TH THE-PEARL OF THE BALTC '411 Few Factories Are Operating Whenever and wherever a fine dignified and attractive . Writing Paper is demanded. CRANE'S LINEN LAWN or EATON HIGHLAND LINEN is found. A com- plete line of this Stationery and Correspon- dence Cards to match. Priced from 50c. to $20.00. : --AT-- R. Uglow & Co. EE E == = E = = = = Ee = EE = = = B= A Gift That Lasts PEARL BEADS What will give more plea- sure to. her thaa a beautiful string of indestructible Pearls. Can be worn on any occasion, with any gown---always becom- ing. Richelieu Pearls are indes- tructible--will not change color if put in hot or cold water--al- ways retain their lustre. - In 15-20-24 and 30 finch RE av ae Ju. lengths, with rich brilliant set p : clasps. They range in price sequences of impaired eyesight unless it is imme- from $10.00 to $75.00 a string. diately checked by the French Pearl Strings in proper corrective glasses, same lengths; " brilliant set may spell failure in the case clasps--3$10.00 to $60.00 a of a school child or a grown string. man. Let us examine your See our very choice display. eyes in a scientific manner. We will discover just what is wrong and prescribe the . » proper remedial glasses. Kinnear terre JEWELERS 100 PRINCESS STREET ----y TO RENT House of Better Glasses Two well heated, unfurnished ite the Post Office rooms; first floov, Telegraph pos Building. Apply: 699. RINGSTON. MR. KIRKPATRICK On premises 3 po PRICES AT RODGER'S FROM 10% TO 20% DISCOUNT DIAMONDS WATCHES . JEWELRY 'CLOCKS CUT GLASS SILVERWARE IVORY, LEATHER ELECTRIC LAMPS R. J. RODGER 132 Princess St. i lii= Suggestions For Christmas Gifts NOTHING IS MORE APPRECIATED THAN FOOTWEAR. WE HAVE A GIFT FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY-- USEFUL AND ACCEPTABLE GIFTS. ~ » HORE ~-Felt Slippers. , ~QOvergaiters. ~Hockey Boots. ~-- Rubber Boots ~Moccasins. oy ~--Eveaing Shoes. -- Dress Shoes. $ ~Qvershoes. 3 SHOP EARLY. MORE TIME. LESS RUSH, BETTER CHOICE. Allan M. Reid, oi J SN gr TT REEAATRORAR SG; --Capital is Very much in Demana. |. Riga, Latvia, Dec. 14.--Riga, which | | was known before the war as the | {pearl of the Baltic and ranked as | | sussia' s second port, is one of the | saddest monuments to the destruc-| | tion wrought by six years of ceaseless | fighting, much of which took place | on the soil of the new republic of Latvia, erected on the ruins of the old Russian governments of Livonia and Couriand. Half a million persons lived in Riga before the war and over 400 large factories kept it busy and pros- perous. Now there are only aoout 200,000 inhabitants and less than a score of factories are operating. The empty shells of various industries stand awaiting the return of machin- ery which the Russians shipped east- ward before the Germad advance. Lenine and Trotzky have promised to return all the machinery which be- longed to Russian subjects. But many of the factories were owned by for- eign capitalists and consequently can- not hope to recover their plants. Great rubber plants, carshops, wood-working shops and saw mills sland idle awaiting capital to buy machinery. The River Dvina and var- ious lakes and inlets lying about the city are filled with logs. But there | fare no mills to convert them into timber, no ships to carry them into oreign markets. The docks are idle. 'ew trains operate and those are fir- ed with wood. Of the 1,500,000 persons in the | new republic, nearly \all are depen- dent upon agriculture for a living. | The crops were a failure this year land consequently the outlook is blue for the new government headed by .Ulmanis, the American-trained Min- .ster-President. But the Letts have learned the joy of freedom in their few months of independence. They iought bravely against the Boisheviki and later against the Baltic barons who tried to enslave them under Gen- eral Bermondt. And they are cour- igeously building up a national life :nd a national consciousness in the ace of terrible odds. Unlike most parts of Russia, Lat- via was a country where education vas general and only a small propor- ion of its population was unable to ead and write, It had been well in ae line of European culture. Itsports ft Riga, Libau and Windau had al- vays attracted many foreign traders. 'he country had been so attractive to uerman business men that German | culture was firmly embedded in the | leading cities. Riga is more German | than Russian in its appearance, Its | broad streets, magnificent, well-kept parks and dignified public buildings give it the air of a German city. Its numerous Lutheran churches are similar to those found in any of the Haseatic League cities. Its univer- sity is organized along German lines. But the great majority of its people have no sympathy with Germany's ef- fort to continue its influence in Lat- via through the German barons, whose estates have been confiscated. The opera in Riga includes all the standard German, French and Ital- ian operas in the Lettish language. Its schools teach Lettish. The state theatre gives plays In Lettish, chiefly translation of the great English, Scandinavian and German masters. Ode of the new plays recently pro- duced in Riga was written by a Lett about the life of Weesters, a Lettish knight of the fourteenth century who attempted to resist the German dom- ination of Lettland. It is bitter in its denunciation of German methods and has been well received by a public which seems thoroughly determined to maintain its independence at any cost. REDUCE LAKE DANGERS Chain of Automatic Wireless Stations' to Be Built. Chicago, Dec. 14.--Through the establishment by the United States Government of a chain of automatic wireless stations at danger points the Great Lakes, dangers of lake na- vigation will be greatly reduced it was learned to-day. Ships blown near dangerous reefs and ghoals will be warned by auto- matic danger signals sent at a pitch that can be caught by the wireless apparatus of any vessel. With the station at Great Lakes, Ill, as a basis, the bureau of navi- gation plans to build tem direction- finding stations at a cost of $156,000 each. Two now under construction are in Lake Superior, between White- fish Point and Grand Marais, a stretch known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes," because of many wrecks in that vicinity. Other plants are to be erected at Thunder Bay, Island, Eagle Harbor, Detour and Manistique, and later four more stations will be construc- ted at points round Lake Superior. The stations were authorized by Con- gress last year, Kapuskasing citizens are now lighting their houses with electricity instead of candles and coal oil lamps. Enrico Caruso burgt a blood ves- sel in his throat singing at a per- | a tremendous difference this makes! formance in New: York, Saturday night. E DAILY BRITISH WHIG. ------ on hs WHERE WOMEN SCORE. 2 Re a gs They P ssess More Natural Intuition Than Men. "After centuries of subjection wo-! man to-day finds herself emancipated, with the choice of a career awaiting her and nothing to bar her progress in almost any direction she may ¢hoose," says Mr. Bryan Ford in a deeply interesting article which ap-| pears in the pages of the Royal Maga- zine. "She is not only mistress of her own fate, but she enters the arena with certain advantages denied to the opposite sex. "In the race for fame er fortune | she isa privileged competitor, be- | cause, although her status in the world has been improved so much of late, the world's attitude towards her still remains the same in one impor®® ant respect. Men still regard her with feelings of chivalry and esteem; should she be im need of help or advice, they are delighted to help her to the best of their ability; and what CE En foecap ........ "These advantages are not unde- served. The natural intuition of wo- man, which teaches her how to solve an unpromising problem, is no doubt an inheritance handed down to Rer from the dark times when she was little better than man's plaything. In = Special clearing sale of Ladies' Brown Kid Laced Boots; high andlowheels......... ...... 0.0 0 0 hae 34.08 Ladies' Brown Calf Laced Boots; -Neolin Scles; fancy wing Ladies' Grey Kid Laced Boots: high' and low heels ........ $4.95 Abernethy's Shoe Store ee -------- CL A Real Bargain 4 a $4.95 TA wm RE la por hat ee BL mead TCE Epc EMILE EE RRR ee SLU humor man. The task was not diM- | Itt sex endowned with the swift rn' a she took the measure ANNERNEEZENEERONR of her master, and even in those un- eulightoned times abe beat him ts her Xmas P hotographs "To-day women still have the! Opens Tuesday an s y measure of us, and it is this inherited | P until Ay od Smurday nights knowledge which helps them forward | Photographs. so much along the new paths which | Hours - 30 they are treading. There are, Of |" = = 1' *srress 7.30 to 10 p.m. course, degrees in the cleverness of women, but even the stupidest of the THE 'MARRISON STUDIO sex possesses an almost uncanny in- Ph stinct with regard to the little per-| one 1318w. 92 Princess Street. sonal affairs of life. Now, as life con- sists chiefly of a series of trivial hap- N bit drut] penings, it is obvious that the sex " 4 which knows how to handle such mat- ters skilfully must score over the more obtuse male. Woman is doing 9 80 every day. "In circumstances affecting her own happiness she can envisage the future much more clearly than we can. When a girl gets engaged now- adays, the chances are that she has S ocery read her finance's character like a book, and realizes pretty accurately what allowances she will have to SPECIALS THIS WEEK make for him when he is her hus- band. The same can be said for but New Clean Currants ...23¢c. a 1b. few men." | New Seedless Raisins, large | packages 30c. a pkg. Some Literary Non-Smokers. | New Shelled Walnuts ...60e. Ib, It is very remarkable that Shake- New Shelled Almonds ..60c. lb, 8peare never once mentions tobacco, 3 Ibs. best Black Tea for ..$1.00 though smoking in the Elizabethan JAMiRaspberry and Strawberry theatres was a regular practice, and --guarantecd absolutely pure, is so mentioned by Ben Jonson. The 4.10, pally association of tobacco with literature Pearl Taploca in this country begins with Sir Wal- Rice--good quality ter Raleigh, who was a man of let- BUTTERIs dropping. Get our ters. But the tradition that he intro- price and be sure and get our duced tobacco into England has little price on sugar. to support it. Among famous literary Montreal and Charles Street. men who did not smoke may be men- tioned Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, | Phone 669 Goethe, Heine, Shelley, Voltaire, | | : Rousseau, and Lord Macaulay. It is | Goods delivered to all parts of said that Algernon Swinburne abhor- | the city, red tobaceo, and once in the reeking | m- . From Christmas to Christmas your gift of Furniture will be remembered. 2 It's going to be a Furniture Christmas. Why? Because people know. thap there is nothing that will be more appreciated by their friends than a Work Hu Basket, Tea Table, Piano or Parlor Lamp, Smokers' sets, Doll Carriages, and Children's Desk and Chairs. JAMES REID Phone 147 for Service Arts Club he screamed: "James the ------ First was a knave, a tyrant, a fool, FAREWELL FOR A COUPLE, a liar, a coward; but I love him, I worship him, because he slit the They Are To Spend the Winter Near throat of that filthy blackguard Ra- Napanee, leigh, who invented this filthy smok- Verona, Dec. 13.--Mrs. William ing!" Alphonse Daudet declared | Hamilton suffered a light stroke on that his power to write diminished as | Saturday. Through cutting an in- the tobacco burned down in his pipe. | grown toe nail, Sandy Grant is suf- Mr. Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George tering from a very bad toe, which Meredith, Mark Twain, and, of lnearly turned to gangrene, but for course, Sir James Barrie are all on [the doctor's timely assistance. The the smokers' side. boys and girls are having a great , {time on the iake and skating has be- An Exercise In Mnemonics. gun in earnest. It is hoped the ice A middle i suburbanite. over will say for the hockey season starts 1akon on Biz Saturday *uernoon stroll | "The Ladies' Ald Society continues ho i $ Ta Ls By ~ io © | its activities, and is now arranging course, in A to RORY TAININE | v5r an entertainment soon. Miss Mary Sourser aan pHs 8 Jrogtees Campbell, who is teaching near Tam- made. 8 Ane!" was the reply. | orth was recently home on a visit, Bi our ips from my pouch and | vir and Mrs. E. L. Martin were at a But TR el Dersmbulats silver wedding anniversary at Mos- t When Dr made) Sealce Y t. | cow, last week. Mr. and Mrs. £. W. ered right-about-| yori are visiting friends in Nap- face and returned at the double on inee his tracks. In the evening the middle- Mrs. J. Percy, who has been for aged friend alled te return the | oven) weeks under the doctor's care oud a an hy og the owner. |. stil) at her son's, Eugene Percy, wo Wonger hh ¥ 1 left you 30 | piooadilly. Miss Eva Craig has gone 2 UplIy if av 9 Alsosiation--work- to spent the winter with friends in ? atitully. e/ word 'tobacco,' | \jiohigan. Mrs. Asselstine has been ollowed by 'perambulate' reminded visiting friends in Toronto. The sing- me of something." "Was it import- i ] > ee ing in the Methodist church has now ants?' "Well--yes. Don't breathe a | 4" orchestra accompaniment. Mrs word to the wife. I'd left the peram- y . Tarl " bulator outside the tobacconiat: a Lakins plays the'organ, Earl Martin hy 8 8 hacen t's, 80d | (he cornet, and Messrs. R. Craig and was in 1t! L. Osborne the violin, i Mr. and Mrs. C. Howarth are go- Olive Schreiner, Dead. ing to spend the winter with friends London, Dec. 14.--Olive Schreiner |near Napanee. Before leaving they (Mrs. 8. C. Cronwright-Schreiner), | were asked to meet a number of the novelist, is dead. Olive Schreiner, | friends at the home of Mrs. Tallen. born in Basutoland, daughter of the |To their great surprise a purse was late Rev. G. Schreiner, a missionary | presented to Mr. Howarth by Mrs. J. from London, gained early fame by | Walroth. Mrs. Howarth was also the one of her first publications. "The |recipient of a nice present. Rev. Dr. Story of an African Farm." She pub- | Lawson poke on behalf of the lished several other books, including | friends assuring the aged couple of "An Englishman's South African |the affection of the people of Verona View of the Situation," in 1899, and {for them, wishing them a pleasant "Women and Labor," She was mar-|visit and safe return. Mr.' Howarth ried in 1894 to 8. C. Cronwright. spoke briefly and feelingly in reply. ---------- Refreshments were served, and a Diplomatic relations between Hol-|very pleasant evening was spent. land and Jugo-Slavia have been bro- The Eureka Spar and Flint Com- ken off. \ pany has taken on more men and - another new mine has been opened, on L. Goodberry's property. Miss Lizzie Carl was married very quietly = o --_-- » T 1 - on Thureday aftermoon to Mr. Sher- OLD I ALES 1 wood, Kingston. The happy couple R left for Toronto and points west and on their return will reside in King- " TEN YEARS AGO. Rev. Dr. Mackie deplores the fact that the church services of the pres- ent day are becoming more and more an entertainment for the benefit of the congregations. . | W. Carroll was elected president of the Williamsville hockey club ata meeting heid last night. The marriage took plaee this morn- | ing of Miss Evelyn Amy Rogers and Professor P. G. C. Campbell of Queen's. Both are well-known in the city. J. H. Seels, local agent of the Dom- nion Express Company, has been called to Toronto. ; Raymond &. Way, who was found wandering on the banks of the Thames at London, Eagland, with his mind a blank, was identified as a Tamworth, Ont., boy. Four hundred farmers from Sud- bury district alone, are on the way ston, William Carl has gone to visit " | his son-in-law, Mr. Middleton. Mr. or five years ago, is unable to stay TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. alone and will probably stay with L. B. Spencer says he will not be a | Mr. Middleton until his daughter re- turns from her honeymoon, when she candidate for alderman in Sydenham will nos doubt take her father to live ward. 2 with her. Capt. Shaw of the schooner Fleet- Dies . wing, considers there is a splendid| Dies Alter Shore Hino, RL opening for one or two steambarges ar, = 15.--W. G. Rigby, to run from this port Kaladar, prominent merchant and : postmaster, passed away Saturday Capt. Dix's steamer Valina has|evening, after a very serious illness been undergoing repairs at Dan's dry | of short duration, cancer of the sto- dock. . mach was revealed by X-ray in the : : Hospital om, a f Con. Millan Says he can pick a Suneral ospital, Ringsto, ow team from the boarders at his hotel, | he Jate Mr. Rigby was a promin- which will beat any team in the city [one Mason and iy and al in a tug-o'-war. ways took an active part in every- D. Hastings will receive all chal-|thing beneficial to the community at h . large. He will be buried at Trenton ig for the druggists' hockey on Tiitadas mers ed, Diver Edward Charles has comple- | Lyndhurst Locals. En ted his work om Hepburn's marine! Lyndhurst, Dec. 11.--Mrs. Amos 'N. ews of Kingston Carl, having lost his sight some four to Ottawa to doin the agricultural de- putation there. FR ) railway at . He it is too | Weeks has bone to be Sold ark at fhia ime of the oar. Lwith her brother's wite, who is > SPECIAL Charm Black Tea BLUE PACKAGE now .....55¢c. per Ib. RED PACKAGE... ........70c. per lb. Buy it by the pound: you get a Quarter Pound Free. Once used, always used. Geo. Robertson & Son, Limited ecial Sale ThisWeek A Limoges French China Dinner Set -- BridahRose pattern; gold lined; 97 pieces at $62.00. Sales tax extra. Good quality; nice shapes, and the best value offered this season. - A limited number in stock. : SHOP EARLY. 'Robertson's, Limited 75-76 PRINCESS STREET lands son, who was hurt when craeh . Harvey. . {ing a tractor, is very low. Mrs. to Brockville |G. Harvey continues to be very W. 0. Wing, | The young people are getting rem Mrs. Kirk- [for a Christmas entertainment.'