GANANOQUE (From Our Own Corressondent ) Dec. 14.--The Gordon Granite Company, of this town, is engaged in filling some big orders for monu- mental stone from its quarry near Findlay $8ation. The quality is said to be as good as that of the imported Scotch granite, Beginning this evening the local merchants will avail themselves of the town by-law permitting them to keep their places of 'business open during the evenings for the Christmas 'trade, which is reported so far as ex- ceptionally good. Roy Pickett, King street, has been confined to his home by ilness for the past few days, but is reported as progressing favorably towards recov- ery. . Mrs. Marie Donevan, Victoria ave- nue, received the sad mews recently of the death of her brother, Mr, Ritchie, of Montreal, with whom she resided previous to her marriage, and left at once to'attend iis funeral. At ghe session of the Law Society of Leeds and Grenville; held in Brockville this week, J. Arthur Jack- son was elected vice-president. Miss Annie Scott is spending a few days with her brother, Herbert Scott, in Junetown. Miss Alma Sinclair, John street, spent a short time in Lansdowne this week, guest of ther sister, Mrs. Veral deWolfe, C. H. Hurd, King street, has been confined to his home for the past week suffer- ing from bronchitis. 3 Death at Bell Rock. Bell 'Rock, Dé. 12.--On Nov. 29th there passed away one of Bell Rock's best known and respected residents in the person of Mrs. Mi- chael Percy, formerly Cynthia RE. . Mills. Deceased was born in Cam- den township forty-nine years ago. In' 1889 she married Michael Percy, and had since been'a continuous. re- sident of this place. She will long be remembered as a loving and In- dulgent mother, a kind neighbor and true friend. There are left to mourn a husband and six children: Thomas, of Belleville; Mrs. Damon Ball, Lindsay, who was present and attended her in her last illness; Sig. Warren, 4th C.D.A.C., France, Who has been serving with the Can- adian forces since 1915; Edgerton, Stella; and Florence, at home. The cause of death was due to Spanish influenza. The funeral service was conducted by Rev.. J, J. Johnson in the, Methodist church, 25! Noek, of A Sluggish Liver. CAUSED SEVERE HEADACHES The duty of the liver is to prepare and secrete bile and serve as a filter ---- re } member. She was SMHA. In- Verona on which she was a also a me r of the { terment wade in Dec. 1st NEWS FROM NAPANEE. § The Movements of Many Disclosed (From Our ¥ > prone y wn "x Napanee, Dec. 14.--Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Paul are expecting their son, drant, home on the Olympic, which | is expected to reach Halifax to-day. | Miss Jean Mcintosh is visiting her | grandmother, Mrs. 8, A. Templeton. | Miss Stanton, a returned missionary fromm China, spent the week-end the guest of Miss E. A, Hawley. Mr. and Mrs H. B. Sherwood leave next week for New York to spend the winter with their daugh- ter, Miss. Leah Sherwood. Mrs. Shuster, Belleville, spent a few days in Napanee last week the gues: of her father, ' Judge' Madden. Mrs. Arnold Woodcock and two children, Massey, Ont, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Silas Woodcock, Napanee, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Vanblaricon and baby, Detroit, Mich., are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Vine. Miss Besgie Duckworth, Belle- ville, spent last week the guest of her aunt, Mrs. De E. Ming. Corp. Herbert J, Wilson, Brockville, spent the week-end the guest of his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wil fon Miss Helen Daly left last week for Boston to resume her duties as nurse-in-training after a month's rest following pnsumonia. Miss Kathleen Cowan is expected home next week for a rest after a serious attack of pneumonia. Mrs. A. Alexander left on Tues- day for New York, where she will spend the winter with her sister Mrs. Robert Frizzell left on Tues- day to spend the winter with her children in Toronto and Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson and two children are gues's of Mrs. Rob ertson's father, W. H. Hunter, John street. People is Late H. T. Revell, Bath. Bath, Dec. 13.--Saturday evening, Dec. 7th, at 10.30 o'clock, there pass- ed away a life which had been crowd< ed with sickness and trouble, in the person of the late Harry Thomas Re- vell, of Bath. Deceased had been a sufferer for some time, and in the midst of it all was always bright and cheery. Harry was born at Ver- ona, but spent considerable of his life on' his father's farm in Ernesttown. About three years ago he married Miss Ellen Hall, of Bath, and for the last year and a quarter he lived here, having been mail contractor between Bath and Ernesttown. Since he took charge of the mail _he had proved himself most cordial, consia- erate and obliging. 'When the in- fluenza epidemic came, unfortunately he became a victim, and after eight weeks of suffering he passed away. He was twenty-seven years and three to the blood, cleansing it of all im- purities and poisons. Healthy bile in sufficient Is Nature's provision to secure regu- "lar action of the bowels, and when the liver is sluggish it is not working properly, and does not manufacture enough bile to thoroughly act on the bowels and carry off the waste pro- ducts from the system, hence the bowels betome clogged up, the bile ghts Into the blood, constipation sets in, followed. by sick and bilious headaches, coated tongue, bad breath, heartburn, water brash, bad taste in the mouth in the morning, Jaundice, floating specks before the eyes, etc. Miss Dian Clark, Myers Cave, Ont., writes:--"I take pleasure in writing you concerning the good I have received by using . Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills for a sluggish liver. When my liver got bad I would have Sere jrmdaches, ut I got better after I had used a couple of vials of your pills." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills gently unlock the secretion, clear away all waste and effete matter directly on the liver, and make the bile 8 through the bowels instead of allowing it to get into the blood. Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25¢ a vial at all dealers, or mafled direct on receipt of price by The T. Mil- burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Watts [ini C108 Wellington st, |to the Methodist Church, Bath, on quantity , by acting | months old. The funeral was held Monday at 2 p.m., the sermon being preached by Rev. E. O. Seymour. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, fa- ther and mother, and one brother. Friends and acquaintances extend sympathy in their bereavement. Barrieficld Briefs. Barriefield, Dee. 12.--Mrs. H Dowler entertained a number of young folks last week in honor of her daughters, Misses Etta and Do- ris.. Mrs. N. Stanton, sr., entertain. ed on Wednesday for her little daughter Lois, on the occasion of her fourth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. W. Hunter and family, of the Isle of Man, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Newman, sr. Mrs. Starks, of New York, visited with her son and family before returning | home, : Methodist Hymn Books. All the new Methodist hymn booka in every style of binding at the Cols lege Book Store, Canadian Casualties. Dangerously #ll--M. Keon, Pem- broke. . Seriously #l--E. Desmore, Pem- broke, ---------------- Holiday books and greeting cards at the College Book Store. .. W, H. Norton, West Lake, has sold bis farm to Mr, Kleinsteuber, Hast- ings county, Ohiet of Police Nichols, of the Chiemical Plant, Trenton, is leaving Freak cut flowers dally; funeral peg sie Be WIYen speeter minsutiont! Collage Book Store. [ Dandy oak Heaters | shortly to reside in Toronto, Greeting cards? Get them at the Give big results from little coal. Three i Our prices are right. : at : typical fo EXPLAINING MEDICAL MEN ARE VERY BUSY | MAKING GUESSES. One Alarming Suggestion Is to the Effect That the Spanisa Influenza May Be Nothing Less Than the Malignant Pneumonic Plague Which Has Ravaged China Inter mittently In Recent Years. N an article in the Medical Re- cord, of New York, Dr. Joseph King, now a captain in the U. 8. Medical Corps, makes the alarm- ing suggestion that the epidemic which we call the Spanish influenza may be nothing less than the malig- nant pneumonic plague which has ravaged China intermittently for sev- eral years past. This theory has been discussed by medical men, and we are gl to say that the econ- sensus appears to be against it. That it is nothing but the grippe is the verdict of Director Blue of the U. 8. Medicat-Service, but this view is not wholly satisfactory to doctors who have been used for years past to treating grippe patients, but not used to find them develop pneumonia and die in a few hours. The Russian in- fluenza of some 20 years ARO was as widespread as the present epidemie, but, if memory serves, it did not ac- count for anything like a proportion- &te number of deaths. We have had reports that the specific germ has been isolated, but no authoritative statement as to the exact characte: of it, and in this condition of doubt it is only natural that various theo- ries should be put forward. Dr. King says that his attention was called to the similarity of the "Alu' epidemic and the pneum®hic plague by an authority upon Chinese affairs, and that further examination disclosed sufficient points of resemn- blance to warrant him in making the Suggestion that the diseascs traceable to the same source. in 1910, the pneumonic plague appeared in Harbin, Manchuria, which was the | original hotbed of the disease. Earlier in the year it had appeared in Rus- | Russians, alive to its menace, took immediate action and stamped it out. It reached Harbin, it is supposed, through the agenry of Chinese laborers and fur dealers returning to their homes to celebrate their New Year's day, and owing to the crowded condition of the city it Spread with great rapidity. From Harbin it reached out in' all direc- tions, usually following the railroads and other route: of travel. It went as far south as Chefoo,"# seaport town, probabl ' having been earried there by Chinese coolies. By Jan. 24, 1911, no fewer than 1,500 Chinese and 27 Europeans, two of them medi- cal men and one an assistant, had died of it. Dr. King said that the mortality was almost 100 per cent. Since that time China has not been wholly free from it, although it has not raged so furiously as on its ap- pearance, and he believes that it is from China, and through the medium of the 200,000 or more Chinese la- borers who have been doing work on the western front that it has reached Europe and America. Many of these laborers went by way of the Medi- terranean, and others through Can- ada and the United States. At this point there appears a slight hiatus in Dr. King's theory. It is not on récord that there was any influenza in either Canada or the United States when the Chinese coolies were pass- ing through or immediately after. Nor have we heard of it breaking out among the Allied soldiers behind whose lines the Chinese were work- ing. The disease first appeared, zo far as we know, in the German army, and the theary is that it was con- veyed by the coolies, some of whom are assumed to have been captured by the Germans in their great spring drive. "Hence," says the writer, "the outbreak of it in the German army and its rapid spread in Spain." The "hence" does not explain how Chi- nese coolies, the prisoners of (he Germans, communicated the disease to Spain, although undoubtedly this present epidethic first attracted gen- eral attention in Spain, as its name proves. Dr. King compares the two dis- eases, both clinically and from = bacteriological standpoint. In the Chinese epidemic there are few defi- nite symptoms at the outset except the general malaise, prostration and loss of appetite, soon to be followed by the pneumonic process and death. in the present epidemic there are indefinite symptoms which generally carfespond to the aforementioned, bat whereas in China, according lo .. King, nearly all the sufferers , there has been no such percent- . Of deaths attending the "flu," ough, as he says, it is more con- bus, is followed more frequently by. pneumonia, and is attended by sia, but the i & higher mortality than In any pre. vious influenza - epidenite. In the pneumonic plague the bacillus pestis Hil "og found alinost constantly associal- with pneumocoecus and the strep- tococcus. In the present epidemic the influenza bacillus has been found as- sociated with - four groups of pneumaecocel, the/Mreptococeus hema- Iyticus and the mierooceuc catarrh- alis and other bad germs. : Dr. King says that the influenza baci'lus and the bacillus pestis in may simulate each isms may assume dif- other, for or ferent. fo and have diflerent cul- {tural characteristies in different cou- ditions. His th is | "statesman" Left to Pte. John vight: Kelly, { Pte Michael Kelly, enlisted February in France, and Pte. Thomas Kelly, ex [the 1st Canadian Machine Gun Sectic | Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly, of Trout C INCIDENTS OF - THE DAY LOCAL NOTES AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Happenings In the City and Vicinity ~What the Merchants Offer to the Readers of the Whig. Greeting cards? Get them at the College Book Store. W. Swaine, piano tuner, orders at McAuley's, or 'phone 564W, The Welland Canal will close for the season on or about Dee. 17th. 8S. J. Chapleau, of the department of public works, Ottawa, is in the In spite of the bad weather on Fri- day, shopping was quite brisk in all the stores. The Inclement weather on Saturday put a damper on the market and Christmas shopping. Queen's University, Convocation Hall--At 3 p.m., preacher, Rev. John Macnaughton, of Montreal. The merchants = are hopihg the} will be good sleighing soon. Now id the time to have your plang tuned. We carry two. expert tuners and will assure entire satis- faction. C. W. Lindsay, Limited. Kelly, enlisted in February, 1916, now of the Sth , 1916 weather will turn"cold and that there . Fifteen of the licensed carters in the city will be utilized to assist the letter carriers distributing the Chris- mas mail. Holiday books and greeting cards at the College Book Store. W. PF. Nickle, M.P., was consulted by the Lennox and Addington Counil regarding the charge laid against jt of maintaining a muisance, We will rent you a piano, and at end of six months if you feel like purchasing instrument we will allow the six. months' rental on purchase price, ard arrange easy terms on bal- apace, C. W. Lindsay, Limited. Charles ¥. Stephens passed away at Rookwood hospital on Friday. The deceased was thirty-seven 'years of age and was born in Darlington township, Durham. The remains were sent to. Bowmanville Holiday books amd greeting cards at the College Book Store. The mothers' council of the boys' «division, Y.M.C.A.., met Friday af- ternoon. The mothers have planned for a sleigh drive.and supper for the hoys on New Year's afternoon. Plans also were made for a toa and sale. nda | Letters to the Editor | An Appreciation. ii Fort William, Ont, Dee. 104(To the Editor): I write to thank you for your generous and eulogistie review of my son's bool: in a recent Issue of your paper. I refer to "Pen Pie- tures from the Trenches," by Lieut. Stanley Rutledge. It was one of the best, if not the best, reviews that has appeared. You sounded a high i of praice, and paid a fine trib- Ue to tho chardeter of the writing, all of which, through. I would like to Sa¥. was deserved. He was "my lose him. : . y ; S. RUTLEDGE. Sou, und it is hard to Ist Hamilton; Pte. Frank Army Brigade, France: now with the 18th Battalion rtisted in April, 1916, and now with nin France. They are all sons of reek, Parry Sound District, C.O.R., "election splash." The chairman of | the Board of Works had no plan ex-| cept the old antiguated methods of our greatwrandfathers, It stands to reason that a mdn, team and plow, would do more work in one hour than ten men would do in four or five hours, in other words, while the men Would be clearing the smow from a block the man amd team would clear from threc-anarters to a mile of side- walk, and even if it did cost a little more, of which I am doubtful, look at the comfort we would have and our children would be able to get to school without wading over their hoot tops in snow and slush and hav- ing to sit In a not-too-warm school room with wet feet for two or three! hours. The question is, Can the po-| lice enforce the by-law; if not, why | For Christmas---a Columbia Gratonola HINK of the joy you ean bring into the home with a Columbia Grafonola- HAL the music of all the world" --great sin- gers to enthral you with their song---superh arlists who give you the very best of music an the master of instruments, the violin--and the hests of other entertainers, to say nothing of the rollicking dance musié. The Columbia Grafonola type "X" illustrated : here is the most popular model. This Grafon- ola is very large for the price and is of a design that is very pleasing to the eye. Finished in red mahogany, golden oak and fumed oak. . Com- partments with a capacity for seventy-five re- cords. Size 40% inches high. 18% inch ide, 20% inch ox wore. Swe $115 One Price Only--Cash or Credit. Other Columbia Grafonolas from $30 to $325 Sonoras from -.. ... ... .. ..842,50 to $550 Columbia Records from -.. ... ... .. up C. W. LINDSAY, Limited 121 Princess Street it Kingston Other Branches at Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Belleville, Brockville and Three Rivers. not? F. R. BAILY, | 914 Princess street. glasses? than a pair of the latest style Spectacles restore her failing sight and enable her her more joy? What more usefyl or acceptable gift for "mother"? or Eve- We can fit her with neat, stylish glasses that will to read and sew in comfort, Is there anything that could bring We are making a specialty of spectacle ware for Xmas, and have a scheme whereby glasses ean be suitably presented as a gift." Make it Glasses for the Folks! LY PE,