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co efor EL TR 10 a ITER AB ANE 5 A015 No. 33 William Tomkins, Executive Secre- tary, San Diego Chamber of Commerce Still the stories of the Kingston boys, who have gone out into the world to show people what the Lime- stone City product can do, come in to us. This is the latest and has been saved for the Christmas edi- tion because it is particularly good. 'All the famous Kingstonians have earned their titles well, spme in the business world, others in the pro- fessional, and many in the sphere of politics. Occasionally, however, WILLIAM TOMKINS there appeared a case like the present , (When the story tells not only of suc- |cess but of many ups and downs {and travels all over the world. We j have received several accounts of {the lives of Kingston boys abroad, 1 which, aithough told lightly and as if the most natural course of events iever known had led them to tneir | present standing, yet under the sur- .face les the story of a long, hard fight with dashes of comedy and tra- gedy ahout evenly interspersed. It will suffice to say that this is ope of . the best of them. . Willlam To.aking left Kingston in the year 1882, while he was still a very small boy. Of what he did while a boy in Kingston there is lit- tle which can be ascertained. It is almost a certain fact nat he went swimming, perhaps down at the old Cataraqui bridge where the La Salle Causeway now stands, or perhaps at the Grove Inn, or at the Malt House, where so many of us have passed the summer days, five minutes in the 'water and two minutes out, hour by hour. William may not have seen the Ponies play the Havana Red Sox McINTOSH BROS. The People's Store } in bazeh put perhaps had handed, h ting ¢ imers of the Orientals, or the Park Nines, in ae- tion. In the winter ne very likely skated on the lake, on Caton's or on the old Quarry Pond on Collingwood street What that his the we know for a certainty 1s father was alderman of Victoria ward for fifteen consecu- tive years, a fact which in itself would entitle him to a place in this series, There, are not many of the young old boys of this city who do not remember Alderman or Council- 1 =~ Robert Romkins, or "Bob" as he w.s beter known. He had three sons, one, James, who has since died, went to Buffalo from Kingston and thence to New York where he was with the Western Union Telegraph Company until the time of his death. Another boy, Robert Jr., went to the Dakotas and started in the cattle business. Later he changed to Chi- cago and started up in the fertilizer and tallow business tn which he is still engaged In that city as S. R". Tomkins, The third son {s the subject or this sketch. Two years after /he left Kingston he found himslef in Dakota { Territory, in the Sioux Indian coun- try. Here he followed up a variety of occupations. For a great while he was a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool cow-boy and romped around the western stretches with as much ease as he had formerly traversed the vacant lots in Victoria Ward. For a considerable time after he had gain- ed experience he actea as an inter- preter between the Indlans and the whites in matters of business, plea- sure and fighting. Then, advancing still more, he took up the cattle business himself. Tired of the monotonous life of raising cattle, and still more cattle, he sought further diversion and ex- perience. With his knowledge of beef on the hoof and off, he was valu- able to any packing z=rm, and ac- cepted a position with Morris & Com- pany, Chicago, as manager of their Northwestern district. This satisfied him for eight'years, but he again be- came a icted with the desire to seek for an earthly paradise. With the end in view, probably, of looking for the ideal city of the world, or more likely because the work happened to suit him, Mr. Tom- kins started out on advertising work. He travelled all over Canada and the United States many times on big advertising, promotion and publicity campaigns, and came to be recog- nized as a leader in this particular ling of work. During the year 1916 he was Director or Advertising of the Panama-California International Exposition. at last found the city of his dreams ---- reer ws anious "Kingstonians Abroad | F Kingston Men Who Left Home To Gain Fame he | tching the bare- | From what we can gather from his | remarks about himself, Mr. Tomkins | when he landed in San Diego, Califor-' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. In 1913 he was made Executive "CA Ere nia. ETE GRY pC a girce with the ) 134 ¢ year spent with the Panama-Ca r= | | nia Exposition. With his adopted | city San Diego as the present combin- { ation of his work ana pi Tomkins certainly has es | to be contended, if some | pectuses of the city whic | seen tell half half the trut Although this son of gston is {ving in ome of the finest cities in | the world, and although qe ad- | vancement of that city and its pre- sent high standing are In some mea- sure parts of his past work and will be his work in the futuré, yet 'he | always finds a place in his heart for | the old Limestone Town in Canada, ! as do all her sons abroad He re- tains a most kindly me:iory of his birthplacé and 'untold appreciation of the excellent scholastic system which has been to my mind one of the greatest assets of Canada." rmrinnnnllfms nei . y reason | 2 pros- | We fnu-e CHRISTMAS SAYINGS Don't forget the mistletoe. Ro- mance still lives. Don't forget that it ought to be a merry Christmas. Don't deny the little ones' ideas about Santa Claus. Don't scoff at the lingering super- Its "Bit? to Postal and Express Employees | 4 stories of young stitions of the good old days. Don't refrain from giving because you can't afford to give much. The intrinsic valie .of a gift counts for | nothing. It is the thought which prompts it that matters. Don't let the wife give you a Christmas present in the form of cigars. If she persists in doing so, don't smoke them-----give them away again, ' without letting her know about it, of course. Don't, if you get up on your| wrong side, make everybody else | miserable. i Don't forget to think at least | once during the day what Christ- | mas really means. { Don't give a present unless you want to. Better not give at all than give insincerely. Don't forget that the giving of Christmas boxes, like charity, | should begin at home | ; | Don't if you are a girl, stand un- | 1 | | der the mistletoe until you see the right chap approaching. Don't kiss somebody else's best | girl, even though she is under, the mistletoe. There might be a row. Don't work on Christmas Day if you can avoid it. If you have to, however, don't make a song about it. Don't give Johnnie a trumpet and Peter a whistle and expect to have | a quiet time. It's unreasonable. Don't put off buying presents un- | til the last minute. You'll get bet- ter value and avoid the crush if you shop early. Some people leave old Common Sense in the stable for weeks at a time. But they do not forget to ex- ercise old damfoolishness every day. » It doesn't matter how cold. it gets, | | the girl who is wearing her first dia- mond ring doesn't need gloves. FEATURING CHRISTMAS MERCHANDISE ----From now until Christmas Eve, all shopping roads lead directly to this store, favorably known for the sale of less expensive merchandise. Society Doing Give Children Chance They Deserve. a From time to t meeting of the Chil appears in the newsp e a report of a ers telling of ter homes. in the case, but behind the figures are g lives rescued trom destitution, from sordid surround- ings, to be given their right to de- velop, to enjoy the world, and fill in its places of usefuln Interwoven with th threads of heartache times even of tragedy se stories are often, some- Tears have been shed copiously over the days of slavery in the south when families were scattered and hearts wrung over separation. Few good people, even while they support the great work for children, the Children's Aid, stop to take {nto account the strength of the ties that bind together the mothers and fathers, and their little ones, brothers and sisters, who because of circumstances must go different ways, that the children may get their chance in life. . The Kingston Children's Aid So- ciety has been carrying on a work that calls for warm praise. At the annual meeting of the Association held recently, it was reported that the work of the year had been most successfully carried on. John Pollie, the energetic agent, has had quite a grist of cases to attend to, and to each one he has given the very best of care and consideration. EMMANUEL. The earth is hushed in sleep, While® shepherds watch sheep, The vigil of the Christmas morn When, lo, an angel sings, Good news to men he brings-- *"The Saviour, Christ the Lord is born." their The angcl hosts reply "Glory to God on high, men of goed will earth." In haste the shepherds go, And at the manger low Adore the King proclaimed birth. Only the humble hear In reverential fear That Christ has come with them to dwell. So be our hearts all free From pride and vanity That He may be Emmanuel ! --r. To peace on at Where Ignorance is Bliss. A lawyer was conducting a case in court not long ago and one of the wit- nesses, a bugley negro, confessed that at the time of his arrest, he was en- gaged in a crap game. Immediately the lawyer said, "Now, sir, I want you to tell the jury just how you deal craps." "Wass dat?" asked the witness, rolling his eyes. 'Address the jury, sir," thundered the lawyer, "and tell them just how you deal craps." "Lemme outen heah!" cried the witness uneasily. '"Fust thing I know this gem-man gwine to ask me how to drink a sandwich." ER | the number of wards placed in fos. | These are the statistics | | | MISS EARLY SHOPPER SS EARLY. SHOPP Would Welcome Early Christmas Mailing. "You are not that kind of a person when that up voices the other evening, young woman calmly announced the previous day she had tied seven parcels, already to mail Christmas. group, and another: "Are you in the habit of doing this sort of thing? Now, don't tell us you are." lite I have the forehanded young woman, "but In the first place, last year, I was taken ill with quinsy, weeks before Christmas, when 1 had nary a preparation made. I manag- ed to enlist the help of a busy friend, cember 25th were spent in writing apologetic letters. Looking back over previous years, I recall that my Christmas buying ran away with an alarming amount of money, fo. which there seemed to be no accounting. This year, I started in early, kept my eyes open, watched the acdvertise- ments in the papers, and have been comparing values. I know my money is going farther than it ever has be- fore." A new arrival at the party took up the theme of conversation. "I have this past month," she stated. should just see the stationery, books, hoisery, gloves, woolies and other wonders of good buying I have laid away." And then there came another chorus of groans from the unwise vir- gins, but the people who value time as well as money are stocking up with dainty wrapping paper, ribbons, Christmas stickers, labels, tags and cord before the final grand rush for these sup- plies. "People save not only them- selves, but they confer a great boon that will have to' be nought under any circumstances," said a manager of a shop that deals largely in Christ- mas wrapper supplies. A post office employee, who was waiting at the counter, expressed the hope that the "shop early" movement this year would be extended to the shipping of parcels by mail and ex- press. "After the rush of the last few days before, we dre too dead tired to care what happens on Christ- mas Day," he said. To Frighten Snakes. Natives in the southern part of Liberia, who have to travel in the snake-infested swamps, rub their feet with garlic and oil, and as they move along swish the air with light rods. boa constrictor will hurry away from the garlic, and the other species are terrified at the swishing. surely!" came a chorus of dismayed | a. for | "We always have- thought you were human," remarked a member of the | "It is positively the first time in my | been guilty of getting | ready before the last minute," said i there are several reasons why I have | taken time by the forelock this year. | just three | but most of the last da,s before De- | become a confirmed bargain grabber | You { And Keeping on us when they buy early the things | 1 | While Not «nly ard special sale offerings is hs Ye = a being snatched up by the far-sighted, | The star of the goodly company. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920. ct sa MAAN NARS whoa fon translated thoughts, thought to the receiver. money may have been. of 3.54 4 hilt a time ment. fleeting pleasure of the the giver. For they lack "good will" and thought None of us has had detire those dear to us t me ne HE RERCQTET Christmas gifts are 1 A selfish or a careless Christ- mas gift is worth no mor That is why many a young- ster and many a grown up also, finds Christmas day r distlusionment and -disappoint- Presents bought in selfish hope of return. or in careless fulfillment of obligation, or even for the real appreciation to the receiver or re has lived so suecessfully that we do not desire others to avoid the mistakes we have made. successful Christmas gifts are those which are not based on the selfish pleasure of the moment. Sa A A TE - on ETN wither more nor less than e than a selfish or careless no matter what its cost in moment can never bring al plegsure to the essential elements. of for the future. so much that we'do not o have more. None of us: The THE MISTLETOE sou | There are several poems entitled, "The Mistletoe Bough." The one we print is by Thomas ,Haynes Bayly. . The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The hoily branch shone on the old oak wall; the baron's retainers blithe and gay, their Christmas holi- And were day. The - baron beheld with pride His beautiful bride; she with her seemed to be a father's child, young Lavell's bright eyes "I'm weary of dancing now," she cried : tarry a moment--I'll hide, I'll hide ! And, Lovell, be sure thou're first to "Here y to secret lurking place." Away she ran-- gan tower to search, nook to scan ; And young Lovell cried, "Oh, where dost thou hide ? I'm lonesome without thee, my own dear bride." my and her friends be- Each and each They sought her that night, and they sought her next day, And they sought her in vain when a week passed away ; In the highest, the lowest, the liest spot, Young Lovell sought found her not. And years flew by and their lone- wildly--but grief Even the voracious and venomous | at last Was told as a past ; And when Lovell appeared, the dren cried, sorrowful tale long chil- A A AA ata i matty e! the old man weeps for his fairy bride," : { At length an oak that had long lain hid, Was found in the &stie --- they raised the lid, And a skeleton form lay mouldering there In the bridal wreath of that lady fair ! O sad was her fate!--in sportive jest She hid from her lord in the old oak chest, It closed with a spring!--and dread- ful doom, The bride lay clasped in her living * tomb. chest, THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS "Christmas time is the best time because it is the kindest time. No- body ever felt happy without feel- ing very kind, and nebody ever felt very kind without feeling a little happy. So, of 'course, either way about, the happiest time is the kind- est time---that's this time. The most beautiful things our eyes can see are the stars, and for that reason and, in remembrance of One Star, we set candles on the tree to be stars in the house. So we make Christmas time a time of stars in- doors, and they strive warmly against the great out-of-doors ; that is like the cold of other seasons not so kind. We set our candles on the free and keep them bright through- out Christmas time, for while they shine upon us, we have light to see this life, not as a battle but as the march of a mighty fellowship." The Greatest Ice Cutter. A girl cashier in a quick lunch | joint buttonholed the boss one day. 'Look here, governor," she began, "l want a vacation. I've got to get my health back. My beauty is be- ginning to fade." "Why do you think so, little one?" the boss asked with an indulgent smile, "The men," 'are beginning change." said the girl cashier, to count their ~~, The buying public will support any enterprise which honestly give them more for their dollars--we give the people the best value for their money. ----You often hear people say: 'That the McIntosh Store is always well-filled with customers."' The reason so many people come here is because we give splendid merchan- dise, and ask the lowest possible prices. We do not say that you cannot se- This is true. cure good values elsewhere, but this we do know that through operating six stores with our large volume of business and buying in large quantities, per- mits us to give excellent values to everybody. We have a wonderful assemblage of Christmas merchandise suitable for gifts, and we are putting all our efforts into a big endeavor to make your dol- lar do twice (or nearly so) the work it ordinarily does in the purchase of holiday goods. ----Come prepared to share in the low prices that this popular price store offers whenever it is most convenient to come. cIntosh Bros. 3 EASTERN DARRY --CHOOL-- KINGSTON, ONTARIO (Courses 1921) REGULAR LONG COURSE ~ JANUARY 3rd to MAR. 23rd This course covers comprehensively all the practical and scientific phases of SPECIAL SHORT COURSES Special Cheesemakers' Week, February 21st to F. ebruary 26th Buttermakers' Week, March 7th to 12th. the manufacture of dairy products. At the close of this course, written and prac- tical examination will be held and certificates granted. . The short course given the creamer ymen last year was such an unqualified success from every standpoint, and has resulted in such marked improvement in the quality of creamery butter that it has been decided to repeat this course again at this session of the Dairy School, and al so to extend the same privilege to cheese- makers by setting aside one week for a discussion of cheese problems. Copies of the School Calendar, giving full information concerning various GEO. A. PUTNAM, Director of Dairy Education, Manager P. Jesse Toronto, Ont. courses may be obtained on application to the Superintendent. L. A. ZUFELT, ; Superintendent Dairy School, Kingston, Ontario. HON. MANNING DOHERTY, Minister of Agriculture, Toronto, Ont.