Overcoats Name your style and we'll show You the best overcoat ever put together and wold for the money. If yon can't name it and are "on the fence in regard to style," just come and see our spread and you'll have no trouble whatever in picking out Just your idea in a coat. There are the Dignified Chesterfields, the smart new button. through modes, the shawl collar, the convertible collar, the Balma- ann, etc., ete. $12.00, $13.00, $18.00, up to 823.00, Not a coat that's wrong 'or overpriced. Come in, see and try on our $15 Overcoats -- " ® 9 Livingston's, ° BROCK STREET. A Little Qut of the war, But It Will Pay You alk FN 2 f i i | | { Hi } | I i | ere 2 eathedral. AT WALDRON'S TABLECLOTHS with Napkins to match, in all lengths and sizes, at special Xmas prices. PURE LINEN TOWELS, with hand work od initials 60c¢ to $1.00 each LINEN PILLOW CASES, embroidered and initialed. Real hand work. $2.50, $3 a pr .EIDERDOWN QUILTS in handsome pat- $4.98, $6.50 and $7.50 How about a_pair of White Wool Blankets? ~ We are selling them at 20% off regular prices. . Coats, Suits And Skirts At Half Price SRL. MS [| DIED IN FRONTENAC CLUB MON- DAY MORNING. T-- | Seized With a Weak Spell Near There = Deceased Was For Years Con nected With the 14th Regiment. Death came suddenly, { morning, at 9.30 o'clock, in the per- son of Major Archibald J. Sinclair #3. he was walking along William street. When near the corner of King istreet, he was seized with a weak i#pell and some by carried the | victim into the' Frontenac Club. Dr. A. Kilborn were summoned, but death en- sed before they arrived, i The deceased was born at Halifax, N.S, sixty years ago, and was the son of the late John Sinclair, was at one 'time mayor. of that city. For the past twenty-eight years the 'late Major Sinclair had been a resi dent of Kingston, where he was wide- itv known by many friends. For wen. tv years he had been payvmaster of the {lth Regiment and: only retired from j{iie position a year ago. Before com- ing to Kingston he had studied law, and for a few years practised in Hali. (fax. The deceased was a member of St. He was unmar- red. Surviving him are two sisters, Mrs. R. F. Kent and Mrs. A. E. Irownfield, of Kingston, The funeral of the late Major Sin- clair will be conducted on Tuesday ai- ternoon, at two o'clock, to St. George's cathedral. The remains will be placed in Cataraqui vault. Late Miss Wood, Sydenham. The death occurred at the general hospital on Sunday of Ettie C. Wood, eldest daughter of the late John Wood,of Sydenbam. The deceased, who was fifty-three years of age, had been a life-long resident of this place. For several weeks she had been a pa- tient sufferer. On Monday the remains Were transferred to Sydenham and the funeral will be held on Tuesday after noon, Keelerville Resident Dead. Hency. James Abbott, an elderly man, died at the general hospital, on Sunday night. The deceased former- ly lived at Keelerville, and the re. mains were transferred there on Mon- day. : PEPPEPEPPPEPF PEEPS SEP PbS * NO ROOM FOR MEDIOCRITY. What is good enoug for Canadians to buy from Canadi- an makers is of too much im- Portance to be anything but the best. There is no room in this country for mediocrity in man- © nigcturing. Long ago with our 23,000 factories we got past the stage where we excused our- selves by inexperience. We are not experimenting, We are 4 competing in the world's mar- + kets; and what is more to the -* point, in our own home mar ket, % with goods made by expert man- wacturing nations the world over. Our $1,500,000,000 capital investment in manufacturing plants would be worse than wasted if they turned out a Inrge percentage of inferior goods. They had far better be idle and go to the scrap-heap. We have the best wheat, the best all-round climate, the rreatest railway. systems, the Grebe d * ~ EP PRL ESL P ee le - hE - * + * 2 + a + + + 4 most contented and prosperous people, one of the most efficient army of workers in the world, and as high an average of busi- "ness and manufacturing brains as can bo found anywhere. *» There is no reason why we should not be abic to put our Canadian-mado. wares dowd be- cide those made in any ecoun- try and challenge the most mi- ¢onute comparison, In many § fields of manufacturing we { have proved that we can. In * some others we still seem to be oxperimenting a little, Now is the + when the "Made- in-Canada campaign has be- come a craspde, to get rid of all fair 10 middling, "pretty-good- for-Mary-Ann", methods and see dood po gb oe de oe oe eo " that the things we ask our fel- + + low-Canadinns to buy carry on # their face and in their fibre the + © guaranter of their own excel- lence, What is good enough for Canadians fo buy is good enough to demand from the manufactmier the last ounce of excellence in manufacturing. * + 3 ° + + oh Municipal Affairs. Canadian Courber Several daily newspapers have #iven their approval to the idea ad- vaneed in these columns that Gn- tario should have a commissioner or minister of municipal affairs. Mani- tuba has a commissioner; Saskatche- wan and Alberta have a minister, At his time, when municipalities need €tanee and advice in financing, a provincial minister of munteipal af- fairs would be a great assistance to every munieipality, At present the town councils of cities, towns and villages. have no adviser. The provincial government does ho- thing to help. These local bodies must blunder along as best they can. The farmers have a minister who is supposed to help them; the mining men have a niinister to help them; other sections of the community get help and advice; but the people who look after municipal administration get none. In Great Britain, there is a Local Government Board which not only advises the town councils, but BGagnces them. This is a reform to which Canada has given too little attention and which is now a pressing national problem, ; Vern we ote pan Lieut. -Col. W. S. Hughes was in Ot- tawa on Sunday. on Monday R. B. Williamson and Dr. BR. K. who At the front to-day. is a band of young Quakers who have found method of serving freedom without running counter to their religious belie? that them to carry arms against their fel- OW men. The leader of this group is Philip J. Baker, a son of J. Allen Baker the well. kiown pacifist and member of the British house of par- liament. J. Allen Baker is" son of Cana- dian pareuts and for many years was a resident of Kingston. The son, Philip, is also well ¥fown, both as a Cambridge "Blue" in track athletics, as a member of the British Olympic team and as an exceptionally brilliant scholar. When the war came on in August last it found Baker an auth- ority on international law ard an ur- gent peace man. He undertook to or- ganize an ambulance corps of eighty men. The response was so enthusi- aztic that soon nearly one hundred, mostly university men were in train- ing camps and were soon qualified to pass the Red Cross ex minations, Finding that the British rmy auth- orities. would require them to enlist and carry small arms, Mr. Baker ap- plied to the French and Belgian gov- ernments and obtained permission to go out as an individual unit without military service difficulties. Many members of the "Young Friends Ambulance Corps" are serv- ing at their own expense, while oth- ers, with no means, are giving all they have in their service. The equipment of motor ambulances and poutfit is being provided by members of the Society of Friends but there is need of more money for medical supplies. A letter just received Eays in part: "As a result of. the 'appeal to friends in Toronto there has already been raised considerably over $1000. From Bloomfield comes $200; Tren- ton has sent $250 or so. In Phila- helphia and New York City I think $5000 has been raised. There is vast ueed, and the lads are doing splen- did 'work on those bloody battle fields. Reports just to hand tell of five work and rescues in firing line. Already the corps has been the means of saving hundreds of lives. orf course everybody is giving and giv- ing again but in these awful times the call is most urgent for the great- eet sacrifices." Commenting on this work the To- ronto Star editorially says : "Perhaps there is not a full reali- zation of the risks that are taken by the members of the various organi- zations which attend to the wound- ted on the field. In the old days a j pitched battle was fought in a day, cand a battle, like Gettysburg, = ex- | tending over three days, was a won- When the battle was over one sigle was in undisputed possession of the field, and had acere for such of the woundeh enemy as could not be 'arvied off in the retzgat. Now we have battles extending: over' three vecks, 'with ' armies entrenched, and with each side besieging abd be- vieged. The wounded cannot be left on the field for weeks, and the grow- ng custom is to attend to their immediare wants on the field. The surgeon creeps 'up to the wounded man, often in as much danger as if he were a soldier in the: ranks, ad- ministers an angesthetic, and gives fiest aid. The surgeon is always in danger. Fven if he is not direct- x wimed at, he- may be killed by artillery fire. It is said that the mortality in the surgical and am bulante service is greater than in other 'services of the army. "Those who give this kind of aid, and those who undertake to remove the wounded from the field, are per- forming a valuable and heroic = ser vice which ought to be aided and encouraged by every possible means { Mr. Baker and the other members of { the Young Friends' Ambulance Corpd a splendid spirit of courage bam humanity, and the appeal on { their behalf ought .to meet with a "liberal response.' 5 lhe Belgian fund, the Red {fund and the patriotic fund have all heen most generously responded to !by the public, so no.new canvass will he undertaken in support of this winbulance work. Any one J who feels able to aid<in the providing of funds for medical supplies for these plucky student workers may send his or her contribution to Prof. W. CC. Baker, 135 Centre street, Kingston, who has been asked by the authori- ties to act as steward in this mat ter. dor, show Cross MADE HIMSELF AT HOME Police Were Called to Remove Drunk Saturday Night. "When the whiskey is in the wit is out," according to an old saying. This appiies to « man who celebrated Saturday night and landed in the po- lice cells. The man walked into a lo- cal hotel about - mine "o'eclock, and, {without saying a word to the propric- tor or any person in the house, stag- | gered into one. of the bed rooms and + made preparations to go to bed befare he was discovered. , Police Constables Nicholson and Nuylon were called: and they removed the man to the police station, where he spent the night. In police court he was fined $1 ts. Several Accidents. Thomas Banks, aged fity-two {years slipped ow#he sidewalk on Lower Gordon street on Saturday andy - fractured his left leg. heen emcees ks Special Sale Of Fancy LINE} TO-MORROW From 9 a.m. until 6, or as long as stock lasts. Just in time for Chllsizmas we secured in Montreal last week a + special lot of Faney Linen Doylies, Tray and Centrepieces, lace trimmed. The lot is not large and we secured it at a little over half its value. 6 inch Round Lace Trimmed Doylies at 16¢ for 8 inch Round Lace Trimmed Doylies at 25¢ fo 9 inch Tray Cover, 35¢ for . 12 inch Tray Cover, 50¢ for 20 inch Tray Cover, $1.00 for 20 inch Tray Cover, $1.25 for 24 inch Centrepieces, $2.50 for 30 inch Centrepieces, $2.75 for $ 200 Dainty Lace Pin Cushion Covers, worth 20c, for, each . . THESE MAKE MOST ACCEPTABLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS 400 Real Hand Embroidered Handkerchiefs Q Each one put up on card and ribbon tied, ready for Christmas giving. These are in many new and novel designs--over : 60 different makes. 121-2¢, 20c, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢ -- Men's Pure Linen Handkerchiefs Mrs. ida Wagar, aged fifty years was walking on the track near the, Na- Canadian Nerthern station at panee, and was hit by a Sustained a fracture of 1) n, age ving fu a igo tween Tamworth and Beaver page Was thrown out and received ievers Ya OTIS Asull the lead. brought te the is doing as well as ean be | i . ' FOR FATHER, B He was general hospital, and: ROTHER, SON OR CLUB BAG OR SUIT CA SE We have the assortment we have at Christmas, New 'and at low prices. show you our stock. : 5% Thel a A