The equity, 21 décembre 1916, jeudi 21 décembre 1916

[" O No.26, 34th Yeah SHAWVILLE, PONTIAC COUNTY, QUE , THURSDAY, DEC 21, 1U16 81.00 A YEAR IN /D VA N CE.T 5 Bank of Ottawa Kj Tlje Merchants Banl^ of Canada *1= il THE HARDWARE STORE ESTABLISHED 1874 Head Office : ¦ Ottawa, Canada.S 4,000,000 >006,304 66,000.000 Established 1864 Î OFFICERS 5 PRESIDENT .Sir If.Montagu Allan VICE-PRESIDENT .K.W.tiLACKwkll MANAGING DIRECTOR .K.K, IIkbdkn GEN.MANAGER .\tD.C.Macarow Capital Paid Up Rest and Undivided Profits Total Assets over \u2022 CHRISTMAS, 1916.Board of Directors s Paid up Capital .Reserve Fund and Undivided Profits Total Assets .206 Branches and Agencies In Canada- Money advanced on sale notes, and forelock feeding purposes.A SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT Savings accounts can be opened as well by mail as in person, on which interest Is allowed on balances of $1.00 and upwards.HON.GEORGE BRYSON, President JOHN B.FRASER *7,000,000 .7,250,084 .\t86,190,400 \u2022 e To our many customers we desire to express our very best thanks for their liberal patronage during the past year.Vice-President SIR HENRY N.BATE, RUSSELL BLACKBURN SIR HENRY K.EGAN, ALEXANDER MACLAREN, DENIS MURPHY, HON.SIR GEORGE H.PBRLEY B.C.WHITNEY.\u2022 \u2022 GEORGE BURN, General Manager D.M, FINNIB, Aset-General Manager W.DUTHIH, Chief Inspector.Fort Coulongo Branch Campbells Bay Branch - R.LEGER.Manager.Portage du Fort Branch \u2022 G.M.COLQUHOUN, Act.Manag J.A.MoLATCHIE, Manager.Branches at Shawvllle and Qayon w.F.DRUM We wish all our customers, friends, neighbors A Very Merry Xmas, and a \u201c Canada\u2019s Best \u201dj[ Happy and Prosperous New Year.I /'1G0WLING Manager, Shawvllle Manager, Quyon.dirintmas Cards for soldiers overseas.esutiful designs, to send to our brave lads doing their bit Rev.Mr.Phillipsexchanged services with Rev.Mr.White of Bristol on Sunday last.Dover's store will hr opened every night this week, for the convenience of Christmas shoppers.H.1 MIRON HENRY\u2019S Millinery Sale.All hats reduced to lowest jKMwi-hle price, until January 1st.J.L Caldwell, over J.11.Shaw'* Store.Reductions on Millinery ' Big reduction* ou Winter Mill inery, until January 1st only M.Prkndergast, over J.I).Hor tier's Meat Shop.Ottawa, Ont.J.H.SHAW.Wood Wanted-A few cords of dry wood, right off, wanted at this office.Things will go bad if we don't got it this week.Just received a stock of Xmas records, some of the nicest I ever had ranging from 90 cents to $X.OO each, also new sheet music for the holidays: RallyIE.Horned, The Shawvllle Music Store.OTTAWA,ONT Our instruction being individual you may start at any time.We are HEADQUARTERS .Typewriting.Penmanship English, Correspondence.P tion.Paragraphing.Transcription, and \u2022 .\t»\t, .^Ottawa, I Since January, 1013, more than 386 \\ (sited relatives here this week.j students from other local colleges have »,'«« '»» ««.«iremsr-**.u ,¦ - -¦» -«\u2022 Stilt \u201cHe gave the jockey a ten-pound Preferable, and if wooden blocks arc\t1 |l note the night before the race; and of j im^sdded in the cement when building j course, the fellow got drunk, and pull-1 ^e machine can easily be securely vehicles, while, above all the others °Pinion* would have been dear at a Menyale, sharply.\tThere are several things _ which rang the harsh voice of the woman Ave-pound note.\t| \u201c^e were all standing round him,\u201d flight happen to cause a variation and Jessica, hearing it, shuddered in- \u201cY*8» that » the question,\u201d echoed ?*P,ained Lord Standon, \u201cand when from \u2018 av to ,a lhe amount and voluntarily.Then they were gone Lord Standon.\u201cIt's not a bad face x erniont came up the man seemed to PlItoutage fat of the cream from the BSeelBi MIPSSR bvautTu! face had flushed _ ever so ; At this moment the door opened cau*se the variation, s ightl> ut the mention of Adrien's and Adrien Leroy himself was an- ^or ronfimience the separator =\t-\t\u2014 \u2014\tnounced.There was the usual buzz should be in or near the stable.If there \u2018 i es, admitted Paxhorn.\u201cMen of welcome, and her ladyship' have to proclaim their gifts very flashed just one second, as he bent loudly in the market-place, before they , over her hand sell their wares nowadays/' Adrien (s a t! The old method of creaming milk by the use of shallow or deep pans Icing Sugar No material lends itself to so For frosting cakes, making bonbons and other confections without cooking.Ask for it by numo at your grocers.1 -lb Cartons only « \u2014 On the walls it THROUGH THE DARK SHADOWS The pulxrrizcd lime Lantic Sugas* Or The Sunlight of Love Thin it may be said applies to ground limestone and not to quick or burned lime.Where formerly bare fallowing was I HAFTER XV (CuntM) voice is packed at the factory in dust-tight cartons.Yours is the first hand to touch it.2 and 5-lb Cartons 10 and 20-lb Bags \"The A ll-PurposcSugar \" As has often been pointed out in these columns before, lime improves heavy soils by making them more porous, whil# light soils which are al- Atlantlc Sugar Refineries Ltd.l*ow«r Bid*.Montreal 80 iwcw Feed- y FIVE FLOUR ^Breads / Cakes-PudJi ngs-Pastries WOVR pudding\u2019s arc palat-1 able, why use Five Roses ?Simply because you want them more daintily porous, more digestible.Five Roses 11 puddings digest unconsciously\u2014 every spoonful is a tasty source of vitality.1 m * wi /IV cream CHAPTER XVI.'\u201cIs it a Rubens, or is it not?That is the question,\" drawled Frank ParK-lIe, as he dropped his eyeglasses.On an easel in Lady Merivale\u2019s irnwing-rvom, stood a picture, before ,.Qh which were grouped a small assembly Crichton \" -GOOD DIGESTION When your dl|eirlun le faulty, weakne pain are certain and diecaec la invited.Mother Soliti a Syrup correcte end etimulatei the digestive organa, end benie\u2019iei the eil.neute which a.lee from i\"digeiticn.is no special milk-house a room can be partitioned off in some part of the stable, and if properly constructed it can be made sanitary kept clean and well ventilated, otherwise there is danger of particles of dust or dirt falling into the milk while Is it a Iil is beinK separated, and any foul odor will he absorbed by warm milk.I Adrien smiled at the two artists, | Care ehould be takcn to keep the sep-who were slight acquaintances of his.|arat°r aml its surroundings clean at all times.Unless this is done the highest grade cream cannot 1* duced.\u2014Farmer\u2019s Advocate.mod many s eyes FOR FOR STOMACH AND LIVER TROUBLE JBj.I , I\"! am so glad you have come, Mr.\t_\tveritable Leroy,\" she said.\u201cYou can settle a put in Lord Stnndon.knotty question f«»i us.This is my latest acquisition.Now have J been deceived, or have I not ?Rubens?\" It should be 40YEARS The Stihdaid REMEDY I I J*\\% A\"-\u201cSi-fe-aïe .\u2019s.-üMjtïwiï*- m \" \\ ou ask me while such judge m ar ?s are Cannot you decide, Alford\u2014 nor you, Col man?\u201d \u201cWell, I say it is,\" said the first., \u201cWhile 1 think it is forgery,\" laugh-1 *)on f ,vet Grain Prices l)ri\\e You Out ed the second ; and thereupon ensued a lengthy and detailed criticism pro- dMu&kt Wear Those Comfortable Old Shoes This Winter of Hogs & .\t.The high prices paid for pork dur- Adrien bent nearer to the picture | ing the past season have induced under examination; then he said many farmers to part with more of qU.1.x*7k:\t.\t,\ttheir stock of swine than they Where two such lights cannot dis- rightly afford.This is a mistake in coyer the truth, who may?I agree every respect.Even though the wi h you, Alford, and so 1 do with you, price of feed has been high and pro-Lolman.Both your arguments are mises to be higher, the price of the so convincing that if Rubens had , fattened animal has, and will rise in I painted it, and were present, to hear proportion, and even without an inf you, Col man, he'd be persuaded he j crease in price, Vie demand is so sure hadn t; and if he had not painted it, to hold out, that at a reasonable profit you, Alford, could almost convince : every farmer should be satisfied to im that he had.\tmaintain a sufficient herd of these There was a general smile at the ! animals, which beside bringing in ¦artists expense; and Adrien continu- direct cash returns, do so much toward keeping up the fertility of the .\t_ touch - examining the soil.No doubt one reason for the face\tbut\u2014what is this?\u2019 He point- average farmer's willingness to part ed u a small weapon thrust into the with his pigs before the coming of the °f ,th* fi5ure \u201e\tWinter season, i* the partial failure of \u201e\u201e rhllt \u2018s a 'ieKger, said Alford, the root crop, while another reason i* I\tV*\" are,oint\tIn pig keeping is ed the doctor.\tSome fellow tele-\tto\thave them dry\tat all times that phones in a dying\tvoice that he can't\tthere la any danger\tof cold.To keep Jive wrh.*jf me.\this\tpigs through to bettor times, a Just a moment!\" ¦ m can And Shew Your Patriotism and Thrift \u2014Inexpensive Rubbers or Over- \u2018 shoes Will Protect Your Feet # enjoy, in your own home, as smooth, clean and comfortable a shave as the city man, or as anyone else in this broad Dominion ?Why shouldn\u2019t you own and use the keenest, speediest, most convenient shaving tool in the world\u2014the The spectacular rise in leather prices has mficance far beyond its painful effect- a sig- to the limit.Gillette \u2022\u2022Ruben*\u2019 economize on it Safety Razor This is the reason well-worn shoes a discredit, but an honor are no longer wearer ?Baity.\t.\tn evidence that the puts patriotism before pride, thrift before The thin Gillette Blades, electrically hardened, honed with diamond dust, stropped In wonderful automatic machines, cany an edge whose uniform, lasting keenness has never been fnatched.The curved Gillette head holds them rigid\u2014guarded\u2014adjustable by a turn of the handle for a light or close shave.th the Gillette there's no neeu for honing, stropping, or careful working round the chin or angle vf the Jaw 1 There sre no preliminaries\u2014the razor U rW> fm business\u2014you Just pick It up and shave, with the easy angle stroke, In five minutes or leas.The Gillette \"Bulldog\", \"Aristocrat\u201d and Standard Sets coat $5\u2014 Pocket Editions $5 and Combination Sets $6 90 up.At Hardware, Drug.Men\u2019s Wear and Jewelry stores war, success grain (To he continued) around the house / meal Lot The Wrong Person 220 Gillette Safety Razor Co.of Canada, Limited Saving Shoe-Leather Is a Public Service as Well as a Private Economy Offic.and Factory i GILLETTE BUILDING, MONTRÉAL.\u2022i«*u», JTTUt kept dry to be safe, and it ia surprix wife TO Ur, dear. 'H eroms ï IM FOUND1 The Christmas Card That Travelled Christmas Giving and Christmas Living Half tho boy* of Mias Hathaway\u2019* anybody poorer than I am!\u201d he would icnool were gathered In an eager mutter to himaelf sometimes; p*oup «t thf foot C the steps.Miss then almosb always he would Hathaway had been living them a lit.her Mrs.Murphy, the little old tie talk on Christmas presents that af on the floor below who took in wash bernoon.It nay Annis Crosby, in her pa the- three of us clubbed together and tic block dress, advertising Him recent bought her a lamp\u2014and Mother rare loss of her mother, who startled them\t!y had\ta chance to\tuse it at all be- \u2022 J1,\ty coming to the first meeting of\tcause\twe usually\tmonopolized its the Christmaa sewing-club with a light.The traveling-bag Don gave urge darning-bag.We had hardly her he used himself, and we all walk' :XP::U;d hvr ,t0 bave ^ courage even ed over the new nig\u2014Mother simply ,\t,°* ( bristmaa this year.\tkepb it\tclean.This\tyear we\u2019re going i\t.,Hn f on,y \u2022'hat we don't feel very\tto put\tour savings\tinto a few sub- Chrietmaasy at our house this year,\" atantial things the house needs.It's I \u2022 he said, drawing a boy\u2019s thick, ugly our home now, and even when she was ribbed storking over the darning-egg, here, it wasn't just Mother\u2019s exclusive- i 2, 1 VC )e,m doing a !ot of t,linkin^ ly.We'll have councils over the pir-labejy especially about Christmas.For chases, and committees, and the kind , ,hln* ,Ve come to the realization of celebration Mother would have liked that we-ve all grown fanatical over over the installation.Any one who ,glvmg ,n*t®*d of living\u2014and maybe still wants to cultivate the individual o\\< r gctt:i g, too\u2014but with most of feeling can do so in a separate small u.s ere, present-making has become gift to the house\u2014an egg-beater or a i a «v?LdarAv*,,.e\u2018 '\tnew b°ok or a ®°^a Pillow or anything I , by.Annis,\" expostulated Marion, else we can all get some satisfaction i m,'Kt ardent and elaborate giver out of.of all \u201cgiving things is the very es- \u201cThen for our friends, letters and seiJ£*.a.RP,r't- Christmas!\u201d\tgreeting-cards and 'service-promises\u2019 Diving, yes-but not altogether will be all.We don\u2019t\u2014\" giving things, Marion,\u201d replied Annis, \u2018\u2018Please, Annis,\" interrupted Marion, , quiet y.I don t know quite how to \u201cwhat do you mean by \u2018service-proexpress what I mean without seeming mises?' \" ,lo lecture\u2014but don\u2019t you think there \u201cWhy,\" smiled Annis, \u201cif Dorothy aie gi ts more important than the ma- should hand her mother a note saying terial ones, and, too, better selections that her Christmas present was a i 0 ,e ™ad*\u2018 when it comes to the ac- contracb to darn stockings or do mend-tuul gifts themselves?None of us ing for two hours once a week, that j cver count the cost of all our Christ- would he a 'service-promise.' The mas preparations.I thoroughly be- Dorothy's mother could have the fun lieve, for instance, that we could of embroidering centerpieces instead choose a few more \u2018boughten' presents of doing the less interesting work.If , and use the time and effort we expend Marion should decide to give Myra on Christmas sewing to better ad- Conway all the time she is putting into vantage.If I\u2019m not mistaken, Mar- that baby-jacket, taking care of, the ion spent her ChriKOmas holidays in other children, for instance, while bed with the grippe last year,\u201d she Myra rests or gets out for a change added with a faint smile, \u201cjust because witho ut the children, that would be a i she was tired out and her resistance service-promise.And without want-was low when the grippe germ roam- ing to criticize, it\u2019s been the experi-ed in her vicinity\u2014that\u2019s one kind of ence of most of my friends with unreckoned cost, but not exactly what babies that the practical \u2018boughten\u2019 I mean, either.\u201d\tthings, like hot-water bottles and She shopped, hesitating.\tdiapers and rubber bath-tubs, are far \u2018 Go on, go on!\u201d urged several of the more needed than the francy garments, girls.The group of eight busy teach- I've thought of lobs of \u2018service-pro-crs had formed a little club which mises\u2019 for my own family\u2014helping \u201cWhy, good morning, Mrs.Mur-\tffi ^\tVP '\tmet once a week from the first of, Roy with his mathematics, taking one phy,\u201d she said pleasantly to the bent\tOctober for the laudable purpose of i of Edna's settlement classes off her \u201cIsn't that love-; old woman on bhe doorstep.\u201cA\tVllS^ .\tU ^\tworking on their Christmas gifts.Of.hand.Thesre are really lots of uses merry Christmas to you!\"\teTt^w\u2014^\t/x % Jpf!?^r.se nobody accomplished all her for time if you count up how much Then she propped the card up on \u201cAnd it's just that, ma'am, that I've\t7r\tChristmas sewing to the accompani- there is and what you can do with it.\u201d the muntelpiece and stood off to ad- come to say to you,\" returned Mrs.\t^ xfc\tC5k\tment of tea and little cakes and much \u201cDo you believe in giving people jMurphy, in an eager, quavering voice ~\t- -\t- -rr-.__________\u2014__________________________________________________tnlk; in fact, each of the eight had clothes for presents, Annis?\" demand- .H.i'.t.\u2019m.ï\t:: :hfj;\tMAK,NC iHB,a™As * \u2022»««*.ir.^^ lh\u201e\u201e1 zz; Z\tA Wo,rM T: \"- r~*- gpzrz:\tsr iS'Zi s the card.\t! ma am, I've got something you\u2019d like\tI rotest.\tht \"thci of five.If they pursue the the club furnished the impetus and secretly nobody likes what the \u2018Bub your letter, dear\u2014you hav'nt \u2014something I'm sure you'd like.I \u201cWith the annroavhimr C'hri*tmaa ^ ' methodlm their own classes and for a vast amount of energetic Christ- other has chosen.And if I want to h;-nf k.e\u201e % =\tl;:- srr éèhf™\ticpiSi EBrSEiF Dear Pjpsykins: I saw this card in here tis, ma\u2019am, and a merry Chri t- gift piled up on her desk It was! mmedlatc Blaines and friends.\troom noises, were put to final strain have to have anyway!\" a window to-day and thought of youmas to you!\" she finished, handing out easy to single out those who had not\\ J .is any wonder» therefore, that % ™ confinement of sewing; eight \u201cIn families where there arc children \u2014-you do so love things that sparkle, a flat, brown paper parcel.\tI brought presents by their distressed I ¦atmae becomea a great financial \"itelligent brains centered frantically you can\u2019t banish gifts\u2014they always Keep it or give it away\u2014just which \u201cThank you, thank you,\" called Mre.and unhappy faces, their sensitive lit-! ,anr i °f anything' however good of it- ,m®n» ta^,ng» crocheting, and sheer few well-chosen ones.As long as chil- \u201cThat\u2019s just like Will,\" she cried P|ngs fell away from Mrs.Murphy's are not brought to the school but scIf;,ccaaes to be desirable.In the «/td fragile dress-accessories dear to dren are at the expectant age, give \u201cThe minute he\u2019s got a spare cent in gift and disclosed a bright new Christ-i sent direct to the teachers\u2019 or schol- n?®d,e*a multiplication of Christmas the Feminine heyt.\t\u2019\tthem playthings with which they can his pocket off it goes for something mas card with a sparkling snow cov-jars\u2019 homes, would it not be better g,ft?have not many of us lost bhe ^n,s,.c!fared her bhroat \u201cAfter make or do something.Good tools, for us! \u2018Give it away,' indeed!\" she ered house in the corner.\"Why simply to have the good wishes of the\tof joyousness and true thankful- .Mot\"er died 1 gradually began to not- building-blocks, the various kinds of added scornfully- then stopped short Mother that\u2019s my very own card that season exchanged, without the ex- *!?*.*7 In our Absorption in \u201cmuch how everything fell on me\u2014how wood and metal building-toys, scis-She suddenlly remembered that for a,1 8ent to Nellie.I remember that lit- pense and formality of a present?i ^v,ng ' do we n°t often forget to lhe younger one# were off about their sors, knives, paints, electric motors, whole week she had longed for some- t,e black mark on the back.\"\t\u201cI know of one family where the 1.,\toar.IIcavenly Father for the affalrs a11 Ibe time, and nobody sewing-outfits, crayons, raffia\u2014things thing to give away.\tIt was some days before Carrie un- three children expect to take a gift to Glft of glfts\u2019 whose advent we are , timp to hfIp- Right ther* 1 fl«t like that.After a while they will Carrie did nob speak again for some derstood the mystery; then she over- each of their different teachers They 1ur>posed ** be celebrating?\"\tdown and asked myself how much learn to make things for others, and time.She wandered restlessly from heard Nellie Randall say:\tI are asked also each year to bring\t\u201cA Mother\" m*!\u2019 pîrsona\u201dy\u2019 had ^en giving finally come to the household-gift MB'BiP * Sm* It is big enough for you to like, and if *r!\" ®he cried, bursting into the house, you like it some one else would!\" \u201conly think! First Will sent that At night she put the Christmas card Christmas card to me, then I sent it in an envelope and sent it to Nellie Nellie Randall and she sent it to Randall, the girl who sat two seats in *J*ck Talbot.And what did Jack do front of her in school, and who never but take it down to old Mrs.Murphy's brought much for luncheon except dry *nd tie ib on her door-knob, and then crackers and bread without butter.Mrs.Murphy brought it t6 us.It was the next morning that Nellie bow that Christmas card has travel-Randall rushed breathless into her I she finished, as she hurried mother's room.and remem-woman æ- ing.G \"I've jfot fifty cent#, and Fm going For eome time after the Christmas to spend it all,\u201d announced one.card came Jack sat looking at it \u2022Tve got a bank, and I shall take He picked it up and tilted it from all there is in it,\" cried another.side to side that he might catch the I shall give my dolls and half my : glint of the diamond dust bean-bugs; I\u2019m tired of dolls anyhow, \u201c Tis kind of pretty,\" he said aloud, c imed the third.\talmost grudgingly.\u201cHumph! I won- $ 1 : hail give something I\u2019m fond der what Mrs.Murphy would say to # of, said a black-eyed girl, with a toes this?Guess she\u2019d think 'twas a 1 of her head.\u201cI sha\u2019nt give any old i little bit ahead of that old postal card \\ tft?«uîlfn ,h,ingf\tpiebure she came toting home last ri Well, 1 shall,\" retorted a boy on week; and she thought that was fine the edge of the group.\u201cIt\u2019s all I've even if it was all tom!\u201d got to give someone that didn\u2019t have, After a time he arose and limped ^ so much as we did; and I\u2019m sure folks stealthily down stairs.He paused at X like that won\u2019t mind it if things aren\u2019t Mrs.Murphy\u2019s door and was just tak-brand new!'\u2019 And he turned and ing something from under his coat went whistling down the street i when the door opened and Mrs.It was the beginning of a general Murphy her self appeared, broakmg-up; and by twos and threes \u201cBless you, boy, how you startled the i est went their various ways, me!\" cried the little old woman, laughing, and calling merrily back to \u201cD-did I?\" stammered Jack, hast!- > * their comrades.There was one, how- ly thrusting something under his coat r \\ ever, tlmt did not laugh, chatter or and stumbling on down the stairs.ii,i\ti* Tt WBa Carric Austin, ' Ten minutes later, after walking walking al! alone down a side street.once around the square, Jack slowly ( arrie was puzzled, and not quite climbed the stairs and stopped r happy.\\\\ hat was there, indeed, that more at the washerwoman\u2019s door, she could give?Anything new was \u201cHi there, Jack! I was jusb lookout of the question\u2014she had no money ing for you,\" called a boy\u2019s voice; and to pay for it; ancLas for old things\u2014 again Jack thrust something hastily one headless doll, a few torn books, a out of sight.brooken hoop; surely none of these \u201cW-were you?\" he stammered, could she give for a present.Yet ib Jack seemed to be doing a good deal had seemed so easy that afternoon of\tstammering that afternoon.I while the teacher was talking\u2014bo \"Well, here I am.\u201d And he limped easy to make rome one happy that was boldly along without so much as a âA P°AIi?,avth#n\tglance toward the washerwoman's % All through the week before Christ- door.mas, Carrie puzzled over the question; Long after dark that night, how- but not even so much as a bib of rib- ever, when the house was quiet, Jack bon con\u2019d she find that was fresh crept downstairs and tied something enough to give away.\tIf Mrs.Murphy's door-knob.On the twcnty-tnTrd of December It was on Christmas day that Carrie the postman brought her a letter, and Austin\u2019s mother answered a timid in the letter was a bright new Christ- knock at her side door mas card with a sparkling, snow-covered house in bhe corner.\u201c0!\" cried Carrie Whsn Christmas time oomea round it teems As though the long, long year# Roll back and take twig oar ceres And dry up all our tears I don't know why It la, but when The great day comes along 1 get to fadin' young again, And kind of turn to song, And whistle and go on Just UVe A bov would.I ll be bound.The old world seems to brighten up When Christmas Urne comes round.I'm tickled at the Jumptn Jack And all them kind of things.1 like to watch the to vs that play By windin' up the springs, And somehow\u2014don't know why II is* Love aeen.s to fill the air, And I forget I've enemies Or troub es anywhere: And every little while I sort Of liston for tho sound Of voices that have long been still.When Christmas time comes roun& 1 wish that I was Santa Claus And had a magic sleigh.To visit all the children who Look forward to the day \u2014 The orphans ar.d the cripples and The poor fokm everywhere*\u2014 All children that are good and kind And don't forget their prayers; I'll bet you that they\u2019d all be glad When they got up and found Their stockin'# fairly bustin'out.When Christmas time come round.V % '¦t.once 3 Oh.ha ppy dme of Jlnglln And hills all white with snow; Oh.Joyful day that takes us back To care free long ago 1 wonder If up there above Where happy angels roam They do not get to thlnkin* of The happy times at home.And turn, in fancy, back once more To listen to the sound Of voices that have long been still.When Christmas time cornea round?belli \\ H 1 ly!\" Am you Be .\t.\t,\tor buy pretty were lots of little matters i might boxes and the children fill them to have attended to, but mostly there give to their friends.Whon the waa so much time I might have spent candy\u2019s put in cornucopias on the tree.uith her that I can never have now.they eat too much, and get at it \u201cTake this Christmas sewing-club\u2014 reptitiouely.we've had it for six years.If it was \u201cOur Christmas glum pudding is just) the one afternoon a week, I'd made a month beforehand,\" remarked aay it was a fine thing\u2014bringing us Millicent.\"It's another family in- all together, having a good, jolly time atitution.We all seed raisins and and forgetting other work.But that's cut citron till our arms ache.Then the smallest part of Christmas.After it's boiled and hung in a bag in the we leave here we all spend every spare attic to season.It comes on the minute sewing on a lot of unnecessary Christmas table blazing all around.\" things that don't do the people who \u201cWouldn't it he a fine thing,\" Annis get them any ;ood, and all that pre- said, \u201cif families could get together cious time might be spent being with once a year and talk over their income people we love, doing things for them, and expense-budget frankly?Decide making life easier.There is a little how much eavh ought to spend for tinge of selfish indulgence In the clothing, for example, and let enrh v ay some of us concentrate on the spend it whenever he or she wished I pleasure of making Christmas things.\" \u2014take birthdays for the really indi- \u201cBut what,\u201d asked Clara in be wild- vidua I gifts, the little luxuries, and erment, \"are wo going to do about the turn Christmas into a day of broader presents?I think it's all true about thought, good will to all?Have the too much giving, and over in our whole family unite in whatever fun or schodl we all joined the \u2018Spugs* to celebration there is\u2014such as install- prevent collections for the principal ing a new phonograph or a big chair and officers, but home giving and your or an eleertic light or a beautiful set friends are different\u2014-you wouldn't of 'best' linen\u2014and then try to have feel right, not to remember them.the day one of 'peace on earth* instead \"We could begin right here in this of confusion and commotion?The meeting by pledging ourselves to big Christmas dinner's *11 right_________the omit all gifts to each other, couldn't family feast belongs to th»» traditions we?\u201d suggested practical Elsie.J that ought to be kept alive\u2014but the , \u201cOr limit it to a card of greeting or work of it shouldn\u2019t fail ; a letter or camera picture,\u201d put in her of the family.\" I *%***\"\t\"We fun't give up oui Christmas M * **I?P@** said Dorothy, slowly, tree, * .said Clara, \u201chut we could cer- \u201cmy mother would have more actual tainly adopt some of these other sug satisfaction if I brought her darning- gestions that make Christmas a day bag to these meetings instead of mak- for all the family to think about loving Ing her this centerpiece I\u2019ve started, and serving each other better and do-I believe Fll do it, Annis.I just love ing things in unison.\" to embroider and I hate to darn\u2014but\t-+- what shall I do for a Christmas pre- Featherstone: \u201cI wonder if your sis.sent for her, something shell really ter realises.Willie, that during the like?\"\tlast two months I have given her ten Annis considered.\u201cWe\u2019ve been dollars'worth of sweets anu flowers?\" thinking at home that our so-called Willie: \u201cOf course she does ¦¦ Christmas presents to Mother weren't why she is keeping her tngag really personal gifts at all.One year | with Jo» Burling we v.f sur- .4v My!, I over : to the mantelpiece to examine with \u201cMother, mother, eeel\u201d she panted, new interest the wonderful card with \u201cSome one has sent me the loveliest sparkling, snow-covered house in Christmas card! Now I can do what tkc cornor.the teacher said; now I can send something to ome one poorer# than I am! But who shall have it, Mother ?Mary, Tom, Henry or Jack?\u201d It was a weighty question.Nellie and her mother could not decide It at once.Mary was poor, certainly, but Tom Henry had a sick mother and no father; while Jack\u2014poor Jack\u2014was crippled himself and could not run and play like the other lads.At last it was decided; and with sssspEcri: BEHH Æ-istt srtws \u201cHumph!\u201d grunted Jack.Then he scowled and tried to look as if he were not pleased.\tAt An Armory.**\tfr^.\u2018A tdr>L Tha head of a great gun .nd arm At first the scholars hadtrlsd to show or-m.km* establishment .id to the how sorry they were that he could not .gent of a foreign Government join in their games ; but he had met I their advances with sullen looks and 1 short words, « e so-ongt.* There'S a song of iûLuahur o OK.mn you Hear Him ivUxyvig ^ hoUU àu iwnuur of Ou u*> Slno low.'smqlow.oh uou i oAispstirithe night the t.n of mom; ! Fcrr U he Where the Card Came From.The stingy young man approached the flame of his passion.\u201cDid you receive many Christmas-cards, Miss Buzzer?\u201d he asked, by way of a beginning.\u201cOh, yes! And there signed\u2014that I thought particularly ' dainty and artistic.I'm sure it came from you!\u201d Then tuhiU yet hu Spell it otr us he u/tU march along Wort uS, SigH# Out into ihe SiUnaL of Ch< Sluuto*» in GRAND CARNIVAL SHAWVILLE, DEC.21.1916.CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS New Yr\u2019s Night.During the Spring months of the pvv » nt year the Crown Prince of ( îcimany \\ led t.> reach the interior of France, \" 'trough the gateway of Verdun.For x v months a most terrific offensive was rovs'uted day ami night, with all the l n\\i and might which the erratic young \\ .*r lord could summon to his aid.1 it tie Vy little progress was made, it il it looked ;it onetime as if the in % ader a object was on the point of at i iin iivnt.Then came the unexpected Hied drive at the Somme, and the con »j nest of Verdun fell through.The ap \u2022ailing losses sustained by the Crown Prince's legions estimated at 700,000 \u2022non all counted for nothing in the way f military advantage.Then came the French counter offensive.l$y a whirl ».ind stroke in October the Germans were driven from Fort Douatmumt, the most important of the ring of forts which protected Verdun.Another and .jch more decisive Mow was admints * \u2018fvd during the just week by the new k hief vf French command.General Nivelle, the result of which is that nearly all the ground taken since the l>o ginning of the enemy's offensive has been r tcaptured, and the fruits of the victory are representixi in a toll of nearly 1:2 on sand prisoners and eighty pieces of >u\\y field artillery, and other muni : .ms.The French positions were advanced two miles along a front of six lies General Nivelles plans worked 'at without a hitch, and the attack which he was enabled to deliver fell like thunderbolt upon the enemy.Shawville Rink vast vftwt Usual Fancy Dress Speed Contests, etc.Gifts that will be appreciated O above everything else O BECAUSE NOTHING IS SO APPRECIATED AS HAY WANTED % \u2022 V \"lam prepared to buy any quantity of good, well-saved Pressed Hay, delivered at Shawville, or I other convenient points on rail- Highest market price paid.full Moved l»v councillor C.McNally, seconded by councillor lb id, that this I You council sanctions and authorizes the payment of #1292.55, being the grand total of law costs as above stated in the rise of McCann et ah, vs, the (\\>r|>ora tion of the County of Pontiac.- Carried.The Secretary Treasurer established by certificate under his oath of office that he had served the Collector of Provincial Revenue, and each and every local secretary in the county by registered letter with a special notice that the Court of Review had on the 29th September, 1916, confirmed the judgment rendered by Judge Weir on the tth May, 1916, in the Superior Court case No.1583, ,1.McCann et ah, vs.the Corporation of the County of Pontiac, said special notice having been so served on the 16th October, 1916.are cordially invited to inspect our magnifl cent showing of HOLIDAY GOODS whether you come to buy or not.way.A NEW SUIT OR OVERCOAT G.A.HOWARD.t * For father, grandpa, brother or son would be just fine.Suits Men'» Suit», ifSH.OU to 21.00 Boys\u2019 Suits $«.00 to 12.50 Overcoats Men\u2019s overcoats, #10.03 to 21.UO Hoys* overcoats, $2.50 te 13.00 Sweater Coats For men and boys-coats of quality\u2014very reasonably priced -all colors.$1.00 to $0.50 Mufflers In nil the popular styles and\t4 colors.50c to2.50\tI {j Suspenders\tfli \" | i Put up in special gift boxes.| y_J Ciet one.35 to 75c.\tI - -\u2022* Fine Shirts\t.',jP j New colorings and patterns.A fine assortment.50c.to 3.50 TAILORING All correspondence re Onslow-Maaham Road was read, but no action taken.The Secretary Tnasurer .submitted a | N6CkW6ctF detailed statement showing the amounts of Sinking Fund and County Rate due from the several local municipalities to the end of the year 1916 Councillor Ward gives verbal notice that at the next regular session vf this council there will be introduced a Bylaw to locate a road, and expropriate land therefor, across lots numlier 2, 3, I and of range A of the township of Mansfield.Peace proposals by Germany and their \\ r ual rejection by all the Entente Al Î \u2022*.*> even liefore their official reception 1 y the respective governments, through Vie usual diplomatie channels, have eon kî It tiled a world engrossing topic among men and the metropolitan press iring the past ten days.From the ew point of the Allies, with one accord, said, the proposals are re r tided with sus] avion.Germany\u2019s con-.j -.t with resjiect to the observance of t e.ilies and conventions, has 1 >oen so rtorioudy had, that any misgivings of \u2018 - i sincerity now may well be thought itsti trahi - *### V WÎ ~i '-I v ; ' \u2022 ' -ffM We keep a good line of Serges of fancy patterns always in stock.\u2022I The sen sons very newest creations, put up in special gift boxes ;tV to $1.50.} w i f j m \\ « Gloves it 59 Of all kinds are hero in vast assortment wool, kid and fur-50c to 3.00.\"Tf n u may A circular letter from C.H.Hodge, Macdonald College Demonstrator of Agriculture for the county of Pontiac, dated 0th December, 1910, was laid before the | IlOSiory council, dealing with the work of the Pontiac Branch, its Umctit* to the community, and asking for a continuation It is apparent to all that of the grant from this council for 1917.?he Kaiser\u2019s main object in proposing ^r- 1,1 Hk(; also addressed the council at this juncture is to throw the UXVH NBW FUR OR cloth coat thus hoping to Macdonald De mo iistrat or of Agriculture in this comity for the year 1917.e submitted ot ('lodges nor sacred obligations | \u2022\" *h\u201c \"mni.i|ul electors of this comity * for their approval.\tCouncillors Robinson and Ward gave declaration has been made and empha- J written notice that at the next regular V-/' i tlsf they will not *top short of session of this council the following view.\tj By law will be presented and introduced It ia enacted and ordained by by-law of this council as follows :\u2014\u201cA By-law to prohibit the sale of intoxicat tug liquors, and the issuing of licenses therefor, within the limits of the County 13tii I Municipality of Pontiac,\u201d to wit ! sale of intoxicating liquors, and the issuing of licenses therefor, are hy the present By-law prohibited within the County Municipality of Pontiac, under the authority, and for the enforcement of Section Fifteenth, of Chapter Fifth, of Title Fourth, of the Revised Statutes of (Quebec, 1999.Moved hy coun.Ward, seconded hy coun.Davis, that the Warden be, and he is hereby, authorized to take the necessary steps to have the vagrant sup posed to lie Wilhelm Bolz, and commonly known as 44 Barney, of no known domicile, sent to some asylum or place of refuge at the exjiense of this corpora tion.\u2014Carried.Councillor Davis gives verbal notice riotic Fund, re.grants for 1917, was that at the next regular session of this e instruct- by a rate on the dollar, on each and \u2022 d .»ad authorised to pay to the Cana-1 every dollar of property mentioned and dian Patriotic Fund thi* year all that assvsmsl in the valuation roll-» nf the the state of the finance* of thi SHAWVILLE SASH AND DOOR FACTORY.R.G.HODGINS, Prop.But tli \u2022 Allies u in*! written n It t Ladies\u2019 Fur Coats 11 i Curly lined black beaver cloth \u2014 nil sizes.$19.75 Ladies\u2019 Cloth Coats A 45 inch muskrat coat\u2014all picked skins \u2014 well matched and well lined.Special price $57.00 t of invaded territory remains It I \u2022 ) v will refuse t i Manufacturer of and Dealer in * l \u2022 h v reach that vantage point from | * chilli they will be enabled t An extra large stock to eboose from\u2014all colors and styles\u2014 $10.00 to 28.(0 Doors, Sash, Dressed Lumber, etc.Custom Sawing-.Ladies\u2019 Silk Waists * a hi catastrophe (bat h, A new lot of silk and net waists for Christmas trade, just to hand.All colors\u2014the newest styles, $2.50 to 4.00.I The Allies are working for a I'Alti The Store of Quality H T.Hi*turn Her.Trea*. THE EQUITY, dredths of the north half of berth nmillier *, in the fourth range of block \"A\", in the district of Pontiac and province of Quebec, and containing twenty five \u2022quare mile*, more or lea* ; and also, (b) The twenty woven one hundredth* of, timber berth or limit number cm, of\tMld 10 compo^d of\tMXXX) separate 1873 & 1874, and being the twenty «oven\t*r,le\u20ac