ich that once rsaken, A" icious. Black, By all groce BIBBY'S WS SW never before in Kingston kers, perfect 13.50. $12. Y GO. ak Hall. BIBBY'S hase of hundreds Abramson from makers of fine d fortune. As we @ Prompt action on ry. If amy bar your attention They are marvel .of three of Can- makers bought ling price conces- S48 POPE sable "in style; » workmanship ; vest. This means & @ linary merit. In- & opportunity at 2 : @ *® Overcoats © V's 3 yung Men's Coat, & esterfield; a styl- @ ve cut ; both in @ black Oxfords, ¢ $8. ® 's Overcoats s of artistic tail- bd ds, and also the belt overcoats, remely swell, $10. ier. nts' Farnisher Crawford's. herley, and that dia- eo discovered in it. i shoe factories, or- but the machinists nd the strike isn't es wear like iron. mes at Taylor's. 3 A at - pi Nettis-Blackore, Min. , tells how any young mi may be permanently cured of monthly pains by t isg Lydia E. Pinkham's Voges table Compound. *Yorne Women: --1 had Leadaclics of a sovere spots before my cyes, and at wy me: strual periods I suffered SR A amber ot the lodpre advi try. Lydia E. Pinkham's 0 ge table Compound, but I ouly dy we good advice and felt that my case was hope less, but she kept at me until I and started taking I soon had the Le rt to change ay wu , and Bucy I waser ul pain' at my menstruation pet ley fork it Ir There iy anything a fase Shout which like special advice, oi freely to Mrs. Pinkham. | il hold your letter in strict confidence ec. Sho can surely help you, for no experience in treat- ing ae ills, She has helped hundreds of thousands of women hack (0 health. Her address is Lynn, Mass. ; her advice is free. FELL ON A FORK. He Was Badly Hurt, But Dunham is here from New getting up wood for his has had a namber of choppers ing week to) cut it frit 0 "Stove . Brown has his year's wood alr in the vard ready to be cut into and will move into the his seven acres of It is not known yet "A little child of Mr. Davison was sitting in his che ¢ down the =il o feed for oe n droppe: d the fork. dow n i d it te into hi : and is able to ke out. Philips has anctl ment. "Mr. Drucker Nothing is so wearing to the due to impoverished blood, and build up the narcoiic known as "snig beat Fim about the Toad frequently and unnec was asleep. -------- COMMERCIAL. MONTREAL MARKETS. Canada Colored Cotton Bunk of Montreal Crilvie Milling Co. * Bank of Halifax 205% St. Paul NEW YORK STOCK EXOHANG®. n. t 22 14 91 : 4 i 4 5 =D Min: Coal and Iron expire at noon 12 Gabrielle Bompard's Stery of Murder Put to Test by Hypno- tism--Will Make a Report. Paris, Dec. 15.-The famous trial a bailiff hy strangulation has been re 1 a strange fashion. 'Gamislle Bompard and Fyrand od to Am erica, where they wer ptured. - rand was guillotined 'aris. Gabrit elle Bompard pleaded the com mitted the crime under the hypnotic infivence of Eyrand. She was sen. tenced to penal ser itude, was re y leased a few months ago. oe coun recently arranzed with of. Sieg t r jeg to hypnotize her to prove that her unsucesssinl plea in re- gard to Pi mn 18 tree. The pro fesor placed her in a fiy pn tic Pe and recalled her mind to the de im mediately preceding the Ihe woman then lived the crime agein with fearful realism and dis splayed the great est mental tortwe. She showed how she had Leen qrarreli with Evrand about the subject, and had PC again end again to assist his murder ous scheme. She pleaded, shriek coaxed in vain. Then it 1 that rand sprang tq n was he is st : stran she cried writhing" in imaginary pain Let me ro. I'll bring him Filling Then she enacted the s cae of the 4 mufder, and showed how, left 'all pizht ith the con mit svicide about to com described © his fivht to America. The sight of the-wiitling, st rin nan" enacting the scenes of horror, h before and after the crime, and weird Photographers took snapshots of her throughout, and stenographers reported the words ver hatim. When aroused from her trance : Bompard showed ro trace of severe ordeal and recollected no t startlir Prof Siegcois is convinced that she was forced {o participate in the erime in a hypnotic state and says he never met £0 easy a subject. He will ak e a report to the academy of medicine. SEA FOAM IN ITS ELEMENTS. Schooner Had Rough Time On Lake Ontario. Watertown, N.Y., Dec. 15. The schooner Sea Foam, cf Henderson, with Capt. Grant Gilbert and Charles Egpleston on board, lft Sacket Har r, to return to Hendersen, Satur day afternoon. When near Harse Is land the wind carried away the jib, and the centreboard, coated with ice, jammed in the box. The schooner tried vainly to beat back to Sacket Harbor. The craft i Ship House drifted to a place r Peiat, and anchor was dropped. day right the wind blew so the Sea Foam dragged her anchor a drifted toward the hi bluffs be Madison Barracks and Storrs larch, morn a message was sent crew at Lake View started overland with its boat and equipment. About two o-<clock in the afternoon, before the life savers arrived, the wind had shifted and Capt. Gilbert man xd to get sail on the ice-coated ooner and work her into Sacket Harbor. Both men on the vessel were chilled through and suffered from ex posure, but neither one was injured. TO INVESTIGATE. Into The Death Of Adolph Drucker. New York, Dee. 15.--Inspector, Mc Cluskey, chief of the detective bureau Lyoking into the Rellovue Hospital, last Tue Adolph Drucker, who wa a member of the Do nine owner, his inter Pritish Colum ia. Drucker was placed in the prison ward in the hospital, while suffering from al:oholism and died there. James Murphy is now a yiwoner in the tombs, but who occu pied a fot next to Drucker in the he sjital, charges that the attendants the patient with frequent and ed hypodermic injections of mot besides an internal dose of a ' and also essarily. When Drucker died lares, the attending nurse Marphy Watertown Won. New York, D 15.~In as d and exciting a.game of football as has seen here the Watertown ated the Oreas team of As hury Park-ed the opening r indoor football tournament in Madison Square Garden by the score of live to nothing. Wc Ask For The First Order. You'll send ug the second for genuine Llue point oysters. Carnovskys [ish market, "'on the corner Sutherland's for your Xmas shoes. OPTIONS. The following are the quotations from London, Eng., for one, two, and three months i-- To mid. To mid Tomid. Jan. ac. Feb. ac. Dear ac. Atchison 3 8% Atchison, pref 3 ag Balti. and Ohio 3 43 Can. Pacific 3} 4 5 RRS ONE Se - Denver, common 24% frie, common 2% touis. and Nash 34, 5 Miss. K. & T., com 13 18 Nori. and Western X 2 23 Ont. and 'Western 14 11 Reading (850 shs) 14 2% > com 2 2 Pac 23 34 hern pref 23% 3% Steel, ord t 2% Steel, prei 22 a Pacific 3% pref 2 3% al We are prepared to deal in options (puts or calls) at above prices All transactions in options are for cash and on contango day of the count in which the call Js due ¥ booklet on application Prices subject to change PARKER & ©€O., LIVED IT OVER IN A TRANCE, FRENCH HYP- x NOTIC EXPERIMENT sabrielle Homan and a 'men of name of Eyrand for the murder of conncil,. Y.1.( ve: portant office newed confidence merabers of this flourishing lodge that for many health as it is main in parliam gervatives this welcome as it at four o'clock to pointing returning and Beechgroves j "tentiary for mmm Attorney-General Philander C. Kn ox and Judge William who argue the cases for the United States. MERGER SUIT. A Battle Is On Of Legal \ Giants. Vwashington, Dec. 14.--Arguments in the famous merger suit, invclving the constitutionality of the Sherman anti- trust law, were begun, today, before the supreme court of the Northern Se real Northern curities cc Railroad ed fic (ompany, es of i, pont othe "Unite Ee States ite action cones before the ki tribunal on appeal from the de of the gireuit court of appeals of the cighth "judi ial district, which was to the t that the purchase of the o share of the stock of the two railroad companies constituted a mer ger and was contrary to the Sherman anti trust law. The case involves the community-ci-interest principle. Attorney-General Knox is making the argument in behali of the govern mentf . -------- Canadian Order Of Oddfellows. ting of the Canadian lows was held last », superintendent, vd spoke on the work 1d the prospects for order. He report ed much su Ss amo the lodoes he i visited, the hrethren everywhere ring him their active support and co-operation. He showed that the (, 0.0.F. stood fourth on the list of all ting in Canada, as to sets held to 'amount of insurance that the order was ior unhampered | ion with the. Uni Mr. George was followed in of the local brethren, who spoke brief lv. commending, the work and promis ing 7 their support to the forward movement, so happily inaugurated. A special me Order of Odd night CC. FF. Ge was present @ he has taken up the progress of t 3 societies op amount of Election Of Officers. At a mecting Monday evening of Leicester Lodge, - S.0.E., the following elected : Past president, ns; president, William Das sident, Thomas Mills; I". Litton; treasurer, C'. tary, KE. Leach; commit. Crser, J. R. Runnette D. Nie holson, A. Tate, William "Max shall, C. H. Hubbard; inner guard, .J. lor; outer guard, 8. Duttan; sur geon, Dr. 1. G. Bogart; trustees, T. Lambert, W. H. Cruse, G. Bonny; an- ditors *. Litton, C. H. Hubbard, G. Bonny; hall com Davie W. Hug deleg to supreme For The Twentietlr Time. At a meeting last night of the local LA., the following of- ficers were el d: President, J. J. Johan; first vice-president, P. Byrne; second vice-president, W. Wood; re- cording secretary, Hugi financial seeretarv, L. Cameron; trea surer, J. Mitchell; marshal, P. Fan non; sergeant-at-arms, H. O'Hara. El- even new members were elected, and four initiated. Mr. Behan's re to the presiden Shanahan; ection made the twentieth r he has been returned to that im- trust, showing re placed in him by the Laurier's Health Toronto News 2 We understand that the health of the prime minister has greatly improved, 1 } appre msion of an early has « me ite disappe to come, he is likely to re it as the leader of the liberal party. To the mass of con good news will be as to liberals. Have A Special Meeting. A spécial meeting of the city coun ¢il will be held Wednesday afternoon 5 aws ap ws to act at the approaching municipal nomina deputy returning officers tions, a for the municipal elections. Frontenacs' Meet Friday: : The Frontenac Hockey Club meet- ing will be held in the Kinoston rink 'riday evening. directors' room on The first practice will be held, from eight till nine o'clock, the Frontenacs ing together, Five Years For Highway Robbery. Owen Sound, Dag. 15.--Alex. Thowp- son. alias Al. Ady a negro with a police court record, was sentenced to five years in Kingston penitentiary by Judge Hatton for knocking down a man named Graves and robbing him of £10. Has Reached Prison. Charles Kineaid, sentenced at Napa- nee to five vears in Kingston peni- hwaw--robbery, reach- od that institution last evening. German Slippers, 10c. On sale to-morrow, 300 pairs just arrived at Sutherland's. 61 Victoria Street, Toronto. Sutherland's for Your Xmas shoes. Holidays books. R. Uglow & Co. { i | | { Shop early all this week. is slow in materializing, rest Sule near Ha seriously iL is improving. Be on the winning side--the | that brought prosperity to the try lias Early in the new year the local com | puny, Army Service Corps, will begin | dritt, in preparation for the forthcom i Rev. S. T. Bartlett, Napanee, | been on a visit to his mother, Mes, | Bartlett, London, Ont., who has been | New books for giits, Uglow's. Rev. James Elliott is spending the week in the city. On Sunday preaches at Winchester and lectures | on Monday. es, Bibles, DRibles, at Uglow's. The sergeants of the 1ith Re met last evening and arrange placing a basketball team in the field i at once, |W. Dunigan, oi the Kennedy house, | was removed to the Hotel Lica | night to undergo an operation i an abscess Ladies" ¢ elegant stock. The Somerville Co. make up s, that are the mest mired of all the millinery at the nets and five o'clock teas. Sutherland's for young men's shoes. Queen stree rust last, e roof is heing plac Bailey's hroom fact. destroyed hy fire in being rebuilt, ed on the building The annual umeting of the Alwing ton Springs Hotel company, to been held yesterday, was further pos poned for two weeks. The Somerville Cd's. eorsets, s are specially. selected for the Kingston. The dredge Rideau, alter a successful season on the Rideau, has gone i winter quarters here. The dredge fin ished her last task on Saturday, pleting work near Washburn locks. ing summer camp. Capt. Gaskin says that there been ¥90 standing to his credit in the office ¢f the city treasurer, for past twenty-three yonrs. Its the bal of ki: honorarium as smyor. goods, RR. Uglow & Co ane Fine leat! Our Tirames high crowns. styles for those exquisite shirred hats we have been making vp so success fully are in stock again, "The Somer ville Co." Artistic calenders. R. Uglow & Co A local ex-mariner says he only man in the ¢ity who can start on the first of the longest month and wear a new suit of clothes every day throughout the month without repeat ing a single garment: May Cut Out The Bars. Toronto, Dec. 15.--~The Ontario gov ernment is preparing a temperance bill for next session of the legislature. Among the changes rumored, it is one for the abolition of a bar treating purposes, and that liquor sold only at tables and in bottles: Hotel keepers are to sell cheese, cuits, coffee. ten and light ments, May Lead To Reduction. London, Dec, 15.--It is reported here that the Wedtern Union Telegraph company yesterday, successfully tested the Orlings speed accelerator. said that the increase of cabling attained wal such as to render possible a reduction in tolls to spe cents a word. The Vessel Is Lying Easy. Philadelphia, Dec. 15.--The Hamburg- American liner steamship Assyra which sailed from this port for Hamburg, is aground in the Deléware river, about ten miles below New Castle, Deleware. She is lying easily. How It Happened. H. C. Bates has found out how his two fox terriers came to meet A neighbor placed out poison for troublesome cats and Mr. Bates' dogs partook of the poisoned meat. Hunting For A Dog. J. H. Brickwood is on the hunt for a valuable beagle dog, stolen from his premises on Rideau street. He has an idea that a farmer carried off the dog. Humanism. Philadelphia Ledger. 'o err is human. To jump on others when they err is human, also. ------------ John E. Proctor, of Kentucky sident of the United States civi and . an intimate vice commission, friend of of angina Roosevelt, R. Day, INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. Newsy Paragraphs Picked up by Reporters On Their Rounds. Christmas chocolates at Taylor's Wordsworth, holiday edition. Uglow. Sutherland's shoes are solid leather. he material for next year's council Sir Eichard Cartwright is takingd ton, : Mrs. Leighton Guess, who Hus Read the Whiz ads. before you start out to make your Christinas avats and Christmas well together. Nothing hetter gentlemen's gifts, See Livingston's LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Views Not Radically Different. Kingston, Dee. 12.--~(To the Editor): I have just been informed of a letter published in the Whig some days ago. im which certain ideas concerning the nature of the mica deposits ig of Kingston, expressed hy members of the School ¢f Mining, at a recent mining institute meeting, were assailed from the standpoint of the. practical man. The opinicns of the technically trained "expert" and: the 'practical miner," are alike founded on observed facts or supposed facts. The technical man ob- serves, or should observe, all the facts that the practical man can observe, but he should be able to see more, for that is what he has been trained to do. He is also trained to weigh facts and to recognize their bearing upon "the questions involved. He also pos sesses Lhe great advantage ol -baving a knowledge of theg results of experi ences with similar yleposits in other paris of the world apd of the opinions the authorities "on. the subject re- garding similar problems. The pert" and the "practical miner' bis both theorists. Their work upon min- eral deposits in each case is based up- cn the opinions they form regarding the charactegs of*-the deposit. But of the two, the "expert" is the least theoretical, for his opinion is founded wpon the greatest number of observed and properly digested facts and cn the wider experience (the experience of others and his own). The nature of the mica deposits is not of sufficient general interest to LE made the subiiect of a newspaper dis cussion. But il the writer of the letter ar anv other intelligent man interested in the question cares to come to the Schnol of Mining, 1 have no doubt that we can show him cnough facts to convince him of the soundness of the views expressed at the meeting of the Eastern Ontario Section of the Can adisn Mining Institute, I may sav that I think the critic's opposition is due to a misapprehension of our position on the question and that his views are not so radically dificrent from our own. Yours truly, R. W. BROCK. A Boat Required. eAddlphustown, Dee, 11 (To the Edi tor) : 1 you will give this letter room in the Whig you will confer a favor to the Bay of Quinte. neople and the citizens of Kingston. The sub ject is a grand rally of the real es te men of the Bay of Quinte and Lawrence river to form a joint stock ¢ompany and build a first-class steam white oak barge and put her on the route from the Mutray canal to Montreal to carry the farmets' pro- duce and 'trade. Phare are now the Richelieu line, with several large steamers, Hepburn line, with several more fine steamers and barges, and all insufficient to carry the produce raised along the bay and river to Montreal. The farmers along the line of railway arc all right, and so they will be when they own a steambarge suffici- ently large to carry thei produce out tie hay districts and cut themselves n (lear of the present steamboat , with a combined fixed ex gant rato of freight and wharf. nge, and, in some instances, of fare for passengers. For instance, the fare to Fri this summer was fixed hy the combine at, from Adolphustown tq Ringston, at. 81, or return 81.80, whereas before it stood at fifty centk one way, or £1 to return. Well, the re suit was that people would evade go- ing to Kingston, and 1 question if they have received as much passen, money from here to Kingston with their rate as in other seasons with a low rate. The principal is like the two-cont postage rate, it pays better now than when it was three cents per letter. So, also, have the railways too high a passenger rate; if it were one and a hali or two cents a mile it would pay them better. There is a line where thousands turn on their heel. I am not writing this letter to in- duce boatmen to reduce their rates, but rather to arouse the farmers to their interests and build and equip a hoat that will do their carrying trade along the Bay of Quinte to Montreal, which is becoming immense, to take into consideration the cheese, apples, hogs, grain, hay, etc. Noth ing less than a $20,000 barge would do, with a second and third to follow. Some might say, the steamboat men will beat you. Well, lot them try it! people have learnt to shout since the South African war. The shares of this boat should be put at not more thau 210, and. no man to own more than fifty shares, and transferable only to the freehold property of the first share holder, to be a part 'and continue to be the annexed stock of that farm on which it was subscribed. Then the boat kings can stand back from farm- crs toes, The farmers are becoming wealthy all along the line, not only in cash, but their farms are becoming rich with the long use of the dairy and never miss a crop now, With the ad dition of this boat the price of their farms will double and treble in a short time. The farmers here a few years ago took up the scheme of building and running their own cheese and butter factories on the same prin- ciple of $10 shares, to become attach- ed stock of the farms subscribed and to borrow the balance of money to build factory and residence for cheese. maker and put up a sinking fund of the same amount as was paid to oth- ers per pound to get the cheese made. Well, the result is that it has now been built and running seven years and was paid for by this sinking fund inside of five years. They now own a $5,000 es- tablishment and are getting their work done for the cost of the cheesemaker, boxes, rennct salt, ete., besides the in- dependence of each shareholder to know that if he sell or lease his farm it is worth considerably more with this annexed cheese factory stock. So, also would the steamboat stock annexed to the farmers' farms enhance their value as the years went on. I know a fow here who would take more than half of the whole stock, if they could, bat that should not be allowed, as it would destroy the force of the scheme. --Yours sincerely, FRED. MEMBERY. Rheumatism. I you have this dread diseese and have failed to obt relief, why not try Hall's ecumatic Cure, the great blowd purifier. It has cured when every. else has failed. Safe to take, to cure, most highly endursed, SCRE AE Impairment of hearing many of the joys of life, interferes with capacity ior i. ness, limits ability to transact business hopes on account of loss of bitin lu nearly every case of partial or come deainess there is another feature hat to many is more troublesome than the ditficuity of hearing--the distracting These make such an The everlasting buzzing, rumble or roar, dis- Ay and prevents rést at Sine cases ont of tem of head noises and progressive hardness of hearin, due to catarrh of the middie ear of tubo leading from it to the throat. It should be understood and constant. ly borne in mind that hearing and silence the distracting noises a treatment is required that will ation in the eustachian tubes, re- and swelling ai stop the socretion of mucus so tubes will be apd keep op assuage oi ar nto: the middie L wedicme will affectually git a searching constitutional Army Surgeon 8, eth By ! Fabien Lh whmost" Jad on Tarrh in the decp recesses of the head, | hea Post mest month" Two acquaintances of the writer 'were run down aud killed by the cars in one had catarrh of the head, do do. it, in hy it the middle ear, and™ Were Tit hard of nents In both cases the corners jury de- cided that they came to their death ability to hear and heed sig wore intended for thew. What happened fo them ix of frequent occur put you to: very pense to Sn TO 250 Bound Books in a great variety of titles, worth up to 30¢. each, your choice of the lot 10e, "ne lying Corde also the b b Wednesday Specials in Bandherchisls, 100 dozen jus from Linen Tray Cloths, 15¢., 25e. Bibles, Pryer'books, Hymn- Extra large Wrist Bags, were $1. 50, ties, great opportunity "to Christmas treats, ete. Great sale of Dolls going + po, largest assortment shown in this SOW a Shin Sey: ' FAIR Sone sizes, marked $1, fo tk be "Candies, 3 Ids. for 2c. WOODS' F A RAISIN SEEDER. Would make a So would any of the fo BREAD KNIFE, NICKEL PLATED TEA POT, ' SET MRS. POTTS' SAD IR See our new store fo more useful and moder, te MCKELVEY & BIRG there bei marked abeence. fiaiecne hos vo which Ping ott Th liquidation end, and History Repeating Itself. New York, Dec. 12.-- History is again repeating itself, and after the severe financial depression of eleven months the year is closing = with a recovery Shut surprises Jhose familiar with the of merican temperment. suddenly disappeared. od time activity ' has appeared on stock exchange, and seems likely to the stay. Sharp advances occ of them too sharp; of affairs for the last four weeks proves that important changes for' the better have taken place jn the financial world. Strong support' been given the assistance given ------------ Boots test some | city at A. 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