\ FN the great chan of hotels which streteh from ocean [0 ocean parts of the world thé hostelries portrayed in this pic millions of dollars in the building of these © Jargements. The Chateau COUNTRYSIDE TIDINGS WHAT WHIG CORRESPONDENTS HAVE TO TELL. 'ews From Villages sud Farms Throughout the Adjoining Coun- ties = Rural Events, and Move- ments of the People. Bell Rock Budget. Bell Rock, Dec. 11.--Business been dull here for the past two weeks on account of bad roads Messrs. Wilson® and Fmmons shipped a large droye of cattle from this neighborhood. Rev. .J. Leach preach- ed an impressive and helpiul sermon has "here last Sunday. Many of the far- mers are cutting wood and timber to behanled out later: a Visitors : Joseph Timmons, sr, ise, at John Timmons'; Mrs. A artin, Kingston, at : Yorke's; M. Roach, Kingston, at W, Brook's; Mrs. James Meeks and Mrs. E. James are spending the day in Kingston. % At Lower Lavant, Lower Lavant, Dec. 21. The roads are in mteh better condition after the heavy fall of snow on Sot- urday. Robert Robertson is ill. Rob- ert Melnnis met with what might have proved a serious accident on Friday. Whild drawing poles one struck him uneonscious. His father found him lying in the snow some- tme later. However, he is recove:- ing nicely, Messrs. W. and M. Reid visited Lanark last week. James Umpherson has a gang of men work- ing fn the bush. A few of the men here and Poland were out on a hunt after a big bear last week, but Bruin succeeded in evading them. ' Lady a Winnipeg Trustee Dec. 20.--Don A. Cur: week-end visitor in King- Jadies of St. Edward's over $300 as a result d on Turkey fair i, of Jasper, was 'Mr. and Mrs. H. A. 1 and ROYAL ALEXANDRA Winmpeg * fture figu palaces of cemtort will all rontenac in the extensive ni re -------- | William Kennedy, Westport was re- 'ently elected a miember of - the school board for the city of Win- nipeg, defeating her male opponent by 200 votes formerly of lady Westport, is member of the board the Notes From Sangster. Sangster, Dee. 2° Many here attended the annual fair, heid in Westport. Mr. and Mrs, M. J. Cochrane paid Kingston a visii last Thursday. Miss Furgeson, Bed- ford Mills, %nd . Miss @G. Babcock, Glendower, at N. Murphy's: J. Mul ville, Rideau Lake, at T. Barrett's: Mrs. John O'Connor, at M. Kelly's, Glendower; Jennings, at James Murphy's; \. Bariett, at M. J } Miss at: 7 from poultry E. Murphy Murphy, liss Daley and Rosie Younge, at P. O'Connor's; J. Mur- plat John Goodheart's; Alexander} | Bonnets. at Patience Egan's. | News From Plevna. | Plevna, Dec. 19.--The box social | and Christmas tree held in the I school house op the 16th inst, was a success The proceeds amounted to $28, the greater portion which will go to the Belgian relief fund. { Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. Elkington, on December 1st, a daughter. Mrs, Smith, has received a good supply of knitting which she is sending to the Red Cross "Society. The lumber men were glad to see the snow, which was badly needed. Master Clilford Davy was the guest of Jos. aph Card recently. A number of young people from Ardoch and Feruleigh attended the social on the 16th inst. Mallorytown Matters. Mallorytown, Dee. 21.--Mrs. A. P. Guild is visiting at L. A. Guild's, Kingston. The annual! Christmas tree entertainment will be held on Christmas night in the Oddfellow's Hall. Miss Laura Jordan, who has been attending the Normal School at Kingston, is 'now Nome. Rev. Mr. Henderson, of Gananoque was the minister for the morning and evening sermons at the Methodist church as Rev. W. G. Bradford is kept at home because of rheuma- tism. Miss Dollie Mallory, who has been at for' some time is now home for whe Christmas holi- a There is to be a spacial maet. ing of the quarterly board at the parsonage on Tuesday, December Nomination for ihe townghip takes, on' . probability be thie Mon dollars is still proceeding, while only recently A Mrs. Brown who was | only ' | years ago. fe agiongst the most prominent nat and so successful lave they b next in line for improvements, the terations to the Place Viger were n to accommodate the hundreds of thouss CHATEATr FRONTENAC y in size but In comfort and conve "ver, thoat the Royal Alexandra which is in ipleted at a cost of almost 4 : A AA AA AA AAA St dt pare. iin, | 28th, | Lodge is on the evening of the 28th i December. | Bloomfield News Budget Bloomfield, Dec, 21.--John Chal- mers has opened a flour and feed | store. Ernest Smith has started a ! rage in the basement of Garfield | Sheppard's shop. Mrs. Clayton Barr and children leave on Wednes- day for Toronto to spend the Chr mas holidays with her parenis, Rev and Mrs. James Thom. Mr. and Mrs, Kenney, of Kenora, will spend Christmas at John Clinton's saddened by the death of Bruce McDanald on Sunday evening. She. had been dangerously ill al last week from an internal disease, bist previous to that had been in good health. Mrs, McDonald was the daughter of the late Sidney Stanton and was born thirty-nine Her mother resides in Picton and Harry Stanton and Frank Stanton, brothers, East Lake and Detroit. The funeral was held on Tuesday from her late residence to Glenwood cemetery, Picton. Sherman Werden, of Outlook, Sask., arrived home on Saturday for the winter. He will be present at the wedding of his sister, Miss Gladys Werden, daugehter of Mal- colm Werden, to Ray Carman this week, -- i. CAPTURE OF VERMELLES. Park: Wall Blown Up -- Bayonet Uharge Puts Enemy to Flight, Paris, Deo, 23. --A graphic account of the ure of Vermelles is pub- ished. e battle was fought from house to house and farm to farm, step by step. The French on one side of the main street and the Ger mans on the other. fired at each oth- Ler without stoppi all dav and night all around a teau park, At eleven o'clock in the morning a terrific explosion destroyed the park wall, A company of French- men 'and Algerians rushed with fixed hafenets. thbough the breaches . and stored the teau, The Ger- mans, who had lost heavily, did not expect the assault, and were de- moralized Five days later another violent at- tack drove them out of a festgurant building, constructed of iron and = re- inforced concrete, A TsMonahle doybt is giteu rodde £6 bs quite an amount. of unreason: Election of officers of McCoy | | A GERMAN'S VISION. | Outlines Country's Economic Measu. | | res After the War. | | | godzinski, lecturer in economics 15t- § | kets or even. greatly to di | trade will The neighborhood of Fast Lake is | Mis. | London, Dec , 23 - Translating | | {from the German press, the London | { Daily News says that Professor Wy- at Bonne university, has contributed to the Cologne Gaette and imaginative sketch of Germany's economic meas- | ures after the war. "England's intention to drive us permanently out of the world's mar- minish our | be ineffective," he pre- | mised. { Germany's trade, he says, will take | other routes, Primarily she will] "favor" 'the neutral countries which have been friendly, or, at any rate, not unfriendly * such as ' Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria, a part of the Ameri- cas and China, Horrible things. how- ever, are to be taken against the United States of America. Professor Wygodzinski is furious because Am- erica has not insisted on England permitting the shipment of petroleum Therefore, after the war Germany is to be made independent of the Ameri. can oil supply. Benzo! is to replace petrol gas and denaturized spirits will supplant petroleum for lamps, and gas again. will be used instead of oil for heating. ------------------ NOT CLEAR TO OPIAWA. --e Speculation As To Whit New Year Honors May Mean. Ottawa, Dec. 835 The statement from London that two annoumce- ments of New Year Honors for Cana- dians will be made hag caused con- siderable speculation here, The inti- mation is Wot fi any" sense official, and it: meaning is rot altogether clear, it is taken, however, to mean that in addition to the list confined to thé do! itself, there may be another Mst nding the names of Cana ¥ giving distinguished service of on kind or another outside of Canada. ALL PASSAGE FORBIDDEN Germans Cameel Passport s on Danish . e Copenh: Dec. 23--The German authorities acedrding to 5 mes. sage 1m the Troutier, forbidden al) from G -¥a the Dap- i Liey refuse to that all ds of tourists mnd travellers who visit Can 'uence, year it is found necessary to Quebec PLAC HIGER HOTEL Montreal ada every year from all The CP.R. Las spent further huge sums on ven- ving & sum of over one mil pend vol LOST GERMAN DEPUTY Found Fighting With the French Army. Paris, Dec. 23,--Georges Weill, the long-lost deputy for Metz in the Ger- man parliament," has heen found, or rather he has revealed himself, Noth- ing more dramatic or sensational Jas appeared in. print than the first two sentences of his 'manifesto to his friends of Alsace-Lorraine, "Since" the outbreak of 'the war," he writes, "I have 'let the German press circulate all sorts of stories about me, and have neither protested nor denied that 1: owed complete sil- ence to my aged parents,' who were still at Strassburg, and 1 preferred to leave even them in ignorance as to what had happened to me rather than expose them to the 'anger of those who are still masters in that city. Now that they are in safety my lib- erty of speech id reconquered, On Aug- nst 5th 1 edlisted in the French army. In joining the army of the vepublic and thus continuing the struggle against militarized, Prussianized r many I am conscious' of having well fulfilled by duty a socialist deputy and vyepresentative 'far ' Alsace-Lor- raine," es Was ------ FUNDS LOW IN AUSTRIA, War Loan Incomplete~Relief Sub. scriptions Smal, Berne, Dec. 28-Ths Austtian war loan is still not subscribed fully, and the subscription J's for the Red Cross and the Soiar's Widows apa Orphans are strikingly small. most important Vienna paper, the , ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Three Scenes In Connection With the European War, = . Queen's Journal LE Christmas eve at Salsbury Plain! A goodly number of the Oshadians were congregated in one of the shacks, some were chatting in low tones; some painstakingly writing long letters home while others con: .|ned for the hundredth time the last |' lnstaltients from over: water which by this time had been thumbed ov- er 80 often as to 'be scarcely legible. To some appeared in vision the roar- ing trafic of a busy city street, to others a quiet coundry road, a wind- lng lane, the merry ring of sleigh- beHs, while to others came the memory of the wind-swept,snow-clad prairies and the cold piercing winds from the north. All thoughts of old London, of thé J shrapnel, of the sunken trenches, of the prospective hardships, tests of endurance and possibly even death were temporarily fo "to the back-ground 'and each one thought of a mother of a sweetk in the dand of the maple on"Cliristmay eve. i J Christmas even. in Paris! But what a contrast to the Panis of oth- er years! No cheering street-boys no iostling crowds, no'shouts of "Noel! Noel! no shops gay-with all the fes- tive displays of the yuletide but'a quiet sober Paris, all its friv- olity cast aside, its former. cloak of gayety discarded .for & stern. mantle of seriousness, « A city, served by an army of women, women Btreet-clean- ers, women <¢ab-drivers, women postmen, 'for 'while Joan and Bap- ste fight the invader; Blanche and Marie must fill the places left vac- ant, which may never be filled by their former holders again, Christmas eve in the trenches! A lull came ih the fighting as the long day drew to a ¢lose and the little Belgian gunner pulled from out the Pocket of his tunic a picture of a fair-haired "Flemish maiden in a nurse's suit. ""Thank God she's safe now," he assured himself as he stowed it away again, "the Germans don't make war on the Red Cross," and even as he spoke there lay un- Sera Mle of 'wreckage and mason- Iy in the nearby eity--a momento of the vist OF £18 IAN Feros Ee a still white<clad. figure with a red emblem on her arm. ' ---- And 'to the great cathedral went the kaiser, and acknowledged the | salutes of 'the. ¢heéring multitudes, rand bowed his head at the word of | prayer and bleased the name of the prophet of NazaFeth who many cen- turies before had preached the doc-~ trine of peacé on earth amd good will to all. 1 WARRIORS ON STAGE. Allies' 'Music. Hall 1s & Barn At Dixmuge. Dixmude, grec, 23, ~The music nal" is Lalf a mile behind the French firing . line near Dixmude, in the first barn on the right. It is devoted to variety exclusively, but mances are not gugtanfeer to be continuous. The directors re- scrve the right to interrupt or to change the programme' and 'sub- stitute artists without notice. Rea. chs Tor this precaueion are obvious to anyone who has heard: the (er uién shells 'go screeching through the air over the barn. A candle here and there, stuck on a bayonet, does as well as it ean in the 'Place of calcium. lights, and am. munition boxes, when one knows how to arrange them, make a very good tage, The performance begins soon after the relief of the guard in the trench- es. The troupe, as well as the au- dience, is composed of "allins" of all colors :. British, French, Moors, Sikhs Hindoos, Algerians, Senegalese--gener- ally covered with the mud of the trenthes of Flanders. The pro- gramme consists of songs, + mono- logues, recitations and a One performance concluded with the singing of popular clioruses in French and Fenglish. : : The chorus of the last gong was in- pterrupted by different. regimental bugle ealls, and the audience and perform- ers dispersed precipitately to join their detachments fof a despatch = to the trenches. -- Hallies' Bear in mind that none 'of ts, at the end, can claim real estate only to grave size. It often happéns 4hat the jolly, good-natured man 5.50. at; vopr finan- cial expense. Phone 720. Prompt Delivery "NOLAN'S: GROCERY OUR FRESH GROUND COF- FEE b AT 0c. CAN'T RE BEAT. a 'order and convinced: a be Theil. Neue Freie Presse, has since the be- lf ginning of the wa, $ and about $12 dows and among the suffering ing. B.C. GIRL OFF TO FRONT. Wants to Drive Motor Vancouver, B.C, . leen Dunsmuir, ter of Jameés Duns: mier of British Co his coal mines to' acken. for eleven million ed to serve her eo r raised only about |f 105,000 for the Austrign Red Cross ! ,500 "for Soldier's Wi- |i Orphaas.. Discontent ||} poor is increas- | For Rent Six-reom brick dwell- ing, on Chatham St. near Princess. All improve: ments. Rent $9 a mont. PLATING I» Nickle, Sliver. Copper, Brass. ) We make all of irom 'and wire PARTRIDGE $ sone King St. West. im gi COAL The kind you are look- ing for is the kind we sell Scranton Coal Is good Coal and we guarantee prompt de- livery BOOTH & CO. Foot of West St. Kingston Cem- ent Products ° CEMENT BLOCKS, SILLS, LIN. TELS, PIER BLOCKS, BRICK, VASES, and everything ip cement. Varin. "ah work a specialty. OFFICE 177 WRLLINGTON ST. War'se. Cor. Charles and Patrick Sta. ' SPECIAL DELIVERY | XMAS DAY FANCY BOX [(HOOOLATES and - Ice Cream Call or Phone 080 GEORGE MASOUD, Prop. IS SSOuUL ges Xmas Specials Stockings, Se, 10¢, 25¢ each. Candy Canes, 1c, 3¢, be, 10¢ each, Sweet Seedless Oranges, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢, 30c¢ dozen. Grapes, Dates, Figs, Mixed Nuts, Chocolates, Creams, Mixed Candies. J. R. B. Gage, 254 Montreal St.