Nm -- J Rost Ts Rust The business that is stand- ing still to-day is going back- wards. : ' Good times will pass it be- fore 'it éan catch up. . Resting . is indeed rusting ig applied to 'commercial "life. v Now is the time for aggres- sive action. Now is the time to go after 'sales. Now is the time when. news- paper advertising will yield a greater percentage of returns than for many inonths. Join the "Go Aheaders." LS Grippe and | | I & ee-------- i t Colds Cannot remain in the same house with Dr, Hickey's Speedy Cure and Dover's Cold Break- ers. A treatment of these in- valuable remedies will quickly cure any dase of grippe and sore throat. They are your Best Doctor, sure, safe and ef- fectual." 25 cents each, at Best's The Popular Drug Store. Open Sundays, 7 SEE US WHEN YOU CANNOT SEE A Paradox? No! We provide pro per glasses through which you can see. nr Being eyesight special- ists we know when eyes are wrong and why glasses are right. See us--we un- de d our Pana ) KEELEY Jr. M. 0... 0 OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN Princess Street ® doors above the Opera House WAR ! The continuance of war demands pre- paration for war times. This year will be a trying one to secure enough to wear that is of any use. Our advice is, buy all you can of last year's "goods and you will save at least 50 per cent: on your purchases. | Hosiery, Under- wear and Clothing demands * greatest attention. , Clothing Company. _-- sR If you are polite in E. P. Jenkins - ) I Reserve Battglion's Brass Band is . also quarantined from sickness from ; dg | what I heard, and I guess this Fs ; ea EIR 0 true as théy. have not been on par. WRITES ABOUT CHRISTMAS AT] ade all this week as they had only SANDLING CAMP, EXGLAND, | their bugle band out all week. T -- 36th is from Toronto. A Number Of Kingston Members Ot! Lieut. William Nickle is to re 21st Battalion Who Were Wound- | port for duty with the 21st Battal ed Are In Reserve Battalion «| ion at anytime now, as he wishes to He 2 ttal- - Drdmmer William Morrison, 21st | Bet a x the sdod ald is Batial Battalion, Sandling Camp, England, | surprised when he called to my hut, has written the following very inter- | . : ired if esting letter "As (his is Christmas | early this morning, and enquire Day & thought I would drop you al 1 was fixed alright for Surmimas, He " EE Kine | Was looking after the few Kingston Fn ls Lio Bow wo | en of the old 1ai ho are Bow on of RDSupis i of the 21st have spent) light duty here at the Base with me. our Christmas day here on Camp, | OM¥ Yesterday afetHoNn Ivy gp I must say that we are greatly pleas- | Jets A he. Bla Battalion ad ed: with our nice Christmas dinner, | : i ; which we have just defeated after ai after they had been djschatied yrou Nard fight with turkey + © the Base Hospital at 8 ornc " "On in eve we had a busy | Of them has had an awful time of it, time decorating. our huts, and it] but I will not say anything avout i ing 8 i A is tri does Took good to see the old maple | FaLqanding to he the mined od he ts y 3 "i Mow . re ogies! fhe Buia Nore 2d | Luh Tu Er Angela" o Which flags 1 and DE es eT «1 wus sunk. This man's name is Lance- This morning, | . i 21st hd * HC ow K ry of the 21s Christmas morning, of course, Wwe { Corpl. Fred Flatter were all very busy in getting clean- | Juste Sand. 11 1 am not mistaken Je i - TT "4 4 sa a former member of the R.C.H.A., correspondent of The Morning Post, 4% a bugler where he has won him-| German and Austrian values are now | seit a great name as a fine bugler | the lowest on record, While the rate | and cone, of the very best anywhere in 1 for francs and pounds sterling-1s.ad- Canada. Well Flat. ax we all called | vaucing steadily. il him in the band, got an awful sad | The same newspaper's Derne cor- | shock, as hie was in a trench where | Fespondent telegraphs that the re. | three of his comrades of his com-| Markably sudden fall of the presdive than the new Russian ad- vance as an indication that Germany and Austria are on the eve of disas- ter is the fall of the German mark and the Austrian krone, and the coincidental appreciation of the Paris cheque and the pound sterling in all neutral countries. The slump in the mark and the fall in the Austrian krone in New York are gratifying to bankers here, The financiers of Holland, Scandi- navia and Switzerland are at one belief that the practical collipse of Hun credit, indicated in the recent | sensational declines in the rate of ex- change, foreshadows the beginning of the end. : In Stockholm, according to the pany got killed and badly wounded | in and then, again later on he was] | with poor "Buts" Deegan a 21st boy | {from Brockville und he poor "Buts" was an. awful he was cleaning his own rifle when | the shell came in and as clearly as I] can shy it, he was instantly killed, So this upset "Flat's' nerves and he gn very sick and ad to be removed | See .! { : : Froth the trench' to the first hospital The Dadly Telegraph's financial | and: later on he was sen( over here | export, reviewing the steady and now | to England. He had the alarming fall in German credit with | is-the chief topic in Swiss' financial | circles and the cause of grave mis. givings in Germany. The fall of the Austrian krone in Switzerland 1s al- | | so distressing the pro-Germans, who, | that 60 Swiss franes can now pur- chase 100 Austrian kronen, plainly see the writing on the wall. PREPARE li4 ner, - { made room in one hut for men from lll way misfor- | 1 tune of being on the mined hospital | the only countries with which she | ship the Angelia, and he was quite [can deal, as her fleet is bottled up | able to help himself while in the and her sea-borne commerce, nil, | water and, also help to save a Red | Says:--""It means the Huns will have | ' Cross nurse He said he will never | to pay through the nose from this | torget the moans and" groans of the | time on for whatever they need, | poor men who were unable to.move | Therefore the process of exhaustion | at all, and seeing that they were will proceed more rapidly than ever. | about to be drowned they cried like | In fact, he sums the situation | little babies, both from pain and the | UP by saying, while her vast arm- | sudden shock and he is a lucky boy | ies have come to an impasse, if not | to be with us in' England to-day. He | Worse, in'all the theatres of war, and) [ tells me that the bugle band buried | her Bavy is a burdensome mockery, | Dr. James St. Pennis, an Ottawa boy | the silver bullets, that are being di-| | and, likely the youngest member of i rected against : Germany in every | | our band, he also tells me that Har- | noney market in the world are stea- vey Lewis another drummer in the | dily hitting the, mark and hastening | 4 a i its » | 21st pipe band is killed and the at|the'inevitable. : : i | Dr. Nelson Harper also of fhe 21st vue | 2 | pipe band is wounded. 'Harper is al- | - In Splendid ( ondition. : ! ton -- MUR RIN Ay 80 another old 14th drummer of? I'he Grand ; I'runk Pacific. officials ed up for church parade in which wo. Kingston. His home is in Ganano- I stig that during the past year there | paraded as usual 'in a very heavy | Que, but as far as I hear, he is gett {Yas a good deal of work done on the | downpour ef rain. We are quite | ing on fine, He also tells me that | main line, including: fencing. Je used to that now and we don't seem | Our pipe Sergt. Sutherland is wound- | houses were erected at Rivers, W am- to mind it, as really it has not miss. | @d, but he wishes to remind the wright, Edson, Endako, Pacific, ed & day in five: weeks and mavbe | Kingston'people that ail the boys arc | Prince Rupert; stock yards at W al- more than that, but it is d shearten | well and doing fine, Dr. G. Cotmar { dron,.y oyug, Bradwell Clavet, Vera, ing and a fellow cay't keep himself | 4150 of Kingston is on a sick leave at | Witter, Art and; _Jassenger and dry. Even in the huts are the con: | Present, and is looking well and he i | freight shelters; steel tanks along tinuous downpour of rain makes ga |recommended for permanent light i the main line; Section 2nd ek number of our huts unpleasan tween | duty at the Base as ig Flattery also | houses, Ing 80 i al t lis ivy you will be awakened during the | They were told not to do any hard { Dye sen ed very consid 2 e activity | night by the rain coming in through | Work or heavy marching on accoun along the main line, and gave to the | the roof and making a little pool in | Of their sickness. Frederick Maxam Systems an addeq sense wi permasen | your. hed Yet we are not expect- another 21st boy, from Kingston, Is | ce. I " ine as 8 hishe he ing anything better for this time of | expected back in camp, any day now before the trains Tan; but t at ves | the year over in England. There | as he is getting along fine at the Be + not mean that JET Js nothive ore | was a big rejoicing here to-day when | von Hospital at Sandgate, Kent. 1 |.to 49. On He in Ae Li all of the defaulters were given their | heard that Pte, Wainwright, is still | pany also did a gos Wo al o Be Bera) freedom and allowed free again by | suffering slightly from his sore knee | work in the way of betterment, anc | the officer in comma. We had our |@s I beard it, care back' on him | so Fort. . be ake | dinner call sounded at the usual time | While he was on_his sick furlough | The Whole System hag Te oh tand we all as sembled in a hut. We { He had to report it to the doctor and { admirable care of by + ne manage: { « 1 hear he is again in a V. S. D. Hos { ment and is in-a spick apd span | pital up about Lancaster some place | condition, getting along fine. Pte. I. Marsh is | awaiting on a medical hoard and he DRUMMER W several other hunts tocomeintogeth er and eat the one big table of which was very nicely got up for us. | A t { The hut was nicely decorated for the | may get back tor Canada if he is.un and very s nto | fit for 1urther service, but never the much-longed-for Chr less his the same old potty as ever! and des our turkey, Christ "1 may say that Lieut. William Ni- mas pudding, oranges, nuts, grapes, | ckle has wop a great name for him- and pickles, we all had a nice bottle | self amongs? his men here at camp, {of (castor oil) put -at our side and | and only yesterday afternoon, an in- "many of had as valided 21st man named Fleteher of three of them, but they all "C"" Company, of the 21st ,was an a the very of sick pass and as our paymaster had | meal, and much prai no money at the time he was greatly the sergeants the good way they | disheartened. He wanted to get away served the men at the big dinnei ta- to his people for Christmas and he 'ble Amongst them was one of our! had his pass and all but did not have old 21st Sergeants, in Sergl. Alfred | the money, so I brought him up te { Woodrow, of Kingston During | Lieut. William Nickle, explained his {! dinner our commanding officer, Col., case to hin and the young Kingston { this. Reserve Battali officer gladly gave hinl what he want- little spgech on the fed to put him through until Mpnday. the dinnef got up fo 1s, 'He can go to the pay office in Londen il and" he wished u 1H luck and at | and draw his money and then return {| we would 'all be back home in Can- | the same fo Bieut. Nickle, So he pyt ada for our next Christmas dinner. | @ Wight light in Fletcher's eyes and We. of. course, gave i three good Fletcher's words to me were 'I. hope cheers, in which he greatly apprecia-! I'll have, the honor of fighting 'with | ted us . itmnking us. | that officer later, in our 21st Battal- 1 T am very sorry for some of the 59th | ion," and by doing this 1. ent Nickle {| boys as there is a hut quarantined on / has « made this man's" ( ristmas 5 || account 'of sickness I can male | bright. All of the men ahout this || this reply that all of the 50th men | Reserve Battalion, have all got the | | Died At Perth, ~ At eight o'clock on Monday night, 'Dec. 2%th, the home of Mr. White was saddened by the @eath of kis wife, Amelia Noonan, after lingering | and painful illness of some months Deceased was a well known resident | of Bedford for twenty-six years, She {'married Mr. White and when they | took up farming in Burgess, remain- ing there till" her fifty-eighth year | She was gentle and Lourteous, and llambng her friends had the reputa tion of being exceeding obliging king and thoughtful to all who Jkuew her. | She leaves to mourn hef loss her | husband, two daughters, Misses May and Agnes, and one son Harry, all at home. The funeral took place, on 'Wednesday morning to St. Bridget's church where a solemn requiem was sung by Rev. Fr. Kearney, and the remains were placed in the Ro- man Catholic cemetery in Stanley- ville. The pall bearers were: Philip J White, C. J Quinn, Michael Coop- er, McParland, Daniel Kelly and Joh McParland on { event, VE our sO0n were stmag din- be the bovs many as acted in manner during the en to best for i! Preston, of made a neat e for the same, My It is estimated at Berlin that the | British Allies spent one and ajquar- i ter millions in the Dardanelles enter- prise besides. the loss of warships {and trading ships. General Scott, Chief of the United States army staff, came out on Mon- | day flatly for conscription in the United States. are all in good health, and ag far as| best of love for him, and as he has I know Pte. Bowles, and H. Brown, | fought in France with the ~Namous | both of "Kingston, are in the quaran- | P.P.C.L's he ought to be quite cap- tined hut, but they having a good | able of holding his own with the very | time inside of their 'hut, and there-| best of the officers anywhere to-day. the home it instant relief. Wear will be easy to be the same aut of it. Just once try 'Tiz, Good credit should: not. be - used | carelessly. " even told us he was expecting a par-| re cel from' his 'Dad, in Kingston and GIRLS! WOMEN! | . d . ig? proud of to-day as hé is now the] TAKE CASCARETS how 'Tiz gladdens tired, | most popular officer of our Battal- swollen, burpfeg feet-- It's glorious 1" i fore they don't mind it: The 36th | His"first thing thi morning was to when he gets it he will share it up | ion and he i§ quite willing to get to IF CONSTIPATED find out how all of the Kingston boys "TIZ" PUTS 10Y IN with us, So with an officer like this | Frande to join our 21st Battalion liver and bowels | Ah! what réliel. No more tired! 'feet; no more urning - feet; mol i more swollen, aching nder, sweaty feet. No more, sorer in corns, i eallouses, bunions, 0 ii No matter what ails your fpat or An Optidmistic Christiag. {what under the sun you've tried |iyman Abbott jn the Outlogk. | stomach sour, {without getting relief,' just = use! "I believe, then, that wk are not | "Pia "Tis the only remedy drifting away from the CLrist-life,! {that draws out all the poisonous ex-| but voyaging toward it; that the age To-night sure! iudations which puff up the feet.! busy in doing Christian work is more 'aad {| "Tia cures your fooi- trouble $0| Christian than the Age: busy in ram a bowel cleansing yo ever experi- {you'll mever limp ov draw up your! ing Christian creeds, or retiring from enced, Cascarets will liven your liver Hfacei.in. pain. Yom wou't! the world to mediate on Christian and clean your thirty feet of bowels "seem tight and yo ef will never,| truth, There is less worship of fear without griping. You wil wake up pever hurt or ge © and swollen. and more service of love. We rever-| feeling grand. Your head will IThink of Nt, no more rgnt misery, ence uyinbols less and spiritual reali- clear, breath right, tohgue- clean, ino more ageny from Cofns, callous- | ¢i¢s more. Our creeds arg shorter stomach sweet, eyes bright, stép elas- ness or bunions. and perhaps more vague, but our tic and complexion o8y- ey' Get a. 25-cent at any drug, faith is mere vital. PFewe- men are wonderful. Get a 10-cent box now store or department st, and" get mediating, on. the will of God, but 'at any drug store Mothers ean safe- Wear smaller shoes.| more are doing His will. Fewer men [ly give a whole (ascaret to children Get a whole are mediating on immortality, but any time when cross, feverish, bili- only 25 more are living the ¥ife that really)ous, tongue coated or constipated--- 11 - year's foot comfort. for {cents Think of it™ jis. {they are harmless. ! were fixed for Chtistmas, and he] | ~~ SORE, ACHING FEET ! ul | I am sure that Kingston may be well | Tr Kingston, and you can bet your | Hiv . They liven your and clear your complexion, life with an officer like him wa'll al- ways be at his aid and assistance to i the very last." ~ wr Won't stay headachy, bilious with breath bad and Get & 10-cent box now. box London, Jan. 11.--Far more im-| with the bankers of America in their |} mark | there in a few weeks from 108 to 92 | as a result of the illuminating fact! i the more favorable situation at Ly : he raised-to fight for Canada at the "=the Austrian ranks to-day. | Oshawa, | Battalion, under a ot earl) eruiting, and expects to be up to full {having 'more than 700 men enlisted - Probs.: Much colder to-night and on Wednesday. Economy EYE-OPENERS The irresistible poteney of ready cash in the - purchase of and sale of fresh and dependable mer- chandise of the **Steacy standard qualities' will work wonders all this month. / Never could you get so much at this time. ABOUT WINTER COATS It seews impossible, but nevertheless true -- that we can sell $17.00 WINTER COATS at $4.45 and every garment of this season's style--good, warm dependable coats that anyone can wear, ALL OUR BEST COATS up to $30 on sale at .... Fes SPECIAL CLEARING SALE OF CHILDREN'S SERGE DRESSES, Made of good wo ol fabrics, in colors Navy, Copen, Red and Plaids; zes 4, 6 and 8; regular prices were $3.50, £1 to $4.50. Special Sale Price $1.98 ~ DON'T MISS THIS CASH SALE. STEACY' "The Woman's Store of Kingston." for your money as BRITISH EFFORTS su] Alkali in Soap , GLADDEN FRANCE. : Bad For the Hair Failure of Recent German At- tack Tells Story of Army's Efficiency. Soap should be used very carefule ly, if you .want to keep your hair looking its best. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. = This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and ruiges it. | The best thing for steady usé is {just ordinary mulsified cocoanut oil | (whieh is pure and greaseless), and {is better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use. | One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thorough- ly. Simply moisten the hair with | water and rub it in It makes ang abundance of rich, creamy lather, ed as firmly giving the lie to the which rinses out eakily, removing German assertion that she is saving every particl® of dust, dirt, dandruff herself at the expense of her Allig@s. land excessive oil, The, hair dries Reports also filter through frdfn &o |quickly and evenly, Xd it leaves the front that the British are now ade- |scalp soft, and © the . hair fine and quately trained ,equipped and fully (silky, bright, lustrous fluffy and reliable, easy to manpage. .- Here is an extract from a private You can get mulsified cqecoanut oil letter frgm a French Officer, who has at any pharmacy, very cheap, been at the front since Charleroi, and a few ounces will_supply every and is now holding an important po- membhexrof the family for months sition near the Allied junction point Nm north of Arras [ fired doit bi de dodo foe "We .are delighted by the enor 1% mous progress of the British in el HEAD STUFFED FROM cent months. It is now a wonder-|%- CATARRH ORA COLD fully organized army, composed orf -------- the finest elements. A fortnight | . Says Cream Applied in Nostrijs §pens Air Passages Right Up. ago the enemy attacked them with a, great volume of gas, the attack last- | § ing three hours and being followed coirloiibindid Sd dd ddd dh dd bbb dy by a heavy connonade, but their pro Instant relief---mno waiting. Your tectiee measures were so effective clogged nostrils open right up; the! that the Germans had hardly _left | zip 'passages of your head clear and their trenches before they received a you can breathe freely. No more Vithering fire and the assault litéral- hawking, snuffling, blowing, head- melted away. . The British had ache; dryness. No "struggling for only thirty put out of commission by | breath at night; your cold or catarrh the gas, all being men whose hoods disappears, had been torn by bullets, a proof of Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream the deadliness of the and 'the ef-| Balm from your druggist now. Apply ficacy of the hoods. We all now have 'a little of this fragrant, antiseptie,' the utmost confidence in our Allies, | healing eream in your nostrils, nt who.work desperately hard and have penetrates . through every air pas: improved proportionajely.' sage of the head, soothes the in- flamed oy swollen mucous membrane {and relief comes instantly. It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed- up with a cold or nasty catarrh. en ny ~~ This Week 2000 Tins Finest Tomatoes 9¢ Tin 'aris, Jan, 11.--The year 1916 lias already cheered Paris. There has been a noticeable 'change in public sentiment since Christmas. The de- cline in mark exchange is prominent. ly featured by the press as the first positive sign of German exhaustion, The Russian offensive, coupled with Ba- lonika, is considefed hopeful, while the prospect of the adoption of can- scription by Great Britain is welcom- it's | S----------. The Wan. Davies Co. Ltd, Phone 597. Beebe ele Be eo TEETER eetie v Studio Our BABY PICTURES, like all portraits that we make, Are natural' in pose, properly lighted and beautifully finished High class equipment and traf less tact are the reasons for ou remarkable success in baby por- trafture. Come in some morning and let --us get acquainted with the baby." Phone 1318, 90 PRINCESS ST. gas GERMAN-CANADIAN CORPS. | A pm To Radse Overseas, 'Ottawa, Jan. 11.--That a battal.| ion of Canadians of Geritan descent Proposal Battalion, For Too rigid economy has kept plea- : sure out of the lives of very many. The novice always gets caught Knowing the right, there when he attempts the role of an ex- particular excuse, for doing pert. I wrong. . ed is the front is the suggestion which has been mdde to the Minister of Militia | and is now being considered by him. | There are at present numbers of such men among the ranks of Canadian soldiers at the front, and they have done splendid service, The chief intelligence officer with the first contingent is a German- Canadian, whose father was a Ger: man army officer and whose mother was the daughter of an Austrian gen- eral, with three brothers fighting in Her son | | oi . * ci i ° 2 Buttermilk Buttermilk . + Having bought the whole outfit of Eastern Dairy School, I am now prepared to deliver Buttermilk in any Quantity... S in the Canadian army has already been decorated Tor good service. 'Growth of the 116th Battalion, Jan, 11.---The 116th|™ J Lieut.-Col. Sam a i Bharpe, is very successful re- . "WE HAVE NOW COMMENCED NOED. Store Cars for the Winter Our rates, including are $10.90 per ear. warm, Room for in strength by the end of the month, {already. Last week Magistrate Driyse {dale personally attested thirty-five {men in five days for the local com- { DELS of 250 under Capt. A. F. Hind, and he says thoy are a very credit able lot of men. There are about 1190 in the company now. ¢ " i Fire which tlireatenedhto destroy Porritt | the Uni@n station, Toronto, on Mon- charging battesivi, jacking up ears, We have' splendid faetlities, drv, clean 34 cars, Drop in and pick your place, Garage Co. . Limi ele, aud day, was finally extinguished, with a loss of thirty thousand dollars. Trains are running as usual. uno