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"I'he Time, the Place and the Girl Washington, Dec. 22.--When little' y,¢ taken from an actual occurrence, enry Gordon MeMorran, the six-year- (the scenes being reproduced irom old grandson of Representative Me- | photographs around which the story Morran, of Michigan, was introduced wa. written, 'Johnny. Hicks," a to President Taft, at the White House, |slangy, good-natured and honorable on Monday, he bluntly told the chief young gambler, is away from the old executive that he had begun to doubt stereotyped stage character, very or- the authenticity of "all this Santa joing) "and refined, and, above all, Claus business." ; lhighly pleasing. Molly "Kelly, the At the suggestion of his parents he 'y 050g nurse; Piedro, the organ grind had decided to leave the matter 10.0. Wile, the spoiled "child and the President Tait for settlement, . lconl heaver hold up the comedy end The president was taken aback for a lof the play. The chorus comes from REINHARDTS' OF TORONTO The Best Beer Sold "96s minute, but, looking down on the lit- 4,0 10 "Salle School, long noted for tle * fellow and patting him on the jig "Broilers" and having a reputation head, said : or ; of being the greatest: training school "Well, young man, ii you write a {,. shorus girls in America. letter to Santa Claus apd on Christ- mas morning find that he as brought you 'all that you asked for, isn't that enough to show that he not only ex- ists, but i= a mighty fine old fellow ?" 'The Volunteer. Organist." "The Volunteer Organist," which the offering for Christmas day, mati- HETIL oi +X Ty x MOSS CHRIS {MAS IN Pumpkin Walked, Sure Enough. Lewiston Journal . \ pumpkin was seen to walk across the fieldiby Mrs. Samuel H. High, Skowheggn, the other day. When ww it ole thought her eyes were do ceiving Ser but she perceived that the pumpRin moved a little way, stopped Rnd then turped in apother di She watched this oloct for time and told one of her neigh I'he mystery was solved, but the two women did not dare go nearer to the moving but valled man, who knocked the pumpkin over md found a polecat. The skunk had crawled undey he pumpkin, and stu k his head 8nto, a hole in jt, and was Jinahle tq ex trie te herself from it Chad wallpd off he could the pumpkin on his back ol she soon rection ROM bor vegetable, a and best with | THE JUNGLE _-- Blue Ones ? Newly wed aim sure | have grounds for a divorce ! I am positive that : me ! i "Mr vou mean ? 1 Mrs (weeping )--Henry;--~} 1 i vou have deceive Newlywed--What in the world do What! have | done arouse such a suspicion ? : Mrs. Newlywed (weeping harder)--I- II saw a memorandum in your pocket this morning" th---fo' bdy* dome new rib bons for vour typewriter ! 10 | The biggest pruia of a husband lives rizht here in town. Hé got his wile toi him save for an automobile, jand them sunk the money o | weeks before" Chwistmas in { house, ! {| The Lind of abuse leonhdence. few brick a . > w. worst is that o MAKE STOMACH TROUBLE VANSH BY THONG LITLE DERG Youy upset Stomach feels fine in five minutes had would handy and some, Diapepsin a little now vou tuke vOolr or indigestion would ne les stomach distr vanish feel fine I'hi wt anvthing in fe and vou would wild di and overcome a harmly preparation vou eal tomach before vou wour, out-of order realize it vou, or fill in | our meals don't Little vou do « hike tomach, or tempt what it seems to a, lump of le i gn of indigestion Scent wm, or lays our vou have that HY pt hurt Ask \ OUT armaast for a Frain t O0on Dinpepsin jnd take a can. There belching of ne van our risings, no TTT aT SH undigested dqotl mixed with: acids' no stomach gas or heartburn, fullfess or heavy feeling in the stomach,~fausea, debilitating headaches, dizziness or in- tettinal gripingt This will all go, and; besides, there "will® be no undigested food leit .over in the stomach to pois bréath with Diapepdin stomachs, because takes inst on vout nauseous odors Pape for out-oi-door prevents fermentation food and digests it certain cure it hold of gvour the same as if vOun stomach wasn't there, Reliet 3 minutes from all sto mach at "ahy drug store waiting for you These large dO-cent more than sufficient cure almost any case of dykpepsia, in- other = a and in five Misery 18 cases contain to thoroughly digestion or * any stomach dis: turbance by the Canada Sale by Cycle and Motor Co. Ltd., Toronto. For grove Bros. | The 'Perfect Xmas Gift T he AUTOMOBILE SKATE" "will 'make an excellent gift for "Xmas either for man, woman ox child 3 The "AUTOMOBILE SKATE!" of ours is the best , Hockey . or rink skate on the market to-day. We refer you to any of the big hockey players whq have used and are still using. our blades. They will tell you that the {'AUTO- MOBILE SKATE" is lighter and ' stronger than any other they have tried. A : The "AUTO SKATE" is and idgal 'Xmas gift. Remember this skate when you are shopping for giits. Dealers. >| aw 7 nee and night, at the Grand, is in its Th boy admitted that that cer tainf® would be a point in favor of Santa Clans and he agreed to. reserve his judgment until Christmas morning. THE SPORT REVIEW, a. Interestimg News From the Var- ious Sporting Fields. lopuses have heen guaranteed the Ottawa hockey players if they succeed in holding the Stanley cup. l'oronto Argonauts play the treal Interprovimcial team at treal on the night of Dec, 3lst. Ii Ottawa has, six other players as cod as Marty Walsh they need have no fear about the Stanley cup. The Haileybury hockey club made an attempt to accomplish the impos- sible task of taking Taylor, Walsh and Kerr from .the Ottawas. All the offers were promptly rejected. Marsh and St. Yves are signed for filteen-mile race in Seattle Christmas day Marsh © beat Kr.nchman in a fifteen-mile race Vancouver two months ago. Jelivies say#: To my mind the best fight | ever made was against Fitz- | simmons, on June 9th, 1899, when | Mon- Mon- up on the at | hee ( y oney FREDERICK with "The Grand, Volun- on Christ - uninterrupted legions of new vear of a | knocked him out in eleven rounds at | the Island Athletic club and MISS ANNA | béenme champion of the world. i As Craca Rurrett, The Galt hockey club has sent lier Organist," at The {word to President Mctiee, of the Ot- mas bay, tawa hockey club, accepting Jan. Sth -- and 7th as the dates for®their Stan-|tenth success, ley :'up matches. Russell Bowie and adding admirers to Duncan Campbell will be the referevs. {play that seems destined to go on for | Otthwa hockey team play three [¢Ver. . matohes in one week, or five in ten | Unlike other plays, dramatized from days, In the month of January they [hook form, this remarkable work, from wiligplay ten matches, six league the pen joi William B. Gray, émanated gam@s and 'four for the Stanleysirom hid immensely successful song of cup.® in February they will also play the same title about ten. : : | The song has had a most phenomen- | Thy American baseball tourists in al salé--over 285,000 copies having nbd -mutinied yesterday, allegfng un-|been sold in the United States alone, iuir Diireatment by Manager McAllis- and now in its dramatic form it is ac ter. "They left the island on an out-|cepted by the appreciative public with | hound steamer after ome of their even more gusto, if that be possible, number had been arrested and. dis-| Mr. Gray 'has long enjoyed the dis- missatl, ! | tinction of being one of the trio of In "Australia they keep close sur- | most successful song writers, the other veilldnee over owners and horses that two of the group being the late Paul have coma under the ban of the [Dresser and Charles KK. Harris, Mr. turf elubs. A winner in West Aus- | Gray, it. will be remembered, is the tral'a recently was disqualitied on the | author and composer of 'such succous- grourd that he was in the same ful songy as "When. You Know the stable as an unregistered horse, Girl You Love Loves You," "Oh; Mr. Thuro Johanston ard Gusta Ljung-{Austin,"" "The Church Agross the strom' are the names of two Swiflish | Way," "Old Jim's Christmas Hymn," Marathon runners who have just ar- |' 'More to be Pitied than Censuved. rived in New York, They will turn | Nl e professional and will be under the | Sermons From Shakespeare. management of Ernie Hertberg. They | A series of "Sermons from Shakes- haye both made a name Tor them-!peare'" will be run weekly in Satur selves in their native land. ; {day's Whig, commencing, however, on Perey Lesueur, , the Ottawa 'goal Friday, December 31st, owing to Sat. keeper, who angst written one of yrday, January lst, being a holiday the best bodks ¥ yet seen on hockey, | The writer of the sermons is an auth- has gone on the road for an Ottawa |or whose books are well known in firm and in his spare moments yill England, United States and Canada. coach teams at Smith's Falls, Van- [je has had several published and fa kleek Hill, WAlexandria and othe U vorably received in all three countries, places Percy has quite an eye 10 IHehgs been a' student of Shakes busin: ss. peaie's dramas and poems for more rr re re than twenty-five years; during ten of Driving Of Ambulances. { which he taught, the lays in leading Some time ago, there whs some com- leducatiohal institutions. He is a well plaint in Kingston, about peo; | known lecturer on Various subjects, ple diving in the way of an ambu- {and particularly excels as an interpre {lance, when it was on a call How [ter of the Elizabethan drama. In fast can an ambulance go to add from ] e on its missich' through the streets? [of long ypars of thought, study : According to Magistrate 0'Keeie's de |teaching. He speaks from knowlédge. cision in a case at Ottawa, an amb He brings to his work reverence lov the lance driver can speed through Otta- | master He, is interpreting, and - ap wa's thoroughfares at as high a rate proachess the texts selected with, the as attainable--but he must use discre- enthusiagp and sincerity that every tion Discretion Sn' this means clergy man should show 'towards serip avoiding any violation of certain un- tural passages. written privileges, not permitted by | TT . law but DE "and ed by Mrs. Wilson Cummings, lelleville, public usage. In other words; an .am died on Monday. . Deceased, had been bulance has no rights under the law ailing. for some time, was about sev : i im i eaty-five 'vears of age and had lived regarding speed, but a certain latitude * rt o oe fe: hse g in this respect is permitted. In return, {'! th city. lor mang years. lwo the magistrate expects diseretion to be daughters, Mrs. C. H. Nicholson and made case these sermons he is giving the results and ! MUST PROVE HE CAN RULE. Attitude of U. S. Government Ex- plained By Knox. Washington, Dec. 22. --Secretary of State Knox has let" it be knowh 'that the attitude of this government to- ward Nicaragua would not be changed by the election of Madrizyto the presi: dency. . Madriz will have to show that he is capable of directing a responsibile gov- ernment, which is prepared to ake reparation for the wrongs which jt is claimed have been done to Amefican citizens in Nicaragua. This country still- maintains that un- til a responsible government is set up and is in entire control of the situation, so that : definite negotia- tions can be held, diplomatic relations cannot' be resumed. : "We are not trying to coerce Ni- caragua,"' said a high state depart- ment official, after a call at the White House. , "We want _her to settle her own af fairs, and we are not dictating what shall be done in Nicaragua or "who shall be named as president. All we want is a responsible government that we can do business with." MARK TWAIN S HEALTH. Ailment of Left Breast is Troub- ling Him, New York, Dee. "That poker game in which Major Gontey got all 1 had, now he comes back at me and wants all 1 have left," sgfdd Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) when told of the invitation of Major Gonter, of St. Louis, to play offi at his home, "on Christmas, a euchre game that began in 18656 and lasted four years. Mr. Clemens has just ar rived from Bermuda. : Matthias Dougherty, the third viving member of the St. louis chre club, has been invited to join the game. Speaking in Clemens said : "'I have vocate of the causé of frage for filty years." Tne aged humorist said ha was suf- fering "with an ailment in the left breast which 'had been troubling him for some time. He 's quoted as saying that his life's work was nearing the end, 99 was a sur- Eu- in Mr. ad- suf- vein been an women's a serious NAMING AMBASSADORS. Representatives to Be Foreign Countries. Wishington, Dec 21 ---Prowadent Taft to-day sent to the senate tne-ol lowing nominations of and ministers : Ambassadors to France," Robert Ba con, New York; to Austria, Richard C, Kerns,. Missouri, to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, Washington. Ministers to., Belgium, Chacies Pr. Bryan, [Illinoist 'China, Wiiliam J, ('athoun, illinois; Chile, Heury Fletcher, Pénnsylvania; Portugal, . T. (lage, California; Panama, H. R. Hitt, !Hlinois; Cuba, J. B. Jackson, New Jersey Switzerland, 1. S. Swen- son, Minnesota. It i= said at the White House that no decision has yet been reached with regard to, the pest in Great Britain now filled by Whitelaw Reid. Sent to ambassadors Negro Outlaw's Finish, Ablbevitte, La., Dec. 21. -Boy Chare, a negro desperado, killed himseli_aften a chase lasting since Tuesday last, when the negro shot Officers 'Holly and Thotnas. At the entrance tu the Checfawhatehie swamp, an hundred men surrounded the negro. Wounded, barefooted and tired, he placed the barrel of tis shotgun to his breast and pushed the trigger with his toes. His body was then fled to a buggy and dragged to Abbeville and placed in the' court house, where it lay for several hours. Golborne Poultryman's Success. Colborne, Ont., Dec. 22. --~Councillor C. P. Brown, of this village, is being heartily congratulated upon thd which attended his showing at Washington, Mr. Brown made ten entries and received a prize on each bird, cup for best display com peting CPs ol poultry besides a silver with all varieties A Great Sale For the balance of the year. -- Pre vost, Brock street, has greatly reduc ed prices-in the order and ready-made clothing department, also in gents' { furnishings. - Stock well assorted with new goods. is A terrible acoddent took place in Trenton, Saturday, the vietim being Louis Pedore, of the. :Gi¥m ur hox factory, Mr. Bedore was placing a six-<inehr double ply belt over a pul 1 y when the friction of the pulley burned the belt so badly that it broke in two, one end striking '© Be dore in the face with terrific force, breal ng his jaws as well as fractur- jing the skull. The deceased lived Jonly a few minutes. . {Miss Cummings, survive. used hv-the ambulance drivers ¢ 2 ' { Good Substitute: A girl froma village not iar from had gone to London as a general servant. She was away some six months, when she returned hong, and, of course, she desired to "show ofi" as much' as possible. Alighting {from the train she addressed the por ter in her very highest-lown Faglish "{_say, 'porter, do you know where | can get un cab to take my luggage home ?"°. "Oh, weel, no, lassie,' said | the porter, who knew the girl wll "but ver mither's here wi' the bar row." Glasgow Natures Warning. Pains and svmptoms are only na- {ture's warning - That something ais | | wrong, take heed, thereiore, if you | Ihave a. lame back: iL is but one hint [to look after the kidneys. Peck's Kid- {nev Pills act directly on the kidneys, {aiding them in removing all discase. | { In boxes, 25 coats, at J. B. McLeod's | { eorner King and 'Brock streets (Wade's | sid stand), and corner Princess and | | Montreal streets. Money back if not | satisfactory. ' ! i ' W. A. Osborne, one of the best | known and most widely respected re | sidents of Tyendinaga, died on' the | {3rd insti Mr. Osborne, sixty-one | vears, of age, was born in Tyendinaga. | A sermon, that is satisfactory to all | {is always prepared with a keen .re-|stocking outside of the window ?° i Tommy--I asked Santa Claus GOOD ers, jgard for the feelings of all the liten- | and good effects Jost sight of. ice-cream, and it would melt in i} : : A ~ 1 ~~ Mamma (Christinas Eve)~Tommy, why are yon hanging his & i NS gy » Shr -- Res Xn REASON. your bring me a box of chocolate ot room, to w { The: Real Joy of wp pA Se Loon Comes To Those Who Are Fortunate Enough To Have A Victor Berliner Gramophone, i : The Victor plays all kinds of dance LO music, loud ind If {| " rhythm. Always ready when you want it. 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Dawson, Gramophone and Records. come 74 Buchess 77 {0 wh b«6y) Sateen Waists, 50c. up Let the "'Duchess'" Tailors 'and (7% Seamstresses make all your / Waists, White Wear etc. It will save you many hours of hard work | and save you money besides. Just to show you n0w economical it will be. we mention * Duchess' Biack Sateen Waists,in many pleasing styles, from 50c. up. Let us know if your dealer does not handle #7 s the complete '! Duchess' A line. Every garment ~ TW / guaranteed both by . makers and dealers. DUNLAP MANUFACTURING CoO. MONTREAL. Something Not Very Expensive But will be pretty and nice will be inquired for from now up to the last day for Christmas Gift buying Here's a Hint. A warm, cosy House Slipper of felt for a woman, or a soft, black or tan Leather Slipper for a man. 50c to $2 for women. 75¢c to $2.50 for men. Reid & Charles. =o a P.S.- -Store Open Evenings. 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