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7 (ger ps ----------------e---- . Descsssssssassassesavesl hur He had been' there three or § AT HOME casi ou svos room mis 4 | emuinte big living room, with 'golden oank chairs and couches and $ ' golden brown A small boy @rreetsss tsetse vests e pened the Haimers had never The evening bad bern 'a brilliant suc. '28 Bin betore, but (he smth pinched toss... When tha inst guess had ssid '8C Gre a string resemibinmce good muight and Helmers bad closed A #0 il was easy (0 guess his the door and slipped the chain on ho op hi .." hin 4° briefly fal turned jubilantly to Mabel, who a and Tid the was through the Jaking Je halivinh gut of opr th | nail to a door at the other end. Hal "Mrs. Andrews is a wonderful "talk. [mers followed, expecting to be led in Ts C ane?" he de dod_enthusi- | 1° Mrs. Andrews' sitting room or dee or, 25 pi' 't bein, . b. | Instead, after passing through ao dark astically. iy fan RE » 8 A 7 idining room, he found himself in the ject on Bigs a 44 Da rte i kitchen, &nd the most distasteful pp Notmels ony wvulin'y be so kitehen (1 hat sver, Sum, He wa : a . used only to Mabei"s gray walls an surprised. She gave #38 sevrs} Yalu shining pans. Here led piece of able Lointars lo ny net n ini 4 |oileloth covered a table, Bits of toast, Yid Jou o An hetnind Hoe 8 ie | Ppilied milk, children's shoes and atm in erupt oh in n a it, and E8rlers, and scraps of butchers' paper 1 told her to np i sand: | Covered the floor. And little shrimp wich were delidious: a ntust have | 1%h Andrews, with a e¢rving baby kind Can. (clutched in one arm and a big ging the same next. Wednesday even tham apron tied about his waist, was ing when you have the ciub in to play Pe os war. AY the table sat two whist. Halmers glared angrily sat Hittle girls with uncombed hait. the interruption. He was very fond | of his pretty wife, but after eight years of placid mawied Ufe he was beginning to think her a disappoint ment. When she Kept' the house per: . fectly orhered and got up delicious | menus lor his friends, she seemed 10] think that her dpty = was fished. 'The remainder of her time was divid- ed between the twa, preity children, who had her calm, contented disposi tion, the dressmaker, and the Ladies' Aid ytiety, She openly admired her | husband's brains--he as a successiui | lawyer--hbut she never seemed Lo think | that she might stimulate him to great: or success, It was a revelation to him to meet a woman like Mrs. Andrews, a woman who understood his every thought, who could follow the technicalities of a bard case and point out flaws that his keen brain had not detected. In addition she had soft red lips and jovely blue eyes. Her hair was dressed in the iatest siyle and her gowna showed an exquisitely rounded form. He envied Andrews, a little shrimp of a man whore face was twist: ed in an eternal frown. "Jealous, | dare say," thought Hal mers, "Wonder what she ever saw im him. 1 wish Mabel. Then in cons | mon: decency to the wife, who loved | him with all the love of sn honest heart, even though her brain was not large, he refused to follow the allur- ing train of thought that Mrs. And- rews suggested. In the next few weeks he saw great deal of Mfs. Andrews. ne walle door to : to { ANNESLEY BURROWER, Formerly of Kingston. now of Detroit Mich, who has schleved distinetion as a journalist and short ry writer . 81 ¢Here's the man that you said was She was | in', pa," piped Halmers' guide. at his home several evenings. She, s,drews blushed and dropped the y told him and Mabel that she pan of water and the egg. 'fhe baby Jiked to come--that she liked to talk jp oped a a hot drop spattered on to him. Mabel listened placidly. She its hare white leg. Halmers got hot was worried about her little girl, who ial over and then icy cold. "'I=1 be was slowly getting over the mumps. | pave he stammered. Malmers thought rather contemplu | «ype agent was coming up to see ously sat Mabel was too stupid OVOB | shout a plumber's bill," Andrews ex- to Jealous. It happened Mrs. plained, abashed. "He quiet, Nelly, Andrews met him downtown one, day Pa's getting your bredkiast as quick t as he was Joing mito a eafé for op "aan Willie, this gentleman uncheon, He asked her to ACCOMPANY oo ote to see your mother. Lake him him and she assented. He told } abel to the Hving room and eail her. that of the incident. Alter it | Before the cofaprehension and con- was over Ne felt rather alarmed, but 'g.5 jn the Little man's eyes Hal Mabel heard him -unconcernedly and gery was ashamed. He hung his head attached no anportance to it. as he followed Willie back. And then, falmer's contempt increased, And ipo pausing, he shot out the front still his conscience troubled him. But 4.or. and down in the privacy of his he told hitselt, angpily, that po man nee he mentally grovelled in the could help seeing the difieremce be 4..¢ helore the absent Mabel. tween the two women, Anyway, it wis Mabel"s own fault; she ought to keep so that she could talk to | him. Mf & man could not get the] stimulant he needed at home he had a! Hight to look elsewhere for it. i fter that he got imto the habit of meeting Mrs. Andrews downtown two or three times a w Neéither knew Hy, for instance, will crawl to the A top of a window pane, fly back to the just how it happened that they went Ty to the theater one i It was a down. Ha bottom and crawl up again. over does it fy up and crawl : 4 Hens gerateh for food always with the th dis Hay. with go ind sun behind them, so that its rays will who tould talk intelligently about it. refleet on the tiny particles. Yet a if a play had plent of pretty dress blind hén, for whom this reason does and there was a wedding or reconcili- ation in the last act Mabel enthused over it. Utherwise she moped. This play ond of the strik- ing problems of modern, days--whether a woman should develop herself at the expense of her howe, or let home and children shift for themselves while she looked after her owxt mental wel: fare. "Such nonsense!" scoffed Mrs, And- rows on leaving the theater: "Aw if un clever woman can't do all three. Giv- en the proper start, a bome will take care of itaell. A woman owes it to ber children to be an example for them, not a photograph of commands and moral precepts." 'fxactly what | think," Halmers eried. "Now Mabel" he A vexed at the slip. Whatever his own jon of Mubel's deficiencies he did pot care to blazon them to the world. But. Mrs. Andrews was tactiul. She ainst "Mabel is Strange Facts Aboot Animals. {here are many strange facts about animals which no one has ever seemed able to understand. merely pressed her fingers hs arm and said Kindly: the dearest housekeeper "And nothing else," Halmers wanted tea. But he kpew that she under without his voicing the senti- be asked her if he HON! DR. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, he oldest surviving ex'mavor of ingston. ie was mayor in 1804 and 1578. The late William Robinson was previously the oldest ex.-mayor. not hold, alwave manages to get the sun behind her when she scratches. Cats hardly ever lie with their feet In most cases they lie in- ek. ward it. Dogs, however, invariably hie with their forepaws to the. fire. A : overlooks a perfectly safe food y to enjoy the perilous pleasures of an unlimited store, Why does a dog always turn round two or three times lies down? It is because his remote an-! he cestors had to scratch around in the' leaves or long grass for a bed before' they could find a convenient place in which to lie--Answers, A Good Laugh. Learn to laugh. A geod laugh r than medicine. Learn : A well told hurts: Learn to If yon can't see any- 'n the world, keep your co:cerning the outlook to, Land eh "a1 Learn to hide your n a pl t smile; you're not one. The good Rumored is welcome , but the dyspeptic is 3 nted, and is a puisance as Curfew Must Not sting To-night. England's sun was setting o'er th hills so far away, Filled the land with misty beauty at the close of one sad day; And the last rays kiss'd the forehead of a man and maided fair fle with-etep so slow and weary; sho with sunny Boating hair; He with bowed head, sad and thought tal: she with lips so cold and white, Struggied to keep back the murmur, "Curfew must not ring to-night "Sexton." Bessic's white lips faltered, pointing to the prisoy old, With its walls so tall and . gloomy walls #0 dark and damp eold, "ve 8 lover in that peison, doomed this very night to die At the ringing of the Curfew, and n earthly help is nigh; Cromwell will not come tiff sunset,' and her face grew strangel white, And she spoke in husky whispers "Curfew must not rine to-night.' "Besuie,"" calmly spoke the every word pierced her heart {ike a thousand gleaming arrows like a deadly poisoned dart: "Long years I've rang the Curfew from that gloomy, shadowed tower; Fvery evenmg just at sunset it toiled the twilight hour; I have done my duty ever, tried to do it just and right; ; Pm old I will not miss it; girl the Curfew rings to-night." sexton young hax Now eves and pale her features, Wild : and white her thoughtful her stern hrow, within her heart's deep cenin Bessie made a solemn vow; She had listened while the judges read, without a tear or sigh, the ringing of the Curfew Dasii Underwood must die," her breath came fast and faster. and her eyes grew large and hright-- low murmur, "Curfew must night." with light ward, sprang church doors, the old man coming slowly, paths he'd trod so oft before; one moment paused the mmden, but with cheek and brow aglow, Staggered up the gloomy tower where the bell swung to and fro; she clipbed the slimy ladder, without one ray of light, And AL And scarcely spoken One 5 not ring to for step bounded old she " within the Left Not Then aml | i | Upward still, her pale lips saying, "'yefew shall not ring lo night." dder, She hns reached the topmost lac ) dark 6'vr her hangs the great bell, And ihe awful gloom beneath her, like the pathway down to hell: the ponderous tongue is swing: mg, 'tis the hour of Curfew now And tha sight bas chilled her be stopped her breath and paled her hrow, Shall she let it ring? her eyes flashed with Hight, Lo And she springs and grasps it firmly <Curfew shall not ring to- night." Nee, No, never! sudden Out she swung, far out, the city seemed a tiny spegk below; There, "twixt heaven and earth pended, as the bell swung and fro; the hali-dead sexton (vesrs he had not heard bell); he thought the twilight young Basil's sus AL ringing And the And rang funeral knell; the maiden, cheek and brow, too, white, Still her frightened ing~--"Curfew shall not ring night 1" IL was o'er--the bell ceased swaying. and the maiden stepped once more Firmly on the damp old where, for a hundred fore, lfaman foot had not been planted; and what this night had done Should be told long ages after--as the ravs of setting sum Light the sky with mellow and aged sires with heads white . Tell the children why the Ourfew did not ring that one sad nignt. firmly, and clinging still 1 pale heart's wild beat- to ladder years be beauty, of Crom- Ver the distant hills came and her well, Bessie saw him, brow, : ; Lately white with sickening horror, glows with sudden beauty now: At his feet she tells her story, show- ed her hands all bruised and torn; And Her sweet young face so hag gard, with a look so sad and worn. ) Touched his heart with sudden pity-- lit his eyes with misty light; "Go ! , your lover lives," cried Crom- well: "Curfew shall not . ring to-night." mcs Worry. { worried when u fortune teller told me Lis That | would surely die in mimeteen, five; : : 2 That date has passed to ancient his- 's pages AMET in still alive. I worried thal my friend was very At & 1'd ssid; | take it to my credit, I went to him and humbly asked for And he hadn't known I said it. 1 worried that my work would prove exhausting, 3 1 thought it would be wncongenial, too; : "Twas. the very nicest work, when onoe 'twas tackled ET 1 found all | ssom, | We are the multitude, Curfew | / : BEES - wnt my neck with 'reddish spots FSentari asd Janina, According fo speckled; +} Sofia despatch. BRITISRE WHIG, SVIURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1912, i olf tie ctor hued x with feet; or 1 worried smallpox, he sand, ager i bad contracted lest It It ¢ prickly beat have worried when 1 thought 1d overeaten, 1 have worried when 1 thought that it would rair have worried w Was beaten, Ti 1 hurt my foolish brain have worried when the wish was in the Inundry Lest 'they should tear my very finest waist; have worried while pu dinner : that folks wouldn't like the taste the pating of the I have worried when | rode upon forty Ihat tue boiler should we should sink; have worried as to becoming blue dress or explode and which most is 1 he the pink all things in I've worried ove creation, On all things ou (he earth Yes, r AS As worry goes, though | am not con ceited, 1 think I'd get a prize I kpow it helps shightly, Things were never bad when they really came; I know that worrying is very silly, But 1 worry just the same, never things even once Trinmpi. Elizabeth French In "Springfield publican We are the great multitude Of those who could not have their heart's desire au beside the stood A shape divine, with sword of flam- ing fire, : said, "Ye shall not enter pass through, Behold, I point another way to you Re. array, we are the Berause there ever gates Who or we are - the army great Who walked a path our hearts : never sought, On either hand hedged in, as if fate Forbade our following oat our eager thought We have not had our not had we would choose, spirit glad. had a have will; we to make the What No man can number we are multitude us; GRANT, Principal PROF. WILLIAM L Son eof the Iate Hlustrious of Queen's Unity ples the position nial History in of Ris Al Of those who could not have their heart's desire, Because we mught attain a greater Because for us there was a some thing higher. No worthy gift our Father's love de- nies, But shares sacrifice. with us his best -- his So we, the numberless, lift wp our hands in praise, Becausa we see, and know, and un- derstand. Of Course! ton Transcript "What did your lawyer say when you stated your purpose to him?" "He said it was fees-ible." es Hamilton and Brantford were in darkness and the street dar and ra- dial services were stopped through i the Dominion and Ca- taract Power companies' plants. An elderly lady, of Parry Sound, Ure. Wilkam Cornfield, ww killed by s Canadinn Northern Ontaric train vhile walkine along the track for a short cnt home. She was anite deal. The strictest instructions have Been ¥ in hen the baseball wom) { tar) { ! Christmas season, and our | oontred to draw i | province are {fact that this work of ours is a work {of redemption, | signs of the and in {of today {men of to-morrow. | ! fife, and only when it is : | tal control. : j life for children { and parental tivated and stremethiched. el the | i a HOW TO DESTROY THE DANDRUFF GERM BY A SECIALIST. r dandraff germ respon. nearly all whe diseases Li e Scalp is heir #8 well as for and premature gray h known fact but THE MAKING OF HOMES IS THE AM OF THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, ™ Rev. A. Edward Smart Writes Times ly Letter on Work of Seciety-- Many Children Have Been Saved From Life of Crime and Wret- chedness--An Appeal for Help. Kingston, Dec. 13.--(To the Edi With the coming of another thoughts around the greatest event in the world's history, "the birth of the world's Saviour," 1 would like your attention to the great and noble work of the Children's Aid Noel y, Year by realize i indires spun=ibie for many of the wor sf CR wl onsumption, we ap almost immediately slop fa and it has in aumMereous cases ed A new haa produc. vears af San be druggis: ioe Eo omposee, si Uryvstais afte standing ready for use. Ap- ning, rubbing inte e finger tips. if you add hgif A teaspoon. un Perfume with the ott 'hile this prepar dye it Is unequalied for ing gray hair to its « CAUTION Do not higir Is not desired avoid tonics containiy wood aicohel a $ © de this awakened to the year the people of being and one of the hest times, is the increasing consciousness of the supreme im- portance of the child The children will be the men and wo The aim of the soviety is strictly] towards home-making rather than home-breaking, to preserve the home ahsolutely necessary, for the welfare of the child, do we remove the child from paren: homes the conditicns of are being changed instinet is being cal In many in cases of neglect, a little timely ! intervention, by the sowety's agent, | has saved many children from a life fof otime and wretchedness, vet much lof our work, legislative, educational {and social, has vet to be done. To earry on this work, and extend li we ulead for sympathy, funds and | personal help. Those for whom we speak cannot raise their own voices and their needs pare il the greater in that they suf {her unseen | They cannot come to us; fon to them, therefore the {this duty and the foree of the lren's claim makes the wrpeney appeal. "Nothing but Infinite {is sufficient for the Infinite {of human life." therofore, in confidence of the aprraciation of the work done by the ociety that 1 hope we mav be membered at this happy season the vear.--With the ings, vours truly, SMART, Secretary Society. IN SPORTING CIRCLES. TOILET SETS. we must pressure of child of oar A beautiful toilet set thing of beauty and These gifts never grow 4 ing this year than ever tiem in 12 al once =a joy forever, More sell- Some beau ebony, silver, ivory or cote bolo. Also handsome combination { toilet and manicure sets at from $3 aj 0 £20. To see is to agree with the . | majority that they are certainly ap ot | { proprietor as gifts. Headquarters, ! | THE "BEST" DRUG STORE. a ee ---- | MAKE THIS TEST and How to Tell If Your Hair Is Diseased pity pathos it is season's orect. A. FDOWARD Children's Aid Notes About Hockey Baseball the Ring. Even if you have a luxuriant head "Jack' Darragh, of the Ottawas, [of hair, you may want to know whe says that six-man hockey cuts three|ther it is in a healthy condition years oft a player's career. inot. Ninety-eight per cont. of the peo Humilton expect to have its. artific- | ple need a hair tonic Pull a hair out of vour head, if the | A new independent amateur hockey bulb at the end of the root is white league is to be orgamized at Winnipeg. | and shrunken, it proves that the hair Papke and Sullivan are negotiating in diseased and requires prompt atten toward a twenty-round bout at Lon- [tion if ite loss would be avoided. I don, England. . | the bulb ix pink and full, the hair is Moran and Driscoll will light twenty healthy rounds at London, January 27ih. | We want Varsity will play an exhibition hoe- aires ireatment key game in New York with New York Hair A.C, on Dec. 25th | not Salaries will take an awful drop in the international ball league, It is | said that Toronto paid more last year than any National or American clubs | The annual meeting of the Canadian Baseball League was held Friday in | Toronto. The eircurt lor 1913 will re- "main the same as ast season, University of loronto has cancel: lad games with Cleveland and Syracuse rink teams, in accordance with the 0) | HAA. ruling i | The Western (Canada baseball league intends to apply for Class "'t7 rating | 81 under the National Commission f or ial rink ready in a week. } { I | ey hair Rexall whose re- to try un We promise that it shall thing if it does not give It ix designed to overcome dandrufi, relieve sealp irni tation, stimulate the hair roots, tighten the hair already in the head hair and overcome baldness iw because what Rexall has done and our goodness that we wunl it at our risk Sold only at our store GQ Mahood eryone ! Tonic | p cost an | satislactory results, in Erow It Hair Tonie faith in you to try She. and $1 The Rexall Store "es Hiner of its Two sizes, Ww It ia easy to tempt those who sit mind and wait, 3 Many men are sold when women £9 to the market, '{ 1 PAGE FIFTY. R Kiaguten Sutiies} Galegé Highest Education at Lowest Oust Twenty sixth r. Ln gust Boo 1 i CF Bervice ar at get Bo Atlons 0 - el " one a Oe lareest' rations in Cascada, Fite ime. all or write for . P._Metealfe, Principal Kingston, Can Qur post tion. We have a complete stock of - Hedric Table Lamgs, Irons, Toasters, Heaters, Flash Lights, all suitable for Christ mas gifts. See our Window Display H.W. Newman Electric Co 79 PRINCESS STREET. 'Phone 441. | | | "Hockey ix something like football, Xmas. Suggestions Everything In Footwoar Hockey Boots Moccasins Overgaiters Men's lippers Felt Slippers Slippers Valises The Best Hockey Boots $1.50 to $3 only more so," is the way a Detroit! writer put if, ! Metill will play at Hamilton Decem. | her 3th and then go to London and other towns in Western Untarwo. 'Bus ter' Rew! is managing the AT white hockevists Varsity should place a strong hock- | 'ey téam®on the ce this winter They | have Parker for goal, Captain Frith fur point; Hanley, German and ¢ ald } | well, cover; Webster, Jupp and Strome | {eentre ice, and Sipelair and Cotton tor | the wings red --- Nickel Plated Tea and Coffee Nickel Plated Silver Knives and Forks Tea and TRUSTEES ASK FOR $7,000. { Consolidated School at Cobourg Much Overcrowded. Cobourz, Dec. 14.--Nctwithstand- | ing that a by-law to grant a similar an ount was voted down a few mon hs ago, the nublic school board has requisitioned the town council ts grant $7,000 to bui'd an addition to the Corso idated Public School here, which is found to be alto- gether 'nadequate to accommodate the children of school age in the town. The assembly is at present | beirg used for one of the classes. | Tae school board feels that some- is Or something in "AUSTRIA" tures. At Phone 35. USEFUL PRESENTS When Giving a Puiesent Give Bomething Useful Pots Coff ee Perculators. Carving Sets from $2.00 to $10.00 Carpet. Sweepers from $2.00 to 36.00. AGATEWARE, the best manufse- ELLIOTT BROS. thing should be done and is asking to hate a by-law submited to raise $7,000. Waved Rea Puppy. New York, Dec. 14.-- When Mr. F ediric de Beleville, the wmetor, left his home at salba, LI, last evening, to go to town for Gis [ theatre, Mrz. de Belev lle accom- panied him as "ar as the station; also the family bull purp, weariag a red sweater. | { Suddenly the train shot around a! jcurve. There wrs a dish for the i fi2g, with w hich to stop the train. | i1t had teen misiald. Would the C ovus of "Everyman" bave 15] walk? An Inspiration: Mrs. Je | | Belleville s<izses doggie and waves ihim sloft. Thé train stopped ! Death Claims T.I. Park Man. Clayton, N.Y. Dec. 11.--The death of Wiliam Cuppernsail occurred at his home st Thowsand island Park, Tues day, due to tubsreulosis. He had re cently returned from the Adirondacks where he had £ relief from his wekness. He was a brother of John | | Frank W. Slater Shoes for Men In Gun Metal, Tan, Calf, Patent Colt, Laced Blu- cher or Button, Latest Lasts. Honest wear in every pair $4.50 and $5 Cuppernall drowned at Clayton abont 8 montn ago. The interment took place on Wellesley Island on Friday. of Adrianople Give a girl a dollar and she will spend 98 cents of it for a to earry the rest of it in. .