A Sd So THE DAILY WHIG, TUESDAY, FESRUARY 4 S FOR 3 THE SICAL FUKCTONS i COMMERCIAL MA i i-- Tally Cards, Whist Markers, ~~ % Score Cards, Playing Cards, Visiting Cards, Society Stationers, | 141 Princess Street. HOCKEY TICKS + Fable 4 bo vy. and HOCKEY © SKATES 10% Off Everything in the house in this line for the rest of the month. MITCHELL'S HARDWARE. STAMPS AND k ro promi. Bn Wale: flee I------------------------------------ 'are the words best fitted in deseribing our © "Dally Market Letter Feb. 4.-Wh 30 p.m.) - t, Bnd, ie ik md winter, O. 8d." No. 1. Re 0 Ts. The h An ; a , heavy, i becom, ook: clear, heavy, ; , short, cleat, 4s, 64; tak $0. ; tallow, Auswsli 232228 LE pC "> am . tt TEE Ealing ~ £25 = - a = - ee -> 28. Ssbarsnsansiitaniie Fgueysiagsiifaagiin . EDITION ON PAGE . EDITION NEWS ALSO VIVE. Wiat is Going on in the Busines. World--The Market News. Florida produced last year but 600 tons of phosphate, agains oescly 1,000,000 in 1890 | The Laks Shore sod Rock. ledand railromds will build o teriiilel stativa at Chicago at 8 cost of $2,000,000, In 1861 only 1,398,000 acres of lad were ender cultivation in Australie. In 1899 there were over 10,000,000 The sum of pearly threes million kroner was sont by postal orders from persons in the United Bieter to friends in Norway duriog the yenr 1901, Several losses bave been sustained in poul try sent 10 Mostval, owing to the birds bav- jug been pecked before the svimal beat bad left their bodies sud i cusequeucs become badly discolored. . - The La Blanche river pulp and paper com pany, which bes secured water powers [rom the Ontario and Quebec governments, will lm- mediately commence the erection of a large mill above Muttawa. The toinl expenditure upon it will be $750.000. Manitoba wient, for the first tine jn the Gistory of the grain trade, hos tween listed on gram exbbanve. Jt is thoustt it tong belore Canads wheat is 'sfodwenuyg 'odo yl wo pejond Lovis and New Vork markets. There are between 1,500,000 sod 2,000,000 brawls of cigars snd the average smoker thinks thet every brand -means a different kind of tobacco. As a water of fact, 150 is an outeide setimate of the different kinds Pot tobncdo that con be procured from all sources and even esperts cannot tell some of these apart. A CLEVER PERFORMANCE. Young Ladies of St. George's Are Most Versatile. A very successful entertainment was held in St. George's hall last evening under the auspices of the junior wo men's 'auxiliary of St. George's cathe deal, The affair was gotten up for the purpose of swelling the funds of the auxiliary for home mission work, and was under the able management of Mrs. Norman Fraser and Miss Frances Macaulay. The first part of the enter tainment consisted of a short: pro rome. including piano solo by R. i F. Hervey; voeal solos by Miss C. Tandy, with violin obligato by Miss Armstrong; violin solos hy Miss Ev- ans, with Miss Worrell as accompan- i*t, and solos by Miss Bates. The second portion of the affair con sisted of a one act play entitled "Miss Wills' Will," a humorous skit. Those who took the different roles were : Misses Jessie Kirkpatrick, Grace Kirkpatrick, F. Macaulay, King and B. McGill. While all did remark: ably well, special. mention is due to the clever acting of 'Jessie Kirkpat- rick, who, as an amateur, has few equals. The play was rehearsed 'and aSafied under the direction of Cbl. Me- Gill, ' The Carnival Prises. The elegant rattam work-stand, pre sented by Col. Drury for Mr. Browett, at the cariival on Saturday night, to Mrs. Taylor, King street, was for best lady skater and not for "cos- tume" as stated. Mrs. Taylor is "a most graceful skater and execules very wonderful curves on the ice, The difficulties experienced by the judges in settling the costume winner at the masquerade at the rink has very much interested and amused the don- or of the prize, Mr. Browett, who was of course, not present. Should anoth- er carnival take place this season, Mr. Browett will contribute prizes to the slady skaters for costumes, as fol- lows : Domestic, picturesque, classi cal and historical. The same judges with additions will again be asked to perform their onerous duties, viz. : Messrs MoKenzie. D. Stewart Robert- s6n, Almon, Dr. Garrett, alderman King. Lieut. Grant and Lieut.-Col. Smith. The Ex-Mayor's Portrait. A pleasing break in the routine of the ¢ity council's proceedings last night took place after the roll eall, when alderman Kent asked the indul gence of the council to present his por- trait. He asked alderman Carson, chairman of the city property commit: we, on behalf of the municipality, to accept the portrait and hang it on the Jwalls of the--ecity hall among his illus trious predecessors, Alderman Carson was glad, on be half of the municipality, to accept the portrait. It would grace the walls of the city ball with dignity and would have for a companion the portrait of ex-mayor Minnes. The portrait would compare favorably with any in the hall at present. To Effect A Saving. Alderman Farrell is of opinion that the services of a veterinary surgeon is not needed to chloroform dogs brought to the dog pound. He thinks the dog bailif can very well do the dispatch: ing and save the city twelve and a half cents a dog. Alderman Bell in formed the council that the fnance committee intended having the bailiff perform this work in the future. " a musical comedy of tanefulpess, will be ight. The All kinds at cost at Abernethy's. Tt is said that two ex-convicts have alls, been an | omma"ot FACING THE QUESTIGH NOW. PRINCIPAL GRANT ON PROHI- BITION. | INCIDENTS OF THE DAY, Newsy Paragranhs Picked Up Bj on Their Rounus. To- t! Be sure and go to City hall, 8 paps. Ye scenes and songs of ye Iolden tyme. Admission, 26c. The Referendum -- Only Proper Course for the Government -- All Should Vote. Toronto Globe. ; { 1 he doimnion plebiscite of 1398 was | well worth the cost of taking the vote ft showed that Canada, in the judg ment of the moderate men who con stitute the centre of the probibitionist | as of every party, 1s not nape for a) prohibitory law. We bave had little | or no talk of dominion legislation on | that line ever since. Ji thus incident ally proved that, in the judgment of all moderate men, a mere majority of the votes polled is not enough to war rant the passing of such legislation. | Striking evidence of this was recently given in your columns, when out of all the representatives of the universities, colleges and theological balls in To- ronto interviewed by you, not one thought that a mere majority vote | would be enough. The chancellor of | McMaster added the suggestive remark | that a very small minority might weigh more than a very large major ity, and would, thereiore, in the end prevail with all. who are swayed by reason; the moral being that sumptu- | ary laws should not be passed save where there is pracuical ungnimity of sentiment. To have bad 'those two points settled means much. The result is that the whole question is now dis | cussed with a calmupess far removed | from -the fever heat. which prevailed universally in 1804, and generally in 1898. That is an unspeakable gain. Seeing that we all profess to be tem | perance men in things, why should we | divide the forces which are warring against sin ? To do so any longer is not only pure waste, but inexcusable wickedness As we are now face to face with the question, 'Should the province enact prohibition *' we may congratulate ourselves on having the decks cleared to the extent I have indicated, and on having a fairer platiorm for dis- cussion than there was before. The | government, it is understood, will sub- | mit a.measure to the legislature, which | if passed in the house will be submit ted to the people before it becomes | law. The government could do no- thing else. Having regard to its | pledges, it must take the responsibility of preparing a measure; and it being all-important to know, not what the | people thought on the subject in 180%, but what they think in 1902, and to know also what their opinion is, not merely on a general principle, but on | the concrete forny in which the prin ciple jis to be embodied, it would be an | arbitrary stretch of power to give the | measure the force of law without sub- | mitting it to the elictorate for their | judgment. We then shall be called on | to judge, and I trust, now that the | matter is brought so near to us, that | no one who respects nimsed | and who valoes the moral life of his province will be guilty of the con tempt which is involved in not voting. | It may be that many abstained from voting in INOS because they could not | be roused into the least enthusiasm | fore or against a general principle the | exact application of which to their | own lives they had not imagination | enough to picture. i Some such explanation is needed to | account for the smallness of the vote | in a province like Manitoba, where pro- | hibition sentiment is said to be over- whelmingly strong, and where a law could be far more easily enforced on account of there being only one city, than in Ontario. The record of 1898 shows that out list eighteen voted for and five against | prohibition. Evidently,. the people | generally were indifferent, and all gthe | discipline and fervor of the prohibi- | tion organizations could get only | eighteen per cent. out to the polls, | even with such an inspiring gual in | view as suppression of the importa- | tion,~manufacture and sale of liquor, Were a concrete measure submitted to | the people, the average man could see | exactly what it meant and he would be more likely 10 take the trouble of | voting. "Before the vote is taken in Ontario we shall have time to study the measure and its probable ¢fiects on the province, 1 propose, therefore, with your permission, to give in two or three letters my views on the gen eral question as it now appears to we, as well as on € particular measure | which may be offered us, with the spe- cial object of endeavoring to arouse the public from its indifference and to | induce every man with whom I have the slightest influence to make up his mind and to vote yea or nay. r --G. M. GRANT. i { | Death Comes During Prayer. Nashville, Ill, Feb, 4 Stricken with death fromm heart disease while offering up prayer was the tragic fate which overtook Elijah Lamar, at the Holiness chapel, Sunday afternoon. | After a service of song, Mr. Lamar was called upon to lead in prayer. While in the midst of his invocation members of the congregation noticed | a tremor in his voice and saw him | reel against the pulpit. Medical aid | was instantly semmoned, but the | aged elder passed away without re | gaining consciousness. | Games, music, | steamer i school of {ed by Maj. j most { Enough strychnine has been found on | man jew, | stralian federation ¢izes 'the commonwealth government | | figure in the" January ! ward, but he knows how many | servatives | sacrament is Lord Dufferin's condition of health is so serious that his family have heen called to his bedside at Clande f boye. John Donnelly and staff of divers and wreckers are in Prescott, having been callea to that town to do some | work. A young lady clerk in a King street confectionery store is to be married in June. Announcement of the com- ing event was made this moming. None of the stages have arrived at the post-office since Saturday, and the oil from points in the survounding country has accordingly been mu delayed. Premier Ross, at a gathering in To- ronto, joecularly remarked that he would always have a friend, and would never be without a surplus, so long as he bad '"Pense'" with him. Last evening little Miss May Cam- bridge, Sydenbam street, entertained about forty of her friends on the twelfth anniversary of her birth. ete., helped pass the time pleasantly. In his weekly report to the war- | office, lord Kitchener, states that for the week ending February lst, twen- ty-nine Boers were killed, six wound- od, 142 were taken prisoners and for | ty-eight surrendered: Mrs. W. F. Bhannon, wile of the manager of the Standard bank at Brantford; died of grippe and pneu: mionia on Monday aged, - forty-four years. Her remains will be buried" at Picton, her former home. It is. reported at Colon, Colombia, that the Venezuelan revolutionary Liberalodad, formerly the British steamer Ben Righ, has been sunk by a Venezuelan while going for repairs at Porto, Colombia. If the News will send a reporter to Pr. Grant and Prof. Goodwin and get their views as to the attitude of the | local member of Kingston towards the mining it could give its readers belpful information. The class of instruction in connec tion with the 14th regiment, conduct- Galloway, had a large turnout last evening. Had Edward Biddle failed in his plan to escape from jail he was pre: pared to cheat the hangman, and likely would have done so. his clothing to kill two or three men. Last evening little Misses Marjorie and Freeda Dunlop, daughters of alder- and Mrs. Dunlop, entertained about twenty-five of their little friends. Games, music, refreshments, served to pass the hours plea- santly. * George F. Ellis, accountant of the Standard bank, and acting manager during W. D. Hart's absence, left to- day for his former home in Brant- Fox, of the local staff, is filling the vacancy. The Chicago council decided last | night "to remove all restrictions in the height of fire proof buildings. This action paves the way for the imme- diate expenditure of $20,000,000 for a number of buildings, plans for which have already been prepared. B. "'W. Folger stated this afternoon, in reference to the rumor that the C. P. R. company would probably buy Tete de Pont barracks, that the com- any was just as liable to purchase Fort Henry. The railway here has all the water front it needs, he says. The Fo River life saving station, of every 100 on the | piv, fgland, N.Y., reports, this mom- | crashing through the door ing, having found four masts which have been washed ashore. They also { found the stern of two barges on the beach, one of them painfed green and the other black. No more bodies have been found. Parliament at Brisbane, Queensland, | has been dissolved, and the premier, ! Robert Philp, has issued an election manifesting voicing Queensland's dis- | satisfaction with the result of the Au- The premier eriti- and declares it has bitterly disap- pointed the strongest advocates of the ynion, which many Australians would gladly see dissolved. The News devotes. a scare head, a cut and half a . column of, personal | matter to let the labor party know that it has Gaskin is their discovered that Capt. advocate. He didn't didn't go to Ridean ward then and with his friends help to elect Joseph Hipson. Joseph fought well in the con helped" him in his cam paign. Rev. Dr. Antliff save that when he was on the continent and could not | find a Protestant church. he worship. ped in the Catholic church, but he did not take the sacrament in that church as an _jlem in last night's paper sug- | gested. He did, however, communicate churches. In the | in other christian Catholic church, as in the others, the used to all is exemplified. Markets Elsewhere. Toronto, Feh. 4. --~Wheat, white, bush. | 73¢. to THic.; wheat, red, bush., 73c. A Musician Dead. = Phitadeiphia, . Feb. 4--David Ward: en, one of the oldest musicians in the Thomas, the tag dangh five: of George Thomas, of anton Tag contact' | to T8je.; whegt, spring, bush., Tic. ; wheat, .B6je. to 87c.; oats, 464c.; barley The manual ex- | | ercise, company movements and physi | cal exercises were the subjects treated. commemorate | Christ's death and therein unity with | KINCSTON HAS A CASE NOW AND A BY-LAW SHOULD BE MADE LAW. Which Was Voted on for ' the Kingston Foundry -- What a Committee of the Legislature Decided to do. Toronto, Feb. 4.--During the consid- eration of a private bill, promoted by the city of Loadon, this morning, the question of exemption of mangtacwur- mg plants came up for discussion. London asks the legislature to rati- fy by-laws that had not received the | necessary two-thirds majority, for the fixing of the MoClary company's as- essment for ten years at ¥$150,000 and that of the G. White Sons Co. at $17,000 for fifween years. The reguest was granted after a most complete protest froms Mr. Pattullo, against the defiance of provisions of the bon- us law. Attworney-general Gibson said that if this sort of thing was w be contimued it would be better 0 ex- empt all manufacturing plants and ut every one on ah equal foot ing. After the passage of the bill, Mr. Pattullo said be did not see how the house could refuse Toronto's request to exempt factories on a two-thirds | vote of the council. Hon. Mr. Gibson | repligl that that was out of the | question. s The govermment this morning gave | a private audience to Rev. J. A. Mac { donald, N. W. Rowell, .Rev. Dr. | Chown, Prof. Farmer and Prof. Hume | who discussed some of the phases of | the sale of liquor for medicinal, sacra- mental and scientific. and similar pur- poses by the government, instead of | private individuals in the event of the | adoption of a prohibitory law. Thomas Patrick, a conductor on the | Grand Trunk, who resided at 188 Pal- mer Station avenue, was instantly { killed at Port Credit this morning. | He bad taken out a freight train, | west-bound and at Port Credit the | train was stopped 'at the water tank. | Patrick talked to the engineer on his | engine, and was in the act of step- "ping down to return to his car, when | the Chicago express came along and struck and killed him instantly. -- Would Loan Shamrock. New York, Feb. 4.--Sir Thomas Lip | ton is quoted, in a despatch from Lon- | don, as saying he has not yet received | the letter from C. W. Post, Michigan, | offering to charter the Shamrock to | race against the Columbia this year. | Sir Thomas said : "I would not chart | er my yacht at any price. 1 would, | however, agree to lend Shamrock to | Mr. Post, provided he adequately fitted | her out at his own expense for a con- { test, with Columbia if it is possible to { send Britishers to man Columbia. Frankly, 1 would rather see a race be tween the two yachts this season with American crews aboard each, which 1 think would be a better test of the re { lative merits of the two boats." i | ford, where his father is dangerously | ill. Frank A. Mrs. Suffel's Statement, i Pittsburg, Feh. 4.--Mrs. Soffel, who | assisted the Biddle boys to escape { from prison in Pittsburg, wade a | statement last night to some newdpa- { per men in the presence of Dr. Nicker, in 'which she said : "1 had not in- | tended going with the Biddle boys ou { the night of their escape, but Fa's | entreaties won me over." She told of { how she remained in the library on | Thursday morning awaiting the signal | for the outbreak. It was her inten: {tion to let the boys go. and she would meet them later. While sitting | in the library she was 'almost para lvzed when the two brothers came | A Fine Costume. | In the second act of "Sweet Clov- er," to be seen here Thursday night, | Adelaide Thurston appears in a scene | representing' a tableaux party, attired as queen Guenivere. The costume whith she wears is describea as one of | the handsomest creations ever worn upon the stage and constitutes the principal feature of a large wardrobe. Back' From The Philippines. A son.of Simon Oberndorfier, Queen { street, who has been absent from the jcity for several years, returned to-day For some time he has been serving with the United States. forces on ac tive service in the Philipgines He speaks very highly of that portion of the globe, and sa¥s he enjoyed his ex- periences there, elections; he | | Ald. Walkem Promoted. {Alderman -Waltkem occupied - the may- or's chair for about an hour and a half- lust night, and he acquitted him self with dignity. Mayor Shaw asked to be excused. along about half-past nine o'clock, and on motion of alder man King, alderman Walkem was ask ed to take the chair. Stops The Cough And Works Of The Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure ! a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price 25¢. } 4+ Over Gaiters. All kinds at cost at Abernethy's. i The Queen street Methodist christian | endeavor society set last night and: | elected the bulance of its ere as {follows : Convenor of lookont ecom- | mittee, Miss M. Merritt; of the social "} | committee, Miss Clark; of the prayer Big img committee, Misses Hunter and | Hutchison; of the missionary commit- tee, Alexander Page. From nine to twelve o'clock to-day the bodies of John snd Edward Bid- to-morrow in one large grave in Calvary cemetery. 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