THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG whatever may be k to; that al shone upon. and our best wishes that ou have of value t safe and added ou do not desire may grow less and disap- pear; that you and yours may have the happiest Christmas of your lives and the bright- est New Year the sun. ever HERE'S A HEARTY | "HAND SHAKE Delaware, Lackawana and Western Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite CRAWFORD "FOOT OF QUEEN STREET. Phone 9. COSTLY CRACKERS stmas crackers have been in some extraordinary sizes. A of England baronet once had p one built in his ballroom. It 8 over thirty feet high. Special device arranged for the @stomary explosion at the proper mt, and at the same time ijllu- pd the cracker with innumer- able electric lights. Inside were hidden attendants, who handed out gifts for youngsters and grown-ups. Perhaps the most costly cracker was one made for a generous if ec- centric donor. Its design was that of a sheaf of wheat; its material solid gold; its contents a ring set with pearls. The goldsmith who made it took six months over the task. Why not give the ice man a €hristmas present? Something for seraping mud off his feet would be nice. And there's the grocer. He's hu- man and enjoys Christmas. Give him" a nice payment on your grocery bill. / Well, it's settled that Christmas is coming. And everybody seems about as surprised as usual, * RE 87 ~The big store at your service with a tremendous stock of Staple "and Fancy Groceries for Christmas. Prices are very low, quality very high and service excellent. Canned Fruits Table Fruit Navel Oranges ~~ all sizes, Just arrived. mew Golden Dates, Fancy Layer Figs, Fancy Olives (stuffed or \ NOTHING BETTER TO BE HAD ! Start the morning with » cup of our delicious Mocha and Java Coffee... ,.. EE Ground by electricity while you wait, so that you are sure to have it fresh. We carry a tremendous stock of Téa and can suit the most particular person in quality and OR sais Preisssemes | the minister's daughter back home Kingston Has About Thirteen Miles Of Permanently Paved Roadways More in Profiostion to Any Other City of Its Size in Canada-- hat City Erie Dick's Tabulated tement Shows. Kingston fi indeed fortunate in having more improved streets than any other city of the same size in the province. Up until about fifteen years ago macadam roads were the chief thoroughfares in the city, but several aldermen thought that the time was ripe to carry out an. extensive and permanent road building scheme. After much consideration it was decided to build a few blocks of asphalt block pavement and this proved such a success that the following year more pavement of the same type was con- structed. As time went on it was decided that sheet asphalt pavement similar to what would be used in Toronto and other large cities would be very satis- factory for Kingston's needs and when tried out it proved so successful that this class of pavement has been used. The work of building pavements in Kingston is done a great deal cheaper than in other cities, owing to the fact that the city owns jts own plant and the work is done directly under the engineer's department. City Engineer Howard Dick has prepared the following tabulated statement of the number of miles of different kinds of roads in the city: Mileage of Streets 1919 Number of Miles 1.083 0.645 Class of Roadway Asphalt bloek Asphaltic concrete Sheet asphalt Asphalt macadam . Asphalt macadam (macadam base) ... Macadam roads ......coeves ssvssvnaes me Unimproved .......... vse emeia wens aive es Total ee .oa. Peres Sesceenaveee sas nes be Pavements Laid in 1920. Asphalt Macadam ¥rees Asphalt macadam (macadam base) Sheet asphalt I eae eee a Ger eu we a. oa SAE aa Mileage of Streets to End of 1920. Asphait block ..... I" css esvess "ee Asphaltic concrete Sheet asphalt Asphalt macadam (macad: Asphalt macadam .. Macadam roads Unimproved roads . Total sesane som Sheet asphalt- Sheet asphalt (macadam base) Total Asphalt block Asphaltic concrete ... Sheet asphalt Veavens Sheet asphalt (macadam base) ... Asphalt macadam " Asphalt macadam (macadam base) Macadam roads ... Unimproved roads .. sere Pavements Laid in 1022. Sheet 88DPRAIL uu ceinies sinensis mismo as Taian omss ss siren wsiosna 1.079 Sandstone BIOCK .v.vsesncias siomenonmsss 0.104 trem sense TOUR + os aininis vies intmtnareiaiem os siefarnn io-ainre o/ 330 att 'susinin Mileage of Streets to End of 1922, Asphalt DIOGK ..covnseismmess vensans. Sandstone block . Asphaltic concrete Sheet asphalt Sheet asphalt (macad base Asphalt macadam ....., "as Asphalt macadam (macadam base) .... Macadam roads ... sesses estan Total ...cumeeseissins Ee ; Pavements Laid in 1923. Sheet asphalt Sheet asphalt (macadam Dase) ..eecee coe... TOLAl' susivnimnsmens munnrss neem oe soem esms obi sass sore. 7 Mileage of Streets to End of 1928. ASPhalt DIOCK ...veaus'sensseed case nene Sandstone block ...cccvvensascace Asphaltic concrete ~...vo0000ns Sheet Asphalt ~ Sheet Asphalt (macadam base) Asphalt macada Asphalt macadam (macadam base) MacAdaI YORME +o. vcnssecnrasm = rvmon cman + URIMProved roads «..ceome sm ws smon avsnnsssse poss aos Total cevmamusismmesvoce cosemmcsson sesrssnsnasnss 43.245 NO NEWS FROM HOME Christmas and ao news from home! Amy Weatherill wearily sat company and she received very little salary. Fs Amy rose, wearily, and turned on the dim light. She then proceeded to make herself & cup of tea, and taking a box of soda biscuits from at least one letter a week, and here it was but a few short hours till Christmas day, and not a single line even from---Oh! well, what's the use of wogrying? She would pm in the last few stitches on the set of doilies she way embroidering for in Springhurst and them go to bed @arly in order to give her tired mind a rest. What was it one of the shop girls had said last Friday, when the where she was § £ it : i i £ : : i i i 2 i § Fis if § 1 ; ; i i ge i § i hy gob I i i i | is ES ¥ ; ih fg i E i iis i | i £ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1928 SOME CHRISTMAS JOLLITY Rubbing It In, An American visited a menagerie and pau Sete pariduiany ugly monkey, exclaimed, "What a. resemblance to Mr. So-and-So!" The words were scarcely spoken, when he turned and saw the man whom he had "complimented" standing at his side. "1 beg your pardon," said the Amegfran, "I would not have made the remark if I had known you were so near, and I am reagy to make thy most humble apology. But " looking at the man and then at the mc\ key, "I'm hanged if I know whether I ought to apologize to you or to the monkey!" The Parson's Dilemma. A cletgyman decided to take up golf. He got a caddie to go along with him, and they teed up for a drive-off. Mentally, the good man ran over the instruc'ions on driv- ing, and then took a mighty swing at the ball. He missed it. Again and again he swung, until his ribs ached. Then, taking par- ticular care, he swung again. "Crack!" went the ball, and fit darted over the fence into a field beyond the railway line. The clergyman gasped and grew red in the face. . "Well, I've got to give it up," he sald. "The strain is too great." "Give up golf?" asked the caddy. "No. The ministry." P---- Politics and Potatoes. At a dinner party a well-known cabinet minister was seated next to a strong-minded woman who per- sonified the expressive, if somewhat vulgar, adage of having 'more jaw than judgment." After badgering him beyond the limit of his patience about several political questions, she remarked: "And there is the Eastern question Why does hot the eabinet adopt a more vigorous polioy there? What, for example, are you waiting for just now?" "At the present moment, madam," replied the statesman quietly, "I am waiting for the potatoes." the Dog. At Christmas the children of a certain school tried to collect money by going from house to house sing- ing carols and snatches of hymns. Complaints reached the rector's ears of bands of youngsters scampering through the first verse of, "While Shepherds Watched," and then vio- lently ringing the doorbell. He instituted inquiries when he visited the school. . "Why is it," he asked, "that in- stead of singing the hymn in a reverent manner, you scamper through ohe vérse and then ring the bell?" A shrill voice from a small boy at the back of the room was heard in explanation: "Please, sir, it's 'cause they always lets the dog loose at the second verse." Pause and Paws! The hostess, an amiable bundle of Teceutiyacyuirgh wealth, was doing her utmost to Ride the fact that she was not familiar with the intricate manipulation of a melon-fork. Fol- lowing the principle, "When in doauc, keep still," she placed her large, fat, red bands across the front elevation of her expansive waist. Suddenly there came a general lull in the chatter, and a bright youth turned to his hostess and muttered, sagaciously, "Awful pause, eh?" The hostess, unhitching herself, as it were, and thrusting her enormous knuckles out of sight, blurted out: "Yes, and so would yours be if you'd had to work as hard as I did before the war!" wb Nothing But Trouble, The class was particularly alert that afternoon and Miss Scraggem beamed. But, as is often the case, when the tepcher relaxed her iron rule the chilffen began to get out of hand. "Now, Willie," sald Miss Scragg- | om, "if you had four pennies and Jamie had five, and you took his and put them to yours, what would that make?" Willie glanced boned, lad. "Trouble!" tion. at Jamie, a big- aggressivechinned Scotch he said, with convie- Misunderstood! An author, looking for country types, 'managed to get into conver- sation with three garrulous women in the bar parlor of a village inn. The talk was uninteresting until the author spoke of husbands. All three women became simultaneously concerned. Very proudly one declared, "Mine's a farm laborer, mine is," while the second. snorted and huffed contemp- tuously, as she announced that her husband was a plowman. The third woman gazed absently into the fire. The author turned to her and said: "And you, mother: what's yours?" Without raising her eyes she mur- mured: "@h, mine's a drop of gin, thank ye very much, sir." Only Indigestion. "Oh, Mr. Flipperly," she exclaim=- ed, soulfully, "have you ever felt a dim, uneasy sense of oppression as if the mere weight of life were a burden too heavy to be borne by the chained spirit panting with psychic longing to be free?" "I invariably have such a feeling at Christmastime," was the callous response, "but hitherto I have at- tributed it to pudding!" A Zero Touch. The prosperous-looking man ask- ed to be shown a certain overcoat with fur attachments. "How much?" he asked. "Seventeen pounds," he was told. "Take it away," said the man, firmly. "I'm hanged if I'm as cold as that." ! sedi Some Odds! A wrestling contest was in pro- gress between two pondérous colliers for three pounds a side. After some minutes one of the contestants turn. ed to his chief supporter and said: in a stage whisper: "Get another dollar on, Sam; Ah've broken his finger." ve would have the goodness to let him come upstairs." Amy's eyes brightened, but only for a moment. "It can't possibly be Phil," ehe said to herself, but she give her consent to the young man's coming upstairs, and going to the small table, which served as a bureau, she took up a brush and hastily patted her hair, "Amy," cried a joyous voice, and in a moment ¢he was in the hungry arms of the bright-faced youth whe bad just entered. "How are you, little girl? How happy I am to see you end-- Why, what is the mat- ter, dear? Why the tears?" "Oh, Phil!" cried she, "to think thet a moment ago I will the most miser- able girl in all the world, while now your dear face makes me the happl- est except for just one thing!" "And what is thet, my own?" Phil, whose face had datken- considerably at the sight of his Il din ith dive in a dear little cottage some- where in the suburbs that they have been very, very busy. But first, are you wilking to become my wife at so short a notice?" "Look into my eyes, Phil boy, and goo it to-morrow won't be the happy £%t day of all our Mves!"" He did so, and what ha mw prought tears of joy to his eyes. He Jenderly kissed her. People Should Not Invite Disaster at Yuletide Season, ne p-- The Ontario Fire Fighter has the i i gt i i Ede Het 1 » 8 1-3 i :