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O'GORMAN 352 KING STREET Taylor & Hamilton Dealers in Stoves, Tinware Agatew are and Cutlery Some nice Christmas goods for 89 and 91 Princess St. PERFUMES 0 y alw > ; CHRISTMAS PERFUMES MEDLEY'S THE RELIABLE DRUG STOR} Never in Your Life have you had the opportunity of buying your Xmas and New Year's Presents ine of BOOKS as this year at MCAULEY DISCOUNT ON EVERY you have CLEARING SALE ARTICLE. The full particulars were wired to Dubls with instructions to make necessary arrangement for the adoption of the two children Dubbs answered: ** Will meet you with Edith at Winnipeg." The Colonel's business settled, Fe took ¢' arge of Dora while the nurse purcl ased toys and trim- mings to decorate the car for the return trip. In one of the vacant sections we placed a C! nistmas tree which was artistically trimmed and well loaded with many of the beautiful things genius can devise for the pleasure of children. The por.er ung curtains about the tree so that Dora mig' t not see it until we should meet Edith, Christmas morning, at Winnipeg Now we began the long journey across the Sieras, across to Utah desert, the Roekies, and then empty or partially settled section called the "Great American Desert," now known as the Middle West The mountain over, the cheerful companionship, good food and the joyful antici- pation of the coming meeting with her sister, all helped to heal the wounded little heart, and give the child a new and hopeful outlook upon the world. She would sit for hours gaz ing at the everchanging pano- rama of nature unfolding be- fore her as we climbed over the range, and then, when we were rolling across tle level lands she would watch with the same unflagging interest the sagebrush wheel into place as we passed, and the twin ribbons of steel that were ever racing, racing day and n from under our car. It was all very interesting to her, and our car, common enough to- day, was something extrava- gant in the eyes of the child. And when the Colonel © ad wearied of his work, lis papers, and periodicals, he would sit. by Pore and they would watch in silence th ribbons racing out at the re: Indeed it were difficult to watching them as I did, which showed the greater pleasure. the younger one or the elder child, for the Colonel was mani- festly growing younger every day e was rich---immensely rich for his day and generation --and I fancy he got more real pleasure out of that trip than the modern multi-million aire would get out of a trip to Monte Carlo, to Cairo, or to Honkong. Qur last day was a great day, for the memory of her sister was still fresh in Dora's mind, and now, almost hourly, she asked how far is it to Win- nipeg. In a little while she would put her thin hand on the Colonel's, and ask: "How far is it mow to Winnipeg?" At last, when weary of watching the rails racing out in the moonlight, she suffered the governess to tuck her in for the night. She was barely dressed the next morning when the train stopped and there upon the platform stood the faithful, 72 Dubbs, and by his side, Edith Such a meeting sweet children! and wept. After the train had started on the journey e ward, the porter drew the curtains back, and Colonel told the children that ¢ a Claus Fac put the tree there for their Christmas Tl ev were amazed. Such dazzling beauty Ul eir little had never seen. 7d When the tree was "over," Dora, and Dora went to the Color that Santa Claus had forgotten 1im. anc were going to give him some of their presents ** Santa Claus has not forgotten me, dear chil dren," he said, taking one under each arm given me two little girls, and for many \ not known such a happy Christmas.' e those two They wept and kissed, and kissed 'te has ars I have Nothing"can satisfy the human Feart: roilir g can satisfy the heart of God; nothing can solve the problems of the ages: nothing can abolish corrur tion from politics; nothing can remove 1} e res: less ness of labor and capital; nothing can destroy ile greed of wealth, the arrogance of power, no Fing but ove, nothing but sacrifice. There is no other way e Jesus seldom laid much stress on 1} er future. Sometimes he spoke as from and laid all stress upon the past, but t he meant the everlasting now, the eternal preset when all life's burdens must be carried and all God's work must be done. The past with its fu'ilities and the future with its anxieties, are the Lurden of unpractical minds. ¥ \ CHRISTMAS NUMBER, DECEMBER, 1906. Friendship HERE are few subjects that have been more writteri u and less understood than that of friendship. To follow the dictates of some, this virtue, instéad of 'being the assauger of pam, be- comes the source of every inconvenience: Such speculatists, by expecting 109 much from friendship, dissolve the connection, and by drawing the bands too closely, at length break them. Almost all our romance and novel writers are of this kind; they persuade us to friendship, which we find it impos- sible to sustain to the last; so that this sweetener of life, ur.der proper regulations, is, by their means, rendered inaccessible or uneasy. It 1s certain, the best method to cultivate this virtue is by letting it, in some measure, make itself; a similitude of minds of studies, and even sometime a diversity of pursuits, will produce all the pleasures that arise from it. The current of tenderness widens as it proceeds; and two men imperceptibly find their hearts filled with good nature for each other, when they were at first only in pursuit of mirth or relaxation Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship, find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. That circle of beings, which dependence gathers round us, is almost ever unfriendly; they secretly wish the terms of their connections more nearly equal; and, where they even have the most virtue, are prepared to reserve all their affections for their patron only in the hour of his decline. * Increasing the obligations which' are laid upon such minds, only increases their burden; they feel themselves unable to rey immensity of their debt, and their bankrupt } { are taught a latent resentment at the hand that stretched out with offers of service and relief Plautinus was a man who thought th: good was to be brought from riches; and, as he » possessed of great wealth, and had a mind natu formed for virtue, he resolved to gather a circle the best men round him. Among the nu his dependents was Musidorus, with a min as fond of virtue, yet not less proud than his | His circumstances, however, were such as him to stoop to the good offices of his superior he saw himself daily among number of loaded with benefits and protestations of friends f in the usual course of the world, Fe the it prudent to accept; but, while he gave Lis este Fe could not give his breaks out in the 1 Plan inus had skill enouy he aciions of the man he wished t ake his friend In these he even found his disappointed; Musidorus claimed an exchar . hear.s, cl Plautinus solicited by . never think of bes owir may be easily su reserve of d in 0 in- gratitude; and such, i tation of the world it appeared, he was remarked as the gra eful mar he had acc ed favors, it was sail; and still Fad the insolence to preiend to leyendence. Tie event, however, justified his. condu Plautinus, by misplaced liberality, at len became poor, and it was then that Musidorus first thought of making a friend of him. He flew to the man of fallen fortune, with an offer of all he had; wrought under his direction with assiduvity; , by uniting their talents, t re lengt nts, h ced in that state of life from which one of t 1 had formerly fallen ccep- Musidorus ern life, I shall Greek writer of anti- the time of Ves- gether, and a union of the whole y felt and Irtendship might till death, alarmed the his promotion to icipation of danger at They were remarke » as the two fripndly brot for each other. Their continued, without interru a t good. fortune.of the pride of the other, which was in "KINGSTON'S be a centurion under the famous John, who headed a particular part of the Jewish malcontents From this moment, their. former love was con- verted into the most inveterate enmity., They attached themselves to opposite factions, and sought each other's lives in Pp conflict of adverse party than two years, vowing mutual revenge, and ani- mated with an unconquerable spirit of aversion. At length, however, that party of the Jews, to which the mean soldier bel Ti Joining with the Romans, it became victorious, and drove John with all his adherents into the temple. History has given us more than one picture of the dreadful conflagration of that superb edifice. The Roman soldiers were gathere round it; the whole temple was in flames; and thou- sands wére seen amidst them within its sacred circuits It ras in this situation of things, the now successful soldier saw his former friend, upon the battlements of the highest tower, looking around with horror, and just ready to be consumed wich flames. All tis former tenderness now returned; he saw the man of Fis bosom just going to peri and unable to withstand the impulse, he ran, spreading his arms, and cried out to his friend to leap down from the top, and find safety with him The centurion from above beard and obeyed; and, cast- ing himself from the top of the tower into his fellow-soldier's arms, both fell a sacrifice on tle spot; one being. crushed to death by the weight of his companion, and the other dashed to pieces by the great- ness of his fall. fe * 1 looked, and behold,"4 door was opened in heaven.' A--door--swinging --back---on mudcal hinges before the dis- couraged wanderers of earth, inviting them to hospitalities glimpsed beyond, inconceivable 10 the heart of man. A door? Those are not unfolding port- als, they are outspread arms, and above them 1s the glory of a Face, and from within there floats the tenderness of a Voice:--"1 am. the Door!" It is He, the Lord of Life Him- self; and we, who were so weary of our vain efforts to conquer evil, the pettiness and unlovingness of our natures, are uphfted, upborne to His teart, and its mighty throb- bings become the inspiration our own. He does for us what we could not do for ourselves, and we are saved. Henceforth, there is no life for us but His. 'I have set before thee an open door, and no man can_shut it." To every soul of mai this message comes, and the soul that turns at the call of the angel who brings it, will bear witness > 1s true. Only we ourselves can shut our- selves out of heaven. The door of a Heart, as human in its syn hy as it is divine in its love and power, st always open and waiting welcome for the repenta child, who would fain ret to his Father's house. * and shall Lucy Larcom that the mess Me if any man ¢ go in and ou he shall be savec 1d pasture There is no caste in the Kingdom of Heaven We must free the truth or the truth will not free the world ¢ ould forget Jesus, it would forget hi could not would not; Are the pure in heart happy because Jesus said so' No, but because they are pure in heart. There is nothing sacred but those things into which we carry the Spirit of Love and reverence and moral beauty We are too ready to think that to do right is better than to try to do right, that success is better than character as shown in faithful effort. Thus Jesus demonstrated the fact that diplomacy and strate always 1, that nothing ever wins in this life or in any other, but direct, honest, pure and true living, and this always wins and never fails 4 mere Had not each Hebrew mother and, especially had not Mary, greatly desired to give birth to the Re thest man, Jesus would not have longed to be the essiah, a fact which should give every modern parent food for thought, ? x In this manner they continued for more , FAMOUS FUR. - STORE." Where's the Best Place to Buy Furs ? If you live out of the City like as.pot vou'll ask t of someone ¥and some will tell you one place and som but don't take your best friend's word for it until you see for yourself. Thirty years' experience in the making of Fine Furs has placed us at the head of the! fur trade in Kingston and built for us-the biggest exclusive fur business in Central Ontario. by chance--menit did it. 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