II Be -- BIMPLE WAY TO TAKE OFF FAT | There can be nothing s mpler than taking a conv 1t little tablet four times each 4 til your weight is re- duced to normal That's all--just purch- ase 8 case of Marmola Prescription Ta- biets from your druggist for one dollar me price the world over. Follow no starvgtion dieting or exercising. Egt substantial as lazy as you"like and keep & slimmer. And the best part | nola Tablets is they are harm- That Is your absolute safeguard Purchase them from your druggist, or nd direct to Marmola Co., 4612 Wood- Detrolt, Mic DR. H. A. STEWART Dental Surgeon Wishes to announce that he has resumed his practice, cor. Wel- lington and Princess . Streets. Phone 2092. Dr. H. A. Stewart Corner Princess snd Wellington [| For Firewood A choice Jot of Hard and Soft Wood always on hand. See us first, CHAS, BEDORE & SON, 274 NELSON sT. | DECEMBER"S' DAUGHTERS Y BRITIS . H WHIG. x TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1033. ~ LX x 3 % A EN =) 2% By Juanita Hamel | | WN \ 1 LA 2 WZ LRN er < cA Se -- ee rT -- rt Eyer TTY Copyright. 1922. by Newspaper Feature Sarvica. Tne. & Of course the world is made up of all sorts of folks who are just the same in December as isn't there something about thi acteristics? degree of difference? self. Pretty and vain, alway Ferien There's al || somME PEOPLE ry { yg , ~ Tile IN PORT MORESBY -- "If he died--who {s it careth? If he live--'tis just the same, No one asketh how he fareth, Few there be who kpow his name." -- "Aen one gets to the wild ends MR JUNIORS -- Little Ms 8 0% the Empire, Uncle, I suppose, One-third the regular dose. Made but: ar- they are in August or May, s month which intensifies ch For who can approach Christmas without some the girl who thinks only of her- ~m rather uninteresting, there are mis- |slonaries, traders, plauters, who are ithe real live people of Papua. | persuaded to talk, they have usual- {ly got something to tell worth listen- |ing to. When I lived there, Miss | Beatrice Grimshaw, who writes such {stunnf®g books, lived with a very | fine little missionary and his wife, jon the beach I have been telling you They | {come into Port Moresby every once | Jin a while, and when they can be gifts, she is even more vain and ea But, thank goodness, there's wdraws near. She's usually beautiful because hat she Can give others, and, Oh, the joy! me gift which is all the more lovely be- | heart--she thinks of w she finds in knitting so 8 eager for attention and avid for cause she makes it. reat Britain rights reserved ger as the season of giving! the other type!| beauty is reflected from her { St appeared to be jeering the ap- proaching® enemy. The warriors were armed with spears and bows and arrows made of sugar cane. Pre- sently the enemy came prancing into view in the most approved war dance. They held sugar cane spears over their heads as if about to hurl came prancing along. chanting a war song. When they came within engaging. distance the them, and they faced first to the! rieht and then to the left as they They were! -- | and the faithful thrown down. The prisoner." "I"should 'have been in that fight, Uncle." eald Teddy, "but I 80 not know whether I should have car- ed to face a cocoanut. Was anyone really hurt?" 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It is prepared from ommended it to nm, CHRISTMAS CAKES and PUDDINGS Now is the time to order your Christmas Cake and Pudding. WE USE NO SUBSTITUTES F. C. HAMBROOK 115 BROCK STREET. PHONE 1025w. mn, Prepared Bitinumous Coal for use in Furnaces, Quebec Heaters and Ranges $15.00 PER TON sald Teddy, "that the white people | 2bout. The Rev. Septimus Carr was are very glad to see one another and |® Seventh Pay Adventist, and we |they keep together as much as pos- | used to have a row every Sunday of same ingredients, then candy coated. For children and adults. noise was deafening and the men rushed out of Hanuabada toholdlong food for a big feast. The chief was ransomed, and the young bloods SOWARDS COAL CO PHONE 156: ' sible? I am sure that I should feel terribly lonely unless I had a lot of friends." "Well, Teddy,.1.do people think, but the men who go to Papua do not go there for fun, and the residents are constantly changing. Just ore I EVERSHARP PENCILS REPAIRED We are equipped to make any rairs to above pencils. We carry a supply of parts. Prompt service. J. R. C, Dobbs & Co. 41 Clarence Street, Kingston, ot know what not think you would have care the splelers, who followed the rish. They were just sharpers and confi- dence men. They were amusing to watch if one did not have anything to do with them. Then there'is the prospector and miner, who occasion- ally drifts into Port Moresby from some place in the wilds. If he real- ly remembers his original name, he is doing well. I have seen them come in with a sack of gold; one man I remember in particular. He spent his tim® in getting drunk and making preparations to be away for another few years in the wilds. The first thing he did was to buy a 'suit ot pink pyjamas and a solar topee, Restore Sight the Blind But--we can help weak, defective sight most wonderfully, by glasses es- pecially ground for each individual case. ' Don't be blind to your o if your vision is failing. It was his outfit of N®w fashionable clothes. He bought things for his boys, and when he had drunk all his cash away, he started out again on the trail. Like many others in Fapua no one cared what became of him, and no one was in any way inter- ested. I do not suppose that he had 8 friend In the world. Besides the store-keepers and government 'offi- clals ,who are a steady golng set and Senin wn interests, Let us pilot your eyes to sight safety, R. ARTHEY, RO. VISION SPECIALIST 148 PRINCESS STREET SOUTER "KIDNEY ~ TN JINR - NJ good 1s weakness, if not sin. When it is directed against conditions that Wwe have no power to change, it Is a . folly, when it is directed against "persons it will hurt and discourage, it is far worse. ¥ Chaunce Charles | € en and 'wo-| left there was a gold-fush, and} I do| for| as they call hats in Sunny Lands. Above are shown the membe at Brantford in regard to the situati * Yarlow, Levi General, an wart and W. G. Raymond, | because I would not work on Sun- days. "Tell me some more about the na- They are cannibals Do they ever eat any- |one in Port Moresby?" | "The only cannibals loose in Port restrain their appetites, Teddy, but one can see plenty of them for there are few of the older | generation that have not tasted hu- man flesh. There are so many different sets of natives in Papua that it would take me a year to tell you all about them. Boys come into port on their way to work on plantations from all over British New Guinea. They are so very dit- ferent in manner , and appearance that I will have to describe Just a few of them to you. There are sev- leral million natives in Papua and (Just a handful of whites, I am go- fine to tell you about some coast nas tives tomorrow so I wil close for tonight," | tives, Uncle. laren't they? | Moresby -------- | "Their spears a jE no hostile t And th The de. re made of sugarcane, houghts they know, ay will not commit again | eds of the long ago." "It was a few days { In Papua, Teddy," said Uncle Frank, "that I was présent at the storming | of Hanuabada, the big natives viilage near Port Moresby. I afterwards | saw what a real rald looked like, and : it was. not pleasant. In s0me cases not even a baby is left alive after a | rald, but on this occasion it 'was dif ferent. All the white ladies and | gentlemen in Port Moresby wera | resent at this battle, and they thaor= { oughly enjoyed seeing the capture lof the big.fort that had been erected ; to defend the village. It was quite worth 'seeing. There were prisoners taken, but I am glad to say that they Were not eaten. The Battle Royal. "In Hanuabada a fort of poles and sticks had been erected, which was covered with palm leaves. The ame munition was 'stored on a raised platform about ten feet above the ground. Natiye girls clung to the sides of the upper part of the fort, shouting and " wavin, their grass afret I landed 5 dW M.P., of Brantford. = 'to side. They! ont. rs of the committee from the on on the reserve. From left to illiam Johnson. Below are sugar-canes across. the way. 'he enemy danced underneath them and then with a mighty yell---rushed the fort, They threw their spears in good earnest, and the defenders of the fort replied with a hail of or- anges, bapanas, and even an oc- casional cocoanut. It seemed quite like the real thing for a time, a reg- ular free for gall Donnybrook fair style of fighting. ~ Some' of them got beautiful smacks from the oranges and bananas, and I saw one woman get a sugar cane spear between her shoulder blades, which would have killed her if the spear had been a real one. She only shouted and wagged her petticoat. Finally the enemy climbed up the sides of the fort, covered in orange and banana, Had Bad Pains In Her Heart Nerves Were Very Bad Catharines, Ont., writes:----' I wish to say that I have been bothered very much with my heart and nerves. I doctored with two different doctors, but did not find much relief. I would have such bad pains in my heart, at times: I would be almost afraid to move or breathe, and at night I could not sleep: If the pains in my heart were gone, my nerves would be so bad I could not lie still and would only get a little sleep by being tired out. My stomach was also very bad and I could eat but very little, and then only certain things or I would made my heart worse. 1 had been suffering for nearly two years until one day I was talking to hour druggist about the way I felt. He advised me.to give Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills a fair trial. I have now taken five boxes-and am feeling 80 much better, I am able to do my own work, and can eat anything I wish. I cannot praise 8 Heart and Nerve Pills too highly." ! Price 5Qc. a box at all dealers or matléd direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, 1 Natione Indians . the Gordon 7 Mrs. John Case, R. R. No. 4, St. | have so much distress which always. . A RT. who conferred with Hon. are: Chiefs Dave Hill, Jacob Le Smith. Indian agent; Duncan kept up a dance for about three days and nights afterwards. They only stopped to eat." | "Some dance," said Teddy. | Tomorrow Uncle Frank tells about {@ man who who wanted "'Kuku." > A ------------ Wedding at Bancroft. Bancroft, Dec. 9.--Bancroft was ihe scene of a pretty wedding in St. Paul's Methodist Church on Dec. 4th, at 10 a.m., when Miss Dorothy Lindsay, daughter of J. A. Lindsay, Bancroft, and R. H. Burley, Deser- onto, were united in marriage by Rev. Mr. Cook, of St. Paul's Church. The church was prettily decorated with ferns and cut flowers, consti. tuting an archway above the altar. The bride looked very pretty as she entered the church on the arm of her father. Lohengrin's Weddin March was played by Mrs. W. T. Nu- | gent, Madoc. | After the ceremony a sumptuous | wedding breakfast was served at the jhome of the bride's parents on | Bridge st. east. Immediatelyafterthe i bride and groom left for a motor | trip for points east, after which they [wi be at home to thelr many { friends in Deseronto. ------------ i = TTT Late 8. B. Stevens, Morton. Morton, Dec. 11. There passed away on December '6th a highly and respected resident of Morton in the person of Seth B. Stevens, aged eighty-six years and seven months, Deceased was born and spent his whole life on the farm where he died. N. A. Johnson had charge of | the funeral, which 'was held at his 'late home and was largely attended | bY relatives and friends, who showed { the high esteem in which he was re 'garded as a friend and neighbor, and whose sympathy goes out to the. | bereaved widow. Friends were in [attendance trom Westport, Newboro, Delta, 'Seeley's Bay and surrounding | country. The pall-bearers were lite | neighbors, Edgar Niblock, Eff Wing, { George White and D, Wiltsle. The body was placed in Seéley"s Bay ! vault and later interment will by made in the family plot in Morton cemetery. wr 5 Charles Stewart wis, Albert Hill, C. Scott. Hon. 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