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rslty inter-collegiate inter- i" " hogs be a Stauion, of 3 } gymuasiym shou crowded to overflowing with i to see the boys in ae. again as well as to wit: brother team to that cave the O-C.I. smirls' senior wonderful games a short vo Ic ---- "The loal cavers, both junior senior teams. have now been faithfully for nearly a mth and Monday's game will i} Ahe seniors in A-1 condition Wig opener. It is only too bad (Ehat'a game could not also have J ~seeured for the juniors, since ey as well as the seniors, look TORE this year. i I basketball schedule in. the New Year, 6 senior mame om Mon. inter's indoor game Is __enjaving as much if re Baphlarity than 1t did hel the first call for candidates a8 sent out last month. Under r. Patterson's able coachin~, both teams are rounding into mid | season form and prospects for a J rd season are indeed bright, Early in the New Year nlso, a senior and perhaps junior volley- ball league in the schpel will be formed and interest in that is al- ready beminning to show itself, Topping the list as an entry in the senior leanne, 1s that from the men teachers who, hy the wav, have been holding weekly work outs for geome time now, Mr. Pat- | terson, Mr, Mcleod, Mr, Waugh. Mr, Henry, Mr, Durant, Mr, Kizk- EE EYESIGHT SPECIALIST |. The unnatural strain of modern | fe so tives the eyes. Leavine headaches and general discomfort | an | 1516 PHONE 1516 Disney Block Opposite Post Office ET I -- these who have already beem ing out. . the Young Men's . Christian As- sociation which 1a at present mak« ing a gemeral survey of the coms ditions existing in Oshawa in rela~ tion to the local ¥.M.C.A. pu schools, churches and being treated in a somew! flar matter, ' Numerous humow answers are revorted on some of the sheets which were sent in, probably the best beinz that whieh ia eredited to a first former. questi naire read "DoD you go to chw regularly?" Answer: "Yes. "Ro vou contribute to any werthy eanse? Answer: "Sometimes." "What denomination?" "Ive ar ten cents", are aime -- Another first former on his auestionnaire, to the question "What recreation do yeu enjoy most outs'de of athletles?", wiete, "Takin® the girl to t She 'A little further down appeardd "the auestion: "How often do you ®0 to shows?", to which he answered: "About four times a week Ap. narently he for ome has found an engaging recreation, Like. writing away to Sania Olaus, some Reape on these Christmas examinations ave hoping fer more than they know they. de serve, Mr. Brown, in Chemisiyy class: "Now I hope that evervone naw understands that Chemical action is hastened by speed." ------ Mr. Rwing, in fifth farm Yatin (lass, translating Horace: "Taken werd forwopd class, this means 'end the beautiful girls with shin. ing faces', but of coursa we'll have to change that Inia better .anguaze', Voice In the rear: "Ill say vou do if you want it to be mod- The school's Christmas ecards, aver 2000 of them, arrived yes- terday and are certainly a credit to the makers and to the school, while their law price puts them witihn the easv reach of ill the students, an added feature in thelr favor, ---- Of the se'.nol middles and the school crest, no further develop. ments havo as yet heen heard and It 1s not likely now that they will be available before Christmas as had heen expected, They should hoth be on hand early in the next term however, : Although for some time he had held hopes that he would be able to return to his teaching duties afer Christmas, Mr, Ferguson, head I ------ » CHAMPION 17 Bond Street Kast TSK ATES SHARPENED Concaved and Finished on a fine India Oil Stone This is the latest and very best way, --Agents for 'WILSON'S SPORTING GOODS 0,0.M, Skates, Hockey Boots and Sticks, Straps, Laces, Ans kle Braces, Boxing Gloves and Boots, ete, also several pair of msed Hockey Outfits at the SHOE SHOP BT) Oshawa * a N a ip IES EERE EE WY) i £ £ : i : : ; 7 tlt : 2 Is gE - H ! 3 He if 11] £ £2 Another new book has at the library entitled "Dwellers of the Sea and Shore" by Williag Crowder, It is handsomely boun and contains numerous illustrated photographs of a aclentific and interesting nature. It ia edited by BE, BE. Slosson, one of the leading scientists of America, e librarian hopes to give an illustrated lecture on the Christ. mas rig hy Sytles, Ticho x aor Tuesaday of next: week, to all classes, This story is at pres. ent quite popular, in seeardunee with 'the seasan, 'and so 1g Stary of the Othe? Wise Man" and "The Stary of Christmas, beth by Van' Dyke, : ---- A book which was printed at La Haye, France in 1715, is at pres- ed hy Migs Smith who waa pre. cgnted with by Dr, Adam Shortt farmer professor of Political Beon- omy in Queen's University, new associated with the Government of Oanada. The hook fa entirely in French and is illustrated with sev- eral seemingly very old engrav- ings, Imm -- Also on display in the lbrary, loaned by The Oshawa Dally Times, are facsimile copies of the Montreal Gazsette, printed on Montreal Gazette, printed on February 17, 1779 and December 28, 1881, both of which were men: tioned hy Mr. Louis Blake Duff last Friday. A German masasine supplied by Miss Jones is alse on hand in the library and should he of great interest to the students in German. It contrins a wealth of colored plates and deals with most- Iy German literature and art, MANITOBA LIOUOR BIL PROGRESSES Legislature Passes Second Reading by Vote of 32t0 15 LABOR CRITICISM Winnipeg ~~ Representativ Supports Bill But Wants Improvements . 17,--Second robe vs gre the ee ture which provides for sale of heer by the glass and & cash and carry system for hard Wyuom, late ; A : Wednesday. The vole was 15, It pow goes to the Law mendments Committees, Labor and Independent members supported the bill as did three Liberals, while the Conseryatives voted sol- idly against, and they were join- ed by two Liberals, H, A, Robson, leader, and Mrs, Edith Rogers, Winpipeg. In reply to the criticism expres- sed in the course of the debate on second reading, Attorney-General W. J. Major expressed himself as satisfied with the reception which the bill had got from members geperally. Details, he stated, could be threshed out in commit- tee, spd he maintained that the bill was reasonable, fair and pro- per. He contended that it re- served the privileges and prero- gative of the Legislature in ae- cordance with the laws as they exist at present in the province, and the powers given to the Comer mission did not exceed those given Liquor Commissions jin other provinces. John Queen, Labor, Winnipeg, who said he was sorry to hear so much discussion on the question of liguor, when there were £0 many im! matters that might be 5% £ Names woven with the history of Osh. awa, but we must be pardoned for singling out one in particular about hom we desire to tell a little an- ecdate relating to this event com: sideration. I am impelled to do this by virtue of the fact that I have heard Col, Chapell and others tel? their story and fix it upon an- other equally well known echarae- ter, George Gourley, the father of Mra, Oliver Luke, is the volun- teer to whom I refer; He was the town constable, fire chief, eity engineer, poundkeeper, and sur- veyor of Oshawa in 1866; and a grand old loyal man was he. Col Fairbanks sent a message to him asking him to join his company: he read it, and clasping it in his hands, exclaimed: 'Me sould to the lord: Me body to the Queen, and 1 will be wid you in tin minutes." The historle facts whieh I have given this far form but a back ground for a very interesting rome ance which J desire to relate. During the summer of 1026, one delightful morning, 1 was reading The Globe in my office, when I was interviewed by a lady well ad- vanced in years, whose keen eyes, sharp features, and active mind would do justice to a head of bob- bed hair, or a pair of silk stock. ings, Without breaking her story by giving interjections from my end of the conversation, I will pro- ceed as though she received no interruptions. I am told that you are Dr, Kaiser, of Oshawa, the newly elected member of Parlia- ment, and one quite interested in the local history of this city, Al- though I have never heen here for more than twenty years, there is no place on earth I love as I do this town, because I spent all my youthful days here. For pur- poses of this conversatfen, I de- sire to be known as Louisa Allin; that was my maiden name, I do not care to have you know what my name now §s, but it is Mrs, Dr, Bell. My mother came to Oshawa when I was w little girl, only three years of age, with my sister, Panny, We came out from Scotland, In a sailing vessel and I can remember the long time we were on the ocean. My mother married a well known eitizen of Oshawa, after we were here three or four years, I think I will not tell you who it was, but after all, you may as well know it was James Carmichael, Postmaster of Osuuwa from 1877 to 1008, My sister, Fanny, married into one of Osh- awa's oldest families, but I think I bad not better tell who, but it was Fred Warren, (an uncle of Col. Grierson), While this is in reality my family conmection, I felt as though I wanted to live around here for a few hours just 8s "Louise Allin." I wanted to #00 some of the places so dear to my heart as a little girl, I drove passed the store (mow occupied by J, Welsh), which was kept by W. Carmichael before he became postmaster; we lived oyer the store Bt the time of the Fenian raid, and it is in regard to the awful Scare we got at that time that I would like to speak to you. In fact, T got a great deal more than 8 Scare over that, as you will ob- serve later on, The soldiers or Rl ii ii eg mieaete] What the Dr, Said Tonsils are diseased, MUST Tr. Ate, Mrs. Sybilla Spahrs Tonsil tis was applied, Tonsils healed and the eperatoin Sancslea, Try it, good Fy $ guaranteed or money back. Oshawa Druggists. 4 I Correct Glasses Correctly Fitted W. A. Hare Optometrist 192" balled $7 08 MECCANO SETS Ne. 00 eta No, 0 No. 1 No, 2 No. 8 No. 4 WE ALSO CARRY MECCANO PARTS Assan asc can ERE YY IEEE EEN ad Ques of Youth by J. Farnol Lost Ecstasy by M. R. Rinehart Dancing Floor by J. Buchan Love by Elizabeth Polson by Thayer Nuptials of Corbal by Sabatini The Old Countess by A. Segewick God and the Grocery man, by H, B. Wright Black Knight by E. M, Dell They Also Serve by P. B. Kyne Robertshaws Book Store the volunteers under Col, Fair- banks, had all left for the front, and one very foggy day, later on, a man came rushing up from the lake and set the town aflame by aying that he saw some Fenians anding from a boat at the marsh. Other men were sent on horse tack to steal up on them and bring hack a report. The news canre back again that it was only too true. A meeting was called of all the people and addressed on the Four Corners by the Hon. J. N. Libbs, He told them that the first thing to do was to barricade the entrances to the town, I raised blis- ters on my hands tossing barrels and boxes out of the store cellar, and the boys carried them south and east, and blocked the street, Then Mr. Libbs told them to bring into the town all the sickles, scy- thes, clubs and old guns in the township and to raise a volunteer brigade. "A new company was formed up under a commanding officer, and a young medical officer who came in from away out in the country. In the evening the company march- ed around the town. When they passed the store my sister Fanny and I were looking at them through the window, and just as the doctor was passing, Fanny pushed my head smash against the window and broke a pane of zlass. The erash attracted the at- tention of the doctor, who asked as to the owner of the house. He was told it was Carmichael's, At dark the outgide soldiers were billetted around among the people in the town, and when they ask- ed the young doctor where he 7ould like to be billetted 'he said, 'Carmichael's" He remained there or a few days and shortly atter- wards I became Inown to the world as Mrs. Dr. Pell, of Lake- field, where I am now going by wto to look after a dozen sum- mer cotta~es on the Islands there, which I have rented to summer tourists, etc. But coming back to the Fenians, after we were all ready to receive them with fire and sword, the fog lifted and some venturing spirits boldly found their way to the lake. It was discovered that, sure 'eyough, there was a boat mocred in the marsh, but in- stead of being a man-of-war, load- ed with Fenians, it was a stone hooker, manned with a few bold shore dwellers, stealing stone from the shore line to carry off to & building enterprise on the banks at Bowmanville." Thus in 1866, was the city ox Oshawa threatened by a foreign 'nyasion, and thus we were de- 'ended by the loyal citizens of Canada, and in this providential manner were our homes and our people preserved from eternal ruin. Irish beggar: "'Give me a bit of bread, for I'm so thirsty I don't know where I shall sleep tonight." A reasonable amount of fleas fis good for a dog. It keeps him from brooding on being a doz. mow doing business at our mew location, corner of and Celing streets, Oshawa, and hope to be able to ren- ~ {tain Hardy TELLS OF ESCAPE. FROM WAR PRISON British Officer's Six At tempts--How Russian General Helped' -- lieve that "I Escape!" is a war book, so light heartedly does Cam tain J. L, Hardy, late of the Con. naught Rangers, recount his half- dozen attempts to break away from German prisons. Again and again he was foiled when sugcess seemed , and it took him three and a hal LL] to cross the frontier into Helland. In spite of his many disappo ments, he does not write harshly of his captors. "For the Germans" (he states) "I.cannot say that they ill-treated us. In three and a half years 1 did not see an atrocity, though I do not know what was going on elsewhere, , . . Many lies have been told on both sides during the war, and I pray that I may not add to the number." This is what the Commandant at the Augustabad prison camp sald when Captain Hardy was re- captured with a Russian while making his second attempt at ea- cape: 'Gentlemen, you have my sympathy, IT have dome all I possibly could toward: your re- captass. and I am astonished that your journey has lasted so long. Had 1 been a prisoner in England I hope T should have acted as you have done." "We were both very embarrass. ed, and were quite at a loss for an answer,' writes Captain Hardy. "Many Germans I have met whom I could respect because they were (brave, or because they were pa- triotle, but this, I think, is the only German I have ever met of whom {it could be sald that he was a very perfect gentleman." Attempts That Failed Escaping prisoners were not al- ways treated in that way; half the thrills of making an attempt were fue to the probability that a sen- | try might at any moment shoot one in the back. On one occasion, at Halle, Cap- joined forces with seven Russians, one of whom was a reneral, in a plan to break a hole thronzh the prison wall. The general, by virtue of his rank, was not expected to work, and remained comfortably seated on a form, directing operations. When {the hole had heen made Captain Hardy crawled tdhrough in order to reconnoitre, and came hack with the news that there was a sentry 10 feet away. 'Kill him,' said the General, rnd made a sweeping gesture with his hand, 'But who's going to--?' "Kill him,' he repeated, and sat back with the resigned air of one accustomed to dealing with idiots." That attempt did not succeed. On another occasion Captain Hardy of the name of Basehwitz were caught making a hole in the floor of their dormitory, where they meant to conceal civillan clothes. Baschwitz, without 8 moment's hesitation, explained that he was trying to cut a greove in which 'o fit the edge of the iron plate on which the stove rested. His explanation was accepted--but he was sent to prison for five days for having caused damage to "royal Prussian property!" Frontier Orossed Escape was finally made in com- nany with Captain Willie Loder- Symonds, who was afterwards killed in an neroplane smash. This was how the frontier was crossed: "++, We heard behind us the clatter of heavy boots on the hard road, and 8 voice cried, 'Halt!' "Don't run, dom't run,' Loaer whispered, snd we turned to fipd two soldiers unslinging their rifles. In the dark {it was im- possible to see their uniforms and we walked slowly toward them, determined if they were Germans then attack them. no boastful spirit, but were des- perate . . . Speaking in German, I called out: "Look here, we are Dutch, and we have crossed into Germany by accident--can you show us our way back?" "There was a pause, and then one of them replied in broken German, 'I don't understand. "Scarcely able to believe our ears, scarcely able to breathe for the hammering of our hearts, we approached still nearer, pnd sud- denly Loder ghouted at the top of his voice, 'My God! They're Dutchmen!" at iclmen2 'I said stupidly, 'Bu that's go, we be Holland. ug uf "'We are, old thing,' said he." LANDLORD STRUCK TENANT WITH AXE, SHE CH Saulte Ste. Marie, Ont., Dec. 16. --William Sargeant, Blind River, has been admitted to $1,000 bail upon a charge of seriously injur- ing Mrs. Robert Temple of that place with an axe. Sargeant, owner of a shack occupied by Mrs. Temple, is alleged to have order- ed the latter to vacate, and an argument followed. Sargeant, it is charged, secured an axe and start- ed to hew down the door, and when Mrs. Temple appeared she iveceived the benefit of the blows. /Two of her fingers were severed and she received injuries about the head. and arm. "A man can live by his wits in a city." The population is more There is nothing so absent as Pressuse of mind--Anioime yar ) int- | iF and a Belgian accomplice. to put them off their guard and | I say this In|] Kin Street United Church MINISTER 89 King St. B.--FPhone 218 Sunday, December 18 7 p.m, -- Christmas Song and Story Service, "The Search of the Wise Men After Christmas," Special Music, morning and evening, one number coms posed by Mr, Treneer, Tues, 7.30 p.m.~--An- nual Sunday School Christmas Copeert, Wed,, 7.30 p.m, = Prayer Service, Tuesday, December 20th --Sunday School Christmas Entertainment, St, George's Anglican Cor, Bagot and Centre Streets Canon C, R, dePencier, M.A, 30 Athol Street West Sunday, December 18 Holy Communion--8 a.m, 11 a,m.--Morning Prayer Sunday School Centre 5t.--2.30 p.m, St, George's Hall, 2.30 p.m. : (Cor, Court and Barrie Sts.) 7 p.m,--Evensong, Baptisms 2nd Sunday each month -- CHRISTADELPHIAN The return of the Jews to Palestine, a fulfillment of prophecy and a sign of the second cominng of Christ, Read Jer. 30: 3; Ezek. 86; Rev, 1: 7, 40 Nassau Street ed by Evangelists Gil- lespie and Nugent con- tinue, owing to further blessing. Word of God if "Doing the Best I Can" will take one to Hear ven or not, v The meetings conduets | Come to the above Hall on : i i 8 | Unity Truth S.0.B. HALL, King 84H Sunday, Deco her 18 Byerybody welcom$. ¥ i 3 b | Simcoe St. U DECEMB 52 Simcoe St. S, A nited Church hr 1.5, eh Phone "3s fd 18 1 am~"The Humes Fase Divine," 3 SUND 7 pm--"The of 'the still md A Christmas Cantata Me. J H. Remwic, "The Asking Spirit. Monday, 8 p.m.~Y, P, League, Subjects Sunday, December Christmas Music; Christmas Spirit; In the ¢ by uly master. Christ Life," in story, picture and song. L.A, See ER...