_ . THE DAILY WAIG, MONDAY. DECEMBER 20. | 2 re mE om on | rion Any dollar that the Canadi- an government says is good will buy you more value, more genuineness. here than any other hardware store in (lined), rer pair, § csesessivresseRe" bit Meat. Choppers, $1.50. Raisin Seeders, ¢¢ Our efforts to please you, when we succeed, please UPA BARONE TUT VVLLELVVBIBIR™R™N oem TVVVTVVLVTVLTLLVRS TT TTGBT TERT SENT Le sess sasssees If vou like a good cup of tea try "INDIA BLEND" , 85¢ , 40¢., 50c. pou. d. For best results in bakin STARR BRAND BAKING POWDER. EXTRACTS AND SPICES. THE STARR Co. | shou 'd be male, as proposed, 185 WELLINGTON ST. 1903 1903 Canadian Almanac. Scribbling Diaries Office Diaries Pocket Diaries NISBET, Table Cream and Butter guarantee of pure and © best citizens are The Clarifcd Mik -- WHO IS YOUR AUCTIONEER W. MURRAY, Jr, ls serving nearly every body now in i reputation for good sales, | returns and satisfactory be money im pocket by ewploving W. MURRAY, Jr. THRUUGH THE tA AND BUSTLE ALY Fi CHRIST- STAMPS AND MARKXRES RUBBER STAMPS _ 185 PRINCESS STREET. TELEPHONE 343. THE WHIG -- 69TH YEAR. DAILY BRITISH -WHIG, ished each publ avabing, at, nee) iy Street, at 3 Per 30 and o'cl YA ERLY BRITISH WHIG, 12 pages, pub- morning at $1 a lished every Thursday year. Attuched is ome of the best Job Printing stylish and cheap .. SE, PROPRIETOR. OFces in Cannda. rapid, work; mine improved pre: Ebw. J. B. fHE DAILY WHIG Opifer pev Orbem Dicer. { PENSION afoot in OLD Au A movement is England, among the working elysses, looking to the by parliament of legisla- ticn in support It is propos d that the devote the taxes now to eo, later on, to the creation th: But the nition think twice about the continuance tarili Leyonld the date whey passage of old age pensions. nation one of devoted war purp of pe sion fun l. will ot the war it cun be dispened with. 'There is the tax now on bread stuffs, and the average free trader says it is wrong He of consideration for ani only endures it out the pride which is touched by the The oldage ought to go. national war, and touched very deeply. jension would not be xo much in de- mand if the masses put less money in- to beer and spirits and more of it into the The average Eng- lishman enjoys himself. He this even when the times are dull and he too far ahead. He can if he likes, and it is this tells proposal th t savings hanls. does does not see save fact the reel for no matter. how improviden [R Te for noney which so strongly against the aged should be « they have been. In greater vour is the propcsal to may Dro. warrio.s. 'Tha helpless. When becomes a ward of thd returne:! He is he ceas's the disabled so'dicr is gen rally a fighter. he } rimarily to be that state, A RMALLER CITY COUNCIL, Toronto will offer an amendment ti, Muni ipal Act. It Joard of Control, the has emanated from the In effect it is that of twelve the city council be composed OLS, in place of twen that six be required (the first vear the all them be ele There the members of mem! ty-four as now, to retire annually and that the differences among Board oi Control in minor points, the 1 enders), ected ta eh were the but hy whol: storate, change wl hig ghest sat- they were agreed that they | belivved it would give the Board of Control is largely the council of Toronto. It 17 Phe is the cen- city tr:l anthority, the body which deals with all the public issues and pres- ents them to the allermen in a form to He expeditiously dealt with, In other words it does affect the comnit consecutive, work, and does it effectively, tee cause it is pail for active, persistent service, and performs it with a marked degree of heartiness. bn the multitude there is supposed to he wisdom, but it comes of accu- | m latea study, of meditation, of con- of and unfortunately, Out twenty-five | ciliation mind, Fit is not always in evi lence, of a twenty or that one-half only i tre bolv of men, it is calculated one-half are workers, that are doing {the thinking and acting and worrying | The that the the be ward impose, better circumstances that it is should be impediment which the conclusion is from of latter would of the thew twelve free encimberan ¢ or that the abolition others and | retired by the system. I'he Toon this reform to Why ? lia municipally, idea is to confine of 100,000 and over. biz city can he managed, its' and in { once, in value ex- cect d the value of the goods chippe? 1+ to Fnzland in the previous five years by $140,000,000. This increase lurge- ly reflected the prosperity of the furm- ers, a prose iy that was unexem- pled ani ought to be continued. "The fart was that a-hich protection such a high tarifi as some people adviested--would operate azainst the Canadian British trade. He demonstrated this hy from fhe American press. dian manuiacturer who is sve protection," aid ihe 1X which is in touch with Cana and yolities, second tarif? quogtaticn "th: Cana- g'move nneapolis Journal, dian sentiment "wan's to get rid of Fnzlich competition al most as much as Amecican. If he has his way one of the things ihe will do will be to alolish or to nullify the British preferential tariff by means of a little tarifi jugglery. So if the Lioh protectionists finally have their way, there is consolation for Ameri cent why, desire closer trade relations and Great Britain will by the Sir William of with Canada, not be made any closer 50 called national policy." commended such an interpelation public sentiment to the conservatines who revered the memory of Sir John Macdonald and reynembered his appeals' in the name of loyalty tritish connection. Perhaps it may le said that Sir William has no more right to talk on Tarte had to Yast and moderate tariff than Mr. boom a high tarifi. But there is a marked difference in the tone of the speakers. One is dictatorial; the other is argumentative. One indicates a to the the other indicates a the matter and the interest of the William has and suggestive in his address. and willing- deal desire rush covernment vesalts; dis uss ne 8 to in whole Sir with it | eople. bean quite <ensible EDITORIAL BRIEFS. The Hague peace conference is be- coming an important institution. It has now eirhteen referen es before it, including that of the Venezuelan "af fair. -------- The Globe sees no hope of a strong covernment in Ontario unless that of Hen. Mr. Ross be strengthened. There 14 certainly no general desire to have the present anxious. situation unduly prolonged. -- According to the News the people of a wor Of the conserva Toronto are still looking for 's chair. all for the place. thy the mayor three the field, {i es, not one is fitted Hard, im't it? man for men in -- The American papers are extolling the name of Mr. Roosevelt as a peacemaker. Yet he would not arbi He The trate in the Venezuilan difficulty. was willing and axious that Hague should decide the issue. ------ Mow would the arbitration proceed- ings of the United States, or -of its president, entail "entangling alli-, an es?' The nation that has assam- él the political oversight of all Ameri \ should be equal to the arbitration of the little Venezuela dispute. Nickel in company the Sud The International has $8,000,000 invested mines, and its industry, it is al- would be ruined by the imposi its bury leged, of an export matte. duty on tim There are some who approve of thi: centiment and some who disapprove. The consideration of the government. Dooley says that the good fel- matter will «ngage the serious Mr. lowship which Christmas Men cease prevails at short lived. he and life, is spasmodic strenuous savs, a small number of men why not | their hostilities for a month, but they | a small city whose interests are not [seem to mark the spot where they loft { 0 extensive and so complex The | off so that they may not miss an question is, Would Kingston le 'n inch of the person which they proceed a better 'hiss of men, to rule in its to whack. Is it so? Is Mr. Dooley a council, if they were limited to twelve, | joker or a jurist ? six rotiving annually, and these were ss I olocted or re-elocted annually? Some] C. C. Robinson, offended with some people think «0. The proof is absent, lof H. 0. Howland's personal reference however, and cannot he supplied ont- | vs, tells the people, "1 dm a member side of un experiment for which at [of a fichting family, and if 1 cannot present there is no provision in law, | knock him out 1 am no prophet." A brace of tories, representing the. blue MULOCEK AND THE TARIFF | blood of several generations, and ihe Hamilton Literal Clu, is a live | hahtine their way into the mayor's of in:titition. This point igevidenesd Ly | BC aml even smashing the furniture ¢ cirenmstanee that it "has frequent there. woull he a novel experience in ! tin.s which ad resad hy wm: | Toronto the good. ment men wi who are capable i i he i y WISHES TO MARRY HER. of win he Liberal party 'on the | gestions of the Lowe. Sie William | prof, Giren and the Crown Prin- al \ fLs dideess Mulock was the last to ad it-on cess of Saxony. brid i t ie We on 1 rday nicht. His utterances re ir Perlin. Dee. 29. -1t is stated that | nt as inhicatin hic mind upon | the Italian police haved een ordered thi ro ; v 1 to watch the movements of the ( rown t H tae! in an dil NL ' ; t ; i Princess of Saxony, and if She shoul | Seah ' ' i ' 1 US i i the anny attempt to enter Italy to arrest and ¢ aft { ns wh Kiep her under observation. The rea le to ox con for this is that any child born io » { tariff. He | here In the nest few months, mil be recogriized otheally as a member ot in tlic fot h Bet rliariont would | ihe court of Saxony. ; in t hesterically in wa dispateh says Prod. ( iron | oa of th: orsatest in t £ to marry the Crown | OE 3 i would 1 cal in ite | 91 Saxopy. in order to make her posi | ¥ torey. dull crore In pi : tion regular I'he princess and M. 1 1 =o Burpee, abd a tn hd im Lieneva un tio 1s od 1n ' u the princess, w t W Vig) y will pe | ke jl m ih ' fat ) i { 1 ~ n ------ i { 3 tigh 4 nl \ 1 t i v ' : ) ' 4 : 1 h h Coe t t | i \ ! b i i "ry to th < y Wich: Wad t v} 1 had 1 ; i : . § 11. Yh < An, ' Co rcial | or \ } > = Maite G y - hx o \ ean . a alu 2h, it 1 ca a St. Catharites, Ont., piri, « it ted sui ile at Buflalo. vards of so-called TAKESZITS EXIT. THE COSY CORNER HAS MET ITS DOOM. Early Dutch and Mission Style of Furnishing Has Been Re- vived--What a New York Pap- er Says. * The Cosy corner must, gol New York Muil and Express. erything else which has been greatly overdon: anl cheapenad, its end is inevitable. The idey has been so gener- says the Like ev- ailv copixd that its fame spread far and wide, until now it is popularly placed the first of all the household gods. A sorrier-looking lot of deities than hosts of these have degenerated into it would be difbeult to imacine. With trembling spears struggling to uploid (Oriental draperies on the GT.R. over Bb pany, with a capi al of a willion dollars. PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest News Culled From All Over The World. Right Rev. J. H. Festing, Bishop of Albans, London, is dead. Furious gales are endangering ship- ping off the coast of Newfoundland. 'fhe number of dead imgthe wreck at St. Wanstead is placed at twénty-dgzht. N.Y., has be- from 'smoking Sodus, insane Frederick Fost, come suddenly i retLtes, vid A--Robson, er, has left the creditors. a Toronto money r. There are sev- len! eral dissatisfied A neero and his wife were lvnched for the murder of a white man near Greenvood, S.C, Wiltiam Reid, Cardinal, was killed near Prescott. He was ftv vears of age. The Ea:tern and Ye tern Land com Toronto, has been incorporated The Cataract Auxiliary company has LORD TENNYSON, AUSTRALIAN Lord Tennyson is fifty, the son 1899, THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF and hiov and the popular governor and comma nder-in-chief of THE COMMONWEALTH. rapher of the late poet-laureate South Australiy sine every instant the weight sword and shield collapse of the bravely aloft, of a papier mache threatening an utter whole ricitulous counterfeit. It is entirely due to these laughable caricatures that the downfall of the popular craze has been brought about. Possibly, to go to the other extreme is the reason why the early Dutch and Mision stal: of furnishing has been revived, Anything more sternly opposed to the bare idea of sheltering cozy corn- ers could not be thought of easily. It is certainly severe to a degree, but it is so delichtiully clean looking it is positively refreshing, so free from all idea of harboring dust it ought to rest a woman even to look at a room treated in this sensible fashion. No haunting visions of frequent house- cleaning upheavals need torment her for there are no hiding places for moths and microbes. In such a room there is no danger, no awiul risk of droppin uncomfort ably into a heavily uphols tered chair to find.on+'s scli suadenly sneezing from the os tarbed dust. Farther away gtill is the embarrassment of stepping cnexpectedly en the head of a wild animal as vou attempt to greet your hostess. It is no compensation what- ever to l'arn that others, have fallen over the tizer rug, too. Better than all, in a sixteenth century room one does not have to hazard one's precious life near an impossitle cosy corner. Another abused term is "a den." Thoroughly modern apartments, fur nished most luxuriously, are called dens. Why a handsome, stately room, with four wals lined with well stock ed hookeases, is pronounced a den in stead of the library, is a mystery. Try as one will, (it is difficult to connect ideas of uncivilized living or prowling beasts with such rooms. It hardly seems to he quite applicable to them or to the dainty silk or cretonne draped room of a vounr girl with re finement written all over it, from the case covered dressing table to hot silver littered desk, The End Of Things. From observations by Mr. Dooley the raison no won is afraid iv death !'innessy, it that no wan ra ally undherstands it. Hany wan nee come to urdherstand it he'd he seared to death. Hi they anny such thing as a cowrd, which" | doubt, he's a wan that comes nearer realizin® thin ocker nen how servars np mat hor it { is to die. 1 talk alout it, an' some time: t think about it: But how do think about it? its m Ihvin® ther in a fine -hoot iv elothet an' listenin' to all ih' nee thin s people are say in' alot me. Pmodead, mind ve, 1 can hear a whisper in the furthest corner iv th' room. Ivey wan is ' ry wan e's: whe did 1 die Ss a prieat los to th country," nvs Hogan, ht i=." says Donahue, 'He wa: # fine man." says Clahey. "As honest 4 man is iver dbrow th' breath iv life," sars Schwartzmeister. i hove he fersives us all th' harm we { attimptel to dd@ him," suis Donshue "I'd pine nnvihing ty, have him hee. save Clanev. "He was this and Ith th' life th' party, th' soul i honor, th' frienl iv th' disthresseld, th hoolwars iv th' constichoochion, a | yathrite. a gentleman, a Christyan, on' ou schotard.'™™ An' uch a rouuish wav with him," sas th' widow O'Brien "That's what 1 think, but if 1 jud ced frm expeervane I'd now itd by "I's a nieve dny rn tn 1h Limite Did he lave much ¥77 No ma v hmaro to his vl rtal er Forest Elect Officers. \' i ) Ww \ 1 . \ | r poop t ey i Wo { I ta t i Stop coughing. try Mitchell's Ma Cough Cure at Taylor's. been incorporated by Hamilton capi tali ts. The London socialist labor party has ded led to place a mayoralty can didate in the field. A voung man ng tied at Queenshoro, itis s as a result a blow struck by a companion named ned Caskey, aid, ul Phillips. A inceting of the creditors of C. W Anderson & Coo, the Oakville bankers, has been called for January 6th, at Oakville. Benjamin F. Ennis, Clinton, N. Y., an aged and deaf nmightwatchman was run over by a train and crushed to death. BEFORE THE CADI. Two Cases For Hearing Were En- larged. Two cases occupied the attention of the magistrate at the police court this morning, John Fisher charged hnott with gssault, and Joseph Knott charged Jobn Fi-her with the same olien e. The aliercation was reported in Saturday's Whig, it having oceur- in front of the Locomotive works, before one o'clo The evidence Mr. Fisher and his father to effect that the former had asked Mr. Knott for some back rent, an! that the latter had replied with vile lanpuage and a blow. Then the com- i lain it struck hAnott, knocking him Joseph red Just hv the was down and rolling him on the ground. The defendant deni d saving anvthin to Fisher, whom he declared struck The magis- case ti'l to-morrow kin without provocation, trate enlarred the Suorning, to secure two witnesses to the fight. games W. Bell, of this ci charged Robert Matthey sixteen vears of age, with unlawfully taking a load of straw from a farm in the township of Nin rston, which he had bought from the executors of the Matthews' es- tate. D. NM. Meclntyré appeared for the accused. The matter is simply a I ROA WRINKLE ERASERS. THAT IS WHAT ¢ "From ANCIENT INDIA ; i AS end SWEET CEVLON.™ ARE. Smooth Out the Wrinkles From Our Daily Troubles and Invigorates. Prices $1, 70c., 60c., 50c. and 40c. per 1b. At Your Grocers. 'WHERE TO BUY PERFECTLY TAILORED Suits and Overcoats GR OSVENOR 'OVER COATS styles, $8, $10, $12.50. OUR. 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LANGTRY Summary Action Follows Raid on | New York, Dee. 20.--To-night sees City. | changes of bills at 2 half dozen of the \i toria, B.C... Dec, 20. According Lr way uses, but the interest o to aries recoived by the steamer | PR centers chiefly on the Garg Tartar, the Boxer pings in Sre-Chu | rick, where Mrs, Sandy begins her an continue and another attack was | enragement in "The Crossways," made on Chenrtu in November. | four-act play, written by herself "and While some of the rohels batored tye | 7-H. Manners. Mis. Langiry'e en gates another boay surprised the out- | agement in New York will last only or fortress, but the soldices fought three weeks and she will then tart on despera aril ultimately, defeated | 2 tour of the leading eities the Boxers, kilhing many and eaptw _ a inr some. Wall Street's Safe Policy. Hud the fort heen captered hy th New York, Dee. 27 Three months Boxers the city would hate been at | of persistent and severe liquidation the mercy the! int aders, { have exerted a sharp sobering effect in The eamti es were tortured and from | Wall strest Faterprises that. wou | informatisn obtained everal citizens | readily have been underwntten several wore arrested, charged with Ining in | times over could not now obtain a lengue with the rebels. All were he | hearing. The conviction thet a halt headed lis necessary in finan operations Before the execution a messenoer ar and that a thorough taking of sto k rived from the Boxers, demonling the must be patt tly enclured, JE of release of the prisoners. The messen the striking features of thy dadN\This was h ned in a cage. ultra-conservative moo hich began near the top, where ent excesses . " : Here most freely inch has perme | Died Of Typhoid Fever. { #fed through all" the ts. until th mtreal, Dec. 14.--Dr Hopki smallest operator is proud of his con perintendent of the Montreal Ma | cervatism. We have had a f termi vo Host ital, is dead of tvphail, | twenty to thirty' points in a majority after a short illness. He was a man | of good securities; vere liquidation of about twenty-five veal and onl his n with iixaster. our raduaied from MeGill la vear, with | debt gbroad bas | tally ¥ t all | He by i net ony 1 1 rpel to Arostook, NB TH 1} -iX } g i h fered | i On The Railway a d roy : . i of } P fint.. D Willian r re } nit 1 ul i mute, w : nih ndustry. outside of # H Rot 1 h i thi Hie Si mony He w hing on the 1 Hon, Geor WwW. R vil . hen As or r he Laks \ iaes at Ow Son Meaford A ain. and n ntiv. kill 1 towel Other cabin speakers will f twentvesix ars f az sjeak in North Norfolk end | and leaves a wife and child. Perth. INCIDENTS | OF THE DAY. Cocoanut candy 204 Princess street. A butcher s horse became frightened "The men of the grumbling somewhat over the delyy in somplete Success and all received "Xania Clas. at which he is quiie an { hilanthro; i te has 6,200 hoys anl No other society England has over 1,000 dependent from the streets sinty waifs per week, o doctor's emphatic i hopelessly han ii apped well worth remenibering New Year's At The Y.M-C.A. | aired Ly an eye . withes men during wine | Word or soft corns cured with threa North ¢ ap h nti ns of Peck"s Corn Salve, 15c,