" Brrrrercasssrsvrssesss@ { Polly's Pancakes : Berra ressrsresscsecel "It does seem too bad that some nice man doesn't find Polly," remark- ed Mrs, Earlington, "She is destined for an old maid, my dear; I told you that long ago," her husband answered consolingly. "And the sponer she accepts the in- evitable and stops struggling, the bét- ter." . '"You're absolutely heartless, Frank, and Poily is the best friend either you or I have in the world, and you know it." Mrs. Earlinglon's eyes filled with tears as she bent over her crocheting. + he was a sympathetic little woman, and every time she thought of the dif- ficalt and lonely life of her dearest friend, Pauline Bates, her heart over- flowed with co sion for the girl. Pauline--Polly, they called her--did tutoring in and about the small vil lage of Glenville ad most of her in come was seut back home to support her widowed mother and two younger gisters, She was a wholesome, wo- manly, attractive girl, well out of her teens, and although every one, men and women, liked her, no man who was worth while weemed to have fall- en in love with her. And yet there was not a girl in the little circle of oung people in Glenville who would Yo made so adoiirable a wife, Mrs. Earlington had. known her for years and the home of the Earl ingtons was always open to Pauline In fact, as Mr Earlington frequently remarked, she didn't know how they could keep house without Pauline eall on. If the nurse were out, or ill, Pauline always managed to be on hand to help with the children. If the cook left, Pauline never failed to drop in to help prepare the meals. 1 Frank had to.be out of town, Pauline came to stay with Mrs. Earlington. Ii the Earlingtons entertained, Pauline was the ever ready helper, for she played the piano, made a chafing-dish sup- per, or did more parlor tricks better than either the host pr hostess. "Frank, I want vou to listen to me," began Mrs. Earlington, opening the subject again Her husband looked up from his rural journal. He was deep in the mysteries of how to prune fruit trees, but he suppressed a sigh and looked across the reading table toward his wife. ' "Im serious about find a husband for her "Did she gay so?" asked the man, blandly, Mrs. Earlington withered him a look. "Does Pauline ever say thing foolish 7" ghe asked "Not often enough--that's one of her faults." "Her principal fault, so far as] can see, is being entirely too good and conscientious and eapable for any mere Shy to Polly--we must with any OUR CRYSTAL BRAND Of Seasdard Granulated Sugar Has been tried and found excellent fot preserving and table use, Price Is always right. y ANDREW MACLEAN, Ontario Street. 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Horsey's Hardware Store where he will be pleased meet all his old customers and ar many new ones as require firy class Tinsmithing and Plumbing done; also agent for the Squvenir Phone 1033 "jit is put out of da until the Super-Dreadnoughi, came, and " ¥ {man No one appreciates her," ed Mrs. Earlingron. Her © husband rolled his precious magazine into a 'tube and frowned. "Well ? What can we do? I can't go around the - world dragging men out here to meet her and extolling her vir. tues. You know how a mah takes to [bs sony of girl you have to de. that or, : rélort- "Of course not--but there must be subtle ways of getting 'at it," Mrs. Earlington said, vaguely. "You'll have ly anything sabtle that's dome in our family, dear. I'm as far from being subtle as--as a blow on the head." . fo "Polly is 8 good cook !" she said. : I But who knows it 7' asked Frank, 'No one but you and me, and--her family,perbaps. Most of Polly's charms if cooking may be called a charm-- are hidden under 'the proverbial bush: el," sighed Mrs, Earlington. Her husband agreed with her. "And I ythink--ah, Frank, couldn't you invite ys and men of the choir of St. ul's to a--well, say, a pancake supper, od we'll have Polly make the pancakes 7' Mrs, Earling- ton's eyes fairly danced at the pros- poct, "I=could," Frank said, edly, . "You eould very well.' As a mem- ber of the vestry, it. would be only natural that you show a little atten- tion to the 'choir--especially before ! Christmas, when they are doing such | good work," : "Very well, dear--it's your party. I'm willing. . And what then 7" "You govse--Polly will make such delicions - pancakes--it's one of her very best stunts--that the men will--| well," you. know a man when some- thipg appeals to his infer self." In. : "Yes--it isn't every Wife who can CLOSING MEETINGS. | make good pancakes or teach the cook Stn: i to do likewise," admitted the man, | Township of Kingston Council, i "And I'm to ask the choir to a pan-{ Dec. 15.--~Council met i ! half-heart- in session, | cake supper here--to eat Polly's pan- { Members all present, A. Rankin, M.| cakes 7' he asked. P.P., presiding. Minutes of: last] "Not at all-say nothing about Pol- meeting adopted. Moved, Reid- | ly. That would spoil it all. Merely | Valleau, that Robert Polk given ask them to a pancake Supper next | permission to place and maintain a Wednesday night. : {set of scales opposite his property | In (due form the choir of St. Paul's on the York Road, and so erected as! was invited to the Earlington home to! a space of four feet be- | eat pancakes and almost in a body it | {ween them nnd the fence inclosing -- Sep 2 The small boys and the men the York Road, and' further that he were always glad of an opportunity | a yesponsible for any damage iucur- Io spend an evening in this hospital red the ' scales ttle home, t 1 Paul 1 Moved, Hawkey-Reid, that council px- Sue 8. Larhng on, oir auline were empt the fofowing from taxes, those sy preparing the batter for the .¢ schools excepted Mrs. Dell, in- feast and a pile of hot plates was al- ._., Sabie 4 + firmity; Thomas Cousins, "disability: ready on the top of the great rang: y : ys , he ; Michael Halpin, blind. when the telephone bell rang long and | Moved, Valleau-Gordon, that loudly. " Poliv. 4 oj bers of the council estend to asked es Barber: gy, Cent ; | reeve their thanks for his fair wind Polly rushed to the 'phone, a glad |mpartial way of periorming Mie = ight. i # " a sat | LIEB Ol "chairman, and also extend to ight in a. Hes JOT beat their heartiest congratulations in "Could it be he ?" she asked herself, | P18 new office of M.P.P. bpd over and over. Payments made : $40, grant to For a few minutes she talked earn-|KX.G.H.; 50c., Isaac Smith, refund estly over the wire and when she re- [C0 tax, error in assessment; $15.20; ( turned to the kitchen a bright spot |R..C. Hawkey, bonus - on 152 of red burned in each cheek. Mrs, fence; ¥2.50, Thomas Smiths tiling Earlington thought she had never sean |and fixing, bridges; $2, Charles Ira the girl so pretty. To herself, she |®cF, eight rods ditehing; $4.50, Jd. commented that the combination of | Redden, blasting and gravel on hill Polly's pancakes and her beauty ought | near Maxwell's; $7.50, J. C. Swain, to bring some one of the half-dozen fextra work on road djpision 40; 81.- unmarried men in the house to her | 50, Fred. Denyes, refund statute feet to-night. . : labor, name omitted by clerk on list; "J--took the liberty of asking an |83, W. H. McAdoo, refund statute old friend who has just come to town !labory property changed, ow nership; from back home--here to-night," Polly |814, Thomas Evans, work on road] said. < division 33a.; 825, George Irwin, Mrs, Earlington looked at her earn-|work on Portland Road winter of estly, "Why, of course, dear. Who ig 1910-1911; $3, Thomas Evans, cut- it" ting brush on concession 7; $6.60; "Arthur Fisher--a boy I used to play | Charles Smith, cement and tile: with when I was little and--"' £22.65, Nelson McAdoo, two-third "And what, Polly? Why do you|value of sheep killed by dogs; $15.95, hesitate ?"' Mr. Cashman, piling 25 cords stone on "Well, when we were--oh, dreadiul-|road division 35; $11, kshac Fairbanks, ly-"young--I quarrelled "with him be-|fixing bridge near 1. Hooper's; 310, cause he wanted me to marry him and | Charles Purdy, 5 times attendance at settle down in that little town and |hall; $5, W. J, Blacklock, public tres keep house. 1 was ambitious and passing in winter 5 Andrew Craig, wanted to do something else in the | public . trespassing in winter; ¥2.25, world--then, 1 told him I couldn't| Anson Martin, statute labor refund, keep house and wouldn't cook and--" {name not on assessment roll in 1910; "And you blush because he's going £1.75, Bertrany- J pokson, - refund 8 y- to find you baking pancakes for a |lute labor, list returned December whole regiment of hungry men now ?| lth; 5c, J. Johnson, fixing bridges Oh, Polly, why didn't you tell me of Mrs. H. Smith, refund stat this Arthur before ?" ; 'abor, hist returned December "I thought he had forgotten me un 21 0, Edward Clark, 42 loads 1 til I had a letter from him the other|¥}1.50, George Irwin, support oo x1 day saying he would be in this neigh- | { isher, bonus on Li rods fenve; hy borhood' to-night. I wrote him that | Isnac Fairbanks, refund statute labor, } would be here to-night and that if he list not returned; #, i ; came he might oall me up. It would |Po50 fund statute ia Aisi } D. seem so good to see some one from | turned December Itai re x eu home," she ended lamely. i lax on doff, rTOr i NS : y . , | gessment; $13.20, Edward Clark, bonus 1 think he's more than 'some one,' | vent; $ y JA a Polly." id" Mrs. Earlingt o * ton «0 rods fence, 72 loads stone; $25, diy RI Is, ar ngion, poms | Alexander Irwin, 50 loads stone, road PE 4 56: $3.50, 1. Hartman, bonus Perhaps--but we must get these |. 95 vods fence: $7.50, John Clyde pancakes on the table. Jen't that on: lonus on 75 rods fence; $5.75, Rees ough to start on? I don't know how| + . | ard, postage stamps apd coal they pee-1 did not try them and Lio; £3.25, William Abbot, refund sta- ni we batt ily, ] : * Polly said | 4. fe labor: $11.25, John Johnsoft, sta- as she hurried into the dining-room | ie labor refund on 2 properties, list with a platter full of the round, hot}, returned; 35, Charles Quick, Yo- griddle cakes. . {fund - statute labor; $12, J. Redden, "You found the way was all Mrs. | work on division 34; 85, Charle TW Earlington heard and then, for a long ing, work on Sydenham road; $ minute there wis silence. . : Li. C. Orser, attending court of revis- Mrs. Farlington hurried to 'thelion by order of judge and selecting kitchen, where she and the cook kept | jurors; $7.47, James' Cummings, re the griddle hot and tried to make fund, error in acres in assessment: pancakes enough to supply the hungry | 55.95, Ceylon Robinson, - stature on, labor refund, list not returned: Presently Polly returned to the | 33.75, Mrs. Fowler, refund statute la- kitchen--she had stopped to introduce) bor, work not done on regular road Mr. Fisher to her host. t division; 87, Marshall Clogg, building : "Did--you néed me?' asked Polly, [eulvert; $5, William McQuay, drawing innocently. \ So ftile to town line; 815, Melzor Orser, "Oh, no," Mrs. Earlington said, jwork on road division 38; $10, Albert "the rakes are of no consequenée--1 Emmons, ' repairing bridge on = road now," she said, with a meaning that | division 51d; $1.66, Sherman Wart was discernible only to hersell. iman, two-thirds value of one sheep Cikilled by dogs; 20.20, Sidney. J. Montreal "Witness { Watts, work on Gibson's Hill, bonus ontrea; tREAS. : . ion forty-two rods fence: $13, Sidney One argument used againet begin- | 0 ining, thirty-six rods ditch and ning & Canadian navy is that by the | ilding culvert; $2.50, Edwin Har- time. the first ships were built they | il, five rods ditching and tiling: 85 would he out of date, and it would | FT " Woods 8, oo 1 ak ton: » to start others, which, in|} uli, work On Da be : 2 ' G Val turn, would bout of date by the time 15 De Nove, Gordon Y alles, of their completion, and so on ad in-| : " 5 wou : : {ture com ation. Moved, 'Gordon- fnitum, Tt id Te impo anilie 10 Hawkey, that Councillor Valleau be 4 the use Pi okie 2 he area authorized to put in plank crossing as t is respectfull hmittod % Re required on Copeession street. Moved, men " ions ohi . © 1 Gordon-Valleau, that the allowance for bankrupts. in their mad competivias | councillors in 1912 be $50. Council ad: in fleot-bullding. The newest form ® of [100d ste dic. battleship is cély launched hefore Stor Conmell. Dee. 15.~Council met, with members by a newer form. all present. Minutes of previous meet- The t was thought to be the eg battleship-building, Vous. me {ing adopted. On motion, Ritchie-Han- s. FEHO looking for a suitable | Ived - that the dog tax be ho new monster that is ee as n Dreadnought out of cheep fund, Om ion, Balls-Hanley, nations resolved that William Ennis be paid 252,66 for sheep killed by dogs on lots and 3 and 4 in Con. 14, the amount being thei that Deanis be wo allow of said by erection mem- the rods $) +) ¥2.2H5, Lyeorge Shep | division yor A Waste of Money. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY. GEORGE TALLMAN, WITH "THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER," AT THE GRAND ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3. ' |W 0 DECEMBER 29, 1911. | SCHOOL FOR GRAVEDIGGERS. 3 Spade and . Course. Freak schools were discussed in an article in a provincial paper, .says the San Francisco Chronicle, and we are confident that few of our readers will have heard of some of these very odd educamonal establishments. It 'jappears that in Belgium before quali- fving for a post as sexton one must !pass an examination in a school of grave diggers, while in Paris there is {a school for judges, where make be lieve" trials are carried out in 'detail before lawyers of repute. . Russia has a school for policemen, which it is, we believe, the pet ami{- tion of the young and aspiring burg: lar to join. In an adjoining museum the pupils make themselves familiar with "jimmies,"" drills, chisels and Sextoas Take Shovel ves. ry Still more ambiguous are the mer: its of the course of instruction given in the Casino at Monte Carlo. Here iis evolved the professional croupier. Some six months' training is all that is needed to produce a finished speci- 'Iman of these useful articles, which are turned out at the rafe ol nearly one hundred a year. i Will the Mormons Desert Alberta?" Canadian Courier, Toronto, There are those who believe that the. Mormons are likely to abandon Alber. ta. They resent the criticisms whick have been directed at them from all quarters during the past couple of years. The Presbyterian assembly, the {Anglican synod and other organiza- tions have taken up the cudgels {against their theological teaching with sheep by dogs; also that Charles Barr regard to polygamy. Moreover, they he refunded £3.75, being an error in feel that they can never be a domin- his statute labor tax. . On motion |8ting poljtical force in- Alberta poli- Hanley-Balls, resolved that the follow- tics, and®the Mormon church apparent- ing bills be pa.d : {ly believes in the dominant political W. H. Horning, 85, James Liston, | power. 210; James Ennis, $10; John Johnson, | My informant says that "Johnny' $3; David Sleeth, $25, work done on { Woolf, who has represented a Mormon road division No. 58; Giles Ston- dists¥et in the Alberta legislature, has Br $7, seventy loads of gravel for! lost hope and will shortly resign. He 8 GS; Robert . Webb, $10.80, 108 will probably go to Nevada. Ii this loads gravel for div. Ne. 16: (| occurs it may be but the beginning of Sleeth, $5.50, gravel on division |8 gradual exodus. Moreover, my in- 12: Peter Mallen, $5, building culvert formant states that the next member and $2 for keeping pound; William {for Cardston, in succession to Woolf, Hogan, $4, repairs on log Jake(*ii_not be a Mormon. bridge; James Boal, $10, building | Without political control the Mor: culvert on road division 64; John MON church has never been successful Robb, 89, building two eulverts oni? controlling its own followers It Keelerville road; Noble Darling, 88 tfears that its lack of political progress repairing culvert near . W. Il. Ar. | will be a decided impediment to its thurs; Wesley Holder, $1.50, igrowth. Woolf himself has not always gravel | . for Byewer Mill road; the clerk $10. | been faithful to the dictates of the + 4 . . On one occasion they ran a 75. posiige and stationery: the trea. | church. A b ( rhe pico 0 BF a vishop against him for e legislative rer, 39 % Postage, and making out Fowwrig but Woolk.. won. out, ye f £ sie . } . herd 4 ba i + SOR restern & On moon, g Ritohie-Kelig, resolved , thE the . indepintint cart that the financial statement, as y pene n A < read ' he adopted, and the clerk get 100] Pah, . dopies printed; Whether this is true or reeve, - doseph also that the clerk, | not it. wil Toland and Willie, | be interesting to watch the develop: Be y Ve av N , Gikson each be given $5 for = ser {ments. Whatever may happen the vices rendered trial, : | Mormon chiirch is no doubt aware that re the toll On motion, Hanley-Balls, resolved road | that by-law, No. 441, for nd pol Why Immigrants Go Home. New York World. Excepting the after-panic year 1908, when emigration from this country was 100,000 more than its immigration, 1911 will show the smallest net for- Vanluven Bros'. Statment Regarding | "80 addition to our population for Moscow Cheese Factory. Maly years: Up to December 1st the Moscow, Bue. 22--(To the Fditor: | 2a oit 8 Rew York were 781.068; de We noticed a lensithy or at i i partures, 486,794; and in December the Nabatice Deéava rie 5 In the departures are exceeding atrivals by apanes ie aver rocently of the meet: | many thousands. ing of the Moscow cheese factory! The heavy exodus this year is 'in patrons and as there are statements |part dus to slack work. Building ac- in this "that arc incorrect and _ mis-{{ivity has fallen off slightly. Railroad leading, and reflect upon us as .for- work is proceeding slowly for financial mer proprietors, and our theese | ronsons.. But the custom among our makers, we feel it our duty give | {foreign-born residents of taking a fly- soiie facts. ing visit home is growing irrespective fhe writer of this report is cor. of lack of work. This year a special rect in stating that the average!cause exists in the war in Tripoli of price per' 100 lbs, of mili®™to the pa- (which students of figures have not tak trors was more the past wcason than |en sufficient account. Some thousands formerly, although the manufacturing of Italians have gone eastward hoping cost the patrons much more than for a chance to- fight; but a much for many 'years, and about eleven | larger number who have been planning hundred dollars more for the same|to go back "'some time" hdve seized number of pounds than when made at [the present . occasion, when political lio, as was done for six season's. differences are forgoiten and when the itt this Snoreased price not only ap- entire peninsula ix in a patriotic fes- plies to this factory, but to every | tival apirit. over "la terza Italia." other, on account of the high prices Sentiment counts heavily in that prevailing fot cheese the past season, | NOTMOUS total of 486,791 re-emi- and not the management or maker, | grants. And most of them will come this tem would suggest, but the back. stidement that the average pounds of | cigs - milk for a pound of cheese, 10.595] _ Saskatchean Passes Manitoba. {Canada will have nothing to do with {polygamy either practical or theoreti deputy returning officers and poll clerle, be givenl a secdhd and third readings and passed. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, to (including November), was less than Manitoba Free Press. ¢ formerly, is not correct, > The final figures of population for It has been considerably less," as|the provinces contained in the last an- low as 10.37, and from memory, nouncement by the census bureau give would say it was seldom, if ever, | Saskatchewan a population of 487,802 more, especially when making so late' 8% against 455,869 for Manitoba. This in November as the past season. (will give Saskatchewan an additional We are finding no fault with the | member in the next parliament, mak- average pounds of milk for a pound! ing this the western representation : of cheese, nor with the maker for | Manitoba, 15 members; Saskatchewan, this, as we believe him to bea good 16; and Alberta, 12. : maker; but... with the .person who! In view of the rapid increase of Win- made the statement that is not cor. "Peg and environs--about 100,000 in rect and reflects upon us and such | the decalle--the falling behind of Mani- makers as Frederick Clark and Frod- | toba as a whole tells its own story of erick Valleau, who each put in several COMPAarative stagnation in the rural soakors in this [nctory. These men |PArts of this province during the past both attended the dairy. school moreit™. F*0r8. The responsibility for this 4 Oe ctate of affairs must be borne in large than one term ud have Sartificntes | art by the Manitoba government, from the same and are known as -liyish hag paid no dttentign whatever mong the best. makers, but not the probleme of immigration, popula- only ones.--VANLUVEN BROS. tion, and settlement, being engrossed {in more pleasurablé occupation. - i+ It is becoming increasingly evident isis roving the Machine, i [that Manitoba is in urgent need of a Hen. B. Morine> is to be the |ROvernment made up, not of politic head of a board appointed to wifuire 180s, but of business men capable of into the civil 86ivice of Canada. The dealing with the problems which affect powers of thé board are unusually the prosperity and development of the large, as R. authorised is appoint Province, sub~ecommis: s wherever that may - be necessary. Mr. Morine says thas | A Kitchener Story. his business will not be to fish i) A new story about Lord Kitchener scandals. He will be concerned with | has reached London and is told in the future rather than with the pest, |The Skeich. Fusing the experience of the past wain-! It is known thst Kitchener's Iy as a guide to progress .and fe |versation is at the best of times la- form. iconic. Talking is not one of his am- The Star has frequently had ooeu- | bitions, but this doed not mean that sion to say that this country has his talk lacks character or interest. It otitgréwn some of the old methods of [is terse. To a lady who asked him legislation and administration. Theil he kept a diary, he gave a brief expansion of Canada during the' last answer. ~ fifteen yveurs was so tremendous that! "1 mysell," she confided, "write the improvement of the inery | Pages and pages every night. I write could not keep pace "with it. {all about the pmple I meet, all = the When the late vernment perceived | secrets they te , and just what 1 this, it appointed a civil service com- | mission and. placed the imside service the space allotted me by Mr. Lett. under its jurisdiction. it is grati-| "Oh, 1 can, answered K. of K. fying to know that this work will be! "For instance, to-night I shall write continaed. There are many things |"Vinmer, Port Said; said and heard that might be improved, including the | nothing of import." " con- think of them. I can never keep tworthird of their value: : Murphy be' paid $1.66 for loss of one government reports, be -------- made more attractive and instructive! 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