Vinegars SPIRIT CIDER MALT Made From Selected Ingredients Only. The Standard Goods of Canada BRANCHES IN EVERY PROVINCE Scientifically Prepared--Shipped in the Best Containers and Thoroughly Aged in Wood Before Marketed. ~ eS kK 7 . "THE HOUSE OF QUALITY" The Wilson, Lytle Badgerow Co. Limited BRANCH FACTORY: BAGOT BT., KINGSTON D. B. MURRAY, LOCAL MANAGER. SU SS m----. | DONNELLY SALVAGE "WRECKING COMPANY Kingston, Ontario Phones: Office 528 ~. Dock 1500 Res. 437 No: 1 8:8. "Eugene Zimmerman." sunk in the Boo River in May, 1916, laden with a cargo of 9,000 tons of coal. STR. "OORNWALL"-- Powerful light draft steel TUG steamer, outfitted with a 40-ton steel derrick, fitted with clamshell outfit; 8 12-inch rotary steam pumps and boilers, diving outfits, air ~ compressors, lifting jacks, 11-inch wrecking hawsers; syphons, 2 6-inch and 1 4-inch steam I conneotions anc steel hose for steam pumps. © TUG "MARY P. HALL" --Screw powerful Lake and + River Tug. | | SOREW TUG "FRONTENAC"--TFitted with 100 tons pulling st winch, 3 ton anchor and 3,500 ft. of 1% in. 1 cable, syphons, 1 6-inch and 1 &- inch steam connections and steel hose for steam pumps. on sistance, night or day. : THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG A FEW REMINISCENCES OF KINGSTON In 1842 the wards of Kingston were five in number--Parliament, Ontario, St. Lawrence, Frontenac and Cataraqul. The council was com- posed of two aldermen and two councillors for each ward. Alder- manic qualification was a residence of four years in the town and an as- sessment of fifty pounds sterling. The qualification of councillors was a three-years' residence and assess- ment of thirty pounds. The mayor was elected by the council and his salary was fixed at not less than one hundred pounds and not more than three hundred. -- The --smaller-sum- prevailed, Eighty-two years after- wards (1924), the salary of the mayor is $1,200. Thus the mayor of Kingston in 1842 was better off in regard to remuneration than he is to-day, A peculiar incident occurred in Kingston in 184F during the absence of Mayor John Counter who was in England, James Williamson, the senior alderman, was acting for him, and among other duties he had to preside at the police court," A cer- tain person, who afterwards held high official rank, was brought be- fore him 'and fined heavily. The conviction, on account of gome fille- gality, was quaghed and Mr. Wil- liamson was out of pocket 37 pounds 10 shillings. He thought the coun- cil should recoup him but it did not. Motions favoring a refund were put half a dozen times and as often de- feated. Kingston w in a lively state during the exCiting times of the re- bellion of 1837-38, The 26th Regis ment of British Regulars had been withdrawn to do service in parts of the country more vulnerable, and the defence. of the ancient strong- hold of Frontenac devolved upon the volunteers, who responded with alacrity to the loyal call. At one time 800 men were In garrison here, while the others had been sent near- er to '""the seat of war." The rebel- lion excitement reached its height in February, 1838. One | Sunday evening It was reported that the "patriots" and their United States sympathizers were moving upoh Kingston, coming by way of the ice- bound river. At once the main streets were barricaded. Though the next day dawned without any sign of an enemy, the false alarm IN THE LONG AGO brought the highest messures of pre- caution into play. Volunteers were called in from the country and an ice entrenchment was erected on the harbor in front of the town. On Tuesday fresh activity was engend- ered by a false report of the landing of rebels on Howe Island. The ser- vices of 140 Indians, who came for- ward from the Mohawk Reserve, were accepted and every male in- habitant was called out as a reserve force for defence. > Writing of the rebellion forty who founded and edited the Whig for years said: "And yet the ill-ad- vised, quixotic and ragged crew (the rebols) were all our friends in that they hastened the political freedom of Canada by preparing----yes stir- ring England into granting respon- sible government." The business men of Kingston were hopeful in 1834--ninety years ago. They met en masse to organize a scheme to create water power for Kingston by damming the Cataraqui river at Bell's Island, or running a sluice from Kingston Mills or Lough- boro Lake. J. B. Mills, eagineer, surveyed the routes and estimated the Loughloro plan to cost $150, 000; the Cataraqui river dam $56,- 000 and the raceway from Kingston Mills $64,000. Nothing more was done until ten years ago when Mr, John M. Campbell developed power at Kingston Mills. Upon Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 a big procession was held in Kingston and it is recorded that a joke-loving baker was landed in jail for mixing jalap in a barrel of beer distributed to the public on the market square The results, go the Whig report remarks, "were decid- edly unpleasant." In the Whig of 1834 W. P. Cook advertised that having been eleeted town and church warden he thought it right to lay before the public his powers and duties and to request support from all lovers of good order. In those days the Church of England minister appointed one warden and the householders of the town another, and thése two form- ed a corporation to represent the people and act for them in all courts. | Mistletoe Ritual | Christmas is the time for kisses. Under the mistletoe of course. Hv- 4 AND No. 2 8. 8. "Eugene Zimmerman," afloat and docked at Sault Ste. Phe Daw on May 10th, Ao, "DONNELLY"--Fitted with 100 tons pulling steam winch,'3 ton anchor and 3,500 ft. of 1% inch steel cable, syphons, 1 6-inch and 1 4-inch steam connections and steel hose for steam pumps. SCREW TUG "WILLIAM JOHNSTON"--Fitted with g steam winch, 3 ton anchor, and 8,500 ft. of 1% inch steel cable, syphons, 1 4- inch steam connections and steel hose for steam pumps. 'LIGHTER Marie, was sal Company, 100 tons pullin, | by the number of berries it bore. | Doubtless it was meant to prevent eryone imagines that by virtue of immemorial custom any man can kiss any lady--from baby to grand- mother--who is caught beneath it consciously or otherwise. Ths is wrong. It is a custom that has only obtained recognition in comparative- Iy recent years. In older times there was a fixed rule as to the number of people who could be kissed under one sprig of mistletoe, and this was controlled A harmless merry joke from degen- erating into a nuisance. The old rule insisted that every man who claimed and secured a kiss under-the mistletoe must remove a berry at once. Thén when all the white berries had gone the sprig be- came a mere element of decoration and no more kisses could be extort- ed or cajoled. In some houses, especially abroad, it wag considered essential that tire youngest member of the family should place the mistletoe in posi- tion and that he or she should re- ceive the first kiss accompanied Sy a seasonal present. This as a rule led to father holding up the baby of the family, bestowing the pater- nal kiss and also the paternal pre- sent. ' After that it was a case of catch-as-catch-can until all the ber- ries were gone, In some places the mistletoe was placed before the front door and the kiss was merely the usual one of greeting and welcome to an arrive ing guest. " "OOBOURG"-- (1,200 tons capacity) fit- ted with-MoMyler Clamshell outlt, © = tons capacity) Fitted S"MAMIEY-- (900 with McMyler clamshell outfit. (850 tons Sapacity) KE "HARRIETT D."'-- + Fitted with McMyler clamshell outfit, The Donnelly Salvage and Wrecking Company is devoted exclusively to salvage work. The above outfits are board the wrecking steamers at all times, and are ready to go at a moment's notice to any vessel requiring as- JOHN DONNELLY, PRESIDENT AND GEN. MANAGER. : office officials to st Teast a cosines mise seins § a mirth People Who Have No Christmas Christmas, it has been said, is al- most as much a thing of the hearth as it is of the heart, and it is quite true that the Yuletide festival is es- sentially one to be observed im the firelight and the laughter of home. A Christmas which lacks the joy of the family gathering, the customary pleasures of the heavily lade: ta- ble, the jolly games that are indulg- ed in by old and young alike, can scarcely be called a Christmas at all. And yet there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of men (and to a smaller extent women) who have to forego the real Christmas of hearth and home, for the sole reason that the ordinary machinery of workaday life cannot be closed down entirely, ho matter how in- sistent the call of the gaily decor- ated homes ,and the pleasures of the firelight and the festive board. The railway companies, ample, have te run trains the night of Christmas Eve, so that exiles may reach their homes, and the millions of worded greetings and Yuletide gifts may reach their des- tinations "on Christmas Day in the morning." In the ordinary way this would mean that many conductors, drivers, and firemen would be away from their homes when their trains had arrived at the distant termini. The heaviest tasks of their whole year, however, fall upon shoulders of postmen at Christmas. In large towns it is possible for the post- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 103s. 3 years ago, Dr. Edward J. Barker, | Kingston. ST. MARK'S CHURCH, BARRIEFIELD, One of the quaint old edifices that are to be seen around but in country districts many post- men have a long round. Then there Is also the telephone service to be maintained so that a good propor- tion of operators have to be on the job while more fortunate people are merry-making to their heart's con- tent. In small towns and - villages it scarcely affects anybody else if some of the inhabitants desire to pay visits to friends. In big towns, how- ever this movement of people neces- sitates a transport gervice, and so, for at least six hours, many street- car men and taxi-drivers have to make happiness for themselves at the wheel or inside their vehicles. In restaurants and cafes, some of which have to open as usual at Christmas, there are waiters and waitresses and members of the kit- chen staff at work providing for the people who "either have no homes, or who, for some reason, are away from them for Christmas Day. At the hospitals and especially in the children's wards, nurses and wardmaids are busier than at any er time, for the patients must be more than usually well cared for in view of the fact that they are com- pelled to spend Christmas in a hos- pital ward instead of the more fa- miliar little living room at their own homes, Quite a number of people go to bed on Christmas Eve without knowing how circumstances may compel them to employ the waking hours on the followhg day. Doctors, for 'lastance, may have to =] ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHUROH, SYDENHAM 2 spend the whole day away from their families, If the state of their patients is such as to make this necessary. i Your Turkey | It és one of the curiosities of nomenclature that turkeys Mave . nothing to do with Turkey. Before the discovery of America there was "no such thing," as Betsy Prig would have said, although they be- long to the family of pheasants, hence their admirable eating qual- ity. In the sixteenth century these birds were brought from Mexico to Europe. They are aliens which have been welcomed, and nhturalized, in country after country, until to-day the domesticated turkey can be found in almost every part of the world. In their original haunts turkeys are still wild birds, wandering about in flocks and roosting in trees, but never doing much flying. Moreover, the wild birds are every bit as good as the tame ones. The cock, turkey is one of the most gorgeous birds in the world, almost as highly ocol- ored as a humming bird, and In the breeding season a splendid fighter. ' Great numbers are imported from France, Denmark and Hollgnd. Council Chamber. UPPER CANADA'S FIRST COUNCIL CHAMBER This little frame house still stands just below St, Paul's church on Queen street. It was uséd in 1782 as Ontario's