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Special Christmas L i MEN'S “THE LONG STORE WITH = SHORT PRICE” 6 4 e — Sweater Cos SIMMS, The Clothier a $1.95 ; ) MMe "PHONE 150 LISTOWEL NECKWEAR aes : BOYS’ STOCKINGS. Black worsted, ribbed ee et RIDING BREECHES Khaki, All sizes JERSEY SWEATERS ~ Boys’ all wool. ......... $1.25 GLOVES Men's fine quality, lined . $1.65 SHIRTS a striped, assorted onttetun: $1.38 eo ee a MEN'S HATS “Biltmore quality’, Special .$1.95 RUBBER BELTS Men's and boys’. Corrugated. 25c¢ ODD PANTS Men's, assorted striped betterae. $2.95 for SMOCKS Men's lined, all sizes ...... $2.75 FLANNEL SHIRTS Heavy all wool. ......... $1,585 SOX Heather work Sox ....... . 25e pr UNDERWEAR Combination, ribbed. $2. Suit WORK SHIRTS flannelette, with ap ecial $1.0¢ Military attached. Sp A Dozen Gift Problems --Send Your Photograph-- despital fer Sick Children 67 COLLEGE ST., TORONTO Dear Mr. Editor:— Your readers have probably had their appetite for statistics. satiated during the past few months. Still they will, no doubt, want to knor something of the work accomplished by the hospital to which they have so generously contributed in the past. They are shareholders in a Mission of Mercy. Their dividends Solved Portraits taken at “i equal to day-light, The Studio is now furnished with up-to-date electric light. Evening sittings by appoint- m are not paid in coin of the realm May I trespass upon your space to outline what those dividends are? Firstly, the daily average of chil- dren occupying cots in the Hospital for Sick Children was The total cared for as.in-patients was 8397. That is equivalent ta the population of # good-sized Ontario ‘own. night And secondly, the out-patient de partmeat. This is a wing of offices given over to consultation and minor tions. On average there Photographer R. J. RUSSELL ' opera’ an - were 190 yours callers a day. That is where the dividends are earned—in the difference made in the livos. of thousands of children through the voluntary contributions hwhich render it possible te main- ,tain an institution where pallid Listowet cheeks become. rosy and twisted fimbs are made straight. ree * If that were not dividend enough. Drift, Thorobread, Purity, Our Chief, Flo } , FPEEDS—Brah, Shorts, White Middlings, Hominy Feed, and Tankage. Charcoal, : ~ Highest market price paid C.H. “Phone 256 GRAIN, SALT, FLOUR 2¢ FEED FLOUR—Rota! Houégehold, wipla Leaf, Cream of Sampsdn Feed, Beet Pulp, Oil. Cake,-Meal “for, Wheat, Barley and Oats: °° #! SMITH one might try to estimate the enormous salvage of child-life in ‘Ontario which has taken place since the West, Snow [§. “Sick Kide” doctors and “Sick Kids” Five Roses and Pastry Ground . Screenings, knowledge. of which they could not get except in Some such highly specialized and SAIT—100 1b. bags,:' 150 Ib. tags and bbls POULTRY FEEDS—Wheat, Buck wheat, | Oats, Scratch Feed; ff. Preeminently efficient institutién -. Meat Scrap, Laying Mash, Oyster Shell; Grit and Poultry as the Hospital for Sick Children. On this year’s service the Hospi- tal expended $245/126 and finds ) itself in the hole to the extent. of $134,284. What comes in around Listowel-Blevator.@ -Christmas-time keeps | j - roa jance Was repeated ealecesfedece Soefoozen! none + “HALT OR WE'LL SHOOT!" + > wyeeteedendeoderentoedeefoeleateeleeteetecbeefentestenfeefectoefentectesteats One cold night in midwinter, writes a contributor, my Uncle Bob and Aunt Kittie were reading by the fire. It was in the eighties, and they lived in the country. “There goes another rig,” Kittie remarked. ‘“‘There must something going on at the Aunt b school- “There isn’t anything there to- night,’ answered Uncle Bob who was one of the school directors. Aunt: Kittle went to the window and looked out at the snow-covered pinnae “They're coming here!” she exclaim My uncle _— c= on his shoes, which he had ta off in preparation for y tery aebt Kittie hur- tiedly set the room in order, and they waited, expecting someone t knock. But no one came. They went to the window. The Naaey. a = seated one, had nd disappearing round | the bend in ‘ae a. “They stoppea at the gate,’ said | my aunt. ‘What do you suppose it eans?" Finally they covered the fire and began to make ready for bed. But a- gain they heard a buggy passing; it was the same one coming ba = it stopped at the gate again. n- e Bob went to the door and called . craton” No one answered. He shouted again, but there was no re- ply. Seized with panic, Aunt Kittie made him come in and shut the door. “They may be vl to rob the house!” she whispe Presently the wanes’ < wan on again toward the north | “I believe it's been the same bug- By we've yrnne hearing 411 the even- ing.” said m Uncle Bob, hastened into the par- lor, which commanded a view of tho place just as the buggy veusuaared? round the bend coming north once more. As before it stopped in front of the gate, but the panic-stricken trio did not wait to watch it. With Martin in the lead they stumbled headlorg down the Jane to our house, and burst and hia living room, wild- eyed and pa theme of the reason for their fright. ©|Then my fathér organized an investi- gating party. My two grown broth- ers, the schoolmaster, who boarded with us, and Uncle Bob armed them- selves with the shotguns and the rifis that belonged to the boys. Father himself carried his eeraives. One of the boys had the ax Armed for deadly ‘cothbet, the in- vestigating committee went forth. By the time they reached the end of the lane the eerie turnout was ap- proaching from the direction of Un- cle Bob's house. My father, who had been in the army, waited until the buggy Was. near and | , then called, “Halt, or we'll shao The buggy Gbodiently halted; the oer looking inquiringly at th iy < 4 ther approached the vehicle and peered inside. It contained nothing except a pair of fur driving gloves and a medicine case that he immed- jately recognized as belonging to the family doctor. hen the whole thing became »{clear. A young woman was ill at the farmhouse south Uncle Bob's t wage Lor “Hittle time before we) could get a coherent account out of | place and the physician had been called. His horse had become untied ; and, restless with-’cold. had gone | back and forth, stopping at my cle’s gate, bg ry J patiently for some! one to take him in. | i] THREE MILES OF FISH The story Trout by the Handful that appeared in a recent number of! The Companion reminds a subecrib- er of the following “tall one that road to the north. No sooner had he poke’ out than he exclaimed,-“Here y’ come again! ant turned a- Younis at the end of t ne!” Sure enough the sianie va Ab for the ird time. pists stopped at the aor ks but no one got out of if. Since it was closely ciftained, it. was Impossible} to ‘see ‘the occupants w “Put out the light,” whTSpered my aunt. In a few minutes the Bo maliyta i she often heard her grandfather tells ‘ At one time when my grandfather | was on his way to Porto Rico he met! the boat a number of sportsmen, | mong whom was a doctor, They all! gathered in the captain's cabin one! night to swap yarns. With a serioss; fave each tokl the biggest one he knew, and there were nounced that he wonld -tell a vars ers in any combination, r know. We can ‘ supply publication. 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