PAGE. TEN TRAVELLING, Holiday Rates FOR Christmas & New Year's Round Trip Tickets will be issued as follows SINGLE FARE. Good golng Dec, 24th and 25th and returning on or before Dec 26th, 1912. Algo good going Dec. 21st 1912 and Jan 1st, 1913, and returning ou or before Jan. 2nd 1913. SINGLE FIRST CLASS FARE AND ONE-THIRD. Good going Dec. 21st, 10.2 Jan, 1st, iy13, inclusive, ana ~ turning on or before Jan. 3rd, 1913 For full particulars, apply to J. P. HANLEY, Agent, Corner Johnson and Ontario Sts IN CONNECTION WiTH 'CANADIAN PACIFICO RAILWAY, CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S SISGLE FARE AND Good going ONE-THIRD, Dec. 25. Return limit, Also going Dee. 26, 1912. Dec. 21st to Jan Also . oging 1 Dec. 31, Jan, 3, Return limit, Return limit, Wed, Jan. Jan. 2, 1913, 1013. Full particulars at K, and P. and C.P.R. Ticket Office, Ontario Street. F. CONWAY, Gen. Pass. Ageut. 24, a a, TRY NOLAN'S Special Blend Of Grade Coffee, 40¢ a Ib. Princess Street, Phone 720 Prompt Delivery. Livery Stock Of Cutters, Robes, Blankets. . The tabargain at Bibby's Garage BROCK 8T. Sleighs, wy i Letyour children take Oxo t.. c Cube Sandwiches for their . school lunch. They are" 3s ; toa +, adelicacy--and so i+. sustaining, Kingston Business College 1 Lami Highest Education at Lowest Cost Twenty-sixth year, Fall term begins August 30th. Cours-s in Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Tele. raphy, Civil Bervice and Eng- 1s! Our graduates get the best positions. Within a short time over sixty secured positions with one of ihe iargest rallway cor. porations in Canada, Enter any time. Call or write for Informa- tion. H. ¥. Metcalfe, Principal Kingston, Canada THE "BEST" DRUG STORE, , v can be bought BEST'S Christmas cameras much more satisfactorily at than elsewhere. Years of experience makes the proper explanation as to taking and making pictures easy. All makes of cameras and and gpecial inducements held out which cannot be given by other deal- ers. Cameras from $1.50 and up, and all are guaranteed. THE "BEST" DRUG STORE. CReefes Special Extra Mild Not a headache in a barrelful -- and never makes you bilious. It's extra mild and absolutely pure. Beaupre, Local Distributor, 'Phone 313. {mmm Tey Gifts! 1 Gifts! Ho Gifts! i Janc } f will ur friends t or bod Lo A suggestion: . ew 4 on indy Hy .. : he ; 4 some gifts r Usctul aifts. get plemy of y Something for them to enjoy while theyre opening up the other things. Lowney's Chocolate Bon-Bons! Lay » . gta Centres of fruits, nuts, spices and cream. Coatings of a rare, rich chocolate blend. Made in our Montreal factory where everything is spic and span. No Christmas gift can be tastier than Lowney's. JoWNEYS | CHOCOLATE BON BONS kodaks sold, | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDY, DECEMPER 20, 1912 LOADING BIC GUNS They Get Quick Action on the Modern Monster Warship. STORY OF A PRACTICE DRILL. What Happened After the Order to "Fire!" Was Very Different From What Would Have Occurred Had Cordite and Projectiles Been Used. ' "The order is given to load. Some one touches a lever, and with a hiss a 'masy of bright steel turns and twists back, and the breech of the gun gapes open. Another touch on the lever, and from beside, you a hydraulic rafn shoots out like a golden tongue into the breech ! and immediately shoots back again | All is clear. Now, at your very feet, a hole gapes in the floor of the turret, there Is a slat and crash of metal, and as you look down into the hole you see a small lift traveling up with incred- fble rapidity and infernal clatter bear- | ing on it the immense projectile, weigh: | ing more than seven hundredweight, ) and, In another compartment, the twe cartridges of cordite. Up comes the lift, locks itself with a crash and spills out the projectile on a The golden tongue of the rammer shoots out again and pushes the pro- | Jectlle {nto the gaping breech, extend- ing itself apparently indefinitely until | the projectile has disappedred. The lift shifts a little, bringing into line { with the gun Its other compartment, which. contains the two half charges, each a cylinder holding 130 pounds of | eordite. | with no more respect for them than if { they had been sponges, aod pushes them steadily home behind the projec- tlle, and, baving done its deadly busi- ness, retires again out of the way to be | ; ready for another cycle of the same op- | erations, Halt a torn of the wheel, and the { breech block swings home with a sigh { and a click. "Right gun loaded, sir." | Now you walt in suspense, and a voice in the conning tower gives {he range-- | 8,000 yards, The gun lage: in his quiet | corner has all this time never taken his eye from the glass. He turns one | wheel, and the whole turret swings i round over the ship's quartér; he turns | another, and with a little hiss and sigh of imprisoned water the whole mighty tonnage of the gun, sweetly balanced on its trunnions, rises and tilts itself to the push of the hydraulic press. The range is decreasing by some thir- | ty yards a second, since the target is a ship approaching us at a speed equal to our own-fifteen kvots--and as the falling ranges are given the gun metal | wheel is turned an eighth or a quarter of an Inch, and the muzzle of the gun sinks down a little as gestly as a fall- ing leat. The sights are reported "on," | the gun laid, and the word we have all been waiting for is sharply given-- | "Fire!" The gun layer pulls a trigger no bigger than that of a pistol and-- The projectile was a dummy one | made of wood covered with leather, and there was no cordite in the car | tridges. If it bad been otherwise the pictures that adorned the commander's room, the mirrors and toilet accesso- ries on the cabin tables and the va- | rious elegant adornments of the cap- talo's suit would (unless they had been previously packed away) have come | crashing down from their places, and | the vavigating commander, who hap- pened at the time to be explaining to | { an unwilling listener on the quarter- { deck by what skill and foresight he | bad avoided setting the ship's stern on to the breakwater at Portlabd, would bave been blown off the deck. { I quite understood. The click and si- { lence that followed the word "Fire!" | were quite eloquent enough to me of i all the shattering damnation they rep- { resented--a projectile weighing 830 i pounds hurtling to its mark at the | rate of almost a thousand yards a sec | ond, . But we In the turret would have known nothing, for before It bad reach- ed the target the breech block would bave opened to the screech of the air fragments of cordite In the breech, the ! rammer would have shot in with its {| mop and out agaln, the ammunition | holst would have come clattering and | screaming up, another projectile would | have rolled into the tray with another two hundredweight of death packed bebind it, the rammer would bave pushed it home with a kick, the block would bave swung to again, the great gnn would have "been sighted and swang in the air, again the word would ment of concentrated power that men had toiled in factories and drawing of- fices, In laboratories and foundries to perfect would bave been sent winging through the sea alr to spend itself in destruction. And only one man In the tnrret would have sees its fate: only he with his eye to the telescope, who had seen the | hull of that ship in the distance cover ing the threadlike cross on his glass as he pulled the trigger, wonld see and guess when the distant target wonld burst into yellow smoke what work bad been done.~London Standard. A Not at All Easy. Lucllle~Oh, you can win Marie's heart easily enough. All you ueec do Is to give her all the money she wants. Joles--And do you call that essy'-- Paris Rire. Life will give us back whatever we pot foto It In a way It Is just ke a EL SN ET juosed farther than metal tray in line with the open breech. | Out shoots the ram again, | These things were unnecessary, for | have been given, and again the frag. { said that the whisper of a dol- UNCLE JAKE DIDN'T AGREE. The Old Man Upheld His Reputation For Being Contrary. "Uncle Jake" was one of the char. acters of Banbury. He was as deaf 18 a post--when he wanfed to be-- and as contrary gs a bundle of sticks. Oue of his peighbors came into--his yard one day and said: "Uncle Jake, I'd like to borrow your wagon this worning. Mine is havibg a spring mended." "You'll have to speak louder," joined Uncle Jake. 'well, and I don't like to lend my wagou anyhow!" The old man wos an expert maker of ax helves--an occupation ia which there is more art than the unimstruct- ed would suppose--and these handles he left at the village store to be sojd on commission. One snowy day, as Uncle Jake came stamping up the steps of the store, another old fellow who was known as Uncle Horace remarked to the men lounging about the stove: "I'll treat the crowd If 1 don't make Uncle Jake agree to the first thing 1 say to him when he comes in." "Don't be rash, Uncle Horace!" call- ed out the storekeeper. "That never happened yet, and it isn't likely to." But Uncié Horace merely grinned and picked up one of Uncle Jake's ax heives. The door opened, and in came Uncle Jake. "Jake," sald Uncle Horace, running his fingers up and down tHe smooth wood, "this Is a mighty good ax ban- dle." "No, It ain't," replied Uncle Jake at once. *I can make good handles, but that one you've got is the kind people want. They don't know no better!" And Uncle Horace treated the com- pany to sardines, ¢rackers and cheese. --Youth's Compurion. \ i SMALL SAVINGS. ° A Lecture on Economy That Mark Hanna Delivered to Dingley. Mark Hanna did many things in a large way. Nevertheless he was pot averse to giving his serious attention to little things on occasion. Senator Han- pa one afternoon in Washington board- ed a trolley car. Seeing Representative Dingley--he of the tariff law--just en- tering the front door, Hanna walked forward and took a seat beside him. The conductor approached and each man paid his separate carfare, Dingley with a five cent plece, Hanna with a ticket. The conversation fell along the lines of business. Reports, they agreed, In- dicated that every class of business and industry was prospering. "Every one," said Hanna, "seems to be making good money." Dingley protested. He knew of at least one man who wasn't--himself. "It's very simple, Dingley, very," re plied Hapna. "You pay your carfare with a nickel, the full hundred cents on the dollar. You may bave noticed that 1 paid my fare with a ticket. 1 buy them six for 25 cents; therefore 1 save just 20 per cent for myself. That's the secret, Dingley. That's the thing you've got to learn--~how to save the 20 per cent for yourself. That's your trouble, Dingley; you don't save when you have the opportunity. could be rich if they would only learn how to put that easy made 20 per cent re- on the credit instead of the debit side © of thelr accounts."~New York World. Tree That Gives Light. Among freaks of nature in. trees there stands conspicuous one known as the Asiatic star tree. It Is enormous | ly tall, growing to a height of from sixty f to eighty feet, while from the grou up to a distance of about forty feet the trunk is perfectly bares | From thi point there spring a num- ber of tangled limbs, which shoot out clusters of long, pointed leaves, and It is these, grouped together, that emit at night a clear, phosphorescent light. | This gives the tree a spectral appear ance and is very deceiving to travel | ers, who frequently mistake the glow for an illuminated window of a hous® The light is not brilliant, but is of | sufficient strength to allow of a news- | paper being read by it. It does not | flicker, but glows steadily from sun- set to daybreak. blast which cleans out the burning. | On the Slopes of Vesuvius, Despite the danger to which they are | exposed, from 80,000 te 100,000 people live upon the slopes of Vesuvius, be sides the 500,000 inhabitants crowded | ; Into Naples. The reason is that the { fertility of the soil is perennial, the { peril only occasional. The volcanic ejecta are rich iu alumina, silica, mag- . nesla, lime, potash and fron, which by ' their decompositon go to make splen- | did land. Some of the best vines in Italy grow on the skirts of Vesuvius { If the volcano were away not one tenth of the many cultivators could subsist in the same area. 1 icing the Cake. For the first time Ethel chanced to see her father preparing to shave. Running into the kitchen, she exclaim ed," "Oh, mamma, guess what papa is doing? "1 don't know, dear. doing? "He's making a cake out of his face" replied Ethel. "He's putting the icing ou it now.""--Chicago News. Br Hopeful. 9 Her Legal Adviser--Madam, you bave had three husbands, and every one of them either went crazy or turn- ed out to 'be worthless. Yet yon are thinking of marrying again! Fair Clk ent--Yes. sir. 1 want a safe and sane fourth.--Clicago Tribune. What is he Often the life about which least can be said Is the one that says the most v a ae No Uordelia, iif. doesn't make a singe'; fonts lear 10 strain her > extracting gold and "I don't hear very | A lot more people , | | SHOE REPAIRING. The Evening Luxury Ton ApATNG . Year Welt Machine System for all kinds of Shoe Repairing. Call and give me a trial, : ROBERT PAYNTER, f , 269 Princess Street. CEYLON TEA w |{ Christmas Anticipated with delight by all who use it [{ Chocolates LEAD PACKETS ONLY. BLACK, MIXFD OR GREEN, Large variety of Fancy AT ALL GROCERS. Boxes. + __MICHEST AWARD-ST. 10VIA, 1904. GANONG'S -MOIR'S S---- WEBB'S & ROWNTREE'S A.J.REES ERADICATE HAIR Will quickly remove SUPERFLUOUS HAIR Absolutely harmless. Convenient to use. | er] Price $1.00 postage paid : | Jessop's Pharmacy - Napanee, Ont. nin Doh 5 | PERFECTION coco A WHEN the boys and girls come in tired and hung from the slides a cup of Cowan's is as good as a meal. Better. It is easy to digest. It is so appetizing, so refreshing-- not only satisfies the hunger, but lets you sleep like a top. Your Grocer Has It. THEI, ihe p bk ot Cup o ocoa When Fo / Return." The COWAN Co. Limited TORONTO is spenaing $2,000,000 = Al INTO . u : N. HINES is one of the road commissioners of Wayne County, > Michigan, in charge of the*highways leading from a pros- perous farming district to the market in Detroit. He has probably 'had more experience with concrete roads than any other road commissioner. He told some of his experiences in an address in Chicago last May. He was road commissioner before he used concrete. He was not satisfied with macadam roads. In his own words: . . re . 4 "We decided that a change was not only desirable, but necessary; and we set out to find a more permanent and durable material which would approximatéin ini- tial cost that of a first class macadam. ' "After thorough investigation, we decided that a concrete road would' more nearly realize this ideal than other forms. The points considered as being in its favor were: "Comparatively low first cost; low maintenance cost; freedom from dirt; comparative noiselessness; ease of traction for vehicles of all descriptions; and the small crown necessary to get rid of surface water." THAT was several years ago. Wayne County farmers were so pleased with * those first concrete roads, that they later voted bonds and gave Mr. Hines and his fellow commissioners $2,000,000.00 for more Concrete Roads In the same address Mr. Hines expressed Their reasons are not hard to find. them as follows: "1 stand committed to the use of Concrete for country roads I also believe concrete to be anideal form of paving for village and city streets and alleys. "This is not a statement born of enthusiasm on the spur of the moment, but a cold-blooded dollar-and-cents view, based on results attained and arrived at after careful consideration of all the facts available and experiences undergone." THis is only one county's experience with concrete roads. But it is representa- tive of the experiences of many others. The sooner every town and county makés use of the information which these other communities have supplied, the sooner wits road fund be invested for permanent, satisfactory roads instead of being Spent for roads that must soon be paid for, all over again, in the shape of annual repairs. Will $ou uss your influence for the purpose of hastening 'the adoption of this policy in your community? You kiow what good roads mean~--t0 you and te your neighbors. If you have doubt of these claims. or if you desire mars com- plete pron. 1 vi the facts which we have gather. nat purpose. Just ask for "Good Roads Literature," and omplete information will be sent free. » rand ed env A r Address, Good Roads Department, Canada Cement Company, MONTREAL Limited Any town or county contemplating road improvement may receive valuable assistance by notifying our road department of its plane. iy i stock would wer} sn mntam-- me