A ve Just 'phone 275. We call and Ae pn YNe Battery Service 57110 CLERGY STREET - (Near Princess) 'We Can . Your gasoline engfne as pow- erful as when new. Arran with us to have the cylinder 'Driving Job ..... $3.00 per hoyr | Shopping Job cans $1.50 per hour ENN ANN 'Will be hard and dry : for the first snow. FROST'S PAINT SHOP rs DAILY BRITISH WHIG "THE THIEF OF BAGDAD' Basett of the Arabian on Douglas Fairbanks' Fantasy Nights, by Arab soldiers tumbled out of their barracks, strapping on their weapons as they ran. They went down before the Mongol lances as ripe wheat be- fore a reaper's blade. The scourge passed on. Gates shook: Walls crumb- led. The streets ran red with blood. Flames licked over roofs with yellow tongues. * They tore through the peaéeful town with the swish of the sword, the scream and bray of war trumpets, the rasp of bamboo lance butts, the thud of broad blades; here and there like a scarlet typhoon of destruction; blazing up and down the streets and alleys with the leap of their lean knives; already, from desert and forest and mountain, the carrion-hawks wheeling and dipp- ing to the feast and paralleling the Mongols' progress on eager wings; looting, burning, killing. "An easy thing to write about," comments the ancient Arabic chroni- cle--"a horrible thing to picture. For the sabre was the only god whom these accursed, dog-faced Mongols worshipped. May their souls burn in the lowest depths of perdition for a thousand eternities to comel" Looting, Burning. Killing. Treasure smashed and torn and trampled pn, because found useless or too heavy to carry away. Priceless rugs slashed. Priceless porcelain shiv- ered to pieces. Priceless lives--of chil- dren and poets and philosophers--sac- rificed to the god of the sabre, Broken doors. Gutted shops. Shivered walls. Huddled in frightened heaps, crawled into the darkness of cellars and cis- terns, where the wounded a remnant of the living, crazed with anguish and terror. Out in the open streets and al- leys, was stench of festering flesh, loath y & Cr g mush of what once had been useful, ted human life. Ruins. 'Temples of 'God desecrated. Shaggy Tartar ponies stabled in the KER-CHEW Plan of all Mistletoe, celye our prompt attention. 'ECZEMA YEARS In Pimples Between Knee and Ankle. itched Badly.| ~ Cuticura Healed. ° Touch Nebtly with Cottons SE holiest of holies. An Empire lost in a night. Death. Torture. Decay. Sacrilege. On--the forest of lances! On-the dazzling glitter of tall spears] On--the flattering of the- battle flags! On-- with the flames that licked over the The Mongol's historic mission before Islam tamed and civilized him. And, up in his room in the Caliph's palace, the Mongol Prince looking out upon the doomed city of Bagdad and utter- ing the ancient boast of his dynasty: "I am the enemy of god--of pity-- and of mercy!" In the meantime, out in the streets, the captains were giving orders to stop the sack: "To the palace! To the attack! To- morrow you can continue your loot- ing!" They fell once more into military formation. Four gbreast, they rolled through the streets of 'Bagdad, relent- less, resistless, with the thunder of the druths, the bull-like roar of the long- stemmed trumpets, the sardonic shrill- ing of the fifes, the crackle of wea- pons, the yelling of savage, throaty war cries--with a sweeping, indomit- able energy that rajsed the crunching, cruel soul of the Mongol scorge into something nearly magnificent. Bagdad bazars peaking' higher and higher, changing night into ruddy day, glinting on steel and iron with runn- ing white high-lights, shimmering with gold and silver on 'keen-edged swords and armor. . i They swarmed like locusts. They killed whatever was in their path. Thus Germany had known them, pay- ing for defeat with the flower of its knighted chivalry on East Prussia's and Silesia's battlefields. Thus Russia and Poland had feared them, trampled into bloody mire beneath the feet of their small, shaggy ponies. Thus China.agd India and , Hungary had wilted beneath their blight. Thus, time and again, they had drawn a crimson furrow across half the world. Thus, s day, Bagdad--and with Bagdad all Agaby, all Islam--séemed doomed to fall under their pitiless yoke.. They marched down the broad ave- nue that led to the palace of the Cal- iph; marched clumsily -- being men born and bred on horseback--but steadily. The high call of an ivory horn stabbed out; it was repeated from troop to troop; and at once they split into three columns, One column swung West to cut off the defenders should they try for retreat or sallys The second column flanked the great garden which surrounded the palace, made a living platform and 'staircase with the help of their steel-bossed, ! buffalo-hide arm shields, clambored up on the wall, jumped down the far { ther side. The thitd column, compos- |ed of picked Manchu shock troops, | giants in size and strength, made dir- ect for the steel front gate. It gave under their massed impetus as if it were brittle glass--and fear swept over the palace servants and slaves and eu- nuchs who, at the news of the Mongol attack, had been formed there to give battle. They ran away, throwing down their weapons, with frenzied cries pressing, pressing--fighting, killing cach other in their mad haste to es- cape. A sea of black and brown and white--hands striking out crazily, futil- ely--voices bellowing puny defiance other voices imploring for mercy-- tearing screams as the Mongol spears went home--bodies falling, trampled, crushed. The caliph's bodyguard of noble Ar- abs rallied. They fought bravely. But the Mongol horde waved them aside as with a single, contemptuous gesture --killed them with that same gesture. On the battlements a few watchmen jumped into the fray. They were tum- bled off the walls to be caught and im- paled by the forest of lances below.- The Mongols poured into the palace. Too late the Caliph had understood the Mongol Prince's treachery. At first, like the city watchmen, like the Bagdad citizens roused from sleep, he had imagined that it was only a pass- ing riot of Bedawin desertmen. Too late, now that he knew, accompanied (To Be Continued.) TO HQLD ANNIVERSARY Church, town, on Jan. 11th. Mallorytown, Dec. 27.--The trus- the IHRE anoque, and her girls are visiting at the former's mother's, Mrs. Burn- ham's. John Alexander, Kingston, and Miss Letty MacDonald, New York, sre spending Christmas at Henry MacDonald's home, GRAIN QUOTATIONS. Toronto, Dec. 30, -- Manitoba wheat----No. 1 northern, bay ports, $2.01; No. 2 northern, $1.95 1-2; No. 8 northern, $1.90 1-2; No. 4 wheat, $1.80 1-2. Standard = recieaned screenings, f.0.b., bay ports, per ton, $27, Manitoba oats--No. 2 C.W., 75 1-2¢; No. 3 C/W,, 78¢; extra No. 1 feed, 73 1-2¢; No. 1 feed, 71 1-2¢; No. 2 feed, 68 1-2¢c. Ontario wheat--No. 2 winter, per car lot, $1.46 to $1.48, f.0.b.,, No. 3, $1.44 to $1.46; No. 1 commereial, $1.43 to $1.44, shipping points, ac- cording to freights. Oats--Ontario, No. 3 white, 50¢ to 62e¢. Millfeed--Bran, $35.25 per ton; shorts, $37.26 per top; middlings, $42.26 per ton; feed flour, $2.45 per bag. Barley--Malting, S4c to 8%¢. Rye--No. 2, $1.21 to $1.24. Manitoba flour--First patent, $9.- 90, Toronto; secohd patent, $9.55, Toronto. Flour--Onf¥rio, $7.76, Montreal or Toronto export, 47 shillings, c.i.t., cotton bags. Peas--No. 1, not quoted. Hay--No. 2, track, Toronto, §14.- 60; No. 2, $12.50; loose hay, Bt. Lawrence market, $16 to $18. Straw--Car lots, $9. _ American corn--No. 2 yellow, §1.- 12 1-2, track, Toronto. Buckwheat--No. 2, 80c to 83c. Montreal. Montreal, Dee. 30.--No. 2 Cana- dian western - oats quoted at 80c, No. 83 C.W., at 77¢, No, 1 feed at 76¢c, and No. 2 feed at 7T1lc; Ontario No, 2 white at 65¢c, No. 8 grade at 63¢c, and No. 4 grade at 6lc per bushel, ex- store. Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Dec. 30.-~--~Wheat--No. 1 northern, $1.86; No. 2 northern, $1.81; No. 3 northern, $1.76; No. %, $1.64; No. 5, $1.55; No. 6, $1.44; feed, $11.23; track, $1.84. Oats--No. 2 white, 68¢; No. 3 white, 63c; extra No. 1 feed, 63c; No. 1 feed, 60c; No. 2 feed, 66¢; re- jected, 5lc; track, 66c, Barley--No. 3 C.W., 94 3-8¢; No. 4 C.W., 87 7-8¢c; rejected, 84 3-8c¢c; feed, 82 3-8¢; track, 92 7-8c. Flax--No, 1 NW.C., $2.65 3-4; No. 2 C.W,, $2.61 3-4; No. 3 CW, $2.47 3-4; rejected, $2.47 3-4; track, $2.65 3-4, Rye--No. 3: GW. $1.44 1-3, Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 30.--Wheat, No. 3 red, $1.90 to $1.91 1-4; No, 1 hard, $1.82 1-2 to $1.83 3-4. Corn, No. 2 mixed, $1.28 3-4; No. 2 yellow, §.1- 34 1-2. Oats, No. 3 white, 638 1-4c; No. 8 white, 69 3-4c to 61 1l-4c; Rye, No. 8, $1.51. Barley, 90¢ to 98¢; timothy seed, $6 to $7.16; clo- ver goed, $35.76 to $33. TWAS A FINE EVENT Community Christmas Tree and Entertainment Held at Bishop's Mills. « Bishop's Mills, Dec. 27.--The community Christmas tree and en- tertainment held in the town hali on Monday evening was well patronis- ed, and proved a great success. The concert was given under the direc. tion of Miss E. White, teacher of the public school, and the pro- gramme included recitations, chor- uses, drills, dialogues by the pupils, which showed careful trainifig. Samuel Render presided ss chalr- man. Musical selections wers con- tributed throughout the evening by the orchestra, which was well ap- preciated. The accompanists of the evening were Miss Helen Buker, and Mrs. C. Dool. Brief and cheery. addresses were deliveréd by Rev. J. Leach and Rev. J. McAvoy. Later Santa Claus ar- rived and helped distributa the gifts iv EEx x 5 iH i i ; LETTERS To The Editor Personal Views On Liguor Traffic. Edmonton, Alta., Dec. 23.--(T the Editor): I learned this lesson when I was but a boy of eleven years of age--that intoxicating lig- uor was not good for me. How I came to learn this lesson I will now endeavor to explain as briefly as possible, ' It was through the death of my uncle, my dear mother's brother, who came to this country from the north of Ireland, and st that time was & man of clean habits, young, with a good education and giving promise of becoming a very smart | man. Shortly after he came to this country he obtained a position as head engineer on one of the large steamers plying on the big lakes. One day he was enticed to take his first glass of intoxicating liquor. He took his second glass, and so kept on tampering with it, never for a moment thinking that it was going to be the rulnation of his body and soul. My mother died when I was but twelve days old. My uncle kept on drinking, which by this time had got the best of him and he could not quit it. The rest of the family disowned him, and then there came a day when death came to claim him. 6 died a drunkard. He was' burfed by those who were not any relation to him. At that time I was a lad of eleven years of age. I went to his funeral, and as I stood by thet open grave and saw my dear mother's brother's body lowered into that grave, and being old enough to realize that it was all brought about by the use of that accursed liquor, I, there and then, with tears streaming down my face, made this resolve, t! I would mever drink a glass of in- toxicating Hquor of any description as long as I lived. I am now forty-sevem years of age, and I have yet to take my first glass of any kind of intoxicating liquor of any description. Thanks be to the Almighty God for preserving me from this awful habit. I have travelled considerably in my day; I have made a close study of the liquor question, and I stand to-day more firmly convinced that the liquor is the worst curse that hu- manity has to deal with to-day. It is the devil's most destructive weap- on of soul and body. In whatever capacity it may be drunk it has its effect upon the human system. It goes to the head and causes weak- ness of the mind and leaves a per- son in such a position that they do not know whet they are saying or doing, consequently causing people to commit crimes and offences that never would have happened if they bad never come in touch with it. After being tampered with habit becomes fopined for the liguor, and this cannot be overcome by the individual. It has been proved by the greatest learned men we have in the world to-day that intoxicat- ing liquor in any form has no good effect upon-the human system and it has been proved by these same men that it is ahsolutely destructive to the human body. Now, let me ask you one question. Supposing there was a food being manufactured and allowed to be sold throughout country, which after close tion by experts: was found to con- tain a certain amount of poison, and once taken into the stomach left its effects upon the whole human system, to such an extent thet all railroad companies issued orders to the effect that they refused to engage any employee who ate this particular kind of food. Do not think that once the government of our Dominion got to hear of this they would at once set about to pro- hibit the manufacture of such food at once, and severely prosecute any particular food. Now, the question is why do they not as a government take the same course in regard to the destructive drink as they would in regard to destructive food? Is one not just as bad as the other? This, I claim, is a question that needs to be answered by our, Do- minion government, and that with- out delay. 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