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THE DAILY BRITISH _WHIG. The Best Results are Obtained by Using Baker's Chocolate (Blue Wrapper, Yellow Label) Cakes, Pies, Pudding, Frosting Ice auces, Fudges, Hot and Cold Brink years this chocolate has purity, delicacy of flavor, In makin Cream, For more than 140 been the standard for ® and uniform quality. IT IS THOROUGHLY RELIABLE 57 Highest Awards in Europe and America The trade-mark "La Belle Chocglatiere" genuine package MADE IN CANADA BY WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD. Established 1780 MONTREAL, CAN. DORCHESTER, MASS. Booklet of Choice Recipes sent Free on every nesisTERGD TRADE MARK "Music can make this your Happiest New Year" He Offers You Three Days of Good 3 "_Music--Free! i R. EDISON, the world's" greatest -in- M ventor, believes that there should be : good music in every American Home. He believes that music has a powerful and beneficial influence on every member of the household, and he asks this opportunity of proving his theory to you. He has directed us to deliver to you, abse- i free, an Amberola Phonograph" and any twelve Amberol records which you may select. He asks you to play the as often as you wish, for three days. He asks you to compare its music and Sali with even the more expensive "talking machines' and decide for yourself whether the Amberola is the worlds greatest value. After this trial, if you don't feel Jou e will have # chegrier, we will be happy you can pay for it at your own your oppertanig--if you can't come in The J. M. Greene Music Co, Ltd. "THE HOME OF GOOD MUSIC." Princess Street. Frame house, 7 rooms, 4 bedrooms; electric lights, 8 piece bath, private driveway. This is a real bargain if sold within 10 days. Good location. Price $2,600, M. B. TRUMPOUR 111); BROCK STREET . PHONE 704 or 1461w. Rubber Soles and Heels Vulcanized On. ATTWOOD & DINE Aces in Vulcanizing Tires and Tubes 1 BAGOT ST. 5 Phone 410w. He is a mean man who withholds Joa his wife the praise that is due er. = too cohscienti- they manage to = for the past forty. 'e years, POO Br Ge Btn MAIN STREET | The Story of Carol Kennicott By SINCLAIR LEWIS CHAPTER VIL ' . Gopher Prairie was digging in for. tho w er. Through November | jand all December it snowed daily; {tho thermometer was at zero and | might drop to twenty below, or thir- [ty. Winter is not a season in the [North Middlewest; it is an industry, | Storm sheds were erected at every door. In every block the household- ers, Sam Clark, the wealthy Mr, { Dawson, ail save asthmatic Ezra | Stowbody who extravagantly hired a | boy, were seen perilously staggers liag up ladders, carrying storm win- | dows and screwing them to second- latory jambs. While Kennicott put | up his windows Carol danced inside |the bedrooms and begged him not | to swallow the screws, which he held lin hts mouth Mke am extraordinary | set of external false teeth. | The universal sign, of winter | was the town handyman -- Miles Bjornstam. a tall, thick, red-mue- tached bachelor, opinionated atheist, la only his ruddy nose and his cigar emerging from the fur. Carol herser stirred by a loose coat of nutria. tips loved the silken fur, | Her liveliest activity now was or- | ganizing outdoor Sports in the mo- | tor-paralyzed town. | The automobile and bridge-whist bad not only made more evident the | social divisions in Gopher Prairie | but they had also enfeebled the love | of activity, It was go rich-looking to sit and drive--and 80 easy. Skiing and sliding were "stupid" and "old- fashioned." In fact, the village long- ed for the elegance of city recrea- tion almost as much as the cities longed for village sports; and Gop- her Prairie took as much pride in neglecting coasting as St. Paul--or New York--in going coasting. Carol did inspire a successful skating- perty in mid-November, Plover Lake glistened in clear sweeps of gray- green ice, ringing to the skates. On shore the ice-tipped reeds clattered | : | { ! Main Street | Her finger- | | general-store arguer, cynical Santa Claus. Children loved him, and be | sneaked away from work to teil | them improbable stories of sea-far- | [ins and horse-trading and bears. The {children's parents either laughed at {him or hated him. He was the one | democrat in town. He called both (Lyman Cass the miller and the Finn { hcmesteader from Lost Lake by their | first names. He was known as "The | | Red Swede," and considered slightly | insane, Bjornstam could do anything with his hands--solder a pan, weld an ai- tomobile spring, soothe a frightened filly, tinker a clock, carve a Glou- cester schooner which magically went into a bottle. Now, for a week, he was "commissioner general of | Gopher Prairie, He was the only per- son besides the repairman at Sam Clark's who understood plumbing. Everybody begged him to look over the furnace and the water-pipes, He rushed from house to house till after bedtime--ten o'clock. Icicles from burst water-pipes hung along the skirt of his brown dogskin overcoat; his plush cap, which he never took off in the house, was a pulp of ice and ooal-dust; his red hands were cracked to rawnese; he'chewed the stub -of a cigar. But he was courtly to Carol. He stooped to examine the furnace flues, he straightened, glanced down at her, and hemmed, "Got to fix your furnace, no matter what else I do," The poorer houses of Gopher Pral- rie, where the services of Miles Bjor- nstam were a luxury--which includ- ed the shanty of Milés Bjornstam--- wend banked 40; the lower -windo with' esirth "and manure. 'Along the railroad the sections of snow fence, which had been stacked all summer in romantic wooden tents occupied by roving small boys, were set up to" prevent drifts from covering the track. The farmers came into town 'in home-made sleighs, with bedquilts and hay piled in the rough boxes. Fur coats, fur caps, fur mittens, overshoes buckling almost to the knees, gray knitted scarfs ten feet long, thick woolen socks, canvas jackets lined with fluffy yellow wool like the plumage of ducklings, moe- casins, red flannel wristlets for the blazing chapped wrists of boys--- these protections against winter were busily dug out of moth-ball sprinkled drawers and tar-bags in closets, and ell over town small boys were squealing, "Oh, there's my mit- tens!" or "Look at my shoe-packs!" There is so sharp a division between the panting summer and the sting- ing winter of the Northern plains that they rediscovered with surprise and a feeling of heroism shis armor of an Artic explorer, Winter garments surpassed even personal gossip as the topic at par- ties. It was good form to ask, "Put on your heavies yet?" There were as many distinctions in wraps as in mo- tor cars. The lesser sort appeared ir yellow and black dogskin coats., | but Kennicott was lordly in a, long raccoon ulster and a new seal cap. When the snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls" in a shiny, floral, steel-tipped cutter, SORES SPREAD ALL OVER FACES AND BODIES Mrs. Howard Houlette, Waskate- nau, Sask., writes:--*I wish to tell you of the benefit we have received by using your valuable Burdock Blood Bitters. My children started to break ouf] on their faces in small white pimples which kept getting larger each day. Pus would form under the scabs and in the wind, and ocak twigs with stub born last leaves hung against a mil- ky sky. Harry Haydock did tigure- eights, and Carol Was certain that she had found the perfect life. But when snow had ended the skating ang she tried to get up a moonlight sliding party, the matrons hesitated to stir away from thei: raéfators and their daily bridge-whist imita- tions of the city. She had tp nag them. They scooted down a long hill tn a bob-sled, they upset and got snow down their necks, they shrick- ed that they would do it again imme- diately--and they did not do j¢ again at all She badgered ano going skiing, her group ito They shouted end threw snowballs, and informed ker that it was such fun, and they'd have another skiing expedition right away, and they Jollily returned home and never thereafter left their manuals of bridge. Carol was discouraged." She was Erateful when Kennicott invited her to go rahbit-hunting ig the woods. She waded 'down stilly cloisters be- tween 'burnt stump. and icy oak, through drifts marked with a mil- lion hieroglyphies of rabbit and mouse and bird »She 8quealed as he leaped on a PHle of brush and fired at the rabbit which ran out. He be- longed there, masculine in reefer and sweater and high-laced boots. That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoed® she pro- duced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think | how glorious was this brave land, (Bhe rose to a radiance of sun on gus, in her. furs she trotted up-towsl. . Frosted shingles smoked against a eky colored like flax-blos- soms, sleigh-bells clinked, shouts of | ? | greeting were loud in the thin bright air, and everywhere was a rhythmic | sound of Wood-sawing. It was Sat- urday, and the neighbors' sons)were getting up the winter fuel. Behind walls of corded wo their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust. The frames of their buch-saws were cherry-red, the | blades blued steel, and the fresh cut | ends of the sticks--poplar, maple, iron wood, birch--were marked with engraved rings of growth. The boys wore shoe-packs, blue flannel shirts | with enormous pearl buttons, and | mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow | and foxy brown, Carol cried "Fine day!" to the | boys, ghe came in a glow to Howland & Gould's grocery, her collar white with frost from her breath; she | bought a can of tomatoes as though | it were Orient fruit; and returned home planning to surprise Kenniocott with an omelet creole for dinner. So brillant wes the snow-gilare that when she entered the house she saw the door-knobs, the newspaper on the table, every white surface as | dazzling. mauve, and her head was | dizzy in the pyrotechnic dimness. When her eyees had recovered she felt expanded, drunk with health, mistress of life. The world was so luminous that she sat down at her rickety little desk in the living-room to make a poem. (She got no farth- er than "The sky is bright, the sun Is warm; there ne'er will be another storm.") - In the mid-afternodn of this same day Kennicolt was called into the country. It was Bea's evening dut-- her evening for the Lutheran Dance. Carol was alone from three till mid- night, She wearied of reading pure love stories in the magazines and eat by. a radiator, beginning to Brood. Thus she chanced to discover that the had nothing to do. ¢ vont § ey u they would come off, and each. time the sores would be larger; some were as large as a twenty-five cent piece, and would spread all over their bodies. I was nearly in despair and sent to the village for a bottle of 8lst | competent; there was no household them at once. In about ten days I saw an im- provement and they grew steadily and in one month 2 remody that has | on the market without an equal for ali ua or all diseases disorders of the blood. | Bid Manufactured only by The T. Mil- burn €6.. Limited, Toronto, + She "had, she meditated, passed through the novelty of seeing the wn and meeting people, of skating and sliding and hunting. Bea was labor except sewing and derning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bedmak- ing. She couldn't satisfy her ingenu- ity in planning meals. At Dahli & Oleson's Meat Market you didn't give orders--you wotully inquired there was anything today and pork and ham. The ' fins, The meat-deal- ors shipped their best to the city, with its higher prices. In all' the Shops there was the Same lack of choice. She could not find a glass-headed picture-nail in town; she did not hunt for the sort od in back yards | . ~~ Why Castoria? EARS ago Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups were the remedies] 10 common use for Infants and Children; Castor Oil so nauseating as to be Lp in one form or another, e taste, yet really to stupify the child and give the appearance of relief from pain, 1% y ny It required years of research to find a purely vegetable combination thai would take the place of these disagreeable, unpleasant and vicious remedies that from habit had become almost universal, This was the inception of, and the reason for, the Introduction of Fletcher's Castoria, and for over 30 ears it has proven its worth, received the praise of Physicians everywhere and becsme g household word among mothers, A remedy ESPECIALLY prepared for Infants and Children and no mothe: would think of giving to her baby a remedy that she would use for herself without consulting a physician, i 5 ~ Children Cry For (ASTORIA Have You Tried It? Everybody has rpad the above headline ; how many believe it Have you a little-one in the home, and has that dear little mit when its stomach was not just right felt the comforts that come with the use of Fletcher's Castoria? You have heard the cry of pain Have you heard them cry for Fletcher's Castoria ? Try it. Just help baby out of its trouble tomorrow with a taste of toria. Watch the difference in the tone of the cry, the look in th eye, the wiggle in the tiny fingers. The transformation is complet from pain to pleasure. Try it. You'll find a wonderful lot of information about Baby in booklet that is wrapped around every bottle of Fletcher's Castoria. GENUINE CASTORIA Aways Bears the Signature of EERE [1] 50) RAUL Ps TP RARER VE TUT ys Pasi s AOU ® "> THR cENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK civy. Keeping the Roof On you consider that a man pasicised yood judgment if he used the roof Would of his house for fuel to keep it warm ? 'N ould do a thing like that? not, but men do things Eo rot i Lie that you + Perhaps absurd. i Em Rs ee el ST De iv ese rtunates must yeas interest principal of the estate left there bo ther reo) Each yeu) ay Pot in Revenue through this sacrifice of princi In-other to keep warm only to face the terri shelter. pou do not ant tists happen to YOU away! It not happen. It is in your power to such misfortune fr uring. Hew would it be to figure t exactly what their necessities would be if they were lofy clone? We have rep « tabie which will enable to ascertain your mo: expenses income. figures Set retain the chart. on is yours for the asking. ea MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Heap Orme, Toronto, CANADA. M. G. JOHNSTON, Branch Manager, Kingston, Ont. 1 am interested in your proponition. Without -- Say obligation, will you kindly send me your chart, cazAféress Keep Out the Cold proot what she could get: 'and only at Howland & Gould's was there such 4 luxury es canned asparagus. Rbp- tine care was all she could devote to it fill her time. She oduid not have ouiside em- ployment. To the village doctor's wife it was taboo. She was a woman with ea working brain and no work. (To be continued.) ake your Doors and Windows Storm and Weather- y using BRONZE WEATHERSTRIPPING Easily put on all Doors and Windows yourself, Sypplied complete with directions and nails, and reasonable cost. : at very - Lemmon & Sons i 187 PRINCESS ATRERT bh cof veiling she wanted-- she took |