«<AGE TWEIL, Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills ried eh dT century ago, before Confederation, ., they were on sale in nearly every drug or general store in the Canada of that day, and were the ized cure in + thousands of homes for ipation, amt ny and vee Trobe. To they ect frp pghent grsy wee has yet been devised to o Cure Common Ills TEA! TEA! TEA From the Finest Tea Gardens of Ceylon, uncolored, and of the finest flavor, Green and Black at 39¢ per pound, 3 } a ANDREW MACLEAN'S, Ontario Street, r Restorer for Men Sm, Fb ny sages" BRS EAT Brg For sale all Mahood's drug ste Thomas Copley Tels 987 t wh ihe oyinuny dor 2 Ts" : orks, sist prompt attention n Street. t Forty years in use, 20 years the standard, prescribed and recom niended by physicians. For Woman's Ailments, Dr. Martel's Pills, at your druggist. i For a delicious rt serve CLUB TABLE JELLY with Club Jelly Sauce. Both come in powder form in one package, and are quickly and onsily made up. Sixteen true as the pure fruit. Put up by " Trappers Price, x Earned Rurimint by shipping their Raw Furs and Skins REVILLON FRERES "TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED ESTABLISHED 1728 NX the old reliable Firm of the Fur Trade 194 and 130 MeGll1 St., Montreal ® AkforowFreePriceLin © | WE PAY EXPRESS CHARGES It's 8 revelation to the chronic ic 'to feel no di after & hearty meal, when that meal is bollouned by one Nureto Dy psia Tablet. He is hardly pre the almost ¢ reli which the tablet him the various discomforts which be is accustomed after eating. spepsia Tablets sweeten stomachs a ro are scuzegeliove as Radione nd give' the needed to stomachs that are Con in themselves the active fiinciple needed for of fonds. NaI ° Tablets epable even the weakest 5 aD St the out of what i eaten, preven accymulatior food and ges. With a little help for a while, the ive. organs fecover their strength, their work Aenea Ms ater, = goon a Soe. of Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia ° iron tnd Chestial Cor of Canada Limited t Montreal, : 1a? cn ow ars OTHER LANDS EW YEAR'S is the most univer sally celebrated of holidays Christmas is practically con- 'fined to Christian countries and in some of these has only a religious observance. The sams is troe of East er. Other bolidays are for the most part national in character and are con- fined to their own countries. But New Year's in some form is celebrated in all lands and in not a few is the chief holiday of the year. It is not always on Jan. 1, the Chinese and Jewish New Year's belog notable ex- ceptions and the Russian festival be- ing held on what tous is Jan. 12, owing to & difference in the calendrr. Especially is" the beginning of tbe year a time of festival in the orient. 'Nobody knows just how oid the custom is, but it probably antedates' A In most Asiatic countries New Year's eve is a time for settling debts, wiping the siate clean for the succeeding twelvemonth. Tea drinking is natu rally one of the chief forms of dheerv- NEW YEAR'S IN RUSSIA. ance in China and Japan. There it is ap art, and the ceremonial on New Year's is intended to outrank anything else in the pink tea line. The Japanese tea room is hidden away in some seclad- ed part of the garden, and only a few of the elect are admitted This, of course, refers to the private tea rooms, the public ones being frequented by Mr. Common People and all his wife's relations, The Japs eat from a large va. riety of dishes on this day, plously offering samples of the foods to their gods. The day in. Nippon is celebrated on Jan, 1, as with us New Year's is celebrated for thir teen days in Persia and is the most important festival of the year. It fur 'nishes a precious opportunity for the beggars who camp on a man's door: step and blow horns until he gives a present. The festival Is called "No Roos™ and combines our Christmas and Easter. Sweets are prepured long ip advance, and eggs are boiled and colored ' The observance begins on March 25, and for thirteen days there: after business is suspended. Presents are given, among them being a coat of honor for important persons, for which a price Is often exacted, much in ex- cess of the value of the garment. Ané other "No Rooz" custom is for dele: gations of Persians to visit the tombs of the departed and send up walls both loud and long. New Year's is a great day for the children in the country towns of Rus- sia. . The boys carry peas and wheat, showering those they like with wheat and those they dislike with peas. Vari. ous domestic animals are gayly deco rated and led about the streets. There Is also a ceremony of changing water into "wine, which is harmless enough, since It does not increase the wine supply. The great feature of the German New Year's is "Sylvester Abend," corre sponding in some measure to our watch parties, except that more liquid re, is absorbed. The punch bowl is the center of attraction, but i a 1913 ahnanac if you desire dates. * Tailor Anticipates Pendulous Swing To Brilliant Hues. » A movement has been initiated which has for its object the brighten- ing 'of the clothes which men wear, From the tailors' point of view this is a dull age. : Men wear only sombre | colors, a reflection of the gray things of life, with none of its beauties. The women, say the tailors, tread the right path. Their dress to-day is as besutiful as ever it was, and just as expensive. But the men, say the tailors, are depressing, and in no way { worthy their title of the "lords of | creation." Boa revolulion is coming. | In the van of this movement is Mr. {| H. Denuis Bradley, of the Westend tailoring house of Pope and Bradley. He has every hope of seeing a Merry, England in which men will not be ashamed to Wear colors, and when the black or dark coat will be neglect- ed to strictly gloomy functions. "The only way far us to begin," said Mr. Bradley, "is by encouraging a 'faste for brighter colors. It is nc good 'talking of changing the form until brighter ideas are accepted: once men are accustomed to seeing colors on their fellows they will be prepared to -gee radical changes of form, and such changes would certainiy follow in time on the adoption of more cheerful coi- ors. If men once accept pink as a color, for instance, they will in time see that trousews are not a suitable garment for the employment of pink, and will therefore adopt. some other fornr of nether covering. "I think that there is no-doubt that within the next few years our dress will undergo considerable changes in style, color, and material. The manu- facturers are sympathetic to the idea, and already produce materials in beautiful colors whose only fault is that they are a littls in advance of the courage of men. What we want 1s pioneers, individuals with a little cour. age who will not shrink at the idea of wearingy a green waistobat simply because it is green. Pioneers are al ways hard to find, of course, but they are coming. There has been an enor- mous chenge towards brightness in the last ten or fifteen years if vou only think of it. Teke such things as socks and underclothing, the gar- ate that are hidden. Ten years ago they were all of the "alkwool" var jety, without color of sny kind. Now look at socks and undergarments-- they are produced in the most beau- tiful colors. any well-to-do bachelor, and you will find that his bath gowns and dressing gowns are of the most delightful color schemes. Men are fond of color just as much as women, hut. they do not like to show if to the world. "And, above all," concluded Mr. Bradley, "let it be understood that this is not a plea: for what we used to call the 'masher' 4nd what is now called the 'nut.' We want color and brightness, but we want itfall in har mony and taste.' 80 now for the pioneers of the new movement. More Schoolboy "Howlers." iloaking at a mee recently, Dr. T. J. Macnamara, M.P., told some amusing stories of quaint sayings at. tributed to children, which he had collected from schoel teachers in var. fous parts of the country. Here is a selection :-- Teacher: "What is a mediator?" Pupil: "Please, sir, a mediator is a chap who says, 'Hit me instead." * Teacher (te a London class): "What is grass?" Boy: "Grass is what you have to keep off." ---- "Why would David rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord?" "Becapse he could walk outside while the sermon was being preach. «" "How do yo know the earth is in the round?' *Becausd te says Bible, 'World without end." 'When he once asked -@ London class of girls, added Dr. Macnamara, what they would say if he told them he saw the sun rise a the west, he got the reply that it was impossible. 'But,' he persevered, 'supposing 1 still declared I had seen the sun rise in the west?" . "Well," one of the little girls at length replied, "I should think you must have got up rather late." Stripped at the Law, | Dickens. describes in his novel 1"Bleak House'! the woes of those who were involved in suits in the chancery court and the delays to which the were subjected before the Englis judicial procedure was reformed. Tra. dition says that an artist once atic. sented the same idea in much space. Two sujtors in chancery, be. ing reconciled each other after a wery tedious and expensive suit, ap- plied to him to paint a device in com- memoration of their return to peace and amity. He gave them entire satisfaction by painting them in the act of shakng hands--one clad in his shirt, the other without evencithat. /"Taylor" Day in the Rifles. F Company, lst King's Royal Rifles, heoame Zivted a Fletetmariabjing a » "Taylor" pany, having no fewer than Evan in its ranks in the Army, On the outbreak o Boer War they were arderad to Dun. dee, Natal, and their firsi+« conflict with' the Dutchmen occursd at Glen- coe. The casualty list that night read as WE i "Lieutenant Taylor, killed; Colour. Sergeant Taylor, severely wounded; t Taylor, killed; wounded Go into the chambers of ! | master-General, which wa --~probably a record for any Shmpaby 3 £ TUFPSPAY, DECEMBER 31, A NOTABLE COM This Piece of Gold Has An Interesting Record. ' Albert Almon, the weTkpowa col- lector of Louisburg relics and other articles of antiquarian interest, show- ed The Montreal Gazette a French gold coin of 1730, worth probably be- tween §10 and $15 for the gold m it, aside" from its histcrical interest, | which formed part of the treasure in # ship which was lost shortly after that date at Point Micheau, Richmond County. The coin is practically as good as new and on obe side bears an effigy of the French King, Louis XV. with a small' lion rampart below, with the iuscription, Lud. XV. D. G. Fr. et Nav. Rex." On the re- verse there are the fleur de lis and shield, arms of Frince ad Navarre, surmounted by a crown, and sur rounded by the. inscription, "'Chrs. Regn. Vine. Imper." with the date 1730. The initial "T" below the her. aldic device would indicate that the coin was minted at Toulon. The history of this coin is ap inter- esting one. About the year ofthe first siege of Louisburg, a French gun boat left France with $7,500,000 of gold coin to pay the troops and all other expenses which were standing for some time in Louisburg. On near- ing the Cape Breton comst a fierce storm arose and drove the little ship | off her course towards Point Michean; (which name is a corruption of Point Michael, after this ship, which was named, "St. Michael.) » . ship stranded on a reef at Point Micheau known as "Gros Bos" (big rock). All the crew were lost. The gold was in oak kegs bound with copper or brass That the story of the loss of this treasure ship was true was shown in the year 1900, when a big storm swept over this shore and a piece df 'oak keel 40 feet long, with oo) bolts, came ashore. Further proof was given by the finding of many gold coins on i 'the wesiern beach, ope man finding aix coins. This created much interest | in the Point Micheau gold, so that hundreds went there. The beach was plowed and dragged, but no more g was got at the time. piece owned by Mr. Almon was found last June and owned by Mr. Taylor. It was obtained through Wm. | M. Murphy of Point Micheau. The | coins were 'all of gold, dated 1785 to | 1780. Mr. Almon states that in his | French histories mention has been | made of ships leaving France with | gold for Louisburg, and he thinks that through further study the story | of this ship ootuld be secured in full | detail. in some of the histories or! from the French navy records--Glace Bay Gazette. Postal. System Grows. An excellént barometer of the great strides ol progress being made by the | Dominion is the report ' the Post | down in the Commons recently. It! shows almost phenomenal expansion of the vice service during the | year, less than 535 new post | offices, 569 postal note offices, 173 fices were opened during the year. | 'There was an increase of 1,236 miles | in the extent of the system over which mails are carried by railway. During the year there were mailed 566,140,000 letters, and of theses 141.- 291 found their way to the dead letter office. This means that only one let | ter in every 4,007 posted failed to] reach its destination. A somewhat | interesting and significant feature of the report is that the Province of On- tario is very far ahead of the other provinces in the matter of postal traf- fio. In this connection the figures re. lating to the number of letters are illuminating. Of the 566,140,000 letters mailed in the Dominion during the year, no less than 240.232.000 were posted in the Province of Ontario. Quebec is but a poor second, with but 99,630,000. Tak- eh altogether every man, woman and child in the country wrote eleven ley: ters in the year. A The estimated increase in the num- ber of letters ang postcards for the year is 67.321.000, which is over 13 per. cent. greater than 1911. "Stick" "Em on the Back. "Won't you buy some Ohristmas stamps?" The s was a young lady seat- ed in th of the King Ed: ward Hotel, Toronto, with a" table before her covered with the cheery little red wafers which, when affixed to holiday mail, carry their messages of ing and reminders of the sick and suffering. Incidentally their sale adds to the fund available for com: batting is in Ontario. She addressed a kindly-faced old man wha 102. VER FLOUR. But if you we a expen, you will readily recognize its incomparable qualities. Your grocer has BEAVER FLOUR, and will recom mend it. DEALERS-- Write for prices gn of LCarsain, Feed, Course Greire and THE T. BL TAYLOR OB. 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' | Haliday Electric Co. met ---- -- brought | | {1 money order and 21 saving bank of. | | wae ng. "What ase they for?" he asked "To help in the cure of consump. tion--"" the young 'ady began. "Well, well," broke in. "If I had only known about these belors my poor cousin died, I might have saved him. How do you use them?' "You can stick them on the back--" Here the old man interrupte again. "On the back? How simple!" And he walked off murmuring: "Stick them on the back! Ah, if I had only known!" i ' 1 gsiis oH HI aF Fg i g I: : i i# Bring your suburbs . closer in ~~, - . J ' . HE value of city jeal estate 1s directly proportion-, ate to its traveldistance from the business centre. There's a difference between "travel-distance," and the num- ber of miles "as the crow flies." One lot may be only a half- mile from: the city hall, on a iuddy, unpaved back street, and be worth less than another lot of equal size two miles farthes out, but easily accessible by street car or well-paved streets. Well-paved streets not only increase the value of property immediately adjacent to them-----but alio that of land in all the temitory for which they cary traffic. And since the value of hnd in the business centre is dependent upon companson with that farther out, these mme streets enhance business-property values quite as much You can't actually move a piece of real estate. purposes; bring every lot closer m by paving with Concréte Realty values are not based upon temporary conditions. Nor can the advantages of good streets be considered in establishun, the stré&f improvements are temporary. Such lemporary improvements are more habil- itiesthan assets, becainse they are always needing repairs and must ultimately be en- tirely replaced. Concrete is the only econo- mical road-matenal that is also permanent. ts first cost in many cases httle hi than that of --18 its cost, for the expense of mamtenance © practically trathing, calty values, if, Windsor Ontario was one of the Canadian cities to use Concrete for street pav. ing. Prior » 1908 20,000 square yards of concrete pavement had been laid. This quantity has been increased every year since then The cost--for a "two. course pavement, con sisting of Concrete contato $1.15 per square yard. At the same tine the cost of macadam was about $1.10 per square yard fiw But you can, for all practical To use a poorer material than concrete because it's cheaper, is most extravagant economy, because the ex- pense of keeping cheaper pavement in decent con- soon mounts up to far more than the total cost of a concrete road. { We have gathered all the facts about Concrete pave- ments. They will interest every citizen who appreciates the value of good streeté and to use his in- fluence if of them. 'We will send this inform. ation 10 you, without cost or Address, Good Roads Department