The moving picture actress thinks khe is the reel thing. "If necessity is the mother of in- yention, what is the pop of a cork? The hot-headed individual goes to ©xtremes when he gets cold feet. ® The football player should kick Sith his whole soul, and his toe as well, ~The only thing that is sure about many a dead sure thing is that it is dead. . Seis Any man can make a fool of him- self, but why try to improve on nature? yer." answered the elder of the stu- dents. "We've decided to tell the truth." At the Bar. That lawyers toast the humorists Quite often, you'll agree: Just not how oft the phrase "to wit" Within their briefs you see! Comparative Values, "1 suppose you had the usual trou ble in Burepe this summer," sald Mrs, De Jinks, "Yo8," sald Mrs. Von Slammerton, "chiefly in the matter of getting money, however. Why wouldn't you believe #t, Mrs. De Jinks, a letter of credit over there wasn't of any more value than a treaty of neutrality!" As She Described It, Alice, an enthusiastic motorist, was speaking to her friend Mauds, in relation to the slowness of a cor- tain young man at proposing. "Charley seems to start easy," she remarked, "and he speeds up well, but just at the eritical moment he always skide.'-- Judge Had Cause For Worry, Friend --Why, Elvira, what's the matter? Elvira Oh, | don't know,..only I"m worried to death! I've had the same girl six weeks and she doen't talk about leaving yet! : Friend She doesn't? Elvira--No, not a word! Sk le must be in love with my husband! . Oyama Oblected. Franklin Matthews represented a | newspaper during the Russo-Japan- | ese war, and one day succeeded in Judge--You say your treated you with great violence and Cruelty? Complaining Witness -- Yes, 1 Was only bouncing a potato masher on his head and he resisted me brutally. A Good Business Motto. Benjamin Franklin: Rememberthis | saying, "The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse." He that is known to pay punctually and ex- actly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, | Ti 1 the money his friends can | Spare. This is sometimes of great | use. After industry and frugality, | nothing contributes more to the rais. | ing of a young man in the world than | punctuality and justice in all his| dealinge; Y 5, "hever keep, borrowed money an hou | time you promised lest a disappoint. | ment shut-up your friend's purse for- | ever, husband | r-- Artistic. The Customer'----These grand op- | era phonograph records are no good. | 1 can't get anything out of half of] them. The Salesman They are our first achievement. You never can teli when these records will sing. They're 60 temperamental!--London Opinion Just Suited Him. "Drink is the ruln of all nations." roared Professor Neverdry, "Ah, to think of the money thal is wasted overy day on that abominable stuff. drink." Silence reigned supreme "My friends, 1 know what | would do with all alcoholic liquors if I had my way. I would have all the drink | in the country poured down the drains!" * "Ear, 'ear, gov'nor," said a voice at last, from the back of tho hall. "Ah! I am pleased to rece that at | least one of 'my friends agreé with | me. I presume you are a total ab- | stainer?" | "No, sir: 1 am the sewer-man Yee | Milwaukee Wisconsin. { Politeness. { Real politeness istbekindlyexpres | sion of a kindly intent. TIll-nature! and politeness are antagonistie-and cannot dwell together for same individual. Politeness in its| genuine essence contributes toward | the well-being of all, even to long | life; while impoliteness und irras cible temper may shorten life, ---- Not Needed. | Two college students wero arraign- | ed before the magistrate charged with hurdling the low spots in the road in their motor car. ~ "Hdve you a lawyer?" asked the magistrate. golng to have any law- Danger Signals long in the | breaking through the news céiisor- ship and reaching Ficld Marshal Oy- ama. The interview was brief, but extremely courteous, and the jubil- | ant correspondent hurried back to prepare the story for his paper. In | the course of it he used this expres- sion: "Marshal Oyama is a bri¢k." The letter was duly passed along to the official translator, 'and pre- sently Captain Kanaka, of the mar- shal's personal staff, called upon the correspondent. "Marshal Oyama presents his compliments," said the captain sauvely, "and regrets to inform the esteemed correspondent that his honorable letter cannot be forward- ed as written." "Why, what's wrong with cried the amazed war scribe. Captain Kanaka, explained with polite gravity: "Marshal Oyama," he said, "ob- jects to having the great American public regard him as baked mud." For that is what the extremely literal translater had made of "brick." nm A Tale of the Sea. New York, Dec. 14--It was three o'clock in the morning and the stea- mer Ausonia, steaming from Liver- pool to New York, was nearing mid- ocean, She seemed to have the éntire oc- ean to herself when a dazzling heam of light suddenly shot out from the darkness and illuminated her decks. A moment later she halted Presently the dim outline of a Bri- tish man of war could be seen in the shadows. it "Got any smoking tobacco?" same from the warship. The reply was in the affirmative. Cigarettes and tobacco in goodly quantity were placed in a watertight receptacde and passed over the side A boat from the warship picked them up. ? Soon the voice in the darkness bel- lowed its thanks, the warship steam- ed away and the Ausonia continued her voyage to New York, reaching here to-day. Mast of the Old Shamrock. The mast of Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock III, which has stood as a flagstaff in front of the Brew- ster building in Long Island City for the last four years, will shortly be removed to one of the parks of the borough to make way for the Queens- boro plaza station of the dual sub- way The removal of the great staff will be no' easy task. It is im- bedded in twenty-five feet of solid concrete. This cannot bé viastes away without injuring the pose.' An effort will be made to raise the whole mass and then break away wae con- crete. -- New York Tribune. When a woman discovers a silver strand among the gold she always says it is premature--but she thinks it's a shame. One can't always judge importance by the angle he wears his hat, He is a fortunate man who can catch up with his ambitions and his debts. a man's at which Warn You of Approaching Paralysis Slowly and Surely Exhaustion Goes on Until Collapse of the Nerves is the Natural Result. You may be restless, nervous, irri- table and sleepless, but you think there is nothing to be alarmed at. You liz, This has been proven in many thousands of cases similar to the one described in this letter. Mrs. Thos. Allan, R.F.D,, 3, Sombra, Ont, writes:--"Five years ago I suf- fered a complete breakdown, and fre- quently had palpitation of the heart. Since that illness I have dizzy spells, had 'no power over my limbs (locomotor ataxia) and could not walk straight. At night I would have Stvers nervous spells, with heart pal- pitation, and would shake as though 1 iad the ague. I felt improvement alter using the first box of Dr. Chase's Nsarve Food, and after continuing the treatment can now walk, eat and sleep wall, have no nervous spells and do not require Neart medicine. I have told several of my neighbors of the aviendid results obtained from the use oi Dr. Chase's Nerve Food." = : 50 cents a for $2.50, all Ba r 2 or i Haine & Cou. Limited, To Vice-President, according to a Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. Mr. Beatty was born in Thorold, ( to Toronto when he was ten years ol Beatty, graduated from the Toronto U McCarthy firm of Toronto. Mr AR a8 General Counsel of the C.P.R. wa: C.P.R. with Mr. Creelman in will be learned with great pleasure of course, retains his position as Chief - AA A Al ng CHRISTMAS IN THE ARCTIC pin ci ( I Ao A good many years ago the mis- sionaries in Labrador began to make use of white turnips at Christmas time. 'Maybe our brethren in their first attempts to grow something on | I this break coast were greatly sur- prised at the heartiness and the re- turns this vegetable yielded, and in order to make the most of it and with an eye to benefiting the Ei kimos they reserved a quantity of mas. Then on Christmas eve, dur- ing one of the most impressive ser- vices of the year, these same tur- nips were served with a small light ed candle stuck in the middle, and each child in the community, frond the infant in arms to the boy or girl of fourteen, received one of | / them as a Christmas gift. White turnips are classed at home among the inferior to common fruits of the field, but this is by no means the case in Labrador. Mosi of these people of the far north have never seen" an apple or an orange or. a plum, and as they cannot think of these fruits by comparison: the tur- nip occupies the highest rung of the ladder in their estimation You ought to see one of these Eskimo boys or girls bite into a turnip, writes Christian Schmitt in the Christian Herald. It ig enough to make one's mouth water. At Christ- mas I have seen more than once not only the turnip disappear, but the candle too. Germany's Apologist. Dr, Fernburg, who is in the Uni |« ted Btates trying to create pro-Ger- man sympathy on behall of {he kaiser's government, and whose article in the Saturday Evening Post has been vigorously objected to by many Canadians, is a son of the editor 'of the Berlin "Tageblatt," and was born in Daromstadt fifty years ago. After graduating from the Berlin gymnasium (as colleges are called in Germany), he came to New York City in order to learn American ways and was for some years in the banking house of Laden- |. burg. Thalman and company. Af- ter his return to Germany he be- came a director of the Bank of Darmstadt. He stands for what is most admirable in modern Germany; fs industries, its commerce, its technical schools, and its efficient organizations. When the kaiser put him at the head of thé Colonial Office in 1907 it was a great shock to the Juakers, who thought that such a high position was the natur- al mo ly of those of noble line- age. made a personal {nspec- tion of the African possessions and would probably have made them in time as profitable as the British colonies if he had beer able to Carry out his program of reforms. R. E. W. BEATTY, General Counsel of the C.P.R. has been appointed one of the best known steamship men in Canada. niversity and studied law with the welt Known a member. 1901 as one of ¥ a large circle of warm friends, Watched mother mixin' the dumpling | was We didn't have turkey in those days But Gee! we were happy as angels, | We just bit and bit on the apples these nice large turnips for Christ- | And the cider that dad would bring C There wa'nt any new-fangled notions) Yes, you and Harriet Hyslop, Saved all the twine from the parcels Those were the best days, of all, sir, Those were the days of childhood, And, oh! how we used to sing then Gosh! how I'd like te spend Christ- New ¥ luncheon to-day?" The eggs are in the icebox, the butter ig in the the back porch, and where it always is, and : ONDAY. DECEMBER 14 WHAT WHIG CORRESPONDENTS HAVE TO TELL. ments of the People. At Cherry Valley. Cherry Valley, Dec. 10. -- The young ladies' bazaar was a success, $39 being realized in aid of the pa- triotic fund. The Women's Insti- tute of East and West Lake, gave a concert here to a large audience, in aid of the patriotic fund. Mrs. Philip Farrington is visiting her granddaughter, Mrs. Carmen, Met- calf, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wer- den, East Lake, spent Sunday with her parents. Mrs. Parle is spend- Ing a few weeks in town. Joyceville Jottings. Joyceville, Dec. 10---A number from here attended the sale at A. E. Donnelly's Seeley"s Bay The men of the Bell Telephone Co., have been re- pairing the lines in this vicinity. The Livingston hay press is engaged pres- sing hay for a number of farmers. The many friends of A. Franklin, who wag injured by a fall in his barn are glad to know he is recovering. Recent visitors; Mr. McKenna, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Martin, Mr. O'Hearn, Mr. and Miss Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Seale and family, Mr. McBride, Mr. Cawley, and Mr. Patterson. Tidings From Arden. Arden, Dec. 12--The Electric com- pany has a number of men employed putting in the posts for the new elec- trie lights. The young people are preparing for the annual Christmas tree, which is to be held in the vil- lage hall on Christmas eve. While hunting, J. Hawley had the misfor- tune to shoot two of his fingers off. few days. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hughes are at C. M. Green's. Mrs. W. Ross- eau, formerly Miss Clara Detlor, had a bad fall while skating, and had to be carried home. Fortunately no bones were broken. While return- ing from Tamworth, B. was thrown from his wagon and his head was badly bruised. He is pro- gressing favorably at the general hos- pital, Kingston. Itisnotknownhow the horses took fright, nor how. long Mr. Shumann remained insensible before found. Mrs. M. Brown is here for a few days. Miss Laura ' Greene and Cecil Barker visited at BEdge- water cottage. circular issued by the President, | Budget From Battersea. Battersea, Dee. 10--A meeting of {he Ladies Aid- Society wis held at the home of Mrs. Thomas Clark on Dec. 2nd. A large attendance was 1 , he |Present, After the business meet- Mr, Beatty cams to t {ing a pleasant time was spent by the his assistants. His promotion { members. He, | A Bazaar under the auspices of the Ladies Aid, was held in the Or- ange hall on Friday Dec. 4th after- ' op : . y -o [noon and evening The hall was HRISTMAS IN THE OLD DAYS. beautifully decorated. In .the after- usephine Syjieifulitvas of Detroit, Minoon homemade candy, pastry, fancy ra' sech bustle at Christ-{2oods and aprons were offered for ale In the evening a first class concert given after which refreshments were served, A large attendance was present. The proceeds were $86.00 Mra. Gates, of Saskatoon, teft Mon- day for her home after spending three months" with her parents, Mr and Mrs. John Ruttan. Miss Nellie Anglin is in Kingston General Hospital undergoing an op- eration. Samuel Anglin, B.A. fs home to spend Christmas with his parents. M. Vanluvan is spending a few days at his home., Rev. Mr. Ste- wart leaves on Wednesday for a visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Vanluvan returned today after visit- (ing with friends at Sunbury. The funeral of the late Henry Abbott oc- 'Bout buying ties and sech things,curred on Tuesday morning, Dec. 8th And gals had no use for ribbons-- |The service. was conducted in the Their curls were: held back by|Methodist church by! Rev. Mr. Ste- strings, wart, after which the remains were taken to Sand Hill cemetery. nt. and removed with his parents d His father was the late Henry re Mr. Beatty Creelman, who was his predecessor Counsel of the C.P.R. days when you and. I Or trimmin' the apple pie; And few ever heard of a g00s0; t took money to buy the fixin's. And Dad had none lyin' loose You and sister and I; That allus hung up to dry; home From the old mill near the lane-- s08h; how I'l like to see Christmas Like the old days once again. And Mary Brown and the rest, Se------------------ Cold Feet At Salisbury. Ottawa, Dec. 14-- Lieut.-Colonel Morrison, D.S.0., writing from Salis- bury Plain, says the Ottawa artillery men are in need of warm socks, There will be a response from the capital, and no doubt elsewhere, as presumably the cold feet complaint is not peculiar to the Ottawa men alone, And called it your Sunday best. And our hearts hain't been as light since; The days of our innocence, Of the zeason of love and joy! Fine feathers do not pay the but- cher, - em im ep Sian man I used to when a boy. Some Class rik Mail "Dearest," coaxed the young wife, 'wold you mind getting your own As . "Why, no," sighed th man, "I guess not, I "Oh. it won't be a bit of trouble. e business s ; cellar the meat will be on the coffee is "But where are you golog to be at lunch hour?" 'At cooking school, dear. The in- structor is telling us how to make the grandest meringues!" -------- : Imagine the Tune. A colonel in the army, who had a great eye for neatness, but not much of an ear for music, took occasion one day to compliment his bandmas- ter on the appearance of his men. "Their uniforms are neat." said the colonel, "and their instruments are nicely polished and kept in order but there is one improvement I must insist upon." "What is it, colonel?" "You must train your men, when they perform to lift their fingers all at exactly the same time and at re gular intervals on their instruments, so---one, two; one, two!" Names that parents inflict upon COUNTRYSIDE TIDINGS C. Alexander is at Deseronto for af Shumann | HAS CAUSED COMENT. The Result Of the Bye-Election In Dundas County. Toronto, Dee. 14:--Although there was an attempt at first to minimize, if possible, the importance of the Lig decrease in the government majority st the Dundas bye-election by. the claim that a light vote had probably been polled, the officiaj figures show- ing that 'on the contrary the vote was 355 greater than that of the 2en. eral election this summer, "emphasize the brilliant exploit of John A. Campbell, the liberal candidate. As a matter of fact, this increase in the total vote reflects the remark. ably wide-spread interest taken in the election y the people of Dundas county. conservatives themselves did everything they could to stir up interest. Howard Ferguson, M.P.P., the prospective new cabinet minister, was in charge of their campaign and Andrew Broder, M.P., the popular conservative federal member, accom- panied the conservative candidate wherever he went.. The hew premier, Hon. . Mr. Hearst, sent a letter to the conservatives urging them to support their candidaty as the successor of Sir James. - The result of all this activity was this total vote, 355 higher than in June, and 549 higher than in 1911--a most unusual occurrence for abye- election. It was on this heavy vote with the electorate all interested, that the conservative majority fell from 763 to 62. There js little wonder that this bye- election continues to excite comment throughout the province and that to- gether with the West Hamilton con- test, it is taken as showing which way the wind is blowing. BETHLEHEM TOWN. By Bugene Field As I was going to Bethlehem-town, Upon the earth I cast me down All underneath a little tree That whispered in this wise to me: "Oh, I shall stand on Calvary And bear what burthen saveth thee!" | As up I fared to Bethlehem-town, IT met a shepherd coming down, { And thus he quoth: "A wondrous { sight | Hath spread before mine eyes this { night-- An angel host most fair to see, { That sung full sweetly of a tree | That shall uplift on Calvary | What burthen saveth you and me!" And as I got to Bethlehem-town, «0! wise men came that bore a crown. "Is there," cried I, "in Bethlehem A king shall wear this diadem ?" "Good sooth, they quoth, "and -it is He That shall be lifted on the tree | And freely shed on Calvary | What blood redeemeth us and thee!' [ Unto a Child in Bethlehem-town | The wise men came and brought the] crown; | And while the infant smiling slept, | Upon their knees they fell and wept; | But, with her babe upon her knee, | Naught recked that Mother of | tree, $ That snou'd un'iit on Calvary What burthen saveth.all and me the Again I walk in And think of him crown, Bethlehem-town, | I may not kiss his feet again, { that wears - the Nor worship him as I did then: My King ka'h<died upon the tree, And hath outpoured on Calvary What blood redeemeth you and me. | Had Troubles of Her Own. A maid who had been employed in | the Benner home for several years | took unto herself a husband and went | to a nearby town to live. one aay about a month after the weaaing | she came to call on her rormer wmis- | tress, who said: "Well, Phoebe, I hope that are happy in your new home. is your husband." | To this the bride of a month made. reply: "Well, I reckon I'm 'happy enough | but the chimney in the kitchen don't | draw none too good an' the water a | the well is so blackish I ain't never | goin' to git used.to it. As for my hus- | band, well, ma'am it's with him as it | Is with your man an' all the rest of | | 'em, if the Lord had "em to make | {over He could improve some ou the | job. Ain't eggs terrible high.?" you How A small boy was given a ple to share with his sister and told that in [cutting it he must give his sister the {largest piece. Reflecting a moment he pushed the ple over to his sister, and said "you cut it." { has he PAGES 9 TO 12 -- L 4 For patronizing paternalism + that beats anything in Gers many, commend us to the circu lar recently sent out by the Chi- cago Herald entitled "How to Get the Trade of Our Next Door. Neighbor," The neighbor in the case hap- pens to be Canada. The people who care to get it are of course the manufacturers of the Unit. ed States. All the why and the methods how to this trade are set forth with characteristic cocksurety, We # are supposed to be cut clean ® off, from the $150,000,000 worth of goods imported from England, which is no more true -* than to say that -the British + navy does not control the sea. + The Americans will benevolent. ly supply us with these goods, @ Thanks awfully! As to the $26,.4 000,000 imported from coun- @ tries other than England and 4 the United States -- why of course grab that alse. Nothing + easier. They say we have nine lion people -- approximate. ly correct; that we speak a com. mon ldnguage -- touching af. + finity; that pe deal in dollars and cents, whieh, of course, we learned {rom the United States, Oar crops this year, while -uot y bi s other years, are shove therefore grab the former's money and send it + across the line. Our credit is said to be good; thanks again, but we are the people who made it so. These American journalists are the people who ever simce the war began have been build- ing cloud-castles of the trade they intended to grab from all the belligerent countries in all parts of the world. For three months they have been count. ing up py billions a year what this war will mean to the great neutral nation -- the United States, But the one thing they seem to have overlooked is that it was possible for Canadian man- ufacturers to be alive to the sit- uation also, and while they have been -planning excursions of American manufacturers into the Canadian field, the Cana- dian manufacturers and - those American manufacturers who have become Canadians by es. tablizhing branches in this country, have risen to the op- portunity and with the aid of the press have created a Joyal national sentiment throughout the dominion which will make it exceedingly difficult for: these Americans to seize any portion of Canadian trade to which they are not fairly entitled. Sdd a Bedi ETT TYTRNY - GOT THERE FIRST. EPP erb ede b Ne BRB FEDR ERIE RPL DP PIPPI PPE P PPL I eg oo ode oe PEPPER LILLIE PLA RIPE PLAS ETE B EIS PRPB PPP D ETRE PP bd odode odode ood ode PEPE PEEPLES * op Sea PEPPER PREP PPD DPhp ------------------ The Star Of Bethlehem. This old sobbing world of ours one year last Chri is older than it was when: the stinas earol was chanted. It id another twelvemonth of = ex- periments and of experience, of ad- vancement on many lines of human research and aoquisifion. But it has not outgrown Jesus Christ. For Him it has discovered no substitute, The star of Bethlehem is' the only star that never sets. Jesus Christ alone can satisfy all humau necessities and the loftiest of human ingpirations.. Christianity je the only universal re- ligion, the only one adapted to all ages of life, to all human conditions, to all races and all nationalities, Oth. er lights have arisen, waned and van- ished forever. The Greek mythology is as utterly shaken to rnin as it own splendid Parthenon. The chief relig- ions of Asia--PBrahmanical, Buddhist and Moslem--all are limited and lo- cal; they are all moribund. While they make no inroads on christianity, the religion of Bethlehem and Calvary makes constant inroads upon them. The systems of error which Paul "and Peter fought have vanished owt of sight, and the whole east is catching glimpses of the star that first dawned over Judea's sky. In spiritual dyna- mics blood tells, and God has trusted His gospel of salvation to: the most powerful races on the globe.~Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. Horsemen look for high prices for | horses for many years to come, and believe the horse raising industry in Alberta will benefit greatly as this province possesses many fine animals and is in 'a position to compete for important share of the b ess of supplying the world with horses. Lp Np.