THE DAILY WHIG, MONDAY, JANUARY 20. AHSAN, RER-------- ---- w800000O0ONIGS Sutherland Shoes Are Necessary S Mn o we GRACO RSONNDNNO0C000C0000COCR0OR0OOO0OTY . Your Winter's Comfort. 4 ° 0000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000080000000000000000tscs BACKACHE LAME BACK RHEUMATISM DIABETES Edgett's Land. ing, N.B., writes on Jan. 18, 1901: # In the fall of 1899 I was troubled with a severe pain in the back. I could scarcely get up out of & chair and it gave me great pain to move about. I took one box of Doan's Kidney Pills and was completely 'eured. 1 have not been troubled t 1HE WHIG--68th YEAR. AILY B IsH WHIG, SALT SITAR OR. uted oe por year. Editions at 3:30 and 4 WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG. 13 pass published every Thursday morning st $1 year, Attached one best Job Print. ing Offices n a stylish and work: wine presses. EDW. J. B E. PROPRIETOR. calist. 1 {IIE DAILY WHIG. *Opiter per Orbem Dicor.' ------------ SIGNING OF PETITIONS. An effort is being made to stam- pede the government on the prohibi- tion question, The scheme is to force it, with the consent of the legislature to pass an act, like that which Mani- toba has put in its statute books, and to do do at once, without any de lay and any new reference to the peo- ple. Wisdomy and poudence protest against undue haste in this Ygatter. Nor is the government likely tg be affected by the storm which thy alli- ance folks are trying to credile. The petitions that are being sen: to the house, by the yard, or barrel or load, do not represent public opinion. The remark of a legal friend, that he gould get a petition signed which eall-- ed for imprisoning or hanging of the best man, may be an exaggeration of the fact, but it is nevertheless true that the signatures of hundreds of per- sons, to almost any request, can be had for the asking of them. Certainly "many many people wit: out a moment's reflection, have sign- ed the petitions to the lagisiature in favour of prohibition, and they do not care what will become of them. Yo petitions, obtained under such circum- stances, represent the mind of the people ? Surely not. Why cannot the house be left to deal with this iwsye on its merits. Something will be done at the session which is now in pro- gress, That something will come up for consideration, practically, at the next general election in June. If the voters approtve in disapproval of it they will act accordingly. It is the voters who must settle the question nog the non-voter, whose signature ap- pears so often in the petitions veler- red to. FRENCH AND ENGLISH. It is a great mistake to suppose that an attack is being made upon the French, because something is pro. posed which affects a department of the government over which a French minister presides. If the telegraph sy- stem be acquired by Canada, as a government enterprise, it will be nat- tached to the postal department, he- causd it has to do with a business which is closely allied to the postal service and cannot be wisely separat- ed from it. That is all that has beun suggested, and it is a subject which admits of intelligent treatment with- out rousing the ire or passion of any nationality. Against the dragging of racial questions into the discussion of purely business propositions the strongest protest must be made It was Senator Bernier who recent- ly stirred up the liveliest kind of talk by intimating that the French would eventually crowd the English out of certain parts of Manitoba us they had crowded the English ont of the Eastern Townships. He repudiates ihe idea that he contemplated the dom: inancy of the French in Canada. The most he thought of was the clannish- ness of the race In certain districts, Then he proceeds to bewail the fact that his countrymen are being cou: stantly misrepresented as to what they think and say and feel aad aim at. And who is (0 blame? \ few Francophobes on one side and a few Anglophobes on the other. These are forever at war, forever casting sus picion upon the political honesty «i each other, and forever interpreting public opinion by what they sav and assert. ; The Anglophobes in Ontario should seo the error of their way and take a vest. The English in Canada are strong enough to take care of their interests and they should not whimper about unlikely ana impossible gvents. The Francophobes, an their part, should give the people a rest their complainings. They have feos faref' badly at the hands of the gov- ernment. A French member is at the head of the largest spending depart: ment. He could spend less and be satisfied. and anyway the repeated attacks of his paper upon the govern: ment can have but ome effect in On: tario, and it is tod obvious to be cited here. The English of Montreal at this momwsat are showing their generosity Ly offering to support a French cangidate for mayor, Mr. Prefoninine, if the French will not i F *Z gE F £ Hi fa gl : i "THE WOMEN MUST GO." Events discusses a live and interest. ing subject, namely, 'Girls and - the Civil Service." It points out that ia 1853 there were only fifteen women-- not ladies, for my lady is not an employee anywhere--in the service "of the government at pest thirteen years four young wo- men have entered the civil service to period as many young women have re- ceived permanent appointments as have the young men. What has brought this change about, this change in the interest of young women * Nou the social needs of the individuals. "Probably," says Events, "the typewriter on the one hand, and the enhanced scale of liv- ing on the other account in large measure for what has occurred. Une has opened the door bas pushed the girls in." The girls want to be independent of their iathers and so seek employment in which they earn as much as he does, and some times more. Our contemporary con: tinues : "What has the government got ? (1) "Very satisfactory service. The oung ladies of the civil service are a Drighe lot, industrious, painstaking, tractable and efficient. They do cer- tain classes of work as well as the young men, and their ambitions are not for the higher places. op thgy have practically altered the founfla- tions of the civil service as laid in 1852, By the Act of that year, it was goutemplatedLhat a young man would 'enter the service at eighteen or twen: ty, receive $400 as a commencing sal- ary, and work up by an annual ad- vance of 850 until he came to be a clork of the first class, or a chief clerk ~if he survived. Lady clerks were then unknown. Young ladies now get: sev- enty-five per cent. of all the junior clerkships, and young men are to that extent shut out. For the better plac- es men are bei brought in and started as Mom. vi clerks at one of the things calling for a com- plete remodelling of the Civil Service Act. "What have been the social effects of so many young ladies entering the ci- vil service and other fields of work? Several, most of them unsatisfactory. A large number of girls are employed who are not out of their homes be- cause of necessity; they have volun- tarily taken clerkships, so that they may dress and have more comforts. This is not a low incentive, but, cou- pled with the displacement of young men, and the effort of nearly every- body to live like rich people, it is re- sponsible for one of the most signi- ficant phenimena of our time--a low marriage rate. It is one of the things which make intelligent observers ap- prehensive as to whether the whole changed . the and makes them restless. Given the the civil service, with the possibilit of a Persian lamb jacket and "ih collar attached, there are few girls who would not nowadays take the latter, and what some people suspect, is that the Persian lamb jacket, or some other luxury is a more potent moving factor in many cases than ac- wal necessity." The Whig sees in the situation this point, which is to the credit of the girls--that they are eager to learn ana adapt * themselves to conditions, The mien have been blind for a long time or they would have seen that they must widen their of things and add to their guaelifica- tions in order to hold their own in the battle of life. '""The house is the place for the women," is the common idea and assertion, but there is a large percentage of women who have no hope of a home and competence if the men do not hustle more than they do, when they are young, and so they view and taking care of themselves. longer this experience continues worse it will be for the sterner sex. If the civil service were closed to the young women Events thinks the young men would be able to get places in which they would be able to support the young women, and, mar- rying them, add to the population of the country. To bring this result about mow--to force the young wo- men into the background, to press them away from the civil service and other avenues of usefulness into the nation of circumstances which is not apparent. If the ery be, "The wo- men must go,"' a new contingency in politics will be felt, and a new sig- nificance will he given to the demand for the enfranchisement of the wo- Hon. Joe Martin has resigned his a liberal anda tory in the field, "Joe's" | candidacy is interesting whatever may be thought of its impropriety. There is got much in the Ottawa of teaching Canadians to save by buying and laying up pos- y routine is #00 costly Nr Ottawa, and to- | day there are hundreds. During the | one young man, and within the same | and the other | $1,100. This is a great change, and is | sale exodus of young ladies from do- | mestic life into offices is not going to | do more harm than good. It has | point of view of girls, | domestic arena--will require a combi- | -- * | LESSEN WORK ON SABBATH BILL TO MAKE IT OPTIONAL | ON TAPIS IN BELGIUM. i , Change Will be Gradual--Measure Does Not Aim at Too Radical a Change in the National Life. Brussels, Jan. 20.--A bill is about to be introduces] for the aboliion of | Sunday labor. The industrial popu- lation of Belgium is, one of the hard | erst worked in Europe, and to a great { proporiion of 'the smaller shopkeep { ers, artizans, merchants, the fourth | commandment is unknown in prec { tice, Even clerks "und warehouse em- | ployees may under the existing mgime | be legally expected to perform their duiies on Sunday as well as on week dave, the question of a Sunday "off" being one of arrangement between the various members of the seme estab- lishment. The bill has been prepared under the auspi es of the counseil supericur de Travail, and does not aim at a re volution in the national habits it may be sumused up as follows : Work shall henceiorth be optional on Sun- day; it can no longer be obligatory. The change, taereforg, will be 2radual as, although many "trades will avail themselves of the new measure, a cus- tom which for eenturics has been part of the national kfe cannot be set aside without the voluntary co-operation of those interested. The bill does not affect members of the same family in an industrial concern, nor will any attempt was made to interiwe with the freedom of contract between those who find the extra day's work to their mutual interest. a c-- MURDERER"S CONFESSION, Beat His Children With a Hammer . Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 20.--Joseph Wiszolek, aline Wenceslaus Czeslik, confessed to the police last night that it was he and not one of the board- ers who murdered his paramour, Rosa Nowak, akias Lock, and nearly killed their three children. He admitted the crime only after his son, Francis, seven vears old, had told the story. Two of the children are not expected to live. Francis said that his mother got up early, as usual, to prepare the breakfast. She was fully dressed, but his father was not. They had a | quarrel duri the night. When \Czes- hk got out of 1 the quarrel was re- sumed. v Mrs. Lock picked up the hammer and struck him with it several times, Francis said that his father wrested the hamaner from his mother and beat { her on the head with it. She fell on | the floor and never moved again. He said that he and his sisters started to scream. His father made for him and struck him over the head, knocking him down. Hix older sister, Angelica, still continued to scream and he struck her, knooking her eve out. She fell back on the bed unconscious. According to Francis, bia father then turned to his infant sistr Anna and hit her on the head. Francis {| said there was no more noise. choice between a home and a place in | i The Referendum. | Bramtiord - Expositor. { It is said by some that there is no | occasion for a referendum at all. We | do not agree with that view. True, we | have already had two plebiscites, but | on Both occasions the question came | before the electors in an abstract, | rather than concrete form. Again, it | bas only now been made apparent what are the precise limitations of the" province in this matter. In 1504, { when the first provincial plebiscite was | taken the question of jurisdiction was in obscurity, and many supposed that | the province had complete powers. In 1898, the vote was on dominion pro { hibition, which includes the power to | stop the manufacture and Importation, | as well as the sale. The next reieren- | dum will submit prohibition subject to | the limitations which the éourtd have | placed upon the provinces, viz, that | they may prohibit the sale, but not | the importation and manufacture, of | intoxicating liquors. Thus limited and | circumseribed, prohibition has not yet been passed upon by the electors | of Ontario. are going out into the field of labour, | The | the | Around The Y.M.C.A. Many people are visiting the Y. M. 1 C. A. rooms to see the fine collection | of mounted birds. Of most interest is a "King Rail,"" the first of its kind | captured in the city, L_ The physical department is better | attended than at any previous time in its history. From Queen's college alone it draws seventy members. Pulp modelling hits the boys "just right." Their work can be seen in the rooms. Mesers. 0. Chown and E. P. Jen kins will probably attend. with secre tary Lawrence, the Berlin Y.M.C.A. | convention. i? Sale Of Farms. Andrew Pettingill, Hillier, has sold his farm f 100 acres to Edward Clarke. for 84.100, Edward Clarke sold his farm on {| Pearson's Point to Mr. Alexander, | Hastings, for $4,700. There are 125 acres. An Officer's Departure. Lieut. Miller, "A" field battery, who hus been granted leave of absence, pending the acoeptance of his resigna- tion, left on Saturday for his home in Hamilton. He will shortly go into man i in Toronto. A --_ SL ------ Mrs. Mary Dory, Brooklyn, seeks a divoree from her rovoni hasband, James H. Knight, whom she married nine years after her first husband dis. appeared. Knight and Mrs. Door liv- ed Souther twenty years. Then Door came and Kwight went to Prit- ish Columbia. The former is now ENGLISHMAN "GOT A SHOCK. Cultured Chinaman Made Him Lose His Superiority. A writer in London M.A.P. tells of meeting Si? Chi Chen, the departing Chinese ambassaaor to London, in Tien Tsin, when the latter was plain Mr. Lo Feng Luh, an undersecretary of state in the entourage of the vice voy of the province, Li Hung Chang. "My own mission was. to the 'Bis marck of China," as the one slates man in far off Cathay was known at the time, which was before the fall," says the writer, "and Mr. Lo Feng Luk had been deputized to serve me in the double capacity of cicerone and interpreter. We sat sipping tea in the long wait which in Chinese court life follows the annodncement of your name and precedes your re ception, and is supposed to deepen vour respect for the great man of whom you have sought an auaience and to deaden in yourself any linger ing consciousness of British superior: ity. Then it was that Mr. Lo Feng Luh suddenly opened up his battery of questions and criticism upon the lead ing men of letters, philosophers ana theologians of Europe. His inquiries were not indeed of the alumni of one nation, but of many, and when he had done with Spencer, Huxley, Darwin, the Elizabethan poets, the theology of Pollinger, the writing of Comte, the plays of Moliere, he waftea his way to America and was promptly at home with Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and the funny stories of Chauncey Depew." HE GOT HIS SALMON CHEAP. Trick by Which a London Fish- monger Was Taken In. A gentleman entered a fishmonger's shop the other morning and after waking w- wmall purchase began a friendly talk with the proprietor. "Do vour lady customers give much trouble ?* he inquired. "Well, vou know, they never want to give the price. It seems part of their nature to beat aown thing," answered the fishmonger. "My own experience--my own ex: perience," remarked the stranger. "Yes, | quite believe it, sir. Now, there's beautiful salmon at two-and- ten a pound. Were I to ask one-and- six a pound for it a woman would probably want it for a shilling !"' "Well. now, here's a lady coming across the street. Try it on, just for a joke. If she asks the price of salmon tel! her one-and-six a pound." The fishmonger agreed, and when the lady entered apd made the desir- ed enquiry he promptly answered : "Very cheap, ma'am; only one-and six a pound." "Then I'll take this one,' she as promptly exclaimed, pointing (0 a twenty-pounder, and take it she did. The gentleman disappeared at that moment. The fishmonger has since discovered they were husband and wife. Peculiar Religious Sect. There is a peculiar religious sect in Kansas whose members ore as {nnatio as the disciples of ancient Abraham. A farmer living in the community was expelled from the church for some transgre: sions of its laws. At the same time his wife was forbidden "to eat, drink or sleep with him on the penalty of being cast into everlasting hell." Furthermore all of the church members were forbidden to speak to him or to have transactions in which he apy I. At last even his own brother was threatened with ostracism for holding intercourse with him when they met. The other day the farmer appealed to the county attorney. He said his wife was obeving the order of the church, and while she kept his house, she would neither eat, drink nor sheep with him. He was advised that he could bring suit for divorce and suit for damages, but that the law offered redress in no other way. Magistrate's Plain Talk. Bancroft Times. "This is very unfortunate in your case," said Bancroft's poli e magis- trate to Colin Sweel, when the latter was brought before him on Saturday evening on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. . "Your grandiather was, 8 heavy drinker. Your father is a heavy drinker, and now you are iol lowing in their footsteps: Do you want to go to the devil? If vou don't, leave whiskey alone: don't touch it at all?' To make his ad vice more impressive the magistrate administered a fine of 85 and costs, amounting in all to §9:60. Heat In Australia. Sydwny Telegraph, Australia is the hottest country on record. I have ridden for miles astride the equator, hut | have never found heat to compare with this. Out iv the country in the dry times there appears to be little more than a sheet of hrown paper between you and the lower regions, and the people face tionsly say that they have to feed their hens on cracked ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs. ---------- Poor Old Europe. San Francisco Bulletin. Within a very few years New York city will be the most important city in the world. It will be the centre, pot only of commerce, but of the arts and fashions. It will be to civiliza- tion what Paris and London have been, *and will hold the position from which those citics are receding. Newspapers In The States. From the last count it appears that 20.879 newspapers riodicals are now i in the United States. Of this number 2,158, or more than ten per cent. are daily papers, 14,8572 are weeklies, 2.791 are monthlies, and 276 are quarterlies. Smaller numbers have other publication periods. The duke of A zi has definitely abandoned his project of further lar expeditions for the "present. Bor j the rank every b OUR ODDS:ENDS SALE ALL THIS WEEK, MONDAY TILL SATURDAY. Little prices will make this a big sale. Every- thing that we don't want goes out at a little price and there is a big lot we don't want. os * Remnants of All Kinds. Odds and Ends of All Kinds. Millinery Goods and Hats. Jackets and Suits. Embroidery and Lace Remnants. Dress Trimmings and Silks Furs and Underwear, : offer. People who bought on Saturday are back again to-day for more. 'Prices are right in your favor. STARR & SUTCLIFFE, 118 and 130 Princess Street, Kingston, Ont. = ALL DAY LONG WE HAVE BEEN BUSY PREPARING FOR OUR GREAT ODDS AND ENDS SALE. We promised to make it attractive and we shall keep our promise, OUR BARGAIN TABLES never contained better values. Watch this paper for daily announcements. repay all shoe buyers. It will THE LOCKETT SHOE STORE. TOK TAKING BEFORE STOGK A GREAT CHANGE TO SAVE MONEY. For the next TWO WEEKS all our stock of BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS and &WALISES we will offer at cost price to clear before our afinual STOCK TAKING. A. ABERNETHY, 125 PRINCESS STREET. Big Fur Bargains. All Fur Collars, Caperines, Ruffs, Jackets and Coat at Clearing Sale Prices. 1 Grey Opposum Storm Collar, $3 now $2.25, 4 Grey Lawh Storm Collars, $5 and $6 each now $8 75. 1 Electric Seal Buff, $5 now $8.50. 4 American Buble Storm Collars, $9.50 now $6, 2 American Bable @8perines, $11 now §7. 1 Electric Beal Caperive, 89 now $6 1 Elestric Seal Caperive, $10 now $6,560, 1 Blestric Beal Onperine, $12 now $8, 1 Black Astrachan Oaperiue, $9 now $6 1 Elgotric Seal Caperine, $26.50 now $18, 1 Black Brocade Far-lined Cape. $7.50 now 885. 1 Electric Beal Jacket, bast 88, length 24, $10 now $90, 1 Woman's No 1 Grade Coon Skin Cont, size 88, for $35. 8 Women 's Black Astrachaa Costs, sizes B4, 88, 88, 85, 40, al w 1 Man's Wombst and | Medium Grade Com Costs, a susp. 10 yards Grey Lamb Trimmwgs, worth 90¢. s yard for 652. Foc Reliable Fars at Bargain Prices call at CRUTILEY BROS.. 132-134 PRINCESS STREET, : Get a circular and read of all the lines that we #