SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1096 . -----.. a= THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Ee ---- THREE OF CANADA'S CHURCH UNION LEADERS. AAAAAA AA, AAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA VY VVWYYWWWWYYWY . COHEN & C0. Wish the people of Kingston THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON, and with surety of at least one new industry, hope that 1925 will bring to this city a large increase of industries, popula- tion, and prosperity. AAAAAAARAAAAAAAAA A wi ATRANRAA VYVAVVYYY VVYV VVWVWWYTYVYVY i AT THIS Christmas Season We thank our many patrons for their continued "support of this growing industry and for their many appreciated testimonials to the reliability of our product. AAAAAAAAAL LSA VV DR. JAMES SMYTHE REV. J. W. G. WAI'D REV. DR. MACKINNON Here are three of the leaders in the National Church Movement. From left to right, they are: Dr. James Smythe, principal Wesleyan College, Montreal; Rev. J. W. G. Ward, pastor Emanuel Congregational church, Montreal, and Very Rev. Dr. Clarence MacKinnon, Halifax, moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The past year has brought this firm into touch with new large sources of supply and it affords us pleasure to be able to offer to our friends, large quantities of New and Used Lumber and All the large service stations in Kingston and District now stock our Batteries and are ready to give prompt and efficient service * | to a vegetarian diet as some of | them do, or travel to the mud flats CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS or estuaries, where at the edge of the tide the ground is usually soft even in the coldest weather. Some years ago Richard Keanton, The good old-fashioned Christ) foot of his tree. When the frost re- mas when snow covers the fields and the woods and keem frost holds ponds end lakes fm an icy grip, is not such a time of good cheer for Nature's children in the wilds as it is for human beings. A few of them like the grey goose, seem to revel in the cold, but for thé majority it is a time of short ra- tiops and a continual struggle to keap alfve. The most fortunate are those who, when first cold days an- nounce the advent of bleak weather, are able to curl up in some shelter- ed spot, where they sleep uatil the spring sunshine awakens them once more. You will not eée "the squirrel when the ground is frostbound, but if you look carefully among the treds of any wood where he lives you will see his winter quarters--a roupd nest made of twigs and leaves. Within #t with his tail spread over him like an elder-down, lies the squifrel slumbering snugly. He 1s not one of those that sleep unbrokesly during the winter, for if @ warm day comes he gets out of bed and visits the stores of beech andl hapel nuts he has buried at the | scrape together enough food to keep turns he retires again. There is never a frog to be seen at Christmas time. Where have they all gone? You cam find them by stirring up the mud at the bottom of any pond. With the advent of winter the frog sinks to the bottom and digs himself in. Them he stops breathing for several months, being kept alive by the action of his heart, which continues to beat just fast en- ough to keep the blood" moving In his velns. Most birds have a hard time. The | luckiest are those that feed upon berries and seeds, for usually they manage by" dint of hard work to them alive. Worms and all the in- sects that live in the soil are no longer to be found near the eurface. The earth-worm may descend four feat or more; snails are hidden away in burrows or in the crevices in walls beyond the reach of hungry beaks; beetles and grubs have made their way to warmer levels, digging down as far as they can from the the naturalist, made an Investiga- tion into the hard time the birds have in winter. Noting a small bird Industrious!y searching for food in the woods among the fallen leaves; he went down on hands and knees and turned over thousands of leaves one by one, covering an area of two square yards of soil. The results of a most careful search were one smiall worm, an acorn, @ hazel nut and a tiny enail. a funther investi- gation of six square yards produced nothing but a single hazel nut. The badger lies deep down in his snug earth, living on his summer fat, though on a warmer evening he may occ.sionally rouse himself and visit a neighboring rabbit warren. His cousin Reynard the fox is ona of the few that have a good time in frosty weather. Hard ground and snow mean a respite for him for horse and hound cannot hunt him then.» And his food comes easily; the footprints of hare or rabbit can be followed in the snow for neither can run far. Hares often lie for days frost bound surface. The bird can-; in a hollow scooped out under the not dig for soil gripped by frost is | snow, and if Reypard's eyes too hard for his beak to pierce. Tnsect feeders must either return and nose have brought Jim to the hid- ing place of one, a good dinner THE OLDER BUILDINGS OF THE KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL ON STUART STREET THOS. G. BISHOP ENGINEER and - MACHINIST MACHINERY REPAIRED BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS ELECTRIC AND ACETYLENE WELDING ay A - - \ KINGSTON - ONTARIO adhd kid Lh Ad AAS A a outfit. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SLA LLL LLL Lslssasa AAAAAAAALLAS SLA Factory VV VV VV VV YY YYW VV VY VA Vv VV VV VV VW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAL ALLL LL LL 4 for all needs. The Monarch Battery is built to give satisfaction and there is a Battery suitable for use in your Auto or Boat or with your Radio ~ AT YOUR SERVICE Monarch Battery Company, Limited 292-294 Ontario St. 275 Ontario St. prices. We are also pleased at this Season, with MAY WE QUOTE Yards Office Montreal St. Building Materials at very low MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS to offer to increase your warmth Stoves, Boilers and Blankets. L. COHEN & (0. 275 Ontario St. "Phones 836-837 to be able Furnaces, YOU! Office AMAAAAAASIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ALLA LLL R28 Vv AAAAAL AM hdd awaits him for 4 Hitle digging. Birds too, become torpid with the cold and are less difficult to catch than in the warmer weather. Alto- gether the fox does himself well at Chfistmas time. Rats and mice forsake field and river bunk and make for barns, hay- stacks or houses. Many other crea- tubes too ere driven by hunger to put aside their natural fear of man and to come almost to his door to seek food. Deer, usually the shyest of snimuls will come into villages; grouse and pheasants may be seen feeding with hens in the farmyard; whilst seagulls forsake the stormy seas and make their way into the very heart of great cities. A search in the rough bark of! trees, in crevices of old walls or amongst the rafters of sheds and outbuildings will reveal an astonish- | ing variety of insect life, though by! the casual eye scarcely an insect is seen at Christmas time. Here snug- ly tucked away are butterflies waiting for warmer weather and quesn wasps who alone of all the wasp colony survive the frosts. Christmas Books Grown-up people may have their doubts whether this is a good age to live tn. They may protest and show plausible reasons for the faith that their predecessors of the nineteenth or eighteenth century were more fortumate. But there is mo com- nid about the lot of modern es who would venture to deny it, we might triumphantly pro- i: : TE igs ; ; | 533% Hi 5 ANAAAANAP IAA IPNIIIII ° sas " E Pui AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA AAA AAA vv wv WY VI TTT TTT TV TV YT VV VY VY YYY Nt AIA school. The exploits of the hero of a tale of adventure are marvellous still, but not beyond the laws of nature. The author's craftsmanship is vastly more competent. Greater still is the improvement in form, In printing, and in illustration. We do not deny the luxurious gift books of the past. It is quite d¢rue that some of the plates in the "keep- sakes" and their kind of the early nineteenth century were admirable. What the wood engravers of the 'sixties and 'seventies could do we may remember with regret. But the range and variety of modern met- hods of reproduction are great and their results charming. That we live in an age of beautiful books anyone may prove who buys wisely and well this Christmastide. of the names on Wendy's sampler-- Hans' Christian Anderson, Lewis Carrol and Robert Louis Stevenson. There are others to add to the list, the creator of Peter Pan himself, the creator of Mowgli and from a little earlier time the creafor of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Should we add to these the chronicler of Tom Brown? If not of such inspir- ation as theirs, he was what mone of them can in the nature of things ever be, the exemplar of {nnumer- able competent followers. The school story is essentially the invention of Hughes. Tales of adventure, tales of romantic his- tory, also have their vogue, and they say that girls like them more than ever. Of one and all it is cert- ainly true that the standard is high- er. The modern child is not offered such stories of echool life as some older folk remember, written ap- parently, by good people who knew nothing of the organisation of a Burning A Snowball, Boys have been inclined to laugh when I told them I could burn a snowball. Of course I don't really burn it, but it's a mighty good trick and very mystertous until somebody explains how it is done. Make a snowball, hard and eom- pact and wet, if necessary. Then in- lay a plece of gum camphor, about the size of a pea, on the surface of the ball, Place the snowball upon a short length of board. with the camphor spot at the top. Say that you will burn the ball. Strike a match and hold it close to the camphor. The bluish flame burns a long time while the audience wonders how you did it. The heat naturally melts the ball go that the ball will disappear and the burning cease about five minutes after the beginning of the stunt. If the proportion of the Lall and camphor has been correct, the board will contain nothing more than a few drops of water, Perhaps the best way is to burn the ball at night with the lights out, 4 YY NN NIN NININININININININININPNINININININNSy it isn't the price that you paid. It isn't the size of your pile in the bank, Nor the number of acres you own; It isn't the question of prestige or rank, Nor of sinew, of muscle nor béne. It isn't the things you It's SERVICE that measures success. It isn't a question of name, or of length, Of an ancestral NNO the richest of pay, isn't the cut of the clothes that you wear, Nor the stuff out of which they are made, chosen with taste and fastidious car®; . It isn't the servants that come at your call; possess, many, or little, or nothing at all-- For it's SERVICE that measures success. "PHONE 9. CRAWFORD FOOT OF QUEEN STREET "THE HOME OF GOOD COAL"