The Old Bath Tub Is unsightly, You have thought of painting it but donot know oy to use, THE : SHERWIN-WILLIANS Barn EnaweL RE, Cor. Princess and Wellington Sts. 4 wilh ] LOOKING AT, soins Thom properties thot are have = ¥ attention gs an investment $0 buy. une they are ae low ever will be. fh pleasure te you focatest and well improved. A. CAYS, 346 King Street. as The ivcrense dn value will Large or etl lars, THE WHIG--68 YEAR. DAILY each evening, st 206- » your. Editi o' y CEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 12 pages, published every Thurwday moraing at $1 ® year. enn, Attached is ome Ay the best Job Priotiag Offices in Canada; wiylish ond cheap work; tmproved presves. EDW. J. B. PENSE, PROPRIETOR. 1TIE DAILY WHIG, 'Opiter per Orbem Dicor.' WHIG, published 310 Kivg lout. at on 2 and 4 ---------------------------- RAILWAY COMMISSION. Parliament has under consideration the bill of the railway department, introduced hy Hon. Mr, Blair, which aims at the establishment of & rail- way commission. This committee will take the place of the railway com- mittee of the Privy Council, which has, in the past, rendered good 'er vice, but now appears to be unsuited for the diverse questions that are re- ferred to. In recent years many disputes have arisen between the railway compan It i JUST WHAT YOUR Vell tell you after carefull pining them s and advice is free, 1 are needed we select best and most effective, ¥ [ITH BROS., 350 King Street, ) ma [alvary AN IDEAL EASTER 'URE and most stitabl er Gift. CALL AND SEE IT. ART STORE (K & HALLIDAY SOLE AGENTS. ( scesssssssessone IT COMPRISES Hemlock, Maple; Oak and other Woods. This ser- Opticians. ios and their patrons, in regard to rates, to discriminations, to unfair competition, = and 'they bave led to much bitterness of spirit. The oil case will be especially remembered. The ap- peal to the railway committee was an expensive proceeding, and the feeling existed that the facility of action and promptness of decision were not such as might be had by .a court or commission whose niembegs, engrossed with railway business, would become experts in its treatment, i The appointment of this commission has been favorably regarded. Its members will, of course, be darefully chosen and their functions will be ju- dicial and far-reaching. They will deal with all manner of railway interests, Ahess will be numerous enough and important enough to engage all their time and special study. The power and prestige of office will be very great. y f TALK ON HEALING. There is a ministerial association in Kingston, and its meetings being pri- vate the world misses the points of ita discussions. The Whig reaches this conclusion after reading the proceedings of a*late meeting of the Toronto min: istorial association. This association meets regularly, and its members, pursuant to appointment, read pa pees which wre sometimes subject to very severe criticism. This week the thems was divine heal- ing, and it was introduced by one who ssid be believed in sickness and pain, but not in drugs or narcotics, He annointed with oil. according to the instructions of St. James, and prayed for healing: Some marvellous cures were reported, The question was asked, Can cancer he cured directly by the Divine hand ? An elder of one church, who appeared to be outside the association but an ernest listener to what was said, tier took the floor and cited the case of one who had boen refused an opera: tion by several doctors, and who had got rid of a cancer that weighed forty pounds. What became of it? "I shrank wp till it became as small as your fists, gentlemen," said he. The same woman had lanegess, and by the same process--prayer by a divine heal: or some distance away at a set time she got rid of it, "and could run about like a sixtesn-year-old girl." The chairman of the meeting at this point undertook to settle the excited layman, and intimated that there were presen men who could pour tight upon the question, that he had 1 better take his seat, but the layman | was there to give his experience, and he went on: ] ; . "1 hou a deal right ear.' The trou: Ble is gone." ey 1 his remark was treated . bshisniin RA and. this, 160, yielded to Divine heal | ing. The discusdion' continued, but it re sulted in nothing practieal to the | preacher or his profession. The situa was fairly prosented hy. one spenker--the one who projected the trouble--wha that "there are four hundred and seventy-five religions to-day, and most, if not all of them, can be proved, to the satisfaction of the believers, ont of the bible." The farthest the 'preachers got was to agree generally that drugs bad their place and use, that they were agencies of God in Bis working of cures, some of them of a miracnlous kind. The point of points was overlooked, that Christ, on earth, did not establish any sects, that these are the out growth of conditions pecoliar to the times, and that the bible is hardly to be accepted as the authority for them. The bible," said' one eritie, "was inspired by Goa, but the bible tion said does not contain all the truth in the world." SOME SIGNIFICANT FACTS. The records of the Presbyterians in the United States show that of 7,700 churches in the year ended May Ist 1ast, ne fewer than 2,000 reported no converts, and in eighty-one there were not more than fifty converts during the year. Those that had converts have - lately beep asked to explain their success and the main source ap- pears to have been the Sunday school. -- Exchange. The general secretary of the Inter nations Sunday School Committee has made public another very notable fact; that eighty out of every one hundred people who join the church-- who profess to have a veal love for it and its ordinances, who are educated for service and willing to accept the la- bours that are put upon them----pass through the Sunday schools. This be- ing the case the wonder grows that so little attention is paid to it, The average Sunday school is not equipped for efficient work. It should have 'the best supervision that the church can give it, the best accommo dation, the best teachers, the best music, the best educational methods, Hs aim should be to train children so that as they grow up, and become voung wen and women, they will step into the places of their parents, or into associations with them, religious ly, that will make for their happiness and welfare. The desire of the church: is to make people christians, with the highest ideals, ana plans that har- monize with their pretentions. The teaching to that end must begin in youth, and the earlier the better. flood citizenship is not founded up on the instruction of the pulpit. It rests on the training of the vouth, and if a great many men and women, in their maturity, drift away from the church, it is quite as much to blame as they are. It certainly is not doing all that it should for re tigious eaucation, THE SAMAR ATROCITY. A United States officer--a Major Waller, of the marine corps--is being tried by court-martial at Manila for executing natives. Waller testifies, ac- gording to a cemsored cable just re ceived, that "Gen, Smith ordered him to kill and burn, and make a howl ing wildérness of Samar." "Waller asked Smith," the despatch continues, "to define the age limit for killing, when Smith, he alleged, replied 'Kill everything over ten!' Two captains and a lieutenant of the Marine corps corroborated the major's statements, Herod's age limit was "two years and under." Gen. Smith's was "kill everything over ten," adding that "it was no time to take pri: soners."' : . : This is reminiscent of Bismark's. fa mons * despatch during the Franco- Prussian war, finding fanit with field marshal count Von Arum for "cum- bering his command with too many French prisoners." Great Britain has conducted™ eam- paign in Sonth Africa with unprece: dented humanity and compassion for the Boer people, caring for a hostile population even to supplying schools for their children while yet the battle rages and the fathérs, husbands and brothers of those sheltered are waging fierce warfare against her flag. Meanwhile a large section of the E DAILY WH1G, SATU {response to repudiate -an strong, but if regretted a RDAY, A APRIL 12. ASA! AAA ARE Tg we onder Wy EDITORIAL NOTES. The literals everywhere are enthusi- atic. Theirs is the swing of victory. Mr. Whitney talks about seven more agricultural colleges for Ontario. And his party has talked in the past, as if one was more than the could stand, financially. province te mee Mr. Whithey will not tax the rich corporations--when he is premier. He may not. As the contingency, if it ever happens, is a very remote one we need not trouble about it now. The Brockville Times is offended he- cause the Whig so loyully and unre servedly supports Mr. Ross. Why not? The liberal party has not at time, and anywhere, conspired to cast him overboard. % -- When the king gives a banquet, says the Mail, all the details, down to the brand of wine supplied, are considered legitimate news. And that's its ex- nosing into what 'Mr. Ross has for luncheon and supper, ch? any cuse for e-- Some pesple will be pleased to heer from the London Lancet, the product of medical experts, that cigarette smoking in moderation is the mildest and least injurious form of tobacco using. Doctors will continue to. dif- er, The city post offices are to have a superintendent who will see that their methods are thoroughly up-to- date. The expert who does this, Mr. Ross, of Toronto, will have his hands full. He is regarded as a most pro- gressive man. . -- The civil service examination will be abolished so far as the messengers, packers, sorters, letter-carriers and porters of the post-office department are concerned, The wmximam of pay will be reached hereafter in about live years, 'The officials affected will he happy. now a-- Dr. Courtice, Guardian, 3 should politicians who are so eager to whis- per what they know ahout political corruption, They may be giving him the gospel and they may vot, pro- bably not. ---- The Spectator's denunciation has got L'Evenement in trouble, The pro- prietor complains of a conspiracy to the Christian be weary of the of evict him, and in consequence there is musi¢ in the air. L'Evenement not be a conservative paper, but it is the conservative party of Quebec that is worrying over it. mav Pr. Talmage is very low, and there may be the announcement of his death any day. His name has heen a house- hola word for many years. Who'll take his place? Rev. Frank Tal mage ? He possesses the traits and perhaps all 'of the ability of 'Rov. T. DeWitt Talmage. some of The Mail will have it that the On tario government ix giving the country away. - It is bound that the eonservy- tive party shall not be the only offen det in this wespect, People do not forget, however, the fight the liberals had to make the conservative land and timbers grabbers take "hands off." "Get. Another Brick," Telegram, ad it takes a railway commission question. In the throwing of bricks the Telegram holds its own peculiar place in Can- ada. There is no satisfying it on railway matters. denounces the commission before has been ap- pointed. says the shy at the 'Tt it EH Answering Back Habit. The habit of "answering back™ is as reprehensible in grown people as in children, and should be suppressed by every person anxious to lead a peace able and harmonious life, says / the Philadelphia Ledger, The "scrappy" household, in which each member strives for the last word in the argument, is most anxious to maintéin an independent = cowrse of action, is afraid lest he shall be inf posed mpon, is not a happy household, nor ean it ever become such alone. It is an odious place to visit, and the separate individuals that compose it can always have a plensanter at mosphere and time somewhere ols, vet it is but seldom that anyone will give up the habit, or as & whole reform and institute a new order of things. There is but one way to produce a Jasting result, and that in te with rt " on each and every oceas on hen Bie or sharp words | arise to the surface. " The old adage. "It takes iwo make 4 auaree]," is invari and fe wilemee in an to true, o® rs vating an ing remark, its effect in inevitable. temptation to unjust accusation is it is unjust it will be than ii a quarrel. re FOUR GENERATIONS 60 Expericace Ia The Surrounde ing Counties. ELECTION REMEMBRANCES. AN EARLY DRINK EXPERI ENCE RECALLED. An Interview With Hiram Me Kim, J.P., Sydenham -- The 0ld Switzer Methodist Church ~The Old "Training Days." (T. W. Casey, in Napanee Beaver), in October, 1897, The Beaver puis lished a photagrasure and »owe Lough wotes of "ibe 'Melim Boys, ive subs of the tamily of" Joun Mehim and Lydia Switeer, ath satyes of Kir nesttown, then ranging in ages rom 2 wo MM years, in wunily deatn had never occirred up to that tie, sid they were all in good health and in the enjoyment oi their full mental and physical energics to a remarkable degree, Those notes were repuplished . far and near among tbe Canadian exchanges then, so remark ane were the facts concerning them. since that death has broken in on that family - circle, and ther¢ have been taken sway Peter McKim, J.P, of Kingston, the eldest, when in his sith year, and our well-known Napa nee citizen, J. . McKim, "in his 5th year. The remaining three brothers, Hiram McKim, o.P., of Sydenham, Miles McKim, of Wes brooke, and Christopher McKim, "of Cleveland, Ohio, are yes alive god In excellent health for men of ther years. A few days ago the writer bad the pleasure of meeting the venerable Hi ram MeKim, at hs comfortable home near the village of Sydenham, Fron tense county, and of hstening to many of his remembrances of long and varied life's experience. Some or those experiences of ihe earber days in this and the adjoining coun ty are well worthy of note, as they give us an idea of the times of grandfathers, 'Mr. Mehim was born at Switzerville in the year 1815, and is now, there fore, in his 87th year. iis hearth seems good yet, and his memory re markably clear though the burden of his more than four-score years is tell ing on his physical energies. He can yet say "My age is as lusty as winter, Frosty but kindly." and he can well atinbute it to fact that in bis vouth he never apply hot and rebellious liquors to his blood, nor at any time since, though pretiy free imbibing in spirits was quite a prevailing custom in his boyhood days. The entire family of boys were » family of total abstiners, and possibly he and his elder brother, Peter, may not have had more than one experience of a * regular drunk in ail his dave It may be ax well to give that ex- perience here, in his own words, as near as possible, for it gives an iden of the customs that prevailed, even among children, eighty years ago His statement is something like thas: "1 remember, in wbout the yoar 1821, we had at Switzer's an Irish school-master named Pat Lee. The school was large then, for there were many children in nearly every family at that time. We had no school holi- day at that time, except on Saturday afternoon. The teacher evidently wanted to begin the new wear well, and to give good evidence of his bos pitality and good will to all the chil dren in his care He got three gal lons of whiskey and brought it te the schoolhouse, and a the boys and girls were heartily invited, in fact, urged, to partake. freely of his good cheer. It was thought nothing then, as nearly every family weed more or less at home, The pail and tin cup were passed around and ised very freely by all present, The nus tom then was on all such occasions to allow none to be left. It was not long before all showed signs of their indulgence: in fact teacher and schol ars, the girls included, were, most of them, gloriously drunk, and a little later on some of them were helplessly $0. There was a desk running all round the wall and Peter and I got on it. Preity soon Peter, my broth er, jumped right through the window, carrying sash and glass with kim. His face was terribly ent and bruised with the hroken glass and his fall on the ground and he was taken home in, a very bloody condition. "Some one sent word to my lather, who did not live far off, and he hitch od up a largd sleigh and took the children to thei homes, where some of them were delivered in an almost helpless state. A day or two later as the teacher was passing my father's house, he was called 10 and shown Peter's terribly out and disfigured ince. My father sgid to him prétty dternly © "Do yon see that ? Plefse stbp outside for a minute or two and I will fix your face in the same style.' The teacher begged and pleaded very hard, and assured that he meant no harm, but mevely to celebrate the new wear in becoming manner. There whose our the of was then a reconciliation, and the teacher was taken in and piven a glass or two just to renew old friend ship, and he went on." & mach then was thought of an dneident ike that, and it is not prbbahle that there was any further trouble about it. It may have been merely felt that Ws wots of friendship were carried a little too far. 1+ may be here remarked that the Switzer i |, where this odenrred, wis the seene of the formation of one of the first temperance societies in this country, and it has been noted for ite strong sentiment ever From an old Gazette, copy of the Kine wow in the writer's did § on Temperance, 32 Cured of Severe Fema E. Pinkham's Vegeta date all my afflictions. frequent flooding. I became weak strength are mine once more. was worth to me. Sons of Temperance." No other female medicine in «Dear Mgrs, Prxgnax :--= Being a mother of five children I have had experience with the gemeral troubles of my sex. I was lacerated when one of my children was born and from that hour 1 I found that within a few months my health was impaired, I had female weakne dragging through my work without life or pleasure. who had been helped by taking Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegewble Compound insisted that I take at 'least one bottle, 1 did so and felt so much better that I kept on the treatment. For seven months I used the Compound faithfully and gladly do T say if, health" and I know how to value it now when it widespread and unqualified endorsement. Mrs, Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Mrs. Annie McKay, Chaplain Sonss ef 6 Spadina Ave., Toronto, le Troubles by Lydia ble Compound. ss and serious inflammation and and dizzy but kept on' my fect, A neighbor was so nearly lost, and I appreciate how great a debt 1 owe you. fhe few dollars T spent fur the medicine cannot begin to pay what it Yours very truly, Mes. Axya McKay, Chaplain $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. the world has received such Refuse all substitutes. Address, Lynn, Mass, Here Is Unusu On Mo 240 Yards 25 Dozen" 525%. Brown, Grey Regular 75¢c. pair. GREY VIOLETS AND and 25¢. bunch. Mon 2 Bross gotte and Advocate of October 152%, Tt read ax follows "We. are informed by a respectihle farmer from the 5th eonveswion f Krnesttouwn that a was Jately made for securing the crops of po tatoes, etc. at which ne Hquoe was drunk. Also, two buildings were late fy raised in Eroesttown without (the aid of ardent spirits." That anbouncement went hefore such news ites ag the arrival of Siv Jolin Colborne, as governor in succession of Mir Peregrine Maitland, who had jus retived from the province; the coming into. port of the fine pew steamer the Sir James Kempt, and other news of the week. We bave heard from an other source of another man who tried about that time, the strange experi ment of raising a barn without the customary supply of whiskey, bt when the men heard of it they all loft hima in disgust, One hax said, "We used to huve an shandance of liguors on hand. and in the aftefnoon we would all.work hard and raise the bar, "apd then the evening we would all 'raise Cain' before getting | avy." | Mr MeKim, who was a native of § that locality, has set a fresh remem brane of the hailding and dedication of the ol Switzer Methodist church, which was among the earliest and most jmporiant in Upper Canada eighty or more years ago. It was the place of meeting of the first Canadian independent conference, and of diber important stherings. To show the 12th, bee LINENETTE ING, goinches wide. Monday 10c, Yard. Something al for Selling nday ! DRESS LIN- Regular valuei sc. UEDE KID GLOVES and White, in Sizes 5% to 7. Monday 50c. Pair. FOLIAGE. Regular 15. day 10c. Bunch. STARR & SUTCLIFFES, 11S and 1230 Princess Street, Kingston, Ont, steps. were taken to mnks dist ¢hurch mn Canada a independent body fron United States. He a Pater Neville, a brother Mitchell Nevil Eo person hori in the when a man. I bly before the chiveh Ie, yeting Some Election Remembrances Mr. MeKim remembers some: of. dhe carly elections in this oc when Marshall Bidwell Pater Perry ye presented it. 1 hers hilt; ona pois ing place for all | and" Adding von, and some of the $ I Iv tnsted for a work lest of these tavern pear where Loe stands. Later on they Bath. (It was there that form party champions by John Bolomon (x George WH. Detln that shows hi metnory may he ¢ Vandyok, who came from » state near Albany, the Tathei rv Vandsek, now of Conway lien, was quite a prominent man thén, and an arient reforgfer. Ax Wak the enstonn then wi sheets were printed, with the camps iogerel The doctor was touched pif noe what sx follows A Vo, the pe The Kinderhook Cay Pesducw dincnms By depth 'when be levees Ty #i sumipies Tike that could Sk sir bey wl Win fnnas pot were at Joh iy fia! compo fory Bert bi © More wonderinl memory Mr. McKim still the writer may mention inquiry was made of him if be membered the building of the old his toric church. Hin anwwer was substan tially as follows : "Yeu, it was about 1506 shop Hedding preached the dedication wer mon. Hix text wax, "Say not ye, there are yet four months and then cometh the 5 Behold, 1 say undo you, lft up gour eyes and Jooak on the fields; for thew are white almady to harvest. {John iv. 25). The solfject of the dissouree was that there is 3 ways work at hand in the Lord's bur vest, bor all whe are willing to wark therein. even to the young hoy." He retpembers well the confer y Oetober, he. hats | ¢ i fhe moved 10 Muryale, Fron® woted, hut that will suffice ust ", Liv pearly sixty yours ago, | . 18 has ave wince been ale ad cointy, One of the early i, he pésiembors,. wes Jacoh. Shi 3.0. father of the, presents Charis Shibley, who yet ovolfies ihe old howwsiosd. Mr. Shibleie Oe four or five miles hack of Wim, hen the ole wirrounding country Wak ian wobroken wilderness, and whes Te were fio roads, He was staungh feild Eretirnwr. Wis house was built by Mr, Rockwell. inther of oor ¥ de tomnnnan, Sperry Rockwell, "wo" was sme of the Bw earpeaters of that day. The hones build adnan, 12, stands fam und solid yet. ah Mr. Rhikley, (lark Nichols repro the county. He tied somewhere back of Ardunhan; dra of (he surerasors wes ohn. Ean t Mark | who Ce in (45 wanes of the oid of Binge