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( Stockings, Ge, 10¢; 25¢ each, Candy Canes, 1c, 3¢, Gc, 10¢ each. Sweet Seedless Oranges, 15¢; 20¢, 25¢, 30c dozen. Grapes, Dates, Figs, Mixed Nuts, Chocolates, Creams, Mixed Candies. 2m J. R. B. Gage, 540 Xmas Sweets _ We have a large var- 00 To .. Choice groceries, provis- ons, fruits and vegetables. Your patronage will be appreciated. Harry Thompson, 'Phone 387. 294 Princess St. WE CALL FOR ORDERS BIG SMASH IN PRICES Pure Silk Mufflers At tess Than Half Price $4.50 SCARFS FOR $1.50 large manufacturer getting rid of his stock at just one-third the price. We ve just 6 dozen of these scarfs. All other knitted scarfs at 20% off, PinSe at exactly] its of one luvge esale dealer. . We have lots of other bar- gains for Xmas, jaan, worth $3.50, for 00 Pyjamas for $1.50. omy mr bry mas Betsish Xes at $2.50 ama $3.00. .| prices | very secant ofiéring; "beef, fronts Ye. * -» |. | > + + * +* + » * +» o* + + > + -* i' +> * > * +* a +> + - * in full headdress, busby and snake, 'ments, which fought in their "'glen- THE PRICES THAT PREVAILED ON SATURDAY. The Town Council Has Decided That No "Homie 'Guard is 'Necessary to Guard Gananoque, ' Gananoque, Dec, 21.--~The market on Saturday was an exceptionally large one and although the snow was full- ing quite heavily therd was quite a large gathering of buyers. The quan tity - produce offered was quite fair and was pretty well all disposed of. There was very small difference in the from a week ago. Turkeys brought from 124e. to I%c. a pound. geese, dlc; ducks, $1.25 to $1.30 a pair; chickens, 75c. to $1 a pair; but. ter, 32¢. to 35¢c. a pound; eggs, strict- ly fresh, 40¢, to 13c. a dozen, with "hinds llc; pork, dressed, lle. to 12. It was decided at the session of the Town Council last week that there was no necessity for the formation of a home guard here as, word had beeit received from the military authorities in Kingston that No. 8 Field Battery will be re-recruited up to full strength at once, and this, with the prospect of the location of some part of the third contingent for overseas in Gana- noque, for which negotiations have been in progress with the militia de partment. at Ottawa, will render, a home guard unnecessary. : = Prof, Richardson, of Theological College, of Montreal, preached educational sermons in Grace church yesterday morning and evening to large. congregations. The Misses Beulah Webster, Kath- leen M. Boyd and Vera M. Berry, all former pupils of Gananoque igh 8 i, who have been attend- ing Kingston Model School, have all teen successful in obtaining provision: al third class certificates and will, therefore, qualify for positions in the surrounding rural districts. Tax Collectar Frank Eames reports that there is still 87,053.66 taxes for 1914 still unpaid. The Misses C, M, Wright, Marguerita Bain, Kathleen M. Kirke' and Pearl Webster, also James Bevins, all stu- dents of Ottawa Normal School, have arrived home to spend the Christmas vacation. J. Douglas Matthew, engaged in rail- way construction in the state of Col- orado, has returned to town to spend | the winter with his mother, Mrs. W. G. Matthew, King street. Miss Ger- trude Byron, William street, has re- turned home from a three months' visit with her sister, Mrs. A. A. Al ford, of Dundas. Mrs. A. E. Shook, of Swift Current, Sask., has arrived here to spend the winter with her parents, Mr. and' Mrs. -David J. 1loyd, King street. the Wesleyan [ | | | WAR BULLETINS. Allied troops are still advan- cing in Flanders. The German lines are badly brokeh in some dele of de 2 = Captain Fourie, formerly of the South Africa defence force, was convicted of treason and executed at Oape Town. op Kings of Sweden, Norway and Denmark have made an ab- solute neutrality pact. The crew of a Swedish sailing vessel assert that the 'British dreadnought Thunderer sunk with all hands, after striking a mine, The British fleet has shelled Dardanelles ports. German Zeppelins circled over Warsaw dropping bombs, and killing one hundred people. Go te de PP BBLS SD Le 2 oe PEPEIRRE CP PE EP RRdRR bbb LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hinchinbrooke Resident About Dam Trouble. Godfrey, Dec. 18.--(To the Edi- tor): I see by last Monday's paper that the settlers of Portland and Hinchinbrooke have become recon- ciled with the Napanee River Im provement company, as ithe Sey mour Power company has given a guarantee to let the water run turough the Petworth dam from May to September. That is all very well for Portland but how about Hin- chinbrooke? The Seymour Power company must give or guarantee to let the wafer from the depot strean run through the Burnt Mill and Third Lake dam fromm May to Sep- tember. That ig the only way for the settlers in"Hinchinbrooke to be- come reconeiled. The Petworth dam in Portland never flooded any land in Hinchinbrooke..--H. MOORE, Writes Fighting In Caps. Probably few peaple realize nat for the first 'time in dts 'history o- British army is fighting in its cap. The Napoleonic wars were fought the Crimean wars also in busoy and kepi; the Egyptian nnd South Afri- can wars in helmets. The British uifthorites 'Would have preferred to fight (at any rate, in the . earlier vomfiislon, the regu- case of Scottish regi- garries,". Both German and British [6 wea special field uniforms; the French, Belgian and Russians arrayed ip the kit which they | Neth, n peace time. This, of course ] have been impossible for the Lander, ) is the exact countérpart of the Uhlan. ER s|fas in daub). le universal ex,|k ISSUED MURDER THREAT HE FRIGHTENS WOMEN -- GETS MAN IN TRAP, H. A. Guess, of Federal Lead Com. pany, Receives Missive Demanding $2,000 -- Police Are Enquiring. 'Threatened with death for himself and his family if he did not at [3 pay nearly $2,000 in cash, H. A. Guess, consulting engineer of the American Smelting and Refining com- pany, and general manager of the I'ederal Lead company, New York, went to Police Commissioner Arthur Woods, says the Herald," and placed hefore him a communication which made the demands. As a result a man, who gave his name as Stanley Wicker, of San Francisco, was arrest. od yesterday. = Mr, Guess lives at Kew Gardens, on Long Island. Wednesday morning, when he started for his office, he found under the door the letter which made the death' threats. The missive had been left some time during the bitter cold night Tuesday. Inspector Paurot had a photograph faken of the letter and mailed it hack to the writer, as by the in tiructions. Then he put $40 in mark- d money in an envelope, mailed it ind set detectives to watch the post office. No ope appeared at the time pegified in the lettér, but vesterdny #4 man came in the afternoon. Ho THE HEIGHT OF EXPECTATION. FRENCH HAVE TAKE TWO LINES GERMAN TRENCHES NEAR LABASSEE. Fierce Attack on Enemy's Position-- Battle in North Steadily Increasing In Ferocity. Paris; Dec. 12.--The new. iines of German trenches are reported to have been tdken by PFrdilch troops, south east of Labassee to-day, in the re- sumption of the fierce attack which is being made on the enemy's posi- tion. With the allied warships aiding in the fighting aleng the coast, by heavy bombardment ol German lines, {he battle ' in Flanders and northern France is steadily increasing in feroc ity. it is now definitely stated that th coast ejty of Middlekirke has. not been taken, but the operations from the region of Nieuport are developing satisfactorily. Reports have again been that the Germans have Dixmude received evacuated War Tidings. It is admitted in Berlin reports of a great victory mature, even the newspaper ing disappointment at the information In the Heights of the Meuse it has been confirmed that two German bat- that were expre lack of the pre as arrested by Detectives Oliver and Derringir. He said his name was Stanley Wicker and that he had heen | cugaged as a.messenger by some man | fit Mills Hotel, No. 1, where he had | 1 room, to get his mail. In Wicker's pocket was found a tic- { ket on the Chicago, Rock Tsland and Pacific Railroad from Spirit Lake, | Towa. Wicker said he was a solici- tor, twenty-six years old, and - un- married. He also had memoranda of 'hemical formulae such as are used by metallurgists; in testing metals and ores. He was held on a charge of attempted extortion. Inspector Faurot said that at the Mills Hotel they were told that Wick + had had no companions. He had been there for a week or more. The prisoner is a clean-ent looking man of western type, and has none of the characteristics of the usual black. mailer and extortioner of this city. The letter put Mrs, Gue in arm and frichtencd pany of women neichhors, great her H. A. Guess' the daeen's School of Mining and was a former resident of Harrowsmithe He lias many friends v graduate of hereabouts PRONOUNCING GEBMAN NAMES. After 'the War the System Will Be Entirely English. By G. C. "1 have) just bought vesays by Yooken," saic mine, "By whom," said I, who German in. the high school. "Yooken, the great German sopher," replied my friend "You mean Eucken--pronounced Oi ken !"" said I, pityingly. "Not at all," countered my friend. "It is treasonable of you to 'insist on good pronunciation of German. It is un-British of you! From hence- forth. German will be prodounced in English. There's patriotism for you 1" " So my friend sat down and in- structed me in post-bellum Gertnan. The forms are given as they are written, as they sound in German, and as they will be sounded after the" war. Kaiser, Ky-ser, Kay-ser. Wilhelm, Vil-helm, Willum Gneisenan, Gny-sen-ow, aw, Berlin, nt.) Von Kiuk, Fon Klook, Von Cluck. Reuter, Roy-ter, Rooter. Taube, Tow-buh (as in cow), Taub ' i a book of | a friend of | - studied philo Nizzon- Bare:leen, (as in Berlin, Kronprinz Wilhelm, as spelt, Snoo; ums. Nietzehe, Neet-shuh, Nitslgy {rupp, Kroop, Dinnis. Kultur, eool-toor, culcher. Deutschland uber ailies--Doveh lant eber olless--i's all over with Ger- many. : Renfrew Mercury. 3 The Kingston Whig observes that length of service In the town council "4oes not necessarily make a man sroficient. in matters. Study, it holds, is rod, Jor, it adds, a A = hn council for of which, le very Suc Something w! 8 very tr ; { more is required of a civic Tesisla- 'or than merely the moving and see- onding of motions or reselntfons, | rositions in Poland. It teries wére destroyed and one damas ed by the French artillery," whose fire was directed ,by aviators. It is indicated by the German why office statement that the offensive in the west mow rests with the allies. The Berlin . communication speaks of.a series of hostile attacks which, it is said, were repulSed, Deaths of persong injured By the | German raid on English coast towns on Wednesday have increased the mortality list to 126, while 549 were injured. Sir John French has asked Earl Kitchener to increase the Royal Fly- ing Corps. In almost every official de- 'patch Sir John praises the work of the aviators and dwells on the impor- ance of their duties. The guns of the British fleet con- tinue to shell the German lines with great effect, Many train loads of wounded were taken through Bru- jes on Sunday. Heavy fighting proceeds along ihe Vistula where counter attacks of the iermans were repulsed. The Rusg- ian troops are fighting under favor- ible conditions. In Galicia, the Russians captured over a thousand prisoners on Satur- day. £ Saturday was mourning day in Hartlepool and in Scarborough, Eng- land, where the victims of the Ger- man bombardment were buried, some vith military honors. A Berlin official statement says he Russians are preparing strong admits the loss of a trench sixty metres long Paris official statement says the illies made slight progress in the Ypres region, and on the first line rom Lys to Oise seized some of the rerman trenches. Russian admiralty statement says he Russian cruiSer captured a Ger- nan steamer and also sunk a Tur- ish steamer along the coast of syria. EPP RE PREP ER OR ERR R Rb bd -» GERMAN REPENTANCE a + Amsterdam, Dec, * 21.-- The 3 %+ bishops and archbishops of Ger + many have ordered that January % 1st shall be observed as a day # of prayer and repentance in the * Kaiser's army, according to a # Cologne despatch to the Nieuwe + Rotterdamsche Corrant to-day. " : £2 PEER PR EP PPP PER Ppp op b estore. Tommy's" Philosophy. Bishop Taylor-Smith, chaplain gen- cral to his majesty's forcks, is im- mensely popular with "Tommy At- kins," mot only because of his thor ough good nature, but becavse "he is absolutely 'without "side," apd in spite of his high position treats all the nten with the greatest kindnes« and geniality, The bishop has an excellent fand of good army stories, Hut one of the beat relates to the days when he was, ont in 'China. "1 onte 'visited the 'gunner's mess at Hong Kong," he said on one oeea- sion, "and saw this xy displayed mn a conspicudis posit in : all from the same mould, but are mouldier than others." " Fow 'people beliove nowadays that * PROBS, -- Strong: 50 only. New York Waists; regular $2.50 and $3.00. To-morrow ...$1.50 Handkerchiefs for Christmas Gift Giving A department over- flowing with "gift sug gestions of bewildering loveliness, | All styles and prices. Hand-em- broidered ones from 25¢ up. : Specially Im- ported Christmas Neckwear in endless variety at 25, 90 and The. STEACY'S ids and. And Every Night Until Chistrons | Extraordinary Sale of |! 350 pairs of Lined Gloves for men, women and children--on sale to-morrow at wholesale cost and less. 60 pairs Men's real Mocha Wool Lined Gloves, regular $1.35 . . .. for $1.00 40 pairs Kid and Mocha Lined, regular $1.50 and $1.65 .... for $1.25 30 pairs extra quality French Mocha, regular $1.75 and $2.00 for $1.60 100 pairs Ladies' Kid and Mocha Wool-lined Gloves, regular$1.35 .... .... .... ... for $1.00 - 76 pairs French Mocha, regular $1.50 and SPI. omy oT a for $1.25 40 pairs Children's Wood-lined Kid and. Mocha, regular $1.00 .... .... .... .... for 6c "Allin gift boxes" REAL FRENCH KID GLOVES, In all the fashionable shades -- most suitable for gift giving at $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.65 The STORE WITH The CHRISTMAS SPIRIT lerk, ~hieh often dre Written By tho A» A oan a Ci i at tea in roxy AO Tones ante | vellowg value, SMOKE THE BEST # KINGSTON'S ELECTRIC STORE CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Flashlights 75¢ and up Toy Motors $1.25 and up Electric Irons . $3.60 and up $2.50 and up $7.00 and up Table Lamps, Electric Stoves H.W.Newman Electric Co 79 Princess Stree For Your Christmas Cake USE THE BEST Gold Medal Cleaned Currants Full Weight 160z Package CAR STORAGE Consult us about looking after your Car for the coming Winter. Our ices are right and our Services can't be beaten. PORRITT GARAGE CO., Limited | Always at your service. "Phone 454. AGENTS FOR . CADILLAC CARS. Are you going to skate this year? Fronds If Hockey Boots at $4.50. O When going to the rink, pair of our overshoes; all