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Was Best Present. s. A fow years ago on Christmas otal there came a bold knock: front door of the house in nn the writer then lived walh door was opened, it there by Rating Vie A des Pulled oo Monizen om the ments in tenis from th of gasoline; Sloaning Sood a very little boy,' Porly dres- [of mind of Mrs: by but Fish in pi and holiday happiness is br eyes tke and his cheeks ote bor more from excess of cold than sur: plus of red blood. "1 come to give you 1 ( & Christmas present," he said briskly. 'But ho Sid nos hold out anything a8 o. Pe come to say to you, I hope: = II have a Merry Christmas,' added; and having delivered this gift, he turned and ran off 'as fast a4 he could. A while before the 'writer 'had done himself a servies by doing » small service for this boy, The little fellow hadn't a cent with 'which to buy a gift to express his ap Nola. tion, but he was big enoug fine enough to give the best he oi and, though he doesn't know it, his hope for a Merry Christmas was the| Jreatest gift which came to that ouse that day, memset BURIED UNDER TONS OF ROCK Three Workmen Killed at Hills: bore', N. B.; Quarries, A despatch from Hillsboro', N.B., says: Buried beneath three or four hundred tons of rock and their lives instantly snuffed out was the ter- rible fate that befell three work- men in the Albert Manufacturing Company's quarries at Hillshéro,, Albert county, about 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon; while several others 'had | miraculous escapes. The dead are: Fred Nelson, aged 40; Edward Oellett, aged 45, and Theophilus Allgin, aged 21. Octay Dupligsey was severely injured. er FATAL LANDSLIDE, Twenty Persons Buried Alive Tn White Haven, England. A despatch from 'White Haven, 'England, says: Twenty persons were buried alive in a landslide here on 'Friday when a retaining wall gave way. A great mass of earth swept down upon a row of "'pottages and a woman, who saw the danger, tried to give the oc- supants warning, was killed. Work- men are working with feverish haste $0 uncover the bodies. i eM cos HINDU POLICE MUTINY, Club. Mohammedans They Were As "signed to Protect. A despatch. from: Oaloutta says: ne Bakrid Mohammedan festival, which it was anticipated would be uctive of riots, passed quietly enough until Tue evening, when thirty-two Hindu policemen ployed to guard one of the Ma- mmedan mosques 'refused to al- Mohammedans to sacrifice' and; clubbed the worshipper n have been arrested. 409 Denis = Stree Masel], 40 years from dea ing. 'Mra. Robillard shrieking servant in the snow he rolled a body until' the flames were extinguished. The woman was he {conveyed to the Notre Dame Hos- pital in the ambulance. Mrs. Ro- Billard sustained painful burns to her hands, but otherwise escaped unhurt. min SR ier NEIL KEITH I¢ FOUND DEAD. Prominent Winnipeg Railway Cons tractor Missing for Weeks. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The body ef Neil il Keith, » pailrond contractor of this city, who has been missing for the past six weeks, was discovered on' Saturday' in the hills several miles distant from his camp at Maryfield, southwest of Moosejaw, Sask. Af the time of his disappéarance he was in a poo! state of health and is supposed fo have been delirious, The late Mr; Keith was one of the best known contractors in western Canada. engi GALE SWEEPS - BRITAIN. Sea Walls Were Demolished in Many Places. A despatch from London says: After a fortnight of wet and stormy | 4 weather throughout the United |e Kingdom one of the fiercest webb erly gales ever recorded sweph through the country on Friday: Enormous damage 'has been: done on the Western and Southern Eng- lish coasts. Bea walls have heen demolished "in many places. Sey- eral shops and houses at Ilfratom- be have been smashed by the sea, and their contents washed out. Numerous wrecks have been report. ed and a score of lives have n lost. Disastrous floods have oocour- red in many places, where miles of country is submerged and the crops rained. The temperature is abnor- mally high, = PETTY SMUGGLING I8 RIFE. Additional Searchers Appointed at the Falls, EA A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: Petty 'smuggling of small merchandise here has : Erown to such magnitude the last idler that the Uustoms Depasts ment has taken the precau appoint "two additions traffic. is a woman, Miss favorite scheme vogue he is to wear new clothing under | or to carry the old atfire dles. Another plan much to slip. small dinner pails Her will ver ner baskets