e Daily British Whig E------ YEAR 85. NO, 291 NINGBTON, ONTARIO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14* 1918 PAGES 37:44 SIXTH SECTION This store is today recognized and acknowledged by the principal wholesale publishers and jobbers to be the Leading Book Store in Canad Suppose you were given $100,000. How would you spend it? OH, MONEY! MONEY! By Eleanor H. Porter Author of "Just David" The romance of a New England Cinderella and a Western millionaire. © Poor Maggie, the heroine, will rank with "Pollvanna"end "David" as one of the most lovable characters Mrs. Porter has ever created. Illustrated, $1.50 net. THE FIRST MAN WHO CAME There she sat--in that strange house each step on the stair--wondering whether it would be friend or foe--fearful of the coming that might be worse than death And then when he came but--read about it in THE U. P. TRAIL By Zane Grey Across the pages of this great writer's work blows air as fresh and keen as that across a moun- tain top. He carries you far from the dull and weary cities into the open. For those were rough and terrible days when sin and death and despair stalked the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. And wound in with them is the tale of aman and a girl--builders, dreamers, lovers. In those days when they built a railroad they started from the city and went out into the un known. Every rail laid cost the life of a man. Beside the track that you roll along so serenely to- daly thete sleep armies of brave men. And the bells that rang out joy for the comple- tion of the railroad, rang also to celebrate the joining of the lovers. Thousands of lovers of Zane Grey will snap up this first edition. Get yours now and thrill with the thrill of other days. '"POLEON TO THE RESCUE! It was the wildest chance to take! Round and round in the rapids spun the frail craft. There was a crash of swirling waters--a girl's voice shrieking-- and then--but 'Poleon -Doret saw and heard- 'Paleon Doret. whom you have seen in the movies and loved. = Read this new story about the man whose business is "just livin." In THE WINDS OF CHANCE . By Rex Beach fearing he takes you again up into that magic country of the Klondike--that land he knows: so well, and' tells about so much better than any other 'writer. Here you have Pierce Phillips, who is one of the heroes, for no less.than four women love him-- but 'Poleon/ Doret is the real hero after all--dear, lovable 'Poleon, who brings sunshine to others and 80 cannot keep it from. himself. It is a hook full of the joy of living--full, of the big, wholesome laughter that keeps men sane and happv--for Rex Beac h's men and women are real and human. This is no war book. It is far re- moved from the smoke and roar of battle. But!there are fights in it--big fights with the rough and raging elements. 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