MONDAY, MAY 24, (820. TRY "VAN" FOR KHAKI FANTS KHAKI COMBINATIONS Prices right. Phone 362w. a VERY autoist should E know the value of per- fect eye-sight. If his eyes do not focus instantly and correctly upon a turn in the road, upon 'a bridge abutment or upon the vehi- cle ahead or some other ob- struction, a serious accident may result. If you experi- ence the slightest difficulty with your eyes have our op- tometrist examine them. If you need eye-glasses our service will satisfy you thor- oughly. J.J. The House of Better Glasses Opposite the Post Office Phone 699. KINGSTON. (Opposite Grand Opera House) i esc tie ® yp KHAKI SHIRTS 213 PRINCESS ST. { NOX A COLD TABLETS | A safe and speedy cure for LaGrippe, Coughs, Colds, Headache, Nauralgia, | Flu, a mild laxative. Breaks up a cold | in a few hours. Get the genuine, at | all drug stores, 25c per box { sold at Best's Drug Store. Bag Tops We are showing the newest styles in FANCY BAG, TOPS Square and ova 1 shapes; in Tortoise and Amber finish. Also a complete range in fancy metal designs. Prices range from $1.75 up Kinnear & d Esterre JEWFLERS 100 PllliCRNS ST. Marriage Licenses Issued. "| J. BARRETT PLUMBER um b and Heating Repair " ora Specialty. Address 236 SYDENHAM STREET Phone NE TERED AA AA AA AAA A AA Nr C. 8. KIRKPATRICK Issuer Marriage Licenses 36 Clarence Street | Kingston, Ont | BICYCLE TIRE | --An Incident Recalled When He | ~~"Schooner Acacia. George VanHorne | when Blood poisoning se. THE SEMI-READY STORE ' ' | Company's | commanded had a collision with an| | unnamed vessel which sank and two | THE DAILY THELATECAPT. W. SIMMONS ONE OF THE OLDEST MARINERS PASSES TO REST He Was Seventy-Eight Years of Age | Defended the Union Jack on Captain William Simmons, one of the oldest anfl most widely known navigators of the great lakes, passed away at the general hospital on Sun- day morning in his seventy-eighth year. Following the death of his wife two years ago, he had a slight stroke but recovered. He later underwgnt an operation but recovered from this. Later his foot had to be amputated when blood poisoning set in. | The deceased 'was born in Wex-| ford, Ireland, in 1842, and came to| Canada with his parents when eight years of age, living with them for| some years ona' farm in the town-| ship of Kingston. When a young man be took to sarfaring and: became thé commander of steamers of the Mont- real Transportation Company, the Montreal Forwarding Company and latterly his own. He was first on the schooner Jane sailing out of King- ston. He spent a season on the Des- patch of Oswego commanded by Cap- tain Jollitt, of Wolfe Island. Next he sailed with Captain James Mathew- son of the Hamiilton barque Molth- ier. Other Canadian boats on which { he'sailed, wehe the Jane C. Woodruff | with Capt. Thomas Fleet, of Hamil- ton, and the Laura Calvin. He aiter- ward served aboard a number of Am- erican vessels, including the Dashing Wave, of Ogdensburg, the schooners | Mary Collins and Alfred Allen. The first vessel he commanded as master was the W. I. Taylor a three masted schooner which he sailed for three seasons for William Leslie, of Kingston. He then sailed the schoon- érs Manzanilla, Singapore, Ceylon, the steambarge Jack, the Owen, the schooner, Annie Falconer which he owned, and the tug Active. It was while sailing the: schooner Acacia about fourteen years ago that | he became the centre of a "flag inci- | dent" at Charlotte, N.Y., on July 4th, when some Americans demand- ed that he take down the Union Jack and put up the Stars and Stripes, A crowd gathered and threatened to overrun his decks and trample under their feet the flag that "braved a | thousand years 'the battle and the! breeze." This aroused Captain Sim- mons' fighting spirit and he told the crowd that he would riddle them with lead if they dared to board his | | ship. Captain Simmons had very few ac- | cidents in his long career as a mari- | ner. During a fog on Lake Huron a Quarter of a century ago the Calvin steambarge which he lives were Igst. His boat was saved | } and also its cargo. Another accident | | happened while sailing the schooner | W. IL. Taylor. It ran ashore on Mani- | toulin Island and the cargo was lost | but the vessel got off the beach. The | | steambarge Owen was lost between | | Long Point and the Ducks, when the | smokestack rolled out carrying away | the steampipe. Capt. Simmons was a man of ro- bust health and only retired from ac-| tive work three years dgo. A Liberal in' politics, he took am active part in| | elections years ago. He was a mem- | ber of Cooke's Presbyterian church, | | Cataraqui Lodge, A. F. and A. M. | SALE $1.75 each We are placing on sale for a few days only, another lot of first quality Tires. 'at . less than dealer's cost. Get a pair while they last. | MOORE'S "Where Old Tires Are Rebuilt" | 4 | { all of this city. The funeral is to také { Herbert, the Order of United Werkmen, and the Independent Order 'of Foresters. | He is survived by five sons, Wil- liam G., Andrew G., Charles C., Fred- erick, of the firm of Sifimons Bros., | and one daughter, Mrs. J. M. Reid place from the residence of his son, | 141 - Montreal street, on| Tuesday. TRIBUTE TO MISSIONARY Rev. W. T. G. Brown's Reference to | Late Dr. Kilborn. In Sydenham 'street Methodist | church pn Sunday morning, Rev. W. | T. G. Brown paid his respects to the | late Rev. Dr. O. L. Kilborn, who died in Toranto last week. Rev. Mr..Brown | said that the worth of the man was | shown in the fact that he remained | | in China for those many trying years | for no other reason than his love | for the Chimese people. | comforted in the fact that he lived to He was see his three children preparing to | carry on the work which he started. Mr. Brown, speaking of the need | of men for the ministry, said that it was the belief of many that the in- adequate salaries pald to the minis- ters of to-day, and the fact that preachers were not put up on a ped estal, as it were, and worshipped, as | in former days, was the cause of the lack of volunteers for the service of Jesus Christ at home and abroad. Perhaps there is some truth in these statements, he remarked, but be that | as it may, if men had .the proper | amount of love in their heart for | God and the desire to serve their fel- low men as the late Dr. Kilborn had, there would not be such an over- whelming demand for men to spread | the gospel as there is to-day. i | egregiously and unconcernedly. | out of an adventure so much after his | Cumberland. The scribal errors in | the blundered Latin inscription on | plural Omodhu, was identified with ERUDITE SHOPKEEPERS. Not Such a Rarity'as Some People Think. Erudite shopmen are not such a! rarity as a writer in the Westminster | Gasette would seem to infer, judging | from his delighted astonishment at | encountering a second-hand shop- ! keeper who was also an Egyptologist. FWIINTE 100 yorae of sue Sther, TWo shops could be visited a few years ago, whose owners were as well in- formed globe-trotters and curio hunt- ers as one would wish to find. One | was a retired merchant service man, | a musician, with a fine knowledge of old Worcester, Crown Derby, Nan- kin, and most of the world's china. The other was = silversmith and picker-up of second-hand clocks, out- lery, and some odd bits of jewelry, with a varied experience of the "Wild West," and other foreign part knowl- edgeableness. Both communicative, both with musty, attraetive wares, what wonder that the neighborhood should wander in and lean, chin in hand, over the counter, wasting time But probably the man whom Bor- row would have hailed as brother, and who gave the writer in the West- minster so delectable an half hour, was something superior to these other two. For he was an Egyptolegist, and had been called in on one occa- | sion for expert advice by the authori- | ties of the British Museum. In the window of his shop, where "'antigues" of various kinds, so runs the West- minster's story, 'from old china and glass to second-hand sewing-machines and bicycles, were exposed fer sale, | a pair of wooden figures, undoubtedly | old and probably of Egyptian origin, caught my eye. The proprietor, see- ing that I was interested, much®™to my surprise, commenced, without any sort of preface, a schelarly lecture on the figures, and on Egyptology in gen- | eral, which lasted, with no sort of | remonstrance on my part, for the spake of half-an-hour by the clock. | "This most erudite of shopkeepers | also told me that he had once been | called in by the authorities of 'the | British Museum to decide upom the | age of thé mummies in the gallery' which is, or was, a fascinating place to visit. Altogether I left the piace feeling, not humiliated, but rather be- wildered, and yet glad to know that there was even now a shop in London, there may be others for aught 1 know, where the proprietor is an ex- pert authority on an admittedly abstruse and disputations subject. Borrow, I think, would have had more than half-an-hour's enjoyment own heart." Earliest British Coin. At a recent meeting of the British Mumismatic Society Alfred Ans- combe, F.R., Hist. 8., dealt with the earliest English coin, the Golden Soli- dus of Scan Omodhu. The ruaic in- scriptions on the coin were discussed and identified with the man's name Scan and the folk-name Amodhu. Mr. Anscombe dated the coin about A. D. 460, and believed it to have been copied from a triumphal medal of Honorius, which he gave reasons for assigning to A. D. 421, says the Londen Times. The coin, he contend- ed, was struck to commemorate the victory that the Alemannic Prince Scan, Duke of Cair Benet, or Win- chester, won over the Saxon invaders of Britain in the sixteenth year after that in which the comet of A. D. 443 wus seeri--namely, in A. D. 48). Scan was the official chief of ten provin- cial kings in Southern Britain. In the "Merlin" he was called "Duke Escam." In the "Morte D'Arthur" he was 'called "Duke Rustace." Wolfram von Eschenbach, circa 1210, said he was slain by Orilus, Lord of the coin were explained, and the the folk-name Omodhu, genitive the Amothingas of "Widsith." Their homeland lay near Shrewsbuty, and that town was called "Caer Amwyt- ing," In Welsh, to this day. English Banks. There are no statistics te shew which of the English banks has the most branches. Lloyds Bank adver- tises that it has over 1,400 'offices' | in England and Wales, and Barclays | Bank that it has over 1.400 | "branches" In England and Wales. | The London Joint City and Midland Bank claims to have over 1,450 "offices" in England and Wales. The | figures that Whitaker's Almanack for 1920 gives regarding these institu- tions are as follows: Lloyds Baak, 700 branches, sub-branches and agen- ' cles; Barclays Bank, 897 braaches, | 540sub-branches; London Joint Oity | and Midland Bank, 1,360 branches, | | sub-branches and agencies. The sta- tistics in Whitaker's were probably | secured at least two months before | the advertisements appeared in the London Times Annual Financial Re- view, Jan. 23, 1920. A Mine Shaft, The sinking of a mine shaft 31.6 feet in diameter is no small under- taking, and its accomplishment is considered the record for the world | in such work. If one visualizes what a hole In the groumd over twenty | orial entrance | pillars built of rich red brick. BRITISH WHIG _ Men's Brown Bluchers Neolin Soles--sizes 6 to 10. Special value . . .. ........ . .$5.50 "No War Tax on These." ABERNETHY'S SHOE STORE Removal Notice PATTON'S DYE WORKS Formerly known as Montgomery Dye Works Has now moved to 349 Princess Street Now ready for business. All kinds of Cleaning and Dye- ing will be carried on as form- erly. M. F. PATTON, Phone 214. Proprietor. cc a. BORN. MANSER--At Napanee, on May 15th, to Mr. and Mrs. James Manser, a son. ROBLIN---At Adolphustown, on May 3, to Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Roblin, a daughter. RENDELL---At Napanee, on May 12th, to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rendell, Jr, a daughter. MARRIED. GILLESPIE--PORTER--On, April 28¢th, at Idaho Falls, Corinne Portia, daughter of Mr. . MN. D. Porter, , to Benjamin Walter Gillespie, son of Mr. an Mrs| C. S. Gillespie, Campbeliford, Ont McGIFFEN--GLENN--On May 15th, at the residence of the bride's father, Willlam Glenn, Picton, Miss Leta Glenn, to John Hamilon McGiffen, both of Picton. RADWAY--SPAFFORD--At Picton, on May Sth, Ralph Radway, to Nora louella Spafford, both of Picton. SPENCER--VANDUSEN--On May 19th, at Picton, Nitta Ethelwynne Van- Dusen, daughter of the late G. E. vanDusen and Mrs. Van , to "harlies Corey Spencer, hare y Sp both of WILSON--SHERRY--At Wellington, on April 3m, H. R. Wilson, Hiller, nd: Miss Jennie Sherry, of Thomasburg. ¥, formenty BLAKEL > ou Y--At Vancouver, BC, Ma: ua, George, Blakely, aged A Years. Interment in Pioton. BROWN---At Enterprise, on May T8tn, Helen Alberta Brown, aged 4 years nq 3 not hs, second daughter of .r an a BED and is fred Brown. Fredericksbur, o May 14th, Charlottle Dafoe, "na 79 years. HAZARD At Pasadena, ay v san Elza Noxo: of Willet B. Hazard, Ploton. © O% BLLY--At Napanee, on May 12th Henry D. Kelly, aged 17 years, LEWIS--At Wilton, on May 18th, 1920, James Lewis, in his Sist year. California, on A SPLENDID DESIGN. Prince Edward Old Boys' Memorial for Fair Grounds. Figen Gazette. . rollowing up the suggestion of Prince Edward Old Boy to one of the directors of the Prince Edward Agricultural Society, that a mem- 2 and new fence facing Main street be erected this year, to be known as the Prince Edward Oud Boys' Memorial to Prince Ed- ward's. Fallen Heroes, Capt. Stam- ford Warrington, architect, Toron-|| to, and himself an overseas man, was instructed by the board to pre-|| pare drawings of what consider suitable our fallen ones. he would to * do justice to a meeting of the board held on the | 12th inst. Capt. Warrington ex-| pressed the soul of the artist as well! as the architect in the drawings submitted. The memorial building will dis-| place the present ticket office, and 1S very artistic. entrance will be on the left, while! two double entrance 'gates for ve-| hicles will flank it on the right. The! heavy gates will stand seven feet! high and be supported by massive! The fence proper will be built of .white! stucco one foot in thickness, sur-| mounted bya heavy coping. The | The drawings have! been prepared and were presented at|! C2 ice ii bl 4 WHAT A BETTER HOME 4 MEANS TO A WOMAN Home to a woman, is the one place of greatest importance--wife, mother, daughter spend nine-tenths of their time in the house--surely that is reason enough why you should make the home as attractive as possible. . JAMES REID 'The Busy Store With Large Stock" Phone 147 for Service. " PURE ICE CREAM OUR Ice Cream has bees the in KINGSTON for years and will contniue to be nothing but PURE CREAM and FRUIT FLAVORS used. This busi- ness established nineteen years. y MOIR'S and GANONG'S CHOCQLATES always an hand, SAKELL'S Next to Opera House 7 ~ Auction Sales |(roccert Wire Works I am the best auctioneer in Kingston. | Fencing, Flower BEDFORD, The Auctioneer = gi PARTRIDGE & SON, . Phone 1721 or 1428. i | | } | | } i The pedestrians' | | { | | ~---- FRUITLAND Phone 380. Realdence 018w, ALLEN MASOUD, Prop. ' 848 Princess St. Phone 904 BY PATRONIZING OUR ICE CREAM COUNTER You will be sure of getting the best obtainable. We sell MASOUD'S PURE ICE CREAM IN BRICKS OR BY BULK Take Ice Cream home for dessert. i'd | | Fa | | 206 WELLINGTON ST. | feet across nfeans and 278 feet deep, | red pillars at)intervals, and the white, |. its magnitude commences to be aP- | iycco work against the green sward! fil. | preciated. The feat was accomplished | .1y be very effective. | in South Africa. The sinking of the | | shaft was accomplished in thirty-one | days. The average tons of earth and ! rock hoisted at a blast was ninety, | making 8,100 tons for thirty days ef . Is ag thige Vas A The "kiddies" had a great time | tal 8 amounted to fif- with fireworks to-day. It is their teen pounds a foot sunk. big day of the year. Glorious weather favored the Travel Records of Londoners. Queen's birthday. The day was ush-| It is estimated by a statistician ered in by the ringing of the city | that the total number of passenger bells and the discharge of "roaring | journeys made in London trams, om- megs." The business houses and | nibuses and local railways during dwellings were decorated with pals | last year was 2,900,000,000, of which and bunting, and in the evening they group of were illuminated with Chinese 1 terns. : The railways and the steamboats brought a big crowd into the city. A military parade and a fancy car- nival were special features of the day. { The success of the day's pro- gramme is a credit to C. H. Martin, secretary; W. M. Drennan, C. H. Cor- bett and others. At thé Windsor hotel to-day, 1,000 meals were served, and $250 were taken in over the bar. : These prices prevailed on to-day's market: Eggs, 10 to 12 cents a doz- en; potatoes, 40 to 50 cents a bag; apples, 75 cents to $1 a dag; beet, § to 6 cents a pound. KINGSTON EVENTS The members were so pleased with) | 25 YEARS AGO. the beauty and utility of the mem- | orial, and the splendid tribute it! Jl would pay to our fallen ones, that! they instructed the building commit-| tee to have plans and specifications | § prepared at once in accordance with Ji the drawings and proceed at the Ji earliest possible moment with the I erection of this beautiful memorial. Hi A resolution was also passed that | this year's fair be named Prince Ed-! ward Old Boys' fair, and the follow- | § ing were elected as custedians oly i the Old Boys' Memorial fund: A. E. Wilson, manager Bank of Montreal, | treasurer; Miss Geraldine Hazard,| secretary; Judge McLean, H. B. Bristol, S. B. Gearing, trustees. Hav-| J ing been advised that his splendid! suggestion had been approved by! the board and would be carried out, fi the Old Boy who offered the sug-| ji gestion, forwarded $25 to Miss Haz- ard to apply on the fund, with the } omise of another : twenty-five be- ore the work is completed. Grover C. Bergdoll, notorious draft evader, serving a five-year sentence in a military prison near New York, escaped from custody when brought to Philadelphia on a court order to] ! sign papers. Men's Mahogany Bals, Rubber Soles and en's . $5.75 - Women's Brown Calf, Chocolate Kid and : Black Kid Oxfords WE ARE GOING TO THE CORNER OF BROCK AND BAGOT STREETS. PAR- TICULARS LATER. figure as a basis of estimation, each person travels some 309 times a year. CRAWFORD & WALSH «James McPhail, 12th line of Ram- say, in poor health for some time, passed away on Sunday at the age of sixty-six years. A handkerchief was originally a kerchief--"couyrechef" or head cov- ering. The "hand" was added when it began to be carried in the hand. The most expensive and the