"lat in Canada: ning improved THE WHIG---68th YEAR. Di Y WHIO, El oT BRE oa ' ¥, BNE WEG 13 pur {acted is one of the best Joh Print. ing O rapid.' stylish and heap. work: pre ses. FW. J.B. PENSE. PROPRIETOR Mr. Tarte, who followed Mr. Bour- aden, 'made the aseuring . statement that there wae no fear of the results which be apprehenced. The Americas could not be prevented from purchas- ing the stock of the Canuda Atlantic | railway, but that did sot imply an { iptorforence with Canadian trafic. The report that tke C.P.R. might ke THEY ME TO BE PUT UPON PRODUCTION OF ARSENIC. Foreign Capitiglis s May Put a Lot ~of Money Joto Hastings Coun- a | - Rings The Local here will Tires awh change wi $ y 8 i ia the local egy market. Prices will ade fall. » Cooking eggs have Be come 'wcarov, and a' pn ent none cho be got at less tan Fo. o dozen. ha t BRO! We are showing some very handsome designs with b:autiful work in Cambric and Swiss Embroi- deries, suitable for Edgings and Flouncings. Prices are fully one-third below 'regular values, This is our third lot of New Embroideries and the best bargain of all. Linen Embroideries, Insertions and. Allovers too, White Cottons and Lawns, ty--Bounty is Wanted for Sev- en Years. Ottaws, Feb. 17.--Further ropresgn- tations have been made to the domin: jon. government by residents of Hakt- ings gounty in favor of a bounty Jor the production of arsenic in Canada. If negotiations now pending with for | 3 dos; pears; 0c. to 30c. 8 dor: Ma cign capitalists for the purchase [of lags grapes, 0c a ib; cranberries, the mines and works at Deloro gre | 1Zle to 13¢. a yuart; lemons, Ae. 'to successiyl, it will mean . an estimated | 30¢, dodeh ; Bananas, MWe. to establishment of works capable of pro. : a . a doen; - 8 , $3.50 to $5 | ducing 2,400 tons of arsenic per sn ry ve ples : num. ter -hias taken' a shight rise since week's' report alsd. Chickens 'and fowl are ve ¥ rcarce, and dre highet than crer. Fruit--Cilifornia paval oranges, 2c; 30c., 0c. a doz; Florida oranges; 30c. 0 S0¢. a doz; Jemacia oranges, Sc. a dozen; bit er. oranges, 25¢. ta Ie. acquired was ~abwurd. Its stock was so fhuch scattered that it was impos sible to purchase much of it for any foreign syndicate without ' the direct ors knowing it. M,"" said 'be, "Am eral years was fought in Lisgar yes evican 'capitalists sought' to secure al ye w 4 . : + ! control of C.P.R., be was sure parlia- ele, ond mde in th cin, of wid ie tr he rion ed The | h Kk cent:vuch . 1:7 he contol. was, manifested purchase enough stock to prevent suc interest in oi : "4 | 4 deal. Canada bad invested $100,000, yw several remarkable circumstances. | Loo (PR. and should see to ITIE DAILY WHIG. +Opifer por Orbem Dicor.' ----------ii i meta . GREAT LIBERAL VICTORY. ' The greatest political battle in sev: The first was the determined effory This outlay will be duplicated Flour and feed. ~Farmers' flour and tion and standing liberals and 'n the general election, aken up by the conservatives Years of experience and a continu od desire in touch with modern busi- ness ideas and principles as far as the drug trade is concerned, have com- . manded the attention of the public heir approval. We are a large and solid busi- we guarantee the quali ines. Wr: and best stock of | C won A drugs and medic without hesitation recom und to ow of blood puri- as the indorsation of Can . It quickly drives soated dissase from bottle of this iar cleanser; you will not y C 4 TRY OUR : : : Wood & Coal. 8 You will be delighted 8 with it. $5. ANGLIN & CO. Telephone 66. Foot of Wellington St. Berassensesensne stasis oo the Purest, Handiest, Soap in the World. FOR SALE. 3 ia J LH JUE VALUARLE o fer : iii i t f I PRICK DWELLING AND Marchal) No. 10% doeted, unseating. In. the meantime his ik retirement. In the campaign dosed there were three lopendent, Mr. Richardson. er of the interior. journed for over a week. snd one of the ablest. Lisgar ww be put down as a liberal Aituency without any question, te ber will be an out and infiniti A CAMPAIGN OF LIES, nence to what it has called * report sent day : As in many statements untruthfully, towing : fess to and quite a what tr ired. Thirdly. Many of true : the EB Ross had promised.' tence. tive to "'immediatel bill" and "ignore" reckless and misleading. to the referendum which Guardian of this week). Sixthly. Your reference than myself s to his policy, ly opposite . i { of Mr. Richardson to recover his powi- in the commons. Te had iailen into disfavour with both conservatives. His own mriy was not disposed to back him hut he was and Corrupt practices led to his op- position to the Manitoba railway deal aused the local government to seek which has just J candidates, therefore, the liberal, Mr. Stewart, ihe onservative, Mr. Toombs, and the 'id The lib- ab interests were ably protected and Mompioned by Mr. 8ifton, the minis: Aonservative saline was espoused by the local gov- srnment and its supporters, and for this purpose the local house was ad- The 'inde widént took care of his own case, Land he was not without his friends. The result was a great victory for the li. eral party, snd especially a victory ior Me. Sifton, who is the must ma ligied man in the federal government, can opn~ and out wupporter of the Laurier government. Dr. Courtice, the editor of the Chris tian Guardian, has been represented as in open rebellion with the govern ment because of its prohibition mea sure. The Toronto World gave promi- a row in the camp," a row which, it says Dr. lourtice created, and in which he is al- iéged to have made certain strong re- marks injurious to the premier. The in the World has been freely copied and commented upon. Will Dr. Couttice's criticism of the World be as freely circulated ? This is what he to our contemporary on Mon- you have used my nmune very recklessly, in the main unfairly, snd ask you to print on your first page and "with equal prominence the fol- First. The meeting which you pro- rt was a private moeting, different report was handed to your reporter on Saturday from that which you printed on Mon- ig sondly. No such report. as you have printed was supplied to you by anyone who had any right to say your statements are untrue. The following sentence, at- tributed to me, 1 characterize as un- "Premier Ross had written him two letters, in which he had pledged him- self to have the referendum taken on owrtain conditions, and the clauses in 'he bill on the points in question were exact opposite of what Premier are three untruths in the sen Fourthly. That I advised the execu- repudiate the referendum, is Fifthly. There are two conditions at- tached i 1 criticized severely. (See The Christian to others is unreliable, and your whole method is bad; instead of 'en- couraging me to confer with Mr. Whit- it has the ex- A. C, Courtics. The World, in the face of that concise and direct denial, has point out, it says, where:n its state ment. is untrue. No! He takes the principal one--that (1) Mr. Ross had written him two letters, (2) that he it that it was always a Cavadian railway.' The regret is that much 8 huge investment was not saje guard: ed in some way, that the charter did not make it impossible for the com pany to sell or assign its interest to any foreign agency without the con gent of the government. : Mr. Tarte thinks the water ways, which cannot De controlled. by any foreign influence, will be the protec tion of Canada and its transportation iptérents, Its water ways must al- ways. be independent and always ha tional, and in the future he expected great things frum the French River route. With a small expenditure, and within two years, a navigable chan- pel twenty feet deep could be eut from the Georgian Bay to Lake Nipissing. The distance in. the level to be ovee come was only sixty-two feet in a dis tance of sixty-one miles, and on Lake Nipissing connection could be made with the C.P.R. at North Bay and at Callender with the Grand Trunk. The distanes to Toronto was 290 = miles, and to Montreal 360 miles, and when built the canal would mean to Mani- tobs and. the North-west about a couple of millions on each crop. This crop last year amounted to 60,000, 000 bushels, dnd within ten years it was likely to increase to' 200,000,000 bushels. ) Mr. Haggart endorsed Mr. Tarte's contention, that the railways of Can- ada were under government control ond that the country could legislate in regard to {hem as it liked. The Americans could purchase stock in. a Canadian road, and could buy the road, but parliament could compel the purchasers to carry Canadian pro- ducts on terms quite as favourable as the products of any foreign country. He added his approval of the French River route. 'The canal from the (ldbegian. Bay to North Bay was a graat possibility, and its construction would do more for the development of Canadian trade than anything that has happened in twenty years. The debate, after all, was a kind of diversion since: Mr. Tarte, optimis- 1] tic as he is, candidly admitted that "no Canadian parliament could em- bark on the expenditure the . scheme involved at present." EDITORIAL TIPS. Dr. Courtice is not willing to Jet the Toronto. World put. words in his mouth on the prohibition que tion. What is 10 be gained by it anyway ? Mr. Whitney ix in retreat. He is meditating on the part he must play in the prohibition campaign. He would like to sit on the fence, but he cannot. The Toronto News has it that the local elections will oceur on the Jed or 10th of June. Some fellow i: pos ing as a prophet, or a mind reader, snd there arc two. many of his kind at large. The Boers talk of treking to Ame rica. They won't live in South Afi:a, under British rule. They may not like it long in United States under Ame rican rule. It is ever so much nicer in theory than in practice. It is remarkable that the fire horses, which are so expensive, last for =¢ short a time. A good team, one free of flaw or blemish, should last for. ot least five years | What if the mat tor with the present stock anyway ? The auditor-general's 'correspondence is wearisome. He has a tight to ob ject to accounts if they are mot regh- lar, but he feels it to be his duty to say a lot of things which had better be le't unsaid. - His Jast tilt with the finance minister re P is edifying. Toe London municipal scdndal has Leen cleared up. It Has been fond at another point if negotidtions with English capitalists for a properly else where in Hastings county dre, success: ful. To produce 2.400 tons of arsenic involves an expenditure of $312,000 per annum for labor, fuel and stores. The bounty asked for is either $15 per ton on refined arsenics or 73c. per ton on one containing five per vent. of ar- senic, pn which two-thirds would be paid by the dominion and one third by the Ontario government. The total amount of bounty to be paid by both governments oh an output of 2,400 tons per annum would be, provincial government, $12,000; dominion, $24.- 000; total, $36,000. But the total output of arsenic in Hastings county could be increased to 5,000 tons. on which the total bounty would be $75.- 000. , The total outlay in wags, feel, stores, etc., ne 000 in bountg éach Year would: be £600,000. The bounty 'is asked for. a seven year period, to be reduced on a sliding scale. DISTRICT DASHES. Wews of the District Condensed From the Whig's Exchanges. The O'Rourke block, Trenton, was d by fire on Puesdny. W. . 'Robinson has been elected chairhafi of 'the Prescott board of education. Williani Mollquaham has been pointed chief of Carleton: Plage brigade. y Mrs. George Boyd, an old resident of Brockville, died' on Tuesday, aged sixty-three years. Dr. G. W. Kirk; Ottawa, died Mon- day, aged forty-six years. A wife and three children survive, George K Dewey, has been appoint ed tax collector of Brockville, Vice W. H. Dowsley, resigned. Dr. S. A. Bonésteel, Denver, Col, died on January 28th, of pueumonia. Deceased was born in Belleville 1841. Louis Morton, township of Goul- bowrn, near Carleton Place, died on February 9th, aged seventy-six years. Harry Emerson, Tweed, didd in New Mexico, on Monday, aged twenty-eight vears. He left over a year ago Jor The benefit of his 'health. John D. 'Armstrong, Carleton Place, went to Montreal for medical treat- ment, but died there on Saturday. De- ceased was fifty-deven years of age. It is expected that the new post of- fice, Pictom, will be ready for oceupa- tion, and that the pest office will be removed thither on the Ist of March. ap- five WHEN LEADERS FALL OUT. Complaints From Tobias Smuts : To Botha. London, Feb. 19.--A letter from as- sistant-general Tobias Smuts to com mandant general Louis Botha has heen found among the papers recently captured in South Africa. The burden of the letter is a complaint by Smuts that he was dismissed by Botha in Anguet, 1901, for burning Bremers- aorp. He justifies his action upon principle, and goes on to say : "Also ih connection with the trans- port of women, we took up the same standpoint as a principle, but still | got t order from you to send the women away against their wish, and when 1 asked you what to do ii the English refused to take the women your answer was that iv that cose I had to load them off within the lines of the enemy." And again : "Another reason. not mentioped by me yet, was to show the Kaffirs that we will shrink from nothing if they do not remain quict, or who cause us any difficulty." Apart, however, from the guestion of principle. Suiuts thinks that some personal influence has been, used against him, and writes as follows : "] hope that those who think that they can slander and supplant their fellow-burghers, and then make it right again at night with a prayer of three yards long, will now be ham that they have ultimately succeeded in having me chased away." JUDGE LYNCH IN MISSOURI Negro Defended Himself Against a Mob. New Madrid, Mo., Feb. 19.--Richard Pringle's negro ministrels give an here, Saturday night, and during the performance one of the musicians b involved in an alter- cation with some of the in the . The whites the and a fight ensued. One emptied a revolver. into the to earning 875, | Be bakers' "swong, $2 to $2.10 a owt; Hungarian patent, $2.20 to $2.30 ewt.; oat meal and rolled oats, $5. to $6.75 a bbl; corn'meal, $I. $1.60 a owt.; bran, $2¢ a ton; 8, $2, a $22 to $23 a ton; bay $10 to local soft toba Ne. 1, hard, 80c. a wheat, 50c. a bushel; POc. a bushel; peas, Tic. oats, 3Be. a ; rye, 82c. a b Meat--Beef, forequarters, 4c. a choice cuts, 12§c. .a 1b; western beel, yearling laxbb by the, fe. to Gje. catrcage, quarters, . quarters jo. a lh. a .; Veal, beef tongues, w.Te. a lb. | . Vegetables--Potatoes, a lb; i" to Yo. oth; as $e. n bh; ind- 1040. a Ib,; hogs, live wei ; dressed, % to Se. hy carcass, 60. a ery, Bo. to 10c. buich; poulteyt hers Bl to 818) sebh ultry---Turkeys, to $1.80 i geese, 80c. %0 $30 ouch; Cuchs e. to 9c. a pair; chickens, . T5e. a r. fowl, 0c. to: Tic. » pair. sh--White fash, blue fish halibut, h i tery, 400. & dozen; finnap haddie, 100. a 1b.; dal: mon trot, 12. a 1b.; Seattle salmon, 15¢. a 1b.;; salt adlmon, salt trout and salt mackerel, 106. a Ib.; suibked cis: om, 10c. a Ib.; salt ciscoes, 7o..8 Ih; salt sodbah, Fe. to 15¢. a lb.g Jobsters, 15¢. a lb. little neck clams. 20c. . a doren; frogs' legs, 30c. 8 Jb. shad, 12. a lb.; flounders and tomecods, Se. a lb.; kippered herring, 40c. a deren. _1Dysters--d0¢., 40c., 506. and 60c. & quart; canned oveiérs; In pint tins, Me. a tin; Malusogue shell oysides, 20¢. a dozen or 70c..8 peck. | Hides--~These _ prices . avd given by in John McKay sking, 0c. to 0c a 1b.; beef hides, . «; © horse hides, rendered tallow, Brock street: h Fr deer skins, 0c, $2 to $2.25 . i Ib. Fur, mink, $2 to $3; fox, 81 aX coon, 26c. to. Tbe; skunk, 30e. to he dibs * Dairy Wholessdle. Batter--Creamery, 23¢. .a'lb.; fafm- ets'; in prints, 180. to 19¢. a Ib; rolls, 17¢. to 18c. 'a Ibg bakifg but: ter, 14jc. a Ib. a lb, Cheese--9je¢. a lb. Dairy Retail. Butter-- Creamery, 206cf a Ib; farm: ere', in prints, We. a Ih.; in rolis, 18¢: to 20c. a lb. Cheese--124c, a Ih. gs. Wholesale--Fresh, 26c., a dowen; cooking, 2c. a doven. Retail-Fresh, 30c. a dozen; cooking, 22¢ a doen. Markets Elsewhere. Toronts, Feb. 17.---Wheat, white, per bush., 70c. to T8je.; wheat, red, per bush., 68. to Tic.; wheat, spring, 70¢. to The; wheat, goose, per bush. 6%0.; out:, per bush, 45. to 47¢ barley, per bush., Be. t6 636; peas, per: bush., SJ. to Se. bush, 50¢.; buckwheat, per. hush, §70.; hay, timothy, per ton, 813 to $14: straw, peor ton, $10 to $1); seeds; Alsike, choice, $7.25 to 38; seeds, Al vike, No. 2, 86.50 to $7; seeds, Red clover, 84.65 to BASS; seeds, timothy, $2.50 10 83.25; dressed hogs, #8. to $8.25; butter, in 1b. rolls, 13¢. to 2ic.; butter, creamery, "200. to 28 ; chic kens, per pair, We. to 88c.; ducks, per pair, Tle. to $l; turkeys, per lb., 12. to He.; geere, per Ib, Sc; eggs, lim: ed, per dozen, 3%. to 2c; now , laid, 25¢c. to 30o.; apples, OL. 0 to tw $4.50; potatoe', per bag, 7c. A RELIABLE OFFER. Honest Help Free To Men. We "are authorised to stite Carl Kunz, Second and sirvots, Davenport, lowa, that any man who is nervous and debilitated or who is suffering from any of the various troubles work, excesses of abuse, such as ner- vous debility, exhausted vitality, lust vigor, unnatural drains and losses, lack of development, etc., can write to him in strict confidence and recive FREE OF CHARGE, fall instfuctions pat, 60c. a bushel; North- etn No. 1, 78¢. to Tie. a bushel; Mani- a bushel ; a ib. 8c. cath; mutton, Gef 40 81, a . 1, Be. to 5 Lag Be. a th; unwished wool, 8c. a Ib; washed wool; 130. 8 to in rye, per hy Brady ting from over: Extra value in fine quality goods. Our assort- ment of these goods is beyond usual. assortmeats in variety of makes. 8c. ioc, 12)4¢, yard. The New Wash Goods Are exciting favorable comment. Did you see them yet > The good things are going. ! STARR & SUTCLIFFE"S, SPECIAL AN | "118 and 120 Princess Street. - Kingston, Ont. NINE THE KERN BURNERS, delayed in ship ment, arc now to hand. In order to make room tor same we will dispose of our stock of AUER L'GHTS AT COST. Pear Shape, 55c. Large, with Shade; 65c. 88¢.; turnips, per bag, 2lc. tn Ne, carrots, per bag, 40c. to 50c.; onions, per bag, 9c. to $1; beets, per bag, 15%. to Og. parsnips, per bag, 45¢ to 5e.; caulifiower, per dogen, 60c. to 75¢.; 'eabhage, per dozen; :5bc.; celery, per doren, 10c. to 60c.; beef, forequar- tern, 85. to 86.50; beef, hindquarters, $7 to $5; beel, modium, carcase, 85 to $6.50; beef, choice, $7. to $7.50; lamb, $5 to #9; mutton,. $6 to 87; veal, choicef 8 to 89. Montreals Feb. 17. There wete abott 580 head. of butchers' cattle, 50 calves and '25 sheep 'and lambs offered for sale at the east wnd sbattoit. The butchers were out in full force, - and 'rade was good with the prises decid edly lower for all kinds of cdttle, ex: topt the bext bullocks. G. Martel hought two prime stexrs at le. per Ib.; and 'nine, others a: Se. per Ib, Uearye Nicholson bought - four good cattle at Se. per lh. mtv good stock sold at from Me to 42¢, amd the common stock dai from 24. to 3c. per Ib. G. Martel hought two prime veals for 824, or near 6c. phr Ib. The otter calves sold at from 82.50 to 87 each. Sheep sold at from Jie. to 3c, -and the lambs at from dic. to 4)¢, per Ib. Fat hogs sold at about Gle. per lb., for good, stright let, weloots bringing Gle. per lb, weizhed off the cars. STOWAWAY SOLDIER BACK. Ran Away From Brooklyn And Joined British. New York, Feb. 19. --~Eugene Hick. ney, of 157 Filty-second street, South Brooklyn, who stowed away in Brooklyn, eighteen months ago, aboard the British steamship Dun blafe, hound for South Africa. and after landing joined Col. Wilson's scouts, returned yesterday ax a steer. age | er in the American liner St. Paul, from Southampton and Cherbourg. He wore: a khaki uhiform. He saye that be was on the firing line continually during the term of his enlistynent. He says &lso that South Africa is not a white man's country, and that he is mighty glad to get back. The Boers are good shots, but there ate not enough of them to win. He hes & brass medal given to him by one of Kruger's bodyguard captur ed by the British. He thinks Sou Brooklyn much better than South Al rica, and will not go soldiering foreign folks again. Lady Cartwright's Skating Party. Ottawa Juurngl The ting party in rink, at which lady Cartwright was the bowtess on Monday night, was the largest po far given, the many es ional 'visitors in town swelling the list of guets very covsiderably. bur ing the evening lady Cartwright was seated on rugs watching the skaters, by a knot of whom she was slwave surrounded. The ice was in spleadid the dumber taking * tribntes for the Rideau "fellow Th the east. 283 King Street. LETTERS ¥0 TEE LDITOR. ---- Comments On Census. Montreal, Feb, 18.--(To the. Editor): Sir,~Some four years ago the writer ventiirad do point out, for newspaper readers, that it. was not good policy to build up gities and towns at the expense of the. country districts, and now this Bak taken place'in a mark- od degree, to the serious detriment of the anaritime Provinces of our domin: ion. It will astouna J. W. OLDFIN, your clientele to learn that during the past decade the conse perfod--the rural popula: ton. of New Brunswick, Nova Seotia and Prince. Baward Island fell off to the entirmons extent of over one hun- dred thousand souls ! The authority for the" facts is the Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.8., a journal of re pute. While it i well known that the other provinces show increases in agrieul turk) populations; the progress such' portions of our country is ra ther set off by adverse conaitions where one would expect advance rather than retrogression,' This is a country that for the faieisd interests of a few parties, is represented as shortly able to entirely feed the people of the uni. ted kingdom with supplies, bread stuffs, ote, and suppowing such an ides was either polisic, or even just, the result would be the rapid des truciion of British shipping, which de- sends on worla-wide traffic, including bat with foreign nations. The navy of the empire (to which Canada con not one . cent) would them lack for sailors trained in merchant ships. Next and not lens important, is the solic Tact that in the United States and in Argentina, not lesa than a thousand millions 'of pounds ster ing are invested bv the British. and a preferential tarifl in the united king- domi for Canadian proouct would alionute foreign nations more then pow, and certainly not improve those investment dividends The dominion has been known (such wis #0 in 1900 A.D), to have a har: vest only sufficient for its own people, and it fs notorious that Australis, owing to drought. van only whip wur- slug crops two years out of five, and as had to import broad stuffs. not long since. ~P. C BARKER Asn -- "RETIRING GIRL'S HABITS, Smoked, Chewed and Swore, Ace cording To Testimony. * Hutehifson, Kan, Feb 19. ~The huniorous wide pH divorce Sam ia gross hore came out yesterday af ix trial, when the plaintiff, Michael Jackson, tentified upon the stand thet be wished a separation. He said that wince tHe death of Bis first wile, a year ago, be had become jonely and then betBought himseli of a modest, retiri girl who had been his play, Heé wrote to her, marriage, and wes accept" how to be thorough! s ~ Mr. Kung himse! was, for a Jong that sore ballots were printed and is: o, and though several were hit as sor hart i from above tronbls, {ound than the city. clerk Bad counted. Ll that 8 month had not excellency the --guvérner general discovered that she and that they were not bound up wi- 'formly in pads. So tha discrepency has ben duly accounted for, and "the The min: when with Mis Mollis Cartwright, Col. Ir win following with Mia Fle Ritchie. e countess of Minto was not pre sent, but others in the viewregal riy were lady Adelnide Taylor, Judy Sybil Grev, lady Alix Beauclere, major ami Mra. Maode, Capt. Beil, Hon. Lionel Guest aml Mr. Guise. Lord Minto took lady Cartwright to sapper. The buffet was decorated with jougnile god ferns. Hon. Mr. Fielding and sha Miser Fielding, Hon. Dr. and Mrs, , Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Mul , with Mrs. Wi'tison and Wiss Fal. . Mrs, Sifton and her guest, were present. ------ Give Inspiration To All RY tof the heéldre be chewed tobacco and swore Pirate. Comequently be desires his former lonely stats. ------------ Employes Remembered. Boston, Feb. 18--To the employees Boston Branch of the American sods fountain company, about $80 O00 has been given by the will of Tots, . millionaire soda fo T