THE PRESSES ARE KEPT BU Tr NIGHT y HEN on the declaration of war the Canadian Govern. ment was asked by the Imperial Government to super vise the purchase and transport of commissariat sup plies which Canada could provide for the Expeditionary Force in France, Hon. Robert Rogers, Minister of Public Works was the minister selected to take charge of this responsiblé work. It was obvious to so practical a man as Mr. Rogers that the handling of, such large ordeis as were in sight must be done by experienced transport officials, and, among others, he consulted Bir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way. Sir Thomas considered it a patriotic duty to place at Mr. Rogers' disposal, without cost to the Canadian Government, the services of Mr. A, H. Harris, special traffic representative of the C.P.R. together with such of the company's staff as Mr. Harris might select for purposes of administration. As this staff eventually numbered nearly twenty picked men, the value of the offer was considerable, and its acceptance by the Can- adian Government has given the British War Office an efficient service and.saved a large sum of money The value of expert handling was demonstrated by the prompt chartering of vessels on a minimum charter rate, enab ling the administration to maintain an average freight on oats during the past three months of 26 cents per hundred pounds, and $7.50 per gross ton on hay. Although owing to the scarcity of tonnage, freight rates have risen rapidly sihce September, five vessels have cleared from Montreal for a French port dur- ing the past ten days, the charter parties averaging 28 cents per 100 to this the C.P.R. has made no charge for use of its docks by the which also placed portions of its sheds at the d sposal of the Govern: of sacked oats were piled in the upper sections of the C.P.R. dock wa toba and Alberta Governments received the same generous treatm r* ) The shipments handled by this cd@ministzation from September 1st 'tons of f._ight free of storage, dockage, or steamship démurrage chir as they were arriving too fast to be properly handled. In fact, a rec merited congratulations. The season of St. La rence navigation having OLD Te . rd my time, and maybe around New York he's always been ever since the Dutch landed; but out where I ccme from, when my two grandpas were 'Mittle boys, he hadn't been heard of w even. (Continued from Page 17.) 3 Bas old. Neher is he universal "iti | Phe peovle of one of my erento: Mike 1 galuppo, who ves over : J . buck by the hollow, doesn't get his|gfSN0, U1 8 Conestogs wagon Christmas presents Christmas Day, meant "wash-pan." So you may un ~and It is hat Santa Sluuy whe DHugY derstand how it was that this gram t! . e morning o Souls' . a : ag Pay is when little Mike turns the| PA'S Pa should have been out havi- house upside down, searching for the [18 fodder when a aan ane ry gifts hidden in the most unlikely haiiqd him ay wm or . Dox 1 places by Uncle Joe or Cousin Tony Bg agi day 'tis? ! or Aunt Assunta--whoever of near ¥ "Why, no. 'Tain't Sunday is ir | kin 0 dittle Mike Is dead within his "No "tain't Sunday, but it might knowledge. r it is the spooks who!, fh *s Chris 6." Dring his preseuts on the Eve of All| PORE Well be, It Christmas Souls when' spooks do wa most | . "T at's itu he specially . And you'd better believe Ba ee at aD, Jae " ha » bh + a that little Mike doen 3 tha | the twenty-first. Tuesday was the algit the En some children do on: wenty-second-- Yes, sir, it is." So Id. some places, ' too, it is still Kneclit Ruprecht who comes, and the pitoures of him show the birch- rod he carries to pallywhack naughty | he unhiiched the team and put 'em iin the barn, and went to the house and dressed up in his Sunday-go-to- meetin's, and read a chapter in the Bible, and had a word of 'prayer boys and girls. And if they're very, | Ang that was the kind of Christmas very naughty, and give back-talk 101 this particular grampa of mine haa! their dear parents, and make UP! when he was little. Not a syllable, wicked snoots at old people, he has | » Sinta Claus. a bag upon his back to put them in| My other grampa's people came and carry them off. Yes, sir! In|;ni, the state by the way of Cumber- the pictures you can see them With 1304 Gap and then across the river their 'heads sticking. out, "hollering {They said "bucket" when they "Murder! Watch!" meant "pail", So you can under Santa Clans has always been in stand that they weren't such Puri nl } t Operation Decided On 3 . f As Only Means of Relie But the Writer of This Letter Resolved to Try Dr. Chase's ! Ointment First and Was Cured. This case, for we! doubt as to where cr=dit is due a isied Friends and neighhurs are told of the results and s6 we good word spreads, and Dr. Chase's Ointment is becom ing known far and wide as the only actual cure for piles or hemorrhoids. Mr. Charles Beauvais, a respected citizen of St. John's, Que., Wri es +-- "For 14 years 1 suffered from chronic piles or hemorrhoids and considered ny ease very serious. 1 was treated by a well-known physielan who conoid not help me, and my doctor decided tion as the only means of owever, 1 resolved to try Dr Chase's Ointment rst. he fest Hot brought me great relief, and by the Mme I had used three boxes 1 was 'completely cured. This Is why it gives me such great pleasure to recommend Chase's Ointment to everybody ering {rom hemorrhoids as a pre- of the greatest value." } "Chase's Ointment, 6c a box. a} pounds on oats and $5.00 on hay, chartered vessels and closed, war offic | square with the | ped on the floor, like a fish on SR & Co. ANG RESS BUILT SHOP Af The rapidity with w} has been establish - me tans as to hate Christm as or to for- on a string before the fire and smell- | ed the house all up whilst it was! roasting; there were mince-pies and | all /kinds of eating till a body ° like to bu'st, 'and I don't be sure, but I| think .thére was something ladled | out of a barrel in the corner of the a big yellow crock and] with eggs and cream and r and nutmeg. grampa's pa took get them in the middle kitchen (like a hollow seats inward, and mrown And this chairs and of the FUER four ix | strapped bed-clothes around them and got in himself and squatted down,| and told little Dilly-- That was| what they called my' grampa when ae was little like Georgie----told Dilly to watch and see what happened. | And pretty soon up popped the fun niest little man with a hook-nose and a hump-back that talked in such a squalling voice that little Dilly flop- the bank. Yes, it was Mr. Punch, Oh, there was a whole long story of it, but after Mr. Punch had led a gay! life, the-yah, now " . .the-yah | . . well, I s'pose I might as well} out with it--the Divvle came after him. Mr. Punch didn't want to go. Make 'ny difference; he nad to go, Mr. Punch started to run and the Divvle after him. Well, anyways, that was the kind of ua Christmas this grampa had when he was a little boy. No Santa Claus. No hanging up stockings. Christmas gifts, though, Now, s'posin' 1 was to meet you that day, we'd try to see which -could say: "Christmas gift!" first, and whieh- ever one didn't says it first (like it would be you) would have to give to the one that did say it first (like it would be me) some kind of a treat =a 'handful of hazelnuts or a stick of candy, ar, if we were grown per- sons, a ladleful of the stuff in the yellow erock I spoke of. Do you know what I think? 1 think that Santa Claus didn't get to our part of the country until those! people did who, having notions about | liberiy and all that sort of thing,| discovered along about 1848 that they Would enjoy better health and live longer "if they got right out of Ger-! many. | They came to this country and! they brought Santa Claus with thers | Da you remémber---it's been a long time since I heard the word---that thére used te be another name for Santa Claus--Kriss Kringle? That was our clumsy Ommericonner ton- Bues trying to say the unfamiliar] words, 'Christ s, kind!" for in the; southern ans of Germany Santa ° plie ich supplies went forward was shown in a recent « ed which it wil take a long time to beat, and those co e supplies will continue to be forwarded during the winter mouths G000 TONS OF OATS READY FOR SHIPMENT IN MONTREAL a saving of close to 50 per cent. on current has warehoused everything free-- nent. Over 600.000 sacks have been stored in and pa rehouses and subsequently loaded into chartered vesse in connection with the forwarding of their gifts. to date, including flour, war office sup es. ssed through C.P.R. sheds, s, and French army blankets, total v -- And of all the tales they tell this get it. A whopping big turkey spun | tide that is the newest one. I think: { how, out in the country, a mile or so from Bethlehem, herders, staying up all night to drive { the wolves away from the sheep. And | beside | their little fire they talked among' as they sat on the ground themselves about how hard it was for poor folk to get along; how there were wolves that attacked them, too, and how there was -no one to drive the wolves gway from poor folks, no one to réscue them. And all of a sudden the red glow | of their fire faded into ashes because a bright light®-brighter than any el- ectric light; they had to shade their eyes-- shone all around hem. And there stood an angel! The 'silver fea- thers of his wings were trembling vet from his flying down to them. They were scared at first, but the angel said: "Don't be afraid. I've brought you good news. The Rescuer you were wishing for is just now born. Right over there in Bethle- em. And this is how you can tell; The baby is wrapped up in cloths and lying in a manger." An then he said that, the sky which' had only had tiny stars twink- ling in it and the pale Milky Way slanted across it, was all full of other angels singing. And the song they sang was all about "Peace on earth good will among men." The shepherds hardly dared to breathe for fear they'd lose one love- ly note. It wasn't only that the voices were so sweet and blended so beautifully; it was the words of the song Heaven itself had come right down to them-- To them! Poor folks that everybody picked on!--to prom- ise a Rescuer, and that men were go- ing to be kind and gentle to each other, and not colleet in mobs and sweep across the country, killing and murdering, and burning down villa- ges, and plundering and destroying. "Peace on earth, good will among men!" But the sweet song ended, and the angels all went back into heaven, and it was darker than ever, only the tiny stars pricked into the sky! and the faint Milky Way overhead: only the dull glow of the dying fire, and over there across the fields, in Bethlehem, a light moving = where some one was still up. They drew a long, quivering breath. Oh, that the song might have lasted a little longer! But if it was dark around them, a bright hope blazed in their hearts. They ran through the blackness to being helped in this generous treatment by the Allan Line, Is consigned to French ports of call. The Ontario, Mant there were sheep- | commercial rates. 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