It was not, as you might say, a sickly neighborhood, which it seems | PLANNING A SURPRISE FOR THE DOCTOR. peculiar to remark, seeing as how we had the most likely looking graveyard, population," as you But the demise. "That's what the boys was speaking ! of when the doctor came into camp. "Long Bill remarked to me that the boys who was hurt ought to make an ! effort to last until the doctor could ar- rive, which would give him a legal might leave. camp if so it had been that there was | any trade for him, for he was quiet, nervy, had more book learning than ; the editor and was cheerful and oblig- | ing, especially obliging, for he preached ! a beautiful sermon over the late dealer | at the faro bank, though the said dealer had died of his wounds before Doc ar- rived. "Same said as how we oaght to send valley where they were all shaking eternally with malaria and im- port a bunch of the shakers for Doc to practice on and pay him so much for the cleanup. He laughed when we proposed this and said it would be un- professional, because he knew the party as had the practice in the valley. "Then we proposed that thereafter, any party dying of his wounds before the Doc could arrive, effects should be levied upon for a fee to be paid to Doc. "All the boys agreed to that, and we got so worked up over/the prospect that a disagreement resulted that very night, in which a Wells-Fargo shotgun messenger blew all the Latin parts out of a friend with a ten gauge duck gun, which the same, for purposes of stage robbers, was of a sawed off character. The party as was shot wast mostly missing between his hips and his chest, the remains being only two-thirds, but we joyfully sent for Doc just the same "Well, he came, and when he saw the state of the case he said as he wasn't an undertaker he couldn't be of any service, "Then we told bim of the new rule and offered him the pile of the de- which was in a canvas sack He wouldn't take not even a sample for assay, and the disappointment of the boys was sad to see, especially the shotgun messenger, whose intentions had done honor to his heart and aim. "It was a few days before New Year's that the editor showed us a ceased, was a kind of local notice, stating that ! our Doc was going to be married to a { 12dy in that city. That sets us think: t harder than ever rd we tavught ng, = i when the Doce tells us that he was go- ing to leave us on New Year's day to tale up his practice in" San Francisco. We held a meeting and discussed the state of affairs, having a pretty good Pin of how the land lay financially because his money was or sit with the express agent and he was clirman of our meeting. "Weil, at thut meeting we laid out a plan that worked as slick as a dia- mond drill, On the day before New Year's Doc was sent for by Long Bill, who told him his old rheumatiz was again like a forty stamp quar miil. Doc prescribed, and when Rill asked what was the ante Dor said it would be $5. Bill said he'd $ l. 0. Family Herald for year, besidés a handsome Collar Doiley free. "Just think this over, ies Address CORTICELLI SILK Ltd, Box 841 @, Sy, Johns, RQs dep z Home Alon- and Cort Necdlework, treai - Weekly Star ell and the | Land ft to tun When he bi¢ alm goon <a lot more surprised when he saw all | ballads and of Robin Hood fame, ~holly, | leaves | along a beautiful trunk of gray and i silver to the height of seventy or eighty | feet, | grades of holly to the holiday market, | but their | after shipment to northern cities, is not | plentiful in the regions around Ashe: { tinuance of a practice which they de- | ers drank, | every family of any note on Manhattan i Island. | the said party's | | quarrel which 4 | used, by Jove! | New Year's day started out as a n THE DAILY WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29. by at the stage office next day. Then I sent for Doc and said that old bullet wound in my leg was on strike again, took my prescription and promised to pay next day. ."I don't suppose any doctor in the world ever had as busy a day as ours did that day. It seemed like every man in camp was sick. There was trouble about noon because the boys ran out of names of diseases, but I went up to Doc's office and copied out a lot of names from one of his books, and then we kept things booming. Some of the younger boys got stuck on the names of sicknesses 1 dealt out to them to make a choice from and played the whole deck, which seemed to puzzle Doc somewhat. "Well, the next day we met and marched around to the stage about starting time, and there was Doe, looking a little worried, but he looked his patients so callish. "We gave him a sendoff and an en- velope. "Did you ask what w as in the envel. ope? I disremember the odd dollars, but it was enqugh over $5,000 to leave him that clear after he had paid his expenses down to the bay."--New York Journal. 9 HOLIDAY DECORATIONS. Old Fashioned Greens Were Rose- mary, Ivy and Bay. The old' fashioned holiday greens were rosemary, ivy and bay, but in the 2,000 tons of wreathing and deco- rating ntaterial which it is estimated that we now use every year there is a much greater variety. Best loved of all is the glossy red Derried holly. "Holm" was the old English name for it, and it is thought to be identical with the "greenwood tree" of British On our side of the Atlantic the American Ilex opaca, is found from Maine, it grows as a sbrub, to North and Secuth Carolina, where it lifts a symmetrical cone of dark, shining set with scarlet berry clusters where Delaware and Maryland are usually credited with furnishing the best "Three X" brand, as seein so finely berried as the Carolina holly, villee--Country Life In America. New Year's Calls, Year's calling in New York was purely the outgrowth of an early Dutch custom, yet strangely enough many of the descendants of the early Dutch settlers fought against the con- New clared had long since passed beyond the bounds to which the fathers limit- ed it and had been made the excuse for great excesses on a day which ought to be given over to the forming of good resolutions. In the early days of Manhattan Is- land the male Du +h settlers ever ter of duty to visit the houses of ai their friends. The good wives who re- ceived them were arrayed in their Sun- day finest and had bowls of steaminz hot punch upon the "best room" table. The latter day Dutch descendants de- nied the punch and said it was coffec. The irreverent latter day champions of New Year's calling denied the punch also and told their opponents that their forefathers would not know a punch if they saw it and that they draui nothing but ill smelling hot gin. Whatever it was that the good burg they succeeded in calling within the compass of the day upon i A New Year's Cyclone, yf Is that a cyclone ragin'? 5 Is the roof a-tumblin' down? Is that a earthquake shakin' All the winders in, town? Is that the river roarin' Above its banks of green? Has Gabriel blowed his trumpet To make the dead serene? They stood and heard in terror While loud the noise arose, Like the warwhoops of the Indians, The shouts of foreign foes, But a voice brought better comfort (Let not the sainged scoff): "Thar ain't a bit of trouble; n off!" tlanta Constitution. A Time of Peril _Clariss a--I'm always glad when New ar's day is safely over. Fidelia--Yes; -it is a saddening anni | versary Clarissa--Oh, I don't mean that Clarence and I always have a hor suggesting improvements each other's conduct. To 'Naughty-two. Come In, New Year, come in, come in; : Don't stand out there in the cold and grin. Put on some clothes; your legs are bare; You haven't half enough to wear. The old man's gone: the coast is clear; The world's your oyster, kid New Year! --Chicago Tribune. Stock on Hand. Bradds--Going to make any new res olutions this year, Spikes? Spikes--New ones? I should say not I've 'got a lot of old ones I've never Wreckage. Break, break, break-- No, not the waves of the sea-- 1y the resolutions That the foolish made, ah, me! --8. E. Kiser. As Good as New. "How about those good resolutions you made the first of the year?" "Oh, they are still good."--Smart Set Foolish Resolutions. The New Year's vows that Perkins made To keep prove a strain. e vowed to shave himself this year nd use not w £08 profane. | 1 arbitra th Vene ruelan ty. Try our antiseptic tooth paste in collapsable tubes, 1Uc. Mcleod's drug . | store. OAMAMAVAANNMNV ANG NEw YEAR'S IN RUSSIA AANA VAAN In the sinaller cities of Russia New Year's day is in the Twelve Days' festival. The Russians in many parts have held to the old ways from time immemorial. The preparations for the season begin early in November. The host of some great house begins to lay in stores of salted beef and sausages, liqueurs, ete. The hostess calls on all her friends and invites young and old. Next day she is succeeded by the nurse, who makes the same rounds of visits. Her duty is to invite especially the young ladies. She is hailed with joy, and the lady of the house hastens to mix for her the cup of wine. She de- livers her errand and is plied with questions as to the invited and reject- ed. But the most important question is, "Who are the elected?' These are the young men invited by the hostess for the girls, or "fair maidens," as they are called. The duty of the young man thus designated is to look after the amusement and pleasure of his "fair maiden" during the "twelve days." The responsibility of the choice lying with the hostess, she has to be careful in her selection. But the invitation has again to be re- peated; this time by the master of the house in the person of his servant, or "swat," who, with mace in hand, per- forms his missien. On entering each house he offers a prayer before the shrine of the saint to which it is dedi- cated. He then delivers the invitation in the name of his master and mistress. At first, accuuding to etiquette, the in- vitation is refused, but after much pressing it is finally accepted. When the day arrives, the young ladies who are the heroines of the season appear in a sledge er and favorite companion, generally a girl of infec r rank, who sits at their This sledge is followed by anoth- er containing tirewomen charged with caskets dressing boxes. Other sledges follow--the longer the proces- the visited. and sion On the arrival the host and hostess meet the guests at the gate, bow without speaking and conduct them into the liouse.--~New York World. : Self Approval, "Have you kept your New Year's resolutions?" "Yes, I have faithfully kept a New Year's resolution that I made three or four years ago." "What was it?' "Never to make any more resolu- tions."--Washington Star. An Arrested Intelligence, Charlie Binks isn't as slow as he » SCCms. "How is that?" "He woke up yesterday and asked what year it is." His Happy Calls, Wilkins--llow many calls did you make yesterday? Dilkins--Three, and, say, it was the best game of poker I ever sat in! o MVYVVYVWWYWIWVVWYVVWWWWAG | THE OLD aro THE NEW o Saw AN WAAAMAANANNG The New door When the sands were wasting thin, And the frost lay white on the Old Year's thatch, And his hand grew chill as he slipped i lat To let he New Year in. Year came to the Old Year's And the New Year perched in the Old XY s chair And warmed by the Old Year's fire, And the Old Year watched him with wist- ful gaze As he stretched his hands to the fading blaze And cinders-of dead desire. And the Old Year prated, as Old Years will, Of summer and vanished spring, And then of the future, with grave ad- vice, Uf love and sorrow and sacrifice That the seasons' round would bring. And; the New Year listened and warmed s heart bloom of the Old Year's past, 12 gave no héed of the thorns that In the bud and blow of a coming day, And, nodding, he dreamed at last. The New Year came to the Old Year! door And warmed In the Old Year's chair And the Old Year talked till the New Year slept, | Then forth in the night he softly stepped And left the New Year there. _~-Harper's Razar. stress, off ring genuine bargains in toilet soaps. McLeod's drug storm greater honor to the house | 'companied by their moth- | i i A i) | { Bishop «nn thousand, « al presented to fiom Letter national an ( 1 | 1 I p Ji" : | i } bs 2 y easily remembered. We want a name for a high- quality ten-¢ent cigar. sell it direct to the consumer by mail. We would like to have a whole lot of names to We intend to The name must be striking and choose from, so we offer $100 IN CASH PRIZES Divided as follows: $50 to the one suggesting the name chosen. $10 to the one sending the 25th coupon received. $5 to the one sending the 50th coupon received. $10 to the one sending the rooth coupon received. And 25 prizes of $1 each to the sender of every soth coupon received after that, A To introduce this unsurpassed ten-cent cigar to smokers all over Canada. it 1s required that each suggestion of a name be accompanied by this coupon and 25 cents for three cigars. Send 75 cents for a box of ten of these ex- cellent cigars and you'll be entitled to sug- The competition closes at midnight February 28th. The selection will be made by a committee to be appoint- gest three names. ed later. The winners will be announced on or before March 14th. S000 0004 S090 CANADIAN CIGAR SYNDICATE, 821 Craig Street, Montreal. FOR EER GER Canadfan Cigar Syndicate, 821 Craig St., Montreal; Enclosed find dollars . cents for boxes of Surpass Cigars, each box to contain . cigars, you paying postage. Should they not prove satis- factory, after trial, I reserve the right to return the balance and have money refunded. ROOSEVELT"S NOTE. Thinks It Better That Tribunals Shall Decide. -- Ambassador foreign office, dent Roosevelt's note on the ' subject Merci 12 of the Venezuelan arbivation. The pre- | | i | Presi- Dec. ome, «id nt says, although he is very gra- tified at the confidence the powers have shown in * him as arbitrator, which position he would have ed if there were no other means solving the questign, vet he thinks it to submit the The Hague tribunal, and especially as ait | § concerned are willing, The president adds that as there is no question honor question of tend involved, thorough consid in with all the | aceept- of case 1o ol | or after accord who have tol'y eration and powers concerned, honorable spirit of mutual tion and moderation, he is informed that they all have the tion to The considera agreed { Hag | ques Deseronto, Personals. Dec. 27. Miss Maud home after a few her sister in Bel W. J. Geddes of are their Chiist : holiday in Deseronto. P. Ottawa, has returned home for his Rev. Mrs. Meinto:h and son are visiting Doseronto. Miss Bristol of i< visiting her brother Charles, Lena Ric hardso m and Miss Loby Diarmids fof Whithy College, have turned hbme for Christmas holidays, George MeGanghey, of Oscoode epent Christmas at home. D. MacDdn Id. of Peterhoro, spent Christmas at ome. Mrs. W. J. Malley has ¢ to jranveville pend the holidavs with mother, was accompaniea hy her sons Clare and Arthur. Mr. and MeMic! ing spending a few Maitland. Mr<, W. H. Oliver Lucy Oliver of Cookshire, vi-iting friend< i Al | Deseronto, has returned mths' visit with Mr. Mrs, ' i spend len wood. and ing o holi lays. 0 cn } of Delwooa, her loronto, Mi-« Me- } He to She are ' in Miss are toun, ne, n Oi. meals principl least a te But vor recount Darhan with vom Scripture of How iscit phiiii ht to devote at distinctive work, stop | You are to + vou have a thousand a whether vou painful weekly, that it on the prin iple Your acco inspection. . Non th mhust . wh veal ol " little Hani, bond-servic i=t be kept for Hix ual spend ling must Son generous, and His own person you are 10<t to negative. the reproac the Church of Christ that converted and vet he ted purse. earn a ngs 1o ints Hie are to he at thirty Hix presence. and ustee VOU ar agent, In to do vour h am becanse vour ut against an nay uni ) an on \ Eleven Villages in Ruins. Dec. 29.--Advices Russian Turkestan, couttry Andi a Petersburg, Askhabad, that in the wen villages of the hatfullv 6,600 hou wed in these nis The weather of rescue ar better re enter An St 0 boom, around are in ruins as carthgquake, and vs have been de scattered settle is warmer, « succor 18 pro ulte. No one dijan without k tn +h nit recent ire 1 ho ork with 18 Jd to » pass , ---------------------- Soap cleans iron and tinware, and all kinds of cut- Monkey Brand tengils, steel, veg and forks, Former Unite « Consul Gener Jones died at Rome suddenly, on of heart disease, State Saturday, arent s | py | count. Your | shown an | § clad to be | ' Mahoney | Giving. | SUreiy QOOODe ere 0s ® once and | al kitchen | i HEH EE ERE E FE EE KEE RFRR EEE ¥ ACard Of Ghanks. ok) You have been very kind to us in the ¥% Christmas Patronage Distribution. Our sales ® have climbed to a figure never before reached. : Pardon any little failings or delays that might have inconvenienced youu WE ARE ALL THE TIME TRYING TO BETTER THIS STORE'S ) SERVICE, and with a little patience on your part WE CAN ACCOMPLISH WONDERS. Wishing you the season's greetings we _are sincerely yours, : CRUMLEY BROS. FER ZARA A TRREEE EE EEE EXEERENY No. 1 reliable Furs at bargain prices. Men's Black. Siberian Martin Fur Coats, regular price, $25, now $18. Men's Seal Dyed Wombat Coats, $30, now $27. Men's Coon Skin Coats, worth $75 and $85, now $50 each. . Woman's Coon Skin Coats, size34, 36, value $55, now $40 each. ' Woman's Black Astrachan Lamh Coats, $25 to $60, now marked at special discount. { Women's Seal Dyed Wombat Coats, $35 each, now at a dis- \ Fur Collars, Caperines and Ruffs at clearing sale prices. CRUMLEY BROS., Kingston. Hall, | -------- i ps PPREVLOPPPOOPPO® E. B. EDDY'S Self-opening, square bottom GRO- CERY BAGS, also Hat, Millinery and Glove BAGS, and Flour and Cement SACKS are made from the TOUGHEST PAPERS, in all sizes and weights. OCOD OO OC OO 0000 C00] SOC CUO ® eee Printing as Desired. THE E. B. EDDY C0. "™%. canada. "1 A. . HENDRY, Agent, Kingston. Ie. v1 NOTHING IT IN THE WORLD A COLD OR OUGH +» PREVENTS EXPECTORANT a cold and stop CURE COLTSFOOTE t means to cure for sale by all dealers. Price a cold. 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