¥ FOR FEBRUARY McClure, Strand, Cosmopolitan, : For February. 10 Cents Copy. RB. UGLOW & C0. Booksalles, 41 Princess $1. - HOCKEY STICKS and -HOCKEY SKATES 1096 Uff Everything in the house in this line for the rest of the month. \MITCHELL'S HARDWARE. RE S04. more than. in. L859 LEN Bl ON PAGE FIVE. COMMERCIAL MATTERS, ee THE DAILY WHIG, SATURDAY, FESRUARY i TRE, CONCLUDING SESSIONS ¥ What is Going on in the Busines | World--The Marxet News. An 380,000 000 glucose conibine is being formed in the United States fu 1861 3,893,000 wore Sader cultivation jo Ausiralia there were over U,000,000 acres. The totsl number of failures this week was twenty-ehght, the total week was twenty-eight, and thirty-six this week last year The question agitating knowing ones these days is whether J. Plerpont M are. not back of the Seward Webi jnvestments in Canada The CPR land sales for January tolall 109 BAG acres, the $34 i The sabes of west tated company, last Y18 acres for 876.580 In December, 1900, the net CPR company were $1LASRS from Jaly Ist to Deoembor Blas, there was & wet profiv of $6,579.8637.85 The gnin in oot profits over the same period last thanedore, | for December, $130, Ist to December only acres in 1539 inst ratiroad realized being nore 141 es the Canada month, were profits of al w, your ix, 90. and from $1,651 201.97. Canada's agrreante July trade with last yenr amounted to 82.475.821, or $205 445 more than in 1897, oud $162 239 hore that in 1900. The imports last year were $164,416, and the exports $2,311 405 The ngyregets trade of Canada with Priv Afrion was last year £1,177.660, or $1,022, : put aH then in 1597but a | declined $117,400 554 more porte, which According to meent dongamption of tobacco by each persom in the various countries is as follows : Nother lands, 3,400 grammes; United States, Belgium, 1,552; Germany, 1,485; Ausiralia, 1,400; Austria avd Hungary, 1.8607 way, 1,935; Denmark, 1,125; Capanda, Swen, 940; Franes, 933; Russia, 010 tugsd, 850; Fngland, 680, Haly, 635; Switz: 1.050; Por erlganl, 610; aml Spein, a-------------- The storm in the English and Irish | channel is unabated. Numerous minor wreoks have ocourred and many re and the crew of the apparatus have ed overboard life boats and rock been kept busy. : . W. W. Pelding, at one time a prom- iment ember man of Barrie, but who had been living a retired life in Tor onto for some aged ssventy-eight. Babelene, owned by Dr. Abluit, Kimgston, was third in the 2.30 of the ice races dt Belleville. - BUILDI 1 SALE 4 This Sale means a | general clearance in all de- A partments and a more de- | termined effort to hurry I out all goods before going % back to our new store. I LINEN SALL. This means much to ya ' { the house-keepers of this 4 ci'y. The enormous busi- 4 ness of the last few weeks has been our values. special po Ladies, buy-your Linens for spring now at Waldron's and save 20 to ) s and Tapestry Carpets one-fifth of of laud | in Canada | & Co. | od | OF THE FRONTENAC COUNTY ! COUNCIL. { | torical portraits presented to Queen's | A RECORD OF HISTORY. | Portraits Presented to Queen's By Gilbert Parker. { This interesting his | article on the i | by Gilbert Parker, M.V., is contribut Councillor Wright Resigns And Is Appointed Caretaker of the Court "House--Discussing the York Road Matter, again convened (he property The county council on Friday afternoon | committee advised that the communi cation regarding railway crossings be referred to the warden and the chair man to arrange with the city council and make out joint reports to be sent to the dominion government. The re port was adopted. The warden announced that the On- tarioc bank manager would require a by-law passed cach "year anthorizing the tregsurer to borrow money lor | | county purposes throughout the year. the | { attorney general regacding the Rings i i i | { Councillor Avery gave notice of the by-law required, the amount to be for £20,000 Regarding the communication of the councillor be re ton Napanee toll road, Avery suggested that judge Price sent to Toronto as the county's | presentative and that he try to arrive | | at some arrangement about thé mat Anstralis | | { i | statistion the aversge | 2,110; | * Noes | { sion on Saturday morning. 1 would { disease having developed. He pointed i i street and others | in proportion : «J | surgeons time, died on Friday, | ~Pringle, moved that the clerk notify | ter. 'Councillor Shannon thonght ° the | county council should take no action until the government did. Let them | sue, was his advice. Councillor Avery pointed out that | the govegpment really had taken ac- | tion, { Councillor Sproule thought the mat ter should be settled without ® further | delay. The question was left over | till Saturday morning for final ac tion. . Saturday's Session. i There were several important mat} ters to be settled at the closing ses- | Pringle reported about | mayor Shaw regerding | Crossing at Kingston | It was agreed that warden | ecouncillor Toner and Councillor having . met the G.T. BR junction Spoor, R. H| { Pair should meet the city authoriues a; | and come to some arrangement about | ports have been receiv od of men wash- | joint action. Dr. Sands reported that the was in good condition, jail no infestious out that his salary was much lower to those of other jail and asked for an increase. Attached to his report were recom mendations regarding his efficient scr vice, Councillor Wright tendered his re signation as a member of council, and | on motion of councillors Pringle and | Wood it was accepted. i Moved by councillors Reynolds and Pringle that George Wright be ap- | pointed caretaker of the court house at a salary of 8350 a year tion carried unanimously. Moved by councillor Shannon, conded by councillor Mozier that the | clerk be not required to countersign county cheques, as it 1s unnecessary. Carried. : { A by-law was passed authorizing | the treasurer to borrow from the On tario bank $20,000, during the year for current expenses, Moved by councillors Reynolds and Campbell that the county printing be | equally divided between the News and | the Whig. Carried. | i 1 | The mo eo Moved by councillors Toner and Shannon that the council pay Shepherd, $50 for work ¢lone in court house. Carried. Moved by councillors Avery and | Campbell that the clerk be instructed | to write to the Ontario government | as to when the York road was pur | chased, and whether by .a private per- | son or a stock company, outside the | county. | Comwillor Reynolds read copies of | doomments showing tlaat Fronienac county years ago had acknowledgel the debt on the York road. It was unnecessary, he thought, to delay any further hy writing for information to the government Cowncillor Sproule thought that the | motion was quite Masonable le like to see the. matter settled | in some way as soon as possible Councillor Sproute stated that Prof Shortt, of Queen's, a man of great ability on political] science, had de clared at a public ' meeting that the government conld not collect its elaim | against the Frontenac council. The | motion was finallw carried. i However, councillors Reynolds and { | the government that the council had | decided to ignore the York, road claim. This motion raised a--Pprotest from | councillor Sproule, A motion to ad- | journ till June wus made by cowncil- | lo¥ Shannon, but. it was lost. Coun- | cillor Campbell moved an adjourn: | ment till two o'clock in the after- | noon, and that was agreed to. A Saturday afternoon session was | an unusual thing for the county eoun- | cil, but it had to be called, as so | many important matters had been al- lowed io drag on day after day, that | evervthing could not be disposed of | before noon. Councillors Pringle and Wood had to leave on the noon train. At two o'clock, however, when ooun- | cil met, there was no 'quorum, and | adjournment bad to be made. Thus | the council' stands adjourned until the second y of June. The Closing Session. i Smallpox At Brockville. Miss Tilton, a daugrhter of Col. Til: ton, Obtawa, viciting in Brockville, in the isolation tal to-day, a victim of small-pox. Alarm provails in homes Miss Tilton visited. i ---------- Mrs Bardi 1A: cage, kas sve garded | in setting aside the (will of hie woth- | or, on ern. ville, who left her estate of 81.1 to. Su Mi latter { Scotia, i collection ix | their office without | Marie de !'Incarnation (the only {man's face in the collection), who, in | 1672, was the superior of the convent i the | England, and | actually | here, in virtue of his patent obtained | | sojourn of two seasons | land belore | land. | debateahble | possession was an uncertain thing ! nors-general | Canada. | wail rabbit all' the year round, Hon. {ed by Miss Lois Saunders, the univer | fibrarian : The set of engravings lately presented to Queen's university | sity | by Gilbert Parker is of far more than ! local mterest. To all who are inter this collec It | in ested in Canadian history tion will be of great uunportance, consists of vightyseven portraits, | cluding a large number of the early explorers, viceroys and governors of | Canada (the new France of = the French regime) the governors of Nova | New Brunswick, Prince © Ed- | ward's Island, Quebec, Newionadland | and Hudson's Bay territory. Though | as vet there are some gaps in th list, | it touches the life of our country' at every point, and an intelligent appre ciation of these portraits would imply | a/fairly aceurate acquaintance with the ! past history of Canada, and with the changes in her Even a casunl glance at the suflicdent to prove this. | Beginning with ChristOpher Columbus, Jacques Cartier, and Amerigo Vespue ¢i, we pass to the French rule in Can- | ada, which is illustrated by a long line of viceroys, most of whom filled quitting France, the work of conquest | and colomization falling on the resi dent governors, conspicuous among | whom is. the powerful face of the ex- | plorer and first governor, Champlain. Here, too, are Colbert, the minister of | finance of Louis XIV., always intense- | ly interested in the affairs of New | France; Richelieu, the founder-of- thet order of the Hundred Associates, and | wo | BUCCORSIVE ment govern the burden of | of Ursuline nuns at Quebec, Many of the portraits have the suggesting that these early governors | were more at with the sword | than the pen, and, in fact, it is pro bable that some of thew never used case | the latter except to form in crabbed | characters the letters of their own | names. any of these autographs | have been secured from public doen- | ments, and the names are still familiar | to many of us in the streets of Que such as' Baude St. Haldimand With Duquesne, the! last of the French governors, French dominion ceased, and British rule gan under Gen. Murray, the first Eng lish governor of Canada. But British power had sarly been represented in govarnment of Newfoundland, bee, be | which was formally ceded to England | by the treaty of Utrecht. It had, however, always been claimed by} for many years had bean the subject of repeated efforts of | colonization, from Sir Humphrey Gil | bert to lord Baltimore. Though not a governor MY portrait is from James 1. in 1629, and an uneasy | in Newfound- | his departure for Mary Among the naval commanders | of Newfoundland are many famous | and wellknown pames, as admirals Rodney, Graves and Palliser. A true, | country this rocky island | as was also the Hudson's bay terri- | tory, whose first governor was prince Rupert of royalist fame. Right of in! the early days of the colonies, and | French ard English in turn held the { upper hand, according to { | "the good old rule--the simple plan, | That thoy should take who have tbe power, | And they should kesp who can." { A further section is devoted to the governors of Upper and Lower Cana- da, each with its separate governor, till the union of the provinces in 1841 brought them together under lord vdenham with the title of the pro- vince of Canada. The series closes with the portraits of the eight gover who have held office since the confederation of 1867 Jed to the union of the whole vast territory of British America as the dominion of Viewed as a record of history, it is evident that the collection is of un- | doubted importance, while many of | the -engravings; especially - the early | ones arg also valuable as works of art cognized the educational value of such | a collection to the country, by admit- ting Mr, Parker's giit free of duty. ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. Liquor Bill To Be Next Week, Torontd, Feb. | --~Hon. G. W. Roas | announced in the legislature that a! bill regarding the sale of intoxicating liquors would be introduced during the latter part of next week Premier Ross moved a special com- | mittee to consider Dr. Jessop's bill relating 16 a change in the election of | the council of the college of physi cians and surgeons of Canada. i On the opening of the: house Mr. | Speaker read the return showing t election of E. J. B. Pense as mem- her for Kingston, an announcement | which was revived with ministerial | cheers. In the discwsion of J. A. Auld's | bill to allow the killing of the cotton | Introduced { { F. R. Latchiord said that be had an! amendment to offer, which 'would al- | low people to shoot them on their own farms at any time. What the game commissioners feared was that ton tail they wouldn't stop shooting when people wera allowed to hunt cot- quail if a bevy would rise. Mr. Latch- ford thought that if everybody 'was alloweil to shoot the cotton tail. the fine agminst shooting. quail should be heavier. ---------------------- * Are In Bad Way. Butler, +. Fels. 1.~The Biddles are Believed to be dying and, cont to . "Jack" will ping fg set in in his bowels wounds ton fapii- | gov than yesterday. His election ly coat of arms and the autogyfph, h y | the labored handwriting of the latter | | equal to the tailors at $6. | reinstate a club | hour { Shore, relict of the late G. W, | was | and the Canadian government has re- { censed lady was a, | remarks. This the Whig did, | giving the statement INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. PARAGRAPHS PICKED UP BY OUR BUSY REPORTERS, The Spice of Every Day Lile-- What the People Are Talking About--Nothing Escapes At tention. Ripe = Pincapples and Lyon's seed jess vranges, at Camovsky's B. A. Shaw has returned from Bos He is now ready for school work. The President suspender Ir comfort style and service, fits everybody, for sale at J. P. Forrest's, King street. David Plewes, jr., has been elected a member of the Toronto board of trade. He is a former Kingstonian. Tooke's famous collars, Vandon, San Toy and all other up-to-date col lars for sale at J. P. Forrest's, King street : The Saturday market was not a large one, owing to roads and 'wea ther. Good prices were obtained for all dairy products Polson, Kingston, nm spending a few weeks in Toronto, the guest of Mrs. Maclaurin, of 713 Spa diga avenue. Paring January there were reported at the office of the city clerk these vi tal statistics : Births, 20; marriages, 10; deaths, 31. 8. Joy, St. Lawrence, Wolfe Island, Miss Jessie { brought to Kingston twenty tons of hay in two trips, with three teams, coming all the way on ice. Twenty per cent. discount sale of brushes, any brush in stock, of any kind at twenty per cent. discount, for two weeks only. E, C. Mitchell. The housewifi's delight--rhubarb- has again made its appearance on the market in small quantities. It was grown in "the gardeners' hothouses. Hon. William Harty continues to improve. He was a little stronger to- to the federal house was gazetted to-day. T. J. 8. Milne elected grand presi dent of the Canadian marine engi- neers' association. James Gillie 1s one | of the sudittffs. Miss Katie Harvey, Svdenham, came into the city yesterday to attend the dramatic club recital. She is a gra duate of Queen's, and while in the city was the guest of roi. and Mrs Shortt. "Sweet Clover," is a comedy dra ma of a fine type and as presented by Miss Adelaide Thurston, is worth see ing. Her gowns are exquisite and her emotional acling of the very finest See it next Thursday night. Workingmen's trousers, 31, $1.50. We have over 1,000 pairs of trousers on hand, prices $2, $2.50, £3. Some spe cial fine worsted trousers $3.50, fully Bibby's. A meeting of the civic finance com mittee was convened last evening, but only routine business was transacted. The city engineer proposes taking down the unsightly and dangerous ver andahs fronting the north and south sides of the shambles. A. H. Beaton, in veply to the charge of the Mail and Empire, states that | the cadets were legally rcinstated by the exceutive committee of the O.H. A.' The committee hos the power to without consulting other clubs in the assveciation. "San Toy." will have a fme audi- ence on Wednesday night. The seats are going off rapidly. The score ab- ounds in pretty tuneful numbers of light airy and jingly airs that stick in one's mgmory. The company is cne of rare excellence, and it emboditcs any talented artists. Death Of Mrs. Andrews. The death took place, at an early this wmoming. Elizabeth An- drews. The decearerl, whose death was due to heart disease, passed away at the home of her son-in-law, Robert J. Reid, Garratt street. She born in Scotland, seventy-two vears ago,, but has resided in King ston nearly all her life, She was mar ried first to John Kinnear, and after his decease, to the late G. W. An of | drews, a wellknown merchant tailor Three children: survive: George Kin near, of the Tribune-News, Chicago; Mrs. (Dr.) Anglin, Chicago, and Mrs Robert J. Reid, this city: The de member of St Andrew's church, and a woman whose goad doods and kindly manners will live long in the n¥mories of those | whom she has left behind. The funer al will take place on Monday to Ua- | taraqui cemetery. Exception Taken. The Times takes exception to a statement, in Friday's report of the county council proceedings, attributed to coundillor Avery. The statement was not made when the council was actually in session, but immediately after adjourmment on Thursday after- noon. Councillor; Avery, in presence of at least half a dozen of his con freves, asked the Whig and News re- porters to make an addition to his simply as cowneillor Avery's opinion, and this gentleman reiterdtes the remarks be then made. + 1t should, therefore, be understood; in justice to all concerned, that the re port was not a part of the public | speech, hut an addition Mr. Avery de- wired to have made. Grand Opera House. Queen's" glee mandolin and guitar club's concert, assisted by Mies Edna Louise , of Boston, Friday evening next. Plan opens at Uglow's, Worth It's Weight in Gold. SPECIAL. 2 BARGAINS {MTONDAY. i 06 Fine White Crochet Quilts, Full size, 82'inches long by 74 inches wide, properly woven edges. Extra good value at $1 regularly, Sale Price" Monday For This Lot SC. 1 200 Yards English Madapolam Cotton This is aj famous English White Cot- ton ; it is extra fine and woven for Child- ren's and Ladies' Dresses and Under- garments ; it is full 36 inches wide and sold always at 12)c. Salo Price Monday For The Lot - 8%c. yard. Sale Opens at 9:30. All Sales For Cash. JOHN LAIDLAW & SON. 70-172 Princess Street, Kingsion. Leading Medical Men as wens Leading Medical Journals UNITE IN DECLARING THAT « NEAVE'S FOOD is one of the most perfect and most nutricious of Foods, @ SIR CHAS. A. CAMERON, C.B., M.D; _Ex-President of the Royal College of Surgeons: Treland, says it is "An excellent Food, admirably adapted to the wants of Infants and young persons. The "LANCET says it is " Yory carefully prepared and highly nutritious." ; Russian Imperial GOLD MEDAL WOMANS SXRIBITION Loudon, 1600: "5 Slansacturers : JOSIAH R. NEAVE & CO. FORDINGBRIDGE, ENGLAND. Wholesale Agents :--LYMAN BROS. & CO., L1d., Toronto &