THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1021. THE DA ILY BRITISH WHIG. -- on (Christmas gestions This week our stock of care- fully selected gifts will be dis- played. These have been bought with a view of combining at- tractiveness and usefulness, aud we are sure will be easy sellers, The biggest value for the least money will be our motto this year, L. T. BEST + Prescription Druggist. Phone 59 - - Open Sundays \ . | FROM NOW TILL XMAS. IT WILL PAY YOU TO ur Windows They are full of Christmas suggestions, are constantly be- ing changed, and show just now amongst other gifts-- | SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS in PEARL STRINGS and DIAMOND NECKLETS SMITH BROS. JEWELERS Limited Established 1840 Street - - Kingston uncommon words-- maybe, but very common causes of HEADACHE We have glassus, that remove these causes and give IMMEDIATE RELIEF Before consulting the physi- clan, before using medicines and drugs, come and see us, It your headache is caused by eye strain we cure it THROUGH PROPER GLASSES Keeley Jr., M.0.D.0. Optometrist aud Optician, 226 Princess Street. 8 doors above the Opera House Kins DENTAL PARLORS: 183 PRINCESS STREET KINGSTON, ONTARIO | tion, X-Ray work. About Christmas Presents when we have done the puzzling already by stocking our Showroom with useful Presents, which your Relatives and Friends can use every day and ap- preciate. Our Special Christmas "Made-in-Canada" Goods in- clude Medicine Cabinets and' Mirrors (finished in Oak and White Enamel) and Nickel Plated Bathroom Fixtures, such as Towel Bars, Soap Dishes, Tumbler, Toothbrush and Toilet Paper Holders, and Glass Shelves with N. P. Brackets. McKelvey & Birch, Limi SHOWROOM: 65 BROCK STREET - . . PHONE 2387 --$-- | | | We_specialize on:--Painless Extrac- Latest Treatment of Pyorrhea, Nm man" Bt! tenes CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Wise buyers are making their selections - early. We will store your purchases and deliver the day before Christmas. CHESTERFIELD SUITES -- nothing could be more acceptable. A large number of designs in Tapestry, Velour and Brocade. Tea Ny aggons, Lamps, Work Baskets, Sewing Tables, Den and Hall Tables. Victrolas and Victor Records. Also Gerhard Heintzman and McLagan Phono- graphs } T. E. Harrison Co., Limited Phone % ect your Christmas gifts early. | a -------------- | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. mber when hunters had to nuzzle-loading shotguns. Ye Editor Shows Uncanny Diplomacy: (Mc new reary County Record) mer will be christened r Bruce, 'and the good e wished her the good looks other and the winning ways This Has a Metallic Sound. man has * len thoughts, r ton iron will, of brains, and Steely blue eyes, All he needs is plenty of tin and le can copper any old bet, Henry Knew What Was Coming. ! "I have just finished a very wonder- I new painting of a wedding and now looking for an appropriate title said the great artist. f not call it "Just Before tha Mother," meekly suggested enry Peck. : ------ ! Something Amiss, ! There was a young miss from St Louis; She made us believe that she knew us; what seems so f borrowed some money, ut nny She --C. N. 8. Two Awful Whoppers. > there was a. woman who said she would be ready in a minute ani in exactly 59 seconds. € was a man, who, when he 1 © a pretty girl in a short skirt com- his way, looked up at the sky. { IH. B. asks: "Does idle fancy | to work?" | | Fool Questions. | ever go Taking No Chances. "John," said the wife of the famous ee | foOtball hero, who had a record of more | Dr. Nash's injuries received on the gridiron than jany other star. "I wish you would stop at the, bargain sale of Smith's and get Me a yard of that ribbon they are ad- vertising for to-day." What's the idea? You wanta collect on my life insurance? snorted John. "Do you think I am gonna risk my life and 1'r getting in a mob like that? Nothing doing! Absol iteiy nothing doing!" "Say ---- Either Will Do. Say, if you have To get to Kingdom-come | Just take a wife, or several drinks, | Or iry to kick a bomb. intense desire | Amy Other Little Tasks You Want | Done? | "Stop the next war," says a line in an {aavermunn: of 2 new book. always like folks, when they are asking { us to do somethink for them, to ask us to do something easy like that. Next | thing we suppose they'll request us { enforce prohibition or tell. them just what the total vote of the winner in | the next presidential electoin will be. Pa Gets By With Another, Willie. "Pa, what is the Dance | Death?" | Pa: "Must be the toddle, my son | Anyway when a man begin: to toddle | they say he has one foot in the grave." | -- Daily Sentence Sermon. Take your mind off your | and put it on your work and you'll | Succeed. } ei, of troubles News of the Name: Club. Sue A. Mann lives near Kem, Colo, but she declares she never expects to. Aw, Tell It To "Moonshine is against the law, it?" asked the Sin "It surely is," the Reformer "Well, then, if You drink moonshine could you say it putting | down a rebellion?" . The Marines. replied | | | | | was just t Help! { We read in a news f<em that Spain | Bars. It will be terrible for the poor jold country if they ever adopt the | "drive" system of Amgrica over there | + {and turn that army of experts loose {On a defenseless public! Poor Old Haak. Peck was the candidate er, or something 1'ke tha: on "the /indepencent ticket. At the he recelved a few Scattering for A kind-hearted reporter asked him for an expression on the results. "I did my best and would have been | glad to serve if I had had the honor | of belng elected. But I bow to the | will of the People," he said humbly, Then he added bitterly: "And I should | rather judge the people have almost | 48 strong = will as Henrietta." | a -- Here's Our Idea of a Square Deal. { (From an account o. a wedding at i « Harrisburg, Pa.) | If guests at the wedding feast of Steve Bak'e and Anna Popp, who were | married to-day in the Servian Orthodox | church, in Steelton, did not get enough to eat it was their own fault. On the table there were two roast pigs, 6§ chickens, 150 layer cakes, 25 hamg and 10 gallons of ice cream. | | i Boys, PROFESSIONAL STYLE MEN'S SPATS Well, we | to | isn't | | has nearly a quarter of a million beg- | - Winter Wear NOW IS THE TIME to bay your Winter Boots, Skating Boots, Spats, Rubbers, Overshoes and Moceassins for Men and OUR RUBBERS and OVERSHOES are fully guaranteed, MEN'S RUBBERS ................. $1.35 and $1.50 tisssssassncarmansnensss SLTS up. HE JOINS FHONE 2313. BELIEVES IN 8 FOR THE CRIMINALS '8ir Hugh John Macdonald Im- poses Some Heavy Sen- Winnipeg, Tiee. Years and a ha'f in jail sentences weic handed out by Magistrate Sir Hugh John Macdorald yesterday to men convicted of various charges of | { theft. Sir Hugh, in an jnterview | with the Free Press, de:laréed in favor of the lash for the suppression | of crime in Winnipeg, Charles T. Good receivad a fve- | year sentence; George Reld, three years; René Leflech, two years; | Harry Blair, 18 months; Henry Du- pas, five years; Walter W, Went, | five years; and Clarence Lefky, one | year, Concurrent sentences of two | years were also imposed upon Went | and Dupas, "The latest ruse of Winnipeg police | to check criminal depredations, ac- | cording to the Tribune, is to "instal | bohunk cops" around the city, who {of burglars, hold-up men and other [members of the crook fraternity. Its | success, the newspaper says, re the fact that a "crook" will divulge secrets of the "trade" to a friend. DEFENDS MARY PICKFORD, Attempt to Set Aside Divorce is De- | nounced. Carson City, Nev., Dee. 1.--Declar- | ations that the attempt of Attorney- | General Leonard B. Fowler, of Ne- | vada, to set aside Mary Pickford's di- | | vorce from Owen Moore "violates levery principle of institutional gov- { ernment," and "is the first of its | kind, and should be the last," were [made by Miss Pickford's attorney, | Gavin McNab, San Francisco, in an | answer filed in tho- State Supreme | [Sout yesterday to Fowler's appeal | { from District Judge Frank P. Lan- | {gan's ruling upholding the decree. | Miss Pickford was granted a di- | | vorce at Minden, Nev., March 20th, | {1920, by Judge Langan, and in a {short time married Douglas Fair- | hanks. On April 16th, 1920, Attor- | ney-General Fowler filed an action at | Minden asking that the decree be set {aside "in the interests of the State | lof Nevada." Judge Langan upheld | the decision last June end Fowler | appealed to the State Supreme Court. | VILLAGERS NEED HOMES. Favor German Labor in Reconstruc- tion Work in France. Paris, Dec. 1.--A movement growing in the devastated districts | of France in favor of the employ- ment of German workmen for the re- { building of the destroyed villages. { The inhabitants of se eral villages in | the districts of Chemin des Dames of is | | sinister, if glorious memory, have ap- | proached the authorities requesting an establishment of a plan whereby they may receive German help, sim-~ |ilar to that planned for the Chaulnes | region. It is interesting to note that | practically the only hostility against |the use of German laborers comes | from the people very far removed {from the invaded districts. Those | who are still roofless do not seem to |eare much who builds the houses for | them, so long as the houses are built. GOES TO NEW YORK. { Takes Charge of Canadian Govern. | | ment Railway Passenger Agency tences in Winnipeg. | LASH w 1.--Twenty-six | will endeavor to gain the confidence ! PROBS:--Friday, mild, occasional showers. Montreal, Dec. 1.---C. E. Jenney has been appointed general agent, Passenger Department, of the Can-| |adian National-Grand Trunk Rail- | ways. in New York city. Mr. Jenney {is now located in Vancouver, and {has had many years' service with | the Canadian railways. This appoint- | | met will take effect January 1st, 1922, Fooled the Tenderfoot, Along a hot and rusty Kansas road a homesteader was pursuing his way | towards 'one of Uncle Sam's free | {homes in the Cherokee strip. His | {family and furniture were in a shaky {wagon drawn by & pair of shaky {nags. "Whar ye bound?" a farmer lasked him when he halted to water | up. "Bound? Why, bound for a hun- 'erd an' sixty ac¢res o' gov'ment land in -the Strip,' the homesteader ans- wered enthusiastically. Some two or | three months passed, and then the | homesteader stopped once more at fhe farmer's to water up, this time | traveling north. "Wot ye done with them hundred and sixty acres?" ask- | ed the farmer. "See them mules?" the homesteader answered, pointing to the sorry animals that were har- | {nessed to his prairie schooner. "Well, t I traded eighty acres of my claim for | 'em." "Wot ye done with 'the other eighty?" "Don't give it. away till I get further on," said the homesteader | in a low voice, "but the feller was q | tenderfoot, and I run the other eighty in on him without his know- ing it?" 3 HOCKEY BOOTS, our price $7. SHOE STORE = + « KINGSTON, ONY. BEE io FRIDAY! AT STEACY A rousing One Day Bargain Sale with items of interest for all thrifty shoppers. LINEN TABLE CLOTHS 15 only, pure Linen, John S. Brown imported Irish Linen Table Cloths. Size 2x2: fin- ished pattern all round and sold regular at $15.00. FRIDAY ......... 3840 KIMONA VELOURS 1.000 yards of Novelty pat- terned Kimona Velours-- 27 inches wide--all colors and patterns; worth 60c. a yard. FRIDAY ..........x 33e. 'Double Discount Stamps Concentrate your shopping at Steacy's and save an extra 10% on all regular cash purchases. Remember-- just 20 more shopping days till Xmas. To-morrow af- fords you an excellent opportunity to start your Xmas. buying at a saving of 10%. DOUBLE STAMPS ..9 TILL 12 NOON Christmas Handkerchiefs 500 boxes of dainty Embroidered Swiss Muslin Hand- kerchiefs--2 in a box--- variety of patterns to select from. Worth 50c. a box ..... FRIDAY 38c. All Wool Serge 200 yards Navy and Black All-Wool Serge -- 54 inches wide and extra special value. . . . . FRIDAY $1.48 Yard Millinery--Half Price 60 Novelty Late Fall and Winter Hats -- many exclusive models --wonderful variety. Priced $6.50 up to $22.50. Your choice at half the regular price, HEATHER HOSE 500 pairs English Botany Wool Heather Hose--brown and green mixtures; ribbed. Special Friday ..... $1.65 CHILDREN'S HATS 100 Children's Winter Hats --Plush, Duvetyn, etc. Big variety of plain and fancy styles. Friday: ....... Half Price