a REY - glided that an inquest was unneces- ° PEP 242200 900000 CAPITOL NOW SHOWING "THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" YEAR 0; "No, "201. Port of here last Buin BANISHED | Amsterdam Has a Radish' T I DEAT Complexion Preserver for the Ladies. Amsterdam, Dgec. 10.--Would you Tr of s Ye of Charl | retain a beautiful! complexion well rag y mn ome 6S | on into the sixties, with no wrinkles? Brill, Near ear Tamworth. | Nothing simpler. Eat freely of rad- | every kind-----with your meals, and | raw tomatoes every morning for THREE CHLDREN BURNED srossters sions wih sie, ows ons use a toilet-water, prepared by soak- | | ing crushed barley in rosewater, and | | then straining through muslin. This | night on going to bed, and the face | Who Was Barred By | is to be washed in the morning with | distilled water, the Flames. Thus the recipe of a Dutch society { woman, who, although she is well | The three children of Mr. Mrs. Charles Brill living near Tam- | plexion which is the envy of all Am- | worth, met a tragic death on Friday | sterdam maidens afternoon when the home of their! and they were unable to get out of ------ he bullding. The ages of the child- [At the Progress Made by 'en weme one, two and four years. Vancouver, Mrs. Brill had left the house for Winnipeg, Dec. 10. Surprise at & short time for the purpose ofthe progress of Vancouver ag a. &otling a pail of water and when she {gj pping port and the opinion that | turn, she saw that the building was a completion of the Hudson Bay in flames. Wher near the house she | route, were expressed by Hon. Frank could hear the children crying, but 'Carvell. chairman of the the heat was so great that she coulda railway commissioners, not enter the burning building. Mrs. night, Brill hurried off in search of some | Mr. Carvell was deeply impressed | might aseiet her in rescuing the chil- {Ortent were making the journey to dren. With the assistance of one Vancouver in ballast to get Canadian neighbor, she tried to get into the wheat. house but the two found it was im- or------ possible, so they had to leave the | The house where the dreadful ac- | Out All Its Promises) cident occurred is one quarter of | ---- a mile north of Lake View, which is| Sofia, Dec. 10 "We will carry three miles west of Tamworth and lout all our promises and obligations near Erinsville. The house is locat- to the Great Powers and to our ed about a quarter of a mile from |peighboring states," said King Boris ture and contained only one room. {terday, It is understood that the building | "But if we have obligations we was a log house and had been clap- also have rights conferred on us by boarded. The cause of the fire is un- [treaties, which we expect will be known. | respected." After the building had heen vue of the people from the rea va ae | MORE MILD WEATHER country gathered and tried to fight | the blaze but it was found there was | no use as the fire had gotien such ASSURED THIS WEEK a headway. When the heat died | down somewhat. the fire fighters | 'tried to see if they could enter the | WII Be No Change for a Few Dbuilding and get the remains of the | Days, Weather Officials whildren, 'but nothing could be found | dn the burning timbers. oy + ishes, great quantities In Sight of of Their Mother, is to be applied to the face every | parents was burned to the grouna| CARVELL SURPRISED. got in sight of the house on her re- [the present generation would not see | neighbors, thinking that they with the fact that vessels from the children to the flames. | Bulgaria WIll Carry the main road. It was a frame struc-)at the opening of parliament ves- ing for some time, a large number | About five o'clock the rescue party | Toronto. Dec. 10.-- spring-ike located some of thé bones of the (weather prevails in practically all «children in the ashes. It is thought [parts of Canada and the continyanes that most of the bones of the chil- lof high temperatures for the neat (ren were burned up. {tew days is predicted by officials ot Dr. O'Connor, Tamworth, made a |the dominion meteorological office very careful examination and he phere. Exceptional temperatures found that the deaths were accidents | were registered yesterday, particu- $l amd he reported the matter tollarly in Ontarlo with the mercury [Coroner Cowan, Napanee, who de-|hovering between 45 and 50 de. grees. "We do not expect any change in weather conditions for a few da sary. The father of the children is em- ployed as a laborer and worked out by the day. The parents are heart droken over their terrible loss, This ds the worst calamity that has hap pened in that section in years. reported blooming in many sections | of 4he province, we would not advise any undue delay." erman at the observatory jing: Has Thirty-nine Children. t Stockholm, Dec. 10.-- Laras Olson, a peasant in the north of Sweden, has done his part in populating the land. Although but 69 years old, be has 39 children, 15 from his first marriage, 12 from the second and 12 more in the third. The third wife is still living. Tweniy-three of the 39 children are boys. this morn- PLIGHT OF GERMAN Tailors Offer to Turn Olid Gar- ments and Curtains Into Qifts. Berlin, Dec. 10.--The plight of many German middle-class house- QAP 290%0 dbo 3 holds is illustrated by an advertise- * - ment of a repairing tailors' establish- % ITALIAN PARLIAMENT %ment suggesting. "practical Christ * TO BE PRORUGUED + mas presents." It offers to turn %* -- an old dressing gown Into a "highly ¢ Rome, bee. 10.--The Italian #| modern" winter overcoat, faded ¢ Cabinet decided to advise the # | window curtains into an equally mo- © king to prorogue parliament. # | dern costume for 4 lady, and an old & It is also stated that the king ¢|canvass awning into an up-to-date © will sign a resolution decree # | raincoat. % before the day is over. -> -- - President Coolidge's hat is in @ the U. 8S. presidential ring. 4% Y P» 9" ou 1 Said It, Marceli es By MARCELINE #ALROY. On "Tainted Kisses." The SCENT of a MAN'S 'A long distance call IF , , Very GOOD CIGAR is, But talking of KISSES-- To a sensitive woman, A man's LIPS should BURN 'What the PERFUME But not SMOKE--TOO much, Of WOMAN is--to MAN-- For a TAINTED kiss lcaves INTRIGUING, A BAD impression, Because of what may be And NO woman can tolerate BEHIND it. BAD TASTE in a MAN. The aroma of & fine cigar With CHEAP CIGARS-- Suggests a MAN It's ONE whiff and-- Well! Of GOOD TASTE. If the GIRL is not DEAD Every man who smokes _And it will take more Good cigars, BUT celine! of salads-- | and | past sixty, retains a wrinkleless com- | board ot | but if you are going to pick flowers | said the weath- | MIDDLE CLASS HOMES | TRIE . KINGSTON, UNTARIO, Ty REMAN AS PREMIER Until the British Parliament Meets Next Month. s AUDIENCE WITH KING 'A Melbourne Opinion on the British Elections And 1rade | Preterence. London, { Baldwin arrived in London this morning from | Chequers Court and | shortly before noon had an audience! | with the king at Buckingham Palace. Previougly the premier had received visits from Sir Worthington Evans, | | postmaster-general, Neville Cham- berlain, chancellor of the exchequer, Ronald McNeill, undersecretary of | state for foreign affairs, and | Byres-Monsell, chief government whip. | Mr. Baldwin's visit to the king tral News says It learns | form the cabinet | is prepared to retain the reins of | government until parliament meets | | next month.' Australian Comment. Melbourne, Australia, Dec. [Tne Melbourne Age says, in | menting on the British elections: 10.-- The elections have been a | education in British electoral | which is still a generation modern intelligence." The Age continues: "The Domin- ions naturally will look to their markets abroad, and will be speci- law, behind trade in Britain does not lead to the preference already granted being used for the advantage of trans- shipped foreign products." OTTAWA'S POWER SHORTAGE, Causes Companies to Stop Selling of | Electric Stoves, Ottawa, Dec. 10.--Owing te shor- tage of power the Ottawa Hydro- |e Electric and the Ottawa Electric Companies have stopped selling elec trie stoves and electric' water heat- 'ers, and for the next year will re- fuse to suppiy power for new-imstal- lations of the kind. There is just about enough power now to care for present cousump-| tion and to meet additions for light- months. Ottawa power are all economizing in power, and what is avatlable is being distribut ed in such a manner as to have it go as far as possible. By next De- comber, when the new supply tawa River [fave R and when other develop ments may have been completed, | there will be plenty of power again Luminous Rays From Sun London, Dec. 10.--It is only | matter of time, according tb the " mous surgeon, Sir Henry Gauvain, that' waves of light of different lengths will be found to have distinct and selective beneficial properties in | the treatment of disease. "Luminous rays from the sun, he says, "have the power of passing | through the skin and being absorbed | by the blood. "When a person's arm has been | exposed to the sun, the blood has a temperature of 115 degrees higher than is compatible with life. Yet the person derived benefit, which proved that injurious toxins are thus destroyed. CARPENTIER CHALLENGES ~~ TUNNEY-GREB WINNER But Sporting Circles Think ' 8iki'ls the Better Quali- fled Man. -- Paris, Dec." 10.--Francois Des- champs, on behalf of Georges Car- pentier, has cabled a challenge to the winner of fhe Gene Tununey-Harry Greb fight tonight for the light- heavyweight championship of the world. News of the challenge met with a mixed reception in sporting eir- cles, where the feeling in many quarters is that Carpentier, having gone back tremendously, should first wipe off his crushing defeat it the bands of Battling Siki, who is re- garded here as better qualified than Georges to meet tonight's winner. [Rrra HAS RECORD B. M. | aroused much speculation. The Cen-! "he will in- | tomorrow that he | com- | fine | ally careful that regard for foreign! ing purposes during the next twelve ! interests from | {| the Calumet development of the Ot- | Power Company is] MONDAY, FOR WOMEN M.P.'S No Other National Legislative Body Boasts as Many Lady Members, London, Dec. 10.--When a digni- «ed speaker calls to order the new Briti Parliament he will look up- | on more women members than ever have graced any national legis tive body, as eight women were vi torious in the general election | Thursday. Possibly Soviet Russia! can exceed this number, but in the | abse nce of any officlal figures from | { Moscow the British House of Com- mons will claim the distinction of | the largest feminine membership. | The following women won seats | in Parliament: | Viscountess Astor, who was re. | | elected from Plymouth as a Conser- | Dec. 10.--Prime Minister Tom Wintringham, re- | Liberal ticket; Mrs. | Hilton Phillipson, (Mabel Russell), | a Liberal and former musical] comedy star who also was re-elect- | { ed; The Duchess of Atholl, Conserva-! tive, her husband, the Lord Chany | berlain, is one of the wealthiest and | | oldest peers in the kingdom and the | only man in England entitled to| | maintain a private army; Viscount-! | ese Terrington, Liberal, a. woman i farmer: Miss Margaret Bonfield, La- | | bor, ong active in promeotiug labor interests and a delegate to the] Washington Laber Conference; Miss | Susan Lawrence, Labor, who has long been prominent as an organizer in Labor ranks; Miss Dorothea Jew- | son, a Laborite, elected from Nor-| wich. Miss Jewson, Is about thirty] vears old, is a former drygoods clerk | and was an officer in the Shop As- | sistants' Union. Later she became a household servant so she could in-| vestigate domestic conditions, vative; Mrs. | elected on the RE » INSURGENTS ADVANCE, + INTO MEXICO CITY. */| ---- * Vera Cruz, Dec. 10.--Insur- «| gent troops have left Vera * Cruz under orders for an ad- * | | vance toward Mexico City. At % various points along the inter- | oceanic railway they will be + | joined by other contingents, and the united forces will then % ad- + | i i | proceed toward the capital, i Ia vancing in two directions, tessssborsonanases (GREAT CHANCE FOR ADA 10 TRADE WITH JAPAN | Which Needs Large Quantities of Lumber, Sheet Iron and Cement. | Vancouver, B.C., Dec. 10.--Can-| {ada should hark to the sound of Japanese hammers and act quickly, according to A. E. Bryan, Canadian trade commissioner to Yokohama, | {who reached Vancouver Saturday | on the Canadian Pacific Empress of | | Canada. Speaking at a luncheon of! | the foreign trade bureau of the | | Vancouver Board of Trade at the | | Hotel Vancouver, Mr. Bryan stated | Absorbed by the Blood | that harraks were going up in Yoko-! | hama at the rate ,of 1.500 a day, | that Japan had a tremendous Reed | [at the present time for lumber, gal- | vanized and corrugated sheets of! | irom. and cement and that Canadian { busine s men should take advantage | {of their opportunity which was esti-! | mated at a cost of 750,000,000 yen. +| Since the earthquake, Mr. Bryan | | has received many enquiries for pro- ! ducts never Before asked for by the| | Japanese, and shortly before he sall- {ed for Canada an order has been | placed for several thousand Cana-| dian télephones. An investigation | into the cement industry in Canada | with a view towards entering the Japanese market with this commio- dity will ocenpy much of Mr. Bry- an's time while in Canada. The destruction of the world's second largest cement factory in the recent disaster offers Canada an unusual opportunity to do business with the orient on & large scale along these lines. * res ire: British Election Standing. London, Dec. 10.--The latest #tanding of parties, with six seats to be heard from. is as follows: Conservatives, 261. Labor 185. Liberals, 151. . Other parties, 12, ------ @&rish Elections. Beifast, Dee. 10.---T. J. 8. Harbi- son, Nationalist, and Cahir Healy, Sinn Fein, were re-elected to the Im- perial parifament for the two seats représenting the counties of Tyrone and Fermandkh. ---------------- I EE ET RE RT) -> + NINE ARE KILLED * : DECEMBER 10, | Baldwin | ment, it is believed contentious legis- { but bring thelr consent to the formation {of a new | ELOPED IN THE CAR "tour of the west with Right Hou, | 1923. ' como WHAT WILL = BALDWIN D0? Three Lines of Action Open to the British Premier. | MEETING OF | PARLIAMENT May Be Postponed From the 8th of January Until ; February. | | London, Dee. 10.--King George | arrived at Buckingham Palace Sat- | urday from Sandringham to grap-! ple with the complicated political | situation produced by the whelming defeat of the Conservative party at Thursday's elections. Premier Baldwin returned to Che- | quers, the home of British prime ministers, Saturday. His Majesty must receive Prime Minister Baldwjg's - resignation, but there may be some delay before this | ceremony occurs, ae the defeated | premier must make definite proposals | to the King regarding the formation of a new government. What Mr. | will recommend depends upon his consultations with Conser- vative party chieftains over the | week-end. Three principal lines of action are open to Premier Baldwin. First, con- tinuation of a Conservative cabinet, with Lord Derby or Austen Cham berlain" as premier. Second, coali- tion with the Liberals. Third, for mation of a Labor government. over- Might Carry On, The majority of the Conservative ministers now in London speak fav orably of attempting to carry on the Conservative government until par- liament meets. The provisional date | for the next meeting has been set for January Sth, but in view of the con- | | fusion existing in political circles, it is likely that the meeting will be postponed until February. With Lord Derby or Austin Cham- berlain leading the interim govern- | lation could pe aveided, and with the | Sumept of the Liberals, sufficient time allowed all parties to recover from the effects of<the election. The calm judgment ot politicians pindes the possibility of Labor being | called to power as the most remote of the three alternatives. Liberal leaders, asked for a snap judgment on the chances of a Conservative- Liberal coalition, immediately de- clared such a thing was impossible, | matuyrer judgment may even | | interim Conservative gov-| ernment. | Istrate | that Pratt was guilty, SHE WON IN CONTEST Cobourg Woman Disappeared With the Man Who Conducted It. Sault Ste. Marie, Dec. 10.--F. E. | Rafferty, formerly of Cobourg, Om, | is under arrest in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., bail being set at $2,000, which so far has not been raised Rafferty, who spent a few days In | the Canadian Sault early last fall, | | took over the management of the | Soo Times, when he went to Sault, Michigan, putting on a circulation contest. The charge was laid on a complaint of Dr. Lajoie, Cobourg, | who claimed that Rafferty haa ran | away from Cobourg with his wife, Mrs. Dolly Lajoie. The story, as toM by Dr, Lajole, hy that Rafferty put on a circulation contest for the Cobourg World. The | car which was offered as a prize was won by Mrs. Lajoie. Then Rat- | ferty and Mrs. Lajoie left in the car. Mrs. Lajole told her husband she! was going to visit an uncle. A week ! later he phoned and found she was not there. He traced the couple = Peterboro, where Rafferty, he says, agreed to pay $1,200 to stop a sui, giving notes for the amount. Dr, La- Jole took his wife to stay with her mother in Toronto, but later Rar- ferty joined her there and they came first to the Canadian Sault and lat- er went across the river. Lajole! came to Sault, Michigan, to collect | the notes. Mrs. Lajole is reported to have left the eity, WEEK'S TOUR OF WEST. Premier Ferguson Will Accompany | . Mr. Meighen. Toronto, Dec. 10.--Premier How- ard Ferguson has left on a week' Arthur Melghen. Mr. Ferguson met the. former Domision Premier in Toronto, and accompanied him on his visit to Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon. . As far as cay be as. \ Madrid, | pay, i dwelling." { liquor on the street, | could | much to work on | case of George Prat, | ity. | stine on the Rideau six miles from 'was evident that the man committed |SPANISH ROYALTY TO VISIT AMERICA | King Alfonso Desires to Enter a Horse in the Kentucky Derby. and vera, De¢e. 10..--The king en of Spain and Prime de Rix president of the wilitary directorate dre 'expected to visit the United Stat- ¢s in the near future following plans | | originally made last summer but abandoned when Senor Primo de Rivera seized power. King Alfonso has expressed | keen desire to gmisit the United | States. The sporting momarch nas | declared his wish to play polo and ; attend the running of the Kentucky | wherein he plans to enter his | | | derby, own horses. The king's best jockey, Lucien Lyne of Lexington, SRUMPARY 104 roval, Ky., will the royal party. HE PEODLED WHISKEY | ing a Bottle From a Bootlegger. Did you happen to run into a man who was endeavoring to get rid of | a.case of liquor the week-end?? the man but two Perhaps you did not see who had thirsty men who came in from lins' Bay, met him at the corner of | Princess.and King streets Saturday night "Want to got a stock of liquor, Got a whole case of it down here off a the bootleg- ger. "Go easy one of the long thirst "Just bring 'crocks' for sale, boss? boat," said friend," replied men, small one there, thirsty but a along roll. and bank bottle | that will be sufficient." The bottle was produced, money paid over The first asked $10 for the later agreed to take $8 This was all very fine, two men who purchased the bottle, but but bottle | fell into the hands of the police, and this caused all the trouble. Some liquor was left in the bottle when the two were rounded up by the police. Both had a fine of $10 and costs to and in addition to this the man who had the bottle, was touch- ed®for $100 and costs, for "having liquor in a place dther than a private | Magistrate Farrell put the men through a stiff examination to find out who had been selling the but the offend- they very ers were strangers in the eity, not give the police Given Three Months, After several adjournments, charged disposed of. with was finally Mag- Farrell found oa the evidence and he was fraud, months of the offen said the sentenced to three "I find you guilty charged against you," istrate to Pratt. Pratt was engaged in selling pota- toes for Eugene Denee, and was charged with failing to make the proper returns for his collections. { It wag found that Pratt had left the was issued for his | A warrant arrest and he was rounded up at i Prescott, One drunk was remanded for a day and another was reported to be ill in hospital and unable to SNOW or Northern Ontario needs rain Tals very 3 badly. ~~ ON KINGSTON STREETS Two Men Admitted Purchas- | but Col- | CAPITOL Thurs., Fri, "THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE" Sat. ro LAST EDITION. THE FRENCH ARE NERVOUS 'As the Result of of the British General al Elections. THEY FEAR LLOYD GEORGE 'And Hope There Will Be No British Coalition Under Him. Dec. 10.--French opinion generally speaking, views the results of the British election with misgiv- ings A government comprising a coalition of Liberals and Conserva- tives under former Premier Lloyd George's influence is anticipated, the accession of which, ut is feared, will lead to another crisis in ranco- British relations. France ardently desires an en- with Britain, and is willing to minor concessions to that eud, will not sacrifice such essential French policies as the exploitation of the Ruhr and Rhineland for re- parations. If therefore, the new Iritish government reopens diplo- matic warfare against France, it is difficuit to see how a renewal of the Paris, tente make | danger of a rupture can be averted. | also view | German who had a| and the | bootlegger | the | the | in jail mag- | | occupied appear. | Reflecting this somewhat pessimis~ tic view, French francs have already fallen several points The French with interest the fact that newspapers almost unani= mously hail the defeat of the British Conservatives as a French defeat and a German success. It is feared here 'that the Germans may now be inspired to renew obstructionist tae- tics as regards. French organization of occupied areas. Some French ob servers hope, however, that the Ger- mans may begin to perceive that the only result of their having persist- ently British advice since the armistice is their own ruin, and that they may seek an understand' followed | ing with France despite British man- oeuvre, France Looks to Grey. Other observers find some groutd | for o> mism in the possibility tha two | Lord Grey, who is known as a friend replace Lord | of the entente, | Curzon as foreign minister, Britain, through internal difficulties, will be rendered tent regarding foreign some time. ~ Despite these various misgivings and speculations, the French as a whole now feel that they definitely have the upper hand and that they need only persist in their present poHey of exploitation of occupied Germany to overcome all obstacles which Germany, Britain or both to- gether may be able to raise It is noteworthy that the French forces of oecupation are being re- grouped for greater military strength, either against uprisings in regions which - no longer feared, or against pos- raids from unoccupied may or "that political impo~ policy for are greatly sible armed Germany, ---- ect. sy Stresemann authorized by Reich= Blag 0 negotiate regarding coal agreements In Ruhr between French and magnates York township council passed by- Jaw to enter into street railway line extensions, with T.T.C., to cost $1,250,000. SOLDIER ON LEAVE SUICIDES IN COTTAGE ON THE RIDEAU Bdr. F. E. Nomis, RCHA, Shoots Himself--Left For Relative in England----Dead Some Days When Discovery Made. A gruesome discovery was made in the summer cottage of R. Vanal- Kingston on Sunday afternoon when Mr. Vanalstine and Jack and Edward Stanton paid a visit to the place. They found the body of a man lying on the bed with the side of his head blown off, while fastened to the table were two shot guns, one double-bar- reled and one single-barreled, They were evidently set off by the victim who pulled strings attached té the triggers. The cartridges were empty and ome charge went through the side of the cottage. Dr. A. E. Ross, coromer, and Po- lice Constable Armstrong were noti- fied and the body was examined. It suicide, for an envelope found in ¥is hat and much worn and marked "Not to be opemed till afterward," rari anetrteamiis ine og A. Norris, 69 Chit- tenham Road, Chittenbam, London, Eng." and sighed F. E. Norris. There Norris. From inquiry made at the 'R.C.H.A. it was learned that Nofris Was a soldier on leave. He was a bombardier in "A" Battery. 8 The deceased was seen on the lake shore during the previous week and Ur. Ross gave the opinion that he bad been dead four or five days. The i remains were removed to 8. 8. Core bett's undertaking parlors. The coroner decided that no fuqucst was needed, 3 Mr. Vanalstine and his compang= luns "noticed the "sereen door ajar' when they approached the cottage and an examination showed that Nor ris had gained entrance by prying the, back door open. From inquiries made by the-Wi it appears that Norris was for some time suffering from a nervous alle ment. He was depressed and com= plained of a pain in his head. About a month ago, he was in the hospital with Driver E. Palea, and he fre- BG TF a Pe It became known that he wanted to do away with himself, for he asked how he sould got possesion of a re= the war with the 'Imperial army, "He was about thirty years of age and single. 8 » Ena TE LT