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Special VHues Ohristmas Carver‘s Sets Electric Irons, regular 5.00 duced to _ _ _ _ ; Gillet Safety Razors $5.00 Other Razors Manicure Sets, an acceptable gift for gentleman or lady. Fancy Scissors, Carpet Sweep ers, and many other articles suit able as Xmas Gifts. Skates, Hockey Sticks, Hand Sleighs, etc., for the boy or girl. KING ST Special Values in Silver Knives Forks, Spoons, etc. is always the aim of our store. High grade Footwear at attrac tive and low prices. Men‘s Gun Metal Button Boots at $4, $4.50 to $5.50 Carver‘s Sets in beautiful plush Men‘s {Velour Calf Bluchers, high toe $3.50 . Women‘s Felt Slippers, 50c to $1.25 Men‘s Gun Metal Bluchers, $4, $4.50 and 85. Slippers, Oxfords a specialty. Hockey Shoes, a great variety, with one free ticket to the Waterâ€" loo Rink and skates fastened without charge. A well assorted $10,000 stock to pick from A xood sensible Xmas Present would be a New William‘s Sewing Machine at our figures. Come. Save a few dollars. 18 pair Women‘s Gun Bluchers, Reg. $4 for 15 pair Women‘s Box Calf Bluchers, regular $3 for â€" 20 pair Women‘s Dongola Bluchers, reg. $3 and $3.50 for COH rad BFOS. 15 pair Women‘s Patent But ton, reg. $3.50 and $4 for â€" We guarantee a saving on every pair of shoes purchased from us. J. S WATERLOO 35 pair Children‘s Shoes, 5 to regular 90c and $1 for â€" SHOES New Goods for the Holidays CHRIST MAS Large Assortment of Headquarters for Xmas Goods SATISFACTION 2.50 to $3.00 50c to $1.50 Roos Shoe Go. Phone 206 $2.00 $4.00 Phone 109 Goods FOR ues in WATERLOO Metal $2.98 re 2. 25 ONT 225 2.75 50c EL'RKE\' and plumâ€"pudding; pinnedâ€"up stockings and presents; evergreen trees and magic candles; children‘s shoutings, and romps and laughter; handshakes andt kisses; parties and dinners; poor homes cheered, and lone hearts gladdened; generosity abroad and gentleness at work; kind words all around and good cheer everywhere; a myriad myriad songs and carols and ten thousand times thousand smiles. Yes! Yes! Yes! All this, of course, old Christmas means in this good Canada of ours. Merriment; generosity; home affection; these are the things that stand out as the salient features of a Canadian Christmas. But what, after all, does Christmas really mean? It means, first of all, that the bisecting line of this old world‘s history was the birth of a little Baby Boy. We say that all before is just B. C.. and every book and document, and will, and proclamation with those little letters, A. D., declare that all time in its historic n.*ckonin% dates from the birth of that little childâ€" because He was and is the First and Last, the Beginnin and the End, the Son of God and the Son of Man, the Lord of Life and the Lord o?(}lory. Christmas stands for that Astounding Fact: the entrance into this world of the King of the Ages, the fulfilment of a thousand prophecies, the prophecy of a thousand histories. It means next, that gifts, and carols, and gladness and joy are to roll over this sad old world in everâ€"increasing volume until time shall be no longer. The exciteâ€" ment of joy that greeted His birth was indescribable. But the keynote of the excitement of the fgrs( Christmas Day was joy and gladness. There was gladness in heaven, and angels‘ songs. There was reâ€"echoed gladness in the hearts of men. His Coming was the Glad Tidings, and the only key to happiness this sad old world has known and can know is the joy of Christ. There is no real joy in Christless lands. _ The people are happy who know the joyful sound. â€" Christ brings happiness, and peace, and good will, and gentle peace wherever and whenever He comes. What meaneth this carolling and merriment and music at Chrisemas time, asks the amazed visitor from the Orient? It means that every heart is better and brighter because God‘s Son was born among us. $ e It means next, that all life may now be illumined with the radiance of the divine. Motherhood . has now new meaning; the sweetest, most precious, most lovely of names, the name of mother is honored with a peculiar honor in all Christian lands. Childhood has now new meaning. As the wise men and wreat men came to the Christ cradle lands. Childhood has now new f F meaning. As the wise men and ) P & great men came to the Christ cradle £1" t > ~2 W o. £ with their gifts, so the wisest and t f n 3 ~ OF greatest and noblest of thinkers and _ 4 t , i workers in Christ, are giving their f] e h best to the study and salvation of & A Lifi s childhood. Lowliness and labor; 6 > * poverty and obscurity have now ‘ ui new glory. Bethichem the least, .ds * A and the manger; the lowest of places; are glorified, for it is not the size or the fame of the place but hW' what happens in it that makes it P eS s glorious. When Christ enters a m ?",.:/, #2 life, it is glorified, immortalized. / When Christ is born in a heart, that heart is not only gladdened; it becomes a gladnessâ€"giving heart "al The shepherds; the manger; the poor; the toilers; the weak, and simple, and ignoble, and helpers of the these in Christ are the first subjects of Christ‘s beatitude. It means last, that God deserves the glory due unto His name. Amidst the earthly let not the heavenly be buried. The highest note of all Christmas merriment is: Glory to God in the highest. Let not that be forionen. Too often on Christmas men take all the happiness the gift of God has brought them, and forget all about the Giver and the Gift. k Multiply your (fi(ts; hold out glad hands of forgiveness and peace; romp around the festive tree, and shout with merrier laughter; go forth and see the home of want and cheer the sad and sick; scatter leaves of greetmf to those afar, and garland the memories of mistletoe and holly; but oh, above all, let the dear Christ in; into your home, into your heart, into your life, for of all sad things it seems to me, the saddest of all must surely be:â€"A Christmas without Christ. the he testive tree, and shout with merner laughter; go forth and see the fNome of Want ICABEIMR eC PEVEIOY, °C PEDS BR E100 METCICY CC O7+ " ind cheer the sad and sick; scatter leaves of greeting to those afar, and garland the +) % c# % ® XM«WWW«««WW d« nemories of mistletoe and holly; but oh, above all, let the dear Christ in; into The trte w ls I in th iddle of 3 1 table j ied high jour home, into your heart, into your life, for of all sad things it seems to me, the e tree was planted in the middle of a great round table and towered NIg addest of all must suret be:â€"A Christmas without Christ above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers and o e ' y Dteâ€" 2 <* everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. y O come, let us adore Him, x * «* & % rls lllas l S 8 Eg::' ::: fl: :gg;s g:fi' We all come home or ought to come home for a short holidayâ€"the longer i Christ the Lord » the betterâ€"from the great boarding school, where we are forever working at our f S Fa 54 arithmetical slates, to take or give a rest. mO e P : § actyi1" or PS Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brown meal igs, sausages, oysters. pies, puddings, fruit and punch. ; . @hfigtmag anh fiaga“iam t C on > Pn k â€"‘ +. * * % e We have many unique and useful articles for gifts this We‘re to be together all the Christmas long and have the merriest time in all season to men who smoke. mOST of our festival days are of pagan origin, and so it is with our Christmas the world. holly and mistletoe. But shall we think any the less of them because in R * * 8 o+ Our assortment of staple brands of ancient days they were associated with the Roman Saturnalia and with A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to the old man, wherever he is! He he Druid ceremonies, at which sometimes human beinges were sacrificed? How wouldn‘t take it from me, but he may have it nevertheless. Cigars In plain and fa ncy paCkingS for the HOLIDAY TRADE. is more complete than ever. \ In Pipes, Cigar and Cigarrette *, Cases, Tobacco Pouches. Toâ€" bacco Jars, Cigar and Cigarette Holders, etc., the range of selecâ€" tion is complete. ’ Hall _f P Recreation Ha 'k \Kilps . .. 41 x4 a Waterloo‘s Leading Cigar Store,; Billiard and agt | Bowling Alleys STURM BROS., Prop. . 5 KING ST. PHONE 175, W ATERL@O, ONT. PRRRARDA AQI®: Mhat Roes Christmas Mean ? > 1 of our holly and ancient d festival d | mistletoe lays they onies, at A Christmas me, let us a me, let us a me, let us a Christ the dinners; poor | 1 gentleness at w ad myriad songs Chronicle«â€"Telegraph, Waterioo, gs and presents; evergreen , and romps and: laughter; poor homes cheered, and ess at work; kind words all d songs and carols and ten this, of course, old Christmas rosity: home affection; these the less Roman cines w l1 over this The exciteâ€" wote of the Christmas because in i and with ed? â€" How world This was for the Feast of practiced by the Jews. HOEL:. the emblem of pe it was significant of the interesting to know its history! their idea from the Persians, shadows the holly tree and wh« threw in the face of a newâ€"bort PMERIUWM NJ NDC PETC: Ho:l};‘:s the emblem of peace and good will, and the ancient poets tell us that it was significant of the resurrection. How fitting its use toâ€"day and how interesting to know its history! _ Who knows but that the Romans may have derived their idea from the Persians, who have aâ€"saying to the effect that the sun never shadows the holly tree and who used to make a concoction from the bark which they threw in the face of a newâ€"born child as an omen of good luck? Closely associated with the holly is the pearly mistletoe with its romance. The Druids held a solemn procession each yearâ€" on the sixth day of the moon nearest the new year, going forth with a golden sickle to cut the mistletoe from the sacred oak. The oak to t%ne Druids was a symbol of strength. It was also the tree sacred to Jupiter, and only the mistletoe that grew on an oak had holy virtue. Each year when the voice of the cuckoo was heard in the land, the priest sent envoys to spy out the finest mistletoe growing on an oak, and when taken from the trees it was placed in white linen cloth. From time immemorial the mistletoe has been considered an omen of good, and it was said that fairies took refuge in its thick foliage, so any one who hung a spray in the home would have the protection and gratitude of the good fairy folk. Toâ€"day, with its enchantment, we beguile sweet human fairies under its white berries and all who are kissed may be sure that the hidden elves will sanction and not condemn the practice. In Sweden amulets were made of mistletoe, and in Wales a necklace made from the waxen berries was supposed to protect from snake bites. Sir Walter Scott wrcte this teautiful poem describing the social element in Happy, happy Christmas that childish days; that can recall to the transport the sailor and the traveller fireside and his quiet home Christmas was at hand in all his bluff and hearty honesty.. It was the season of hospitality, merriment and openâ€"heartedness. The old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amid the sound of feasting and revelry, to pass gently and calmly away. th ar 1 I Ont., Thursday, December 12, 1912 me wou‘ld have the | nchantment, we be issed may be sure . In Sweden amul m the waxen berric Walter Scott wrot tmas celebration 0 hat the C I ths - 3“’0[,!.0\\’11\'(; are a few gems of thought from the great borough Yuletide author, whose cenâ€" tenary was observed this year:â€" can win us back to the delusion of our old man pleasures of his youth; that can thousands of miles away, back to his own Aitckens ann Christmas arly mistletoe with its romance. the sixth day of the moon nearest cut the mistletoe from the sacred ngth. _ It was also the tree sacred oak had holy virtue. Each year nd, the priest sent envoys to spy when taken from the trees it was green. rth to the wood did merry men go gather in the mistletoc. well our Christian sires of old 1 when the year its course had olled only night in all the year the stoled priest the chalice amsel donned her kertle shee hall was dressed with hol all his hospitable train. stic and religious rite honor to the holy night. hristmas Eve the bells were ung ; hristmas Eve the mass was h ght Llithe Christmas ba rth into the mount and hes and palm branches ergreens is mentioned the custom was early and towered high little tapers and = The Leading Meat Christmas Supply of Groceries Finest of Fresh Meats always kept Meats and Sausages. Phone 354, King Street W a UCUECECECUCCACECACEUCANGCEC@CENC@CENRA Cétavearevare § A box of these Candies would make an accept= § able gift for your young lady friend. A Leave Your Orders Now. THE ONLY MEAT MARKET where the choicest varieties of first class meat is sold â€"â€"â€" Customers wishing * It will pay you to buy at this Store Right value giving and prompt service. Fresh Stock of Choice Groceries including igs, Dates, Oranges, Grapes, Fancy Cakes, Nuts, Candies, etc. Phone 61 #»W» J#3 404 %â€"40â€"2 i2 74 t 9 .9 t 4 .9 q t t CHOICE CHRISTMAS ROASTS such as BEEF, PORK, VEAL, LAMB, SAUSAGES every description should place there order for Xmas now. Prices Reasonable Phone 243, Waterloo A. URST ADTS J. B; FISGHMHER, Prop. We have the largest and prettiest assortment of FANCY BOXES Big Supply of Holley, Holley Wreaths and Mistletoe for Christmas buyers. ars in plain and fancy HOLIDAY TRADE is more col KRAFT‘S GROCERY High Class Copfectiopery bacco Jars, Ligar and Holders, etc., the range tion is complete. Market in town filled with the Choicest of Chocolates For Your n hand including Boiled Ham, Smoked Waterloo 4t