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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1929, THE Film Finishing BETTER RESULTS QUICKER SERVICE LOWER PRICES BEST Many so-called Ma- hogany Candle Sticks are shown at times, but very rarely are they -- Genuine Solid Mahogany We are showing at the pres- ent time an assortment made from the genuine wood with- out any veneer, at-- ; $3.50 - $5.00 PER PAIR We do our own finishing. We have our own equipment and know how to use it. . For your satisfaction leave your next Film with L. T.Best PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST Open Sundays. FOR SALE BATEMAN'S Real Estate $1700--Frame, 7 rooms, electric light, Portsmouth. These are most attractive in design and have the beauty of grain and finish that only TRUE MAHOGANY possesses. SMITH BROS. Jewelers, Limited Established 1840. King Street, Kingston $2.000--Frame, § rooms, 4 lots and gar-| age. | $2.500--Frame, 6 rooms, B. and T., elec-| tric lights; 3 to choose from. $3,600--Frame, 6 to 19 rooms, improve- ments; 5 to choose from. $3.800--R. C., 7 rooms, B. electric lights, h.w. floors, large stable. Extra 'lots if required. and T. lot and | Farm for sale or exchange--127 acres, 80 under plow, balance pasture, well watered, frame house and barns. Money to loan. Call and see me. | Customs and Insurance Broker. | | ' suites seeser By Uncle Ray Chapter 19--What Did Children Do? | and either ran away from the young In all ages there are children. Let hunter or fought him Boys of the { us remember that! Historians 'al- Stone Age al:0 probably max ings, | most always speak only of men and and had contests '0 see who could women, but we are also interested in | hurl a the farthest, knowing what children did in ages Girls dou made up past. | audience" time, but In the Stone Age, as always, we | sometimes I suppose they joined in can be sure there were plenty of | the game and pretended to be hunt- babies. We can also be sure they resses or wild animals. cried from time to time and woke | Children's main "work" was pro- | up their parents at night. { bably picking berries and gathering We know that the little ones firewood. When they did either of | learned things as they grew up. Par- | those things, they had to be careful | ents were the main teachers. Yon of real wild beasts. | will all be interested in realizing | | that, children of the Stone Age nev- | | er went to school. There were no | | books or school buildings. Every | | day was a holiday. | | What do you suppose the boys and | girls did with their time? I'm sure! they played much of the time -- for! | all children like to play, and they | | seem to know how without being | taught. i No one can say for sure what was | the first game they played. It may | | have been tag. What child could | {miss the idea of tag? To touch a | | playmate and dare him . to catch | i you, seems to be almost as natural | | to children as for ducks to swim. | | "Playing hunter" must have been | | another popular pastime. Children | Here are two boys "playing hunt- | like to behave lake their parents, er' in Stone Age days. The boy on! | and what is more probable than that | hands and knees is pretending to be | f the boys made little spears and pre} a bear. | tended to go out and hunt bears or | lions? | times pretended to be flerce beasts | Department of GAL SUFFERS HORRORS | "o AT HANDS OF TRIESHEN|" "+ ai | i | | year and until the frost is entirely {Exciting Rescue by Woman out of the ground the condition of i Surgeon and Friendly Tribes unpaved roais may change ! rapidly owing to the sudden failure tless "the st of the | Perhaps other boys some- | Next--Early Attempts at Painting. | Copyright, the John F. Dille Co. man PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS. 159 Wellington St, Kingston Phone 396w | --/-- Pm am on Housecleaning begins. When desirous to dispose of your cast- away's do not forget to ring 2060j, where immediate attention will be given you. Standard Metal & Waste Company Office and Warehouse: 170-172 RIDEAU STREET Phone 2060J. Hotel Frontenac Kingston's Leading Hotel } Every room has running hot and cold water. One-half block from Railway Stations and Steamboat Landings. | J. A. HUGHES, | Proprietor | ~~ | There is none made so great bu! he may both need 'the help ana! service, and stand in fear of tne power and unkindness, even of the! meanest mortals. : --~--|| Spring Is Here! | in North India. { "Simla, British India, April 27.-- [ant of soft spots. It is expected |The story of the sufferings-of Molly [that the frost will be entirely out'? [ElMs, youthful daughter of the Brit- [the ground within the next |ish commander at Kohat, while in { weeks, and in the meantime it is im- the hands of Afridi tribesmen, after | possible for road reports to be com- {she had seen them kill her mother in {Eletely accurate for any length of |the early morning of April 14th, is [time. itold in despatches from Peshawar, | Toronto to Kingston--Toronto to {where she is resting under the care | Plckering township, fair. iof her father and Mrs. Starr, the wo- {Hope, gocd. Port Hope to Bole Iman physician who played a large [ville, good-gravel road. Frost still part in her rescue. [going out leaving road soft in stots. | After their murderous raid the |Flease avoid heavy loading. Belle- | kidnappers fled to the hills above [ville to Kingston, good. Five miles -- A mm This Week Only ha THURSDAY--FRIDA Y--SATURDAY We will offer in WEAR-EVER Aluminum Ware NO. 7 SIZE TEA.KETTLE, 5 quarts--regular price $4.75. HOUSE FURNISHINGS WITH THE ADDITION OF A NEW WALL PAPER DEPT. We have the most up-to-date House Furnishin Depa in Eastern Ontario, 5 nent You can now select your Rugs Draperies, Papert 'and oth Furnishings at the one time and be sure they will match. If you consider buying a PIANO or VICTROLA, see us. "OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. Terms arranged. REPAIRING AND RECOVERING FURNITURE A SPECIALTY WITH US. WORK GUARANTEED TO SATISFY, T.F. Harrison Co, Limited Pies 90 | |Kohat, half driving, half carrying of old road in Ernesttcwn rather |their captive ' up the steep rocky rough. No detours | paths. Throughout the following Kingston to Quebec [day she could see the searchers pass- | Kingston to Gananoque, ing in automobiles below her. Her |Prescott to Quebec boundary. Johns- Boundary-- good From four miles west {of the Irtlls was a coat belonging to |burg, good. Point, {a brutal Afridi named Shahazada, of Morrisburg to Farran's {the man who killed her mother. | passable but heavy. Farran's Point | | The next four days were a night- [tc Maple Grove, fair. Maple @&rove | | mare of alternate travelling and 'hid- jto Clen Water, good. Clen Water to | ing, with the girl in an ever growing Quebec boundary, fair except for state of exhaustion from her physi- (half a mile east of Summerstown, | |cal efforts and the apparently hope- Which is very heavy. | {less outlook. Her feet were lacerat- | Whitby to Lindsay--Road fairly | |ed from tramping over the stony good. | [tracks, and once in the course of the | Port Hope to Peterboro---Passable {terrible journey she fell fainting at [gravel road. Frost going out. | [the top of a snow covered mountain | Please avoid heavy loading. pass, upon which Shahazada lost | Picton to Foxboro--Picton to ratience and drew his dagger to |Belleville, good. Old road rather | kill her, being restrained only by his rough. Belleville to Foxboro, good. | companions. After six days of travel- | Old road fairly rough. No detours. | {ling they reached her captors' home | Kingston to Ottawa (via Smith's | {in the Tirah country. Meanwhile a |Falls)--Kingston to Smith's Falls, | |search by friendly tribesmen was in- road well dragged and in good shapa | i progress under the direction of Kuli for motor traffic. Smith's Falis to | |Khan, a native official, who on the [Port Elmsley, road good. Port Plms- | {20th reached Kanki Bazaar, the ley to Perth, road fair, with cxcep- {rome of a famous and influential [tion of one and one-half miles west | mullah, or Mohammedan religious {or Port Elmsley, which is new grade. leader, named Mahmud Akhundzeda. | Perth to Boyd's Corners, road good. here, after much pressure, he ac- |Boyd's Corners to Carleton Place, certained that the captive was held [road good, with the exception of two lin a mountain fortress eight miles {miles east of Boyd's Corners which laway. Kuli Khan managed to have |is new grade. Carleton Place to! conveyed to the girl a parcel of com- | Bell's Corners, road good. Bell's | forts and a letter of encouragement, Corners to Ottawa, road heavy. | and In return learned that she was [Motor traffic is advised to keep off | being reasonably treated by the wo- road from Perth to Smith's Falls men of the tribe. {until frost is out Mrs. Starr at this time was near | Ottawa to Prescott--Road heavy. | Kanki Bazaar under a native escort, Toronto to Hamilton (via Lake | having arrived after adventures {Snore Road)--Concrete throughout. | which seemed to threaten her mis- | {Via Dundas street) Toronto to | sion with failure, and the mullah, |Cooksville, good. From end of pave- | trouble, =ent a [Ment three-quarters of a mile west | ot Cooksville, newly graded to Soe) teen Mile Creek, rough. Sixteen Mile creek to Clappisons, good. Hamilton | to Puslinch, good. Hamilton to London--Hamilton to | {| Brantford, excellent paved road. | Brantford to Paris, good gravel road. | Paris to London, gravel macadam | | {only protection from the severe cold [town to four miles east of Morris- | | | apparently fearing {letter to her party ordering thei to turn back. This letter was ignored. Janet the party reached Kanki. Shortly afterward Kull Khan in- duced the mullah to bring about th~ transfer of the captive girl to the mullah's house, where she was | (eventually taken, being carried over very | of the foundation and the develop- | few | To Port; {the shoulder of one of the trfbasmer. The meeting between the girl and Mrs. Starr was a joyful one, but the danger was not ended, for while they {talked the abductors stood around menacingly insisting that Molly was still their captive. Presently the captors learned thai a party of Afridis friendly te thé British had arrived 'at their village end were attacking it, whereupon Shahazada seized Mre. Starr and hustled her from the room, threaten- {ing both her and Miss Ellis. The imuliah became enraged at this in- sult to the secrtad rights of hospital- ity under hig roof and publicly curs- ed Shahazada ard his fellows. In this dramatic fashion the bal- {ance tilted tp the side of the rescuers {and the surrender of the captive was speedily arranged. The tribesmen's {demands for a ransom and pardon !were abandoned. and on Tuesday of {this week Kuli Khan and the other Irescuers started with the girl on the {journey to Peshawar, where there was a joyful reunion between Molly 'and her father. * the Zoological read in good condition, except first | hill out of Paris, which is very heavy, | but in passable condition, and one| spot immediateiy east of.the eastern | limits of the city of London, which | is heavy but passable } Hamilton to Niagara Falls--In | good conditicn outside of small de- | tour at Parkdale avenue into the | city of Hamilton. | -_r Custer Survivor Found. i Washington, April 28.--One mora | survivor of the Custer massacre has | been unearthed by the Pension Bur- | eau. | He is Shuh-shee-ahsh, a Crown | Indian, now living on the Crow re- servation in Montana, and is draw- | ing a pension for services in the In- | dian campaigns of 1876 and 1877. Recent investigation of his case re- | suited in a pension certificate being issued. He escaped by mingling with 10) [m Neg the Sioux and Cheyennes. There were 1,427,849 visitors to Gardens, Regent's Park, London. Eng., last year. FE : © [ PROBS: --Sunday, cloudy and local showers o-night and Monday A MERRY FESTIVAL OF BARGAIN OPPORTUNITIES TO MARK THE CLOSE OF OUR REGULAR ANNIVERSARY SALE! All previously advertised special sale attractions remain on sale to-night and all day Monday. See our windows to-night. NEW SPRING SUITS--HALF PRICE The balance of our Novelty, Tailored and Sport Suits are all included in this final clearance--no reserve. Every suit marked in plain figures from $20.00 to $60.00 each. SALE PRICE ... LESS 509, NEW COATS AND WRAPS--LESS 209,-- All of the season's latest novelty wrappy Coats and Top Coats, in new fabrics and shades. All sizes. Priced from $18.50 to $50.00. SALE PRICE... . LESS 209, CHILDREN'S COATS-- LESS 209, 35 smart, little, general Utility and Dressy Coats--in sizes 2 to 12 years. Regular $4.50 to $20.00. LESS 209, SALE PRICE . .. NOVELTY PLAID SKIRTS, $3.98 - gy» Developed in All-Wool Boucle and Golftex Cloths -- all new shades and designs--regular $8.50. SALE PRICE . .. NEW YORK HATS, $4.95 18 New York "Irene" Hats, in Satin, Visca 'and Straw -- new poke shapes attractively trimmed. Regular $6.75 to $10.00 each. SALE PRICE ........ $4.95 MONARCH FLOSS AND DOWN, 18c. BALL - 1,600 balls of the celebrated Monarch Sweater Floss and Down in the new summer shades--a special value at 25¢. a ball. SALE PRICE ... 18c. MEN'S BALBRIGGAN UNDERWEAR, .69c. EACH-- 600 Men's Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers in sizes 34 to 46. Full length sleeves and ankle length. SALE PRICE ... TABLE DAMASK, 79¢. YARD - 180 yards of heavy, Bleached Table Damask -- full 60 inches wide--a special value at $1.00 yard. SALE PRICE .. 69c. Each .. ¥9¢. * es ase SHEETING, 69c. YARD-- 300 yards of heavy, round thread Bleached Sheeting -- Wabasso--full 72 inches wide. A special value at 85¢. a yard. SALE PRICE. .. SILK STOCKINGS, 49c. PAIR 240 pairs of extra fine quality Silk Hose -- Ipswich Mills seconds--the colors are Black, Cordovan, Grey and Nude --all sizes. Worth regularly $1.00 a pair. SALE PRICE ..... 49c. pair COTTON VESTS, 25¢c. EACH - 300 Swiss Ribbed Cotton Vests in sleeveless and short sleeve styles. SALE PRICE . .... 25¢. Each CURTAIN SCRIM, 12%c. YARD-- 500 yards White, Ivory and Cream--36 inch -- finished border Curtain Scrim. Regular 18¢c. a yard. SALE PRICE ........ 12}. WINDOW SHADES, 75¢.-- 150 White, Cream and Green first Shades--regular 95c¢. each. SALE PRICE ... quality Window STEACY'S - Limited Kingston's Shopping Centre --d EE 0 0 3