THE DAILY WHIG Offer por Orbom Dior" HOW ME. SIFTON SPEAKS. "The facts of the Siion resignation Fhave been made public, apd they ap pear to be na the Whig expected. The clauses of the autonomy Bill are not such ax he favours and to or | con support. On the contrary they wh Helo siiggost vonditions which are antagon: stic of thoxe he contended for whi hd {educational 4 the government of Manitoba cannot accept them without a re of his course and policy in the st. by Mr. Rifton's speech that after last session of parliament it wan decided to divide the North Of. | Went territories hit great vegaed Jor the subject ak aduoation, It was necessary that : of members of parliatient repre i 'territories should be conferences understood and that whould take place, But action was de then of himself, Hird Laavier, and bill with the promier and, co nit ' Li bill went further than Mr, Sif ton expected, amd, whén he returned to Ottawa he exchanged views upon it with the premise. The correspondence J which passed between them on Monday and Tuesday does not reveal any n- J kindly feeling. Instead there is the fnutual profession of vegard, and de | elaration by Sir Wilfrid Laurier that ho thought the - dificrences hetween them were more of words than of sub stance, "and" he wrote, 'until 1 re eeived your letter | had cherished the hope that it would have been possible ore this to find a comparatively any solution." : So that the premior did that, at any rate, coisider that he was seriously ont of accord with his colleagne, and ainly there was nothing in bik lan: guage or action that could incite the malicious thought, which Mr. Fisher |» od, when ho infimaled that 1 | pr ant of Mr, of the autonomy bill. | ] wheh they are presented, will bo of the most interesting charactor, BOWELL 'AND THE PAST. om. Mr, Foster is a humbng, a plete anil confirmed humbug, One strengthened in this conviction hy | had so much to say about the resignation of Mr. Sifton. While the loader of abe opposition was silent, discreetly silent, Mr. Fos tor Bugged, He insimnated that the minister of the intevior had heen for vod ont of the government. The au: tononiy bill had been developed in his and rushed into the house. The shoal clauses had been nsertod without Mr. Sifton"s or Me. Fiolding's Knowledge, and the retirement of one Land rumoured retirement of the other EE vot at all srprising---to Mr, Foy: The strangest thing about his sncech was his theory of responsible government cabinet doting wnitedly and wisely, consulting many units, "ax itis in duty hound (0 do." While Mr. Foster wis nunting away in this | fashion, spinning ont his ideas of the jshevaal fimo of things, Sir Macken: rie well, in the senate, was giving inte provinces and wd | give them loeal government, and in #L vigw of his oxperionce in Manitoba he of the ponding the absence fist of Sic he went south, 'for his health, Gon sail he diseimed Ue ane a8 he could; expressed his Views n member of the govern b the ox premder ax the who was specially qualified for premiership. He kept at his agi: altsrwards. He lobbied against chiof even while the chief was in house and calling upon hin wife, The first. news of the plot came 1p ir Mackenzie through Hon. Mr. foods and it was followed by a call from Montague and Haggert, who asked hig to resign. Mr, Dickey join- ed in the performance, and he sought the usual rendezvous, which was Mr. Foster's room, The cabal was con: fined to the strikers, but they kept others from taking office under Bowell Finally Sir Mackenzie publishes a Iotter he addressed to a friend in To ronto, who asked him to join in the North Toronto election in Mr. Fos or's interest. "1 humiliated mynell quite enongh," he writes, "by taking him hack. It wax done in the infor ext of the party then, and | have re grotted it ever wines. * °° I may be all he and his chums say | am, but 1 have not yet lost my sell re wpeet, * * I am content to le} him alone, to fight his own battles, and decline to further demean mysell hy asking wy friends to puv confidence in him, which 1 do not entertain my well." And Foster ix the man who poses ns an authority on the proprieties in the eommions, who laments the lack of harmony in the present govern ment, and sealds, becanso the au: tonomy bill was presented to parlia- mont in the absences of Mr. Sifton, with elausos which he cannot endorse. Mr. Foster ix past all FFIE}T tii an J The nerve of comprehonsion, ------------ EDILORIAL NOTES, 1s there any solution of the street oar difficulty ¥ The issue ix a very serious one, ------ ¥ Mr. Maclean, M.P,, must have been in rare humour when he compared Sir, Wilteid Laurier with one of the ! grand dukes of Russia, ---- Sir Mackenzie Bowell and Mr. Foster fave sand their Kittle piece and in Flew of all the facts, what do yon think of that nest of traitors ? -- Mr. Foster, by thix time, may be very sorry he went into ancient his- tory the other day. The events of 1800 will not stand reviewing. -- The autonomy hill is likely to un- dergo some changes on the wocond reading. The educational clanses may be made acceptable to the western members, "The Telegram regards recent eivie appointments. in Toronto, as being suggestive of what might have been expected in the palmy days of gang rule, Whew ! Education is to be checked in Rus sia. It is regarded as at the bottom of all the loeal and domestic troubles. Phe 'common people are becoming too intelligent for the grand dukes. Mg Duff should not have been re leased by the school board. leaving matriculation class of the institute without a teacher at this date in the term is an indefensible proceeding. Mr. Harcourt will lead the opposi- tion in the local legislature pending the absence of Mr. Ross. Nr. Harcourt is an experienced legislator, though lacking the force and magnetism of the ex-premier, ---- Hon. Mr. Tarte is spoken of we chairman of the tariff coumission which the present parliament will.ap- point. It will report the conditions of trade and the necessary changes in the tariff which these changes require. -- The Winnipeg Free Press, which voices the mind of the Territories, ex- presses the opinion that education be conducted along the lines which are at present pursued, Local government in education as in other things. It is understood that the local gov. oroment of Quebec will undergo recon: stenction. before Monday, and that Hon. Mr. Gouin will be the new pre Fmier. Only two of the old government remain in office, Messrs. Archambault and McCorkill, The Mail wants to know where Sir William Mulock ie on the North-West uestion. It might better ask where is r. Borden and Mr. Foster ¥ They have been skating all round the issue and regarding it ax a hole in the ice marked "dangerous," 3 © i Goldwin Smith has been' invited to say what he thinks Sir Willeid's maj: arity will do in the Commany, and he thinks it will hardly stand' by the autonomy hill in its present form. Smith i'n very smart man, bat he ¢ cabal, and did this sven before 'Baying Point Ann. Athens Model School building, t Saturday, is a total loss, L. A, Betis Joined in mate mony, Jolin W. Vout aml Miss Jane H. O'Neill, all of Flizabethtown. Marshall, formerly of Brockville, Is dead at Phoenix, Ariz. aged seventy-three, She loaves o hus: band and five children, J. T. Laton teacher of. modern lan- guages at Belleville High School, hax to take the ition of head master at Chesley High School. James Bell, an old resident of Elizabethtown, is dead, from blow poisoning, ming on a burn. He ie sixty-four years old, and unmar- A wedding of interest tack Toronto on Monday when Archie Goy- er, barber, fo ly of Belleville, was married to Miss Fihel Loveless, of that city, Mrs. Caroline K. Stewart, widow of the late John Stewart, died, Tuesday, at the residence of her won, D. BE. K. Stewart, Madod, Docoased was in her ninety fourth year, Mrs. William Rusdand, formerly of Brockville, is dead at Ottawa, aged seventy-sight, after an illness of some month, One daughter. Mrs. Reid, Ot tawa, survives, Smith's Falls public school teachers ave an "At Home" in honor of Miss fossick, who completed thirty-five vears teaching, The pleasing presenta- tion of a ring occurred, On Monday, Rev. Mr. Sykes united in marriage, 8. T. Conlin, Smith's Falls, engaged as moulder in Malle able Tron Works, and Miss Ada Act- on, formerly of Kemptville, Prof. Willmott, organist of Christ church, Belleville, has left for Gana- noque, whete he has secured the posi- tion of organist and choirmaster of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, Mrs. Eliza Buchanan, an aged lady, well known in the Kemptville distriet, died this week in Camden, N. J. She was hoen in Christie's Corners, eigh ty-five years ago, being u daughter of the late John Selleck, Sr, A quiet wedding took place on Toes: day at the régidenes of N.C, Purvis, Lyn, when their eldest danghter, Alma Edith, was unite! in marriage to George W. Smith, & former Brockville boy, now a traveller in New York state, % On Wednesday at John H, Murdofi's, dvd concession Bf Sidnew, his only daughter, Miss Corn, was married to Luther A. Townsend, Thurlow, Mr. and Mrs, Townsend will reside on the Townsend homestead in the 7th con: oossion of Thurlew, : The barns of James Pitman, 7th concession of Thurlow, were burned hy incendiary Jast spring, and on Sun day last, on retirning from church he found his fiteen year-old danghtey bovnd hand and foot, and in an un: lace in i io -- . ; The Tdings Brom Various Points will erect a huge cement largest It in British Parliament He Would Lead It. Edward Parriti, writing in Christian World, a London, Eng. per, says. that if Rir were in' the British would be the next This writer says: ere was never a Canadian who was more ohviously intended for a political leader. Eigiire, voice, man her, temperament, long training. amd the pa Wilfrid Laurier parliament, he British premier, intellectual and mental calibre all combine to make him one of the most distinguished of temporary British parliamentarians. : Sir Willrid Laurier, has a figure ax commanding as that of Gladstone. His voice, and especially his use of the English, language, which, it should be remembered, is' not the language of his childhood are bewitching. As ro gards his parliamentary style, I mean his handling of the House of. Com mons, his chivalrous treatment, of his colleagues and his attitude and con duet towards the opposition--Sir Wil frid Laurier could be studied with ad vantage, both by the men who are now on the treasury 'bench, of West- minster, and by those of the front op position bench there. 1 never came to Ottawa and spend a week in the press gallery here, with out wishing that he were on the lib eral benches at Westminster, There would then be no difficulty as to who would he the next prime niinistér, ------ SHEEP ON GALLOUP ISLAND Conducted by a New Dexter-Low- ville Syndicate. Watertown N.Y. Standard One of the largest land purchases in Jefferson connty in that negotiated in this city Friday when, Capt. Austin A. Phelps and James A. Gilmour, of Dexter, and = Brown Richardson, of Lawville, pur chased the Wattam farm on Gallonp Island, Lake Ontario. This large tract, consisting of 750 acres, is particularly adapted to stock and shedp raising and ere long the stock and sheep ranch in Eorthera New York will be located here. The farm is peenliarly situated, two sections of it lying at hoth ends of the island with several farms in he tween, while a third portion wecupios the ventre of "the island. It 4 said sone time was | 1 in Canada, conscious condition, hut bearing no marke of violence, As Mr. Pitman a good neighbor there is no the outrages, W. B Craig ie dead from typhoid fever, at Arnprior, aged fifty-two. He was for some time principal of Arm- prior High School, but latterly has practised law at Renfrew. He was a brother of Judge Craig, of the Yu- kon, now in Araprior, and was an ar- dent liberal, and was overworked in the late campaign. 1 SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. is clue to Waiting His Chance. Montreal Herald. : If Russia could just reach out and snatch peace when nobody was look- ing it might be tempted to make the grab. a i The Expected Happens. t Toronto Star. I There, soe what, you have dons iy |} putting in power a political that denies there is a surplus ! Ww Ontario begins te chip off in huge : chunks. A More Comprehensive Curse. s Cleveland Plain Dealer. y noted Seotehman says the curse of this country is its mixed drinks, Tt |, might he retorted that the curse of Scotland is drinks of any old kind. A Bure Expedient. fi Pxchange I Prof. Osler's theory that men of sixty should be ehloroformed looks a little severe. A better system prevai's where we appoint as many as possible to the senate, which amounts to practically the same thing, h -- h A Curler Views It. Bobcaygeon Independent. ! Poor. Hitthe Manitoba. Have, youl a seen how it looks on the map, coun pared with the two hew provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Looks like a bit of bufialo wheat on a side dish. They certainly can't play more than six rinks at a time, without get ting thy use of Saskatchewan's Lack = : yard, t The Finest Train if Canada. The "International Jimited" of the Grand Trunk Railway has justly earn. ed the title of being the prewier train of the dominion and "whexceled in America, not only in speed, comfort and up-to<late equipment, hut also hy its regularity, running invariably on time. The "International Limited" a that a large number of sheep will not do well together, and with this itor : sight hard these days is our Spring Sui Every pleased buyer te! the goodness of our Suits s is talking about our sell the kind of clothes that about, TIES. Come, see what buying, guarantee, & POPs rrrnsassacsscsssvsassrsssass essa sessaan@pl As Our February Half-Price Sale i This Great One-Hall Off Sule is values ston, The crowds of delighied purchincer Clothiers and Haberdashers, Was 'such ga success, we have decided to ri ws a astonishing The hargains we are giving ' ov here are the facts and figures, they nead no "puffing THE STRING ON OUR FIDDLE The string on our fiddle that we are scr Business is keeping step to our music, t we are turning out the suits at a lively rate. preads until eve rybody Good Clothes, It's a pleasure to us, too, because we like to It would please us exceedingly to have call and see the new SPRING SUIT BE $6.50, 7.50, 8.50, 10, 12 13. 15, 16, 17.50, will do here in the way of Suit You'll be agreeably surprised. THE H. D. BIBBY CO. urpasses aping t String Is his friends, ang $0 it's a pleasure to talk you AU- We'll Oak Hall, Kingston. - ED = =. ------ rom until M eople | «lh Wins any thing ever ery day "bat do thei ening land, us many sheep can he ing most eloquently and. convincingly Fo let this opportunit discase. Already there are abou sheep on the future the nuinber will be iner will also he placed the new the island are likely in time to fall in to the hands of the corporation Miss Nellie Grimmon has heen school, graduated from the shorthand dy and is at home Miss Daisy accompanied hy J, alteraoon last week and returned by moonlight/ Mr, and Mrs. severe attack of rheumatism and grippe. (. spent Sunday Sunday. panied her friend, Lewis Minuker, of Port Miliord, have wide look for signature of E. W. Grove. 25¢ speoch at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store, ish House of Commons, Premier Bal four was sustained ji only. twenty-six. EE -- ay put on the farm as the same will sue tain withont fear of any contagious 700 farm and in the near LOOB. A large amount of "'hory on the an farm purchase is orchard 100 acres, The owners will incorporate and ex- wet to deal extensively in sheep ane attle as well as fruit. Other farms on At Black River Bridge. lack River Pridge, March 1.--J veogh is spending cousin, (', a few days wit Powers, Gre ng last week with Miss Gi rie am, Long Point. F. Jarvis intends caving this week for Kingston, we will take a" course the Miss. Kathleen Pierson has in ment of the Picton Business Ce awaiting a McDonald, tormstaid here for vent on uw who has been the past : snowshoeing expedition, Keogh, Island, one 10 eross o Waupoose J. Go Jarvis gave un At Home" to a number of tinsir riends on Friday evening last. Mrs whert Hughes is recovering from a la York' and R. Grimmon at South Bay. Miss 'anny Scott was in this vicinity «n Miss Bertie Dunn, wccom- Miss Lena Hanoy ome to spencd Sunday. The bereaved ushand and family of the late Mrs means Neat ts regular 1 actly half, %7, s% a loss ta You; Men's English Tweed Suits dark : you ca Rid, patterns, In n't w \ eras, spley Men's Overcoats latest English 1 ly in the regular half, i i tts ---------------- JOS. ABRAMSON, The People's Clothier 180 Princess St, Between Redden's and Crawford's Groceries Buy In Time! Prepare for the Soft, Slushy Weather. Don't L.et Your Fe Our stock is com et Get Wet! Wear Rubber Boots plete in Childs? Rubber Boots, Girls' Rubber Boots, Ladies' Rubber Boots, Gents' Rubber Boots. Light or heavy weight. The Sawyer Shoe Store. be sympathy of a number of friends nd relatives in this vicinity To Prevent The Grip. Laxative Bromo Quinine, the world: cold and grip remedy, removes he cause, Call for the full name and -------------- The address in reply to the King's was cartied at Westminaier fer closure, hy sixty majority. Lydia Pinkham's Compound is soll On a minor amendment in the Writ by a majority of * leaves Montpeal, 9 dom, daily, ariv ing Toronto 4.30 pan. Hamilton, 5.50 at. Ni Falla: NY. 826 pan, lo, 9.20 pm, London, TA8 pan. Detroit, 9.90 pa.. and Chicago or the following morning, It carries wide vestibule modern coaches, parlor and Pullman cars, and an elegant cafe sorviee ix ted in connection with 'this train. Tt is known as one of the fastest long distance trains' jn the world und fs well patronized be the travelling publie. Any one travel | Ting west _dhoiild not miss the oppor tamity of nding on this superb train which has gajued soch an enviable re We work with, not against, doctors We give doctors the formula for Ayer"s Sarsaparilla. Then they can tell, when asked, just what it will do. Suppose you ask your doctor about this medicine in cases of impure blood, thin blood, debility, exhaustion, does Bot pose as a wind reader, Nervousness, anemia. 1.547% Mase putation throughout: the land, . End of Week Specials Eclipse Soap, 7 bars Ide Heinz and Lipton's Mixed Dich Choice Olives; botiles Sliced Pine Goodwillie's Lo Caltfornia Prive, 5 Oranges, I tin Peas, Cooked F. W. VANLUVEN, | Tansburck, Austria, Merch 3.~Three children were Killed by which overwhelmed peasant other otenpants who were mjured were extricated alive, Prines Russian ninister AT VANLUVEN'S Bacon Coffee, with tombler, tins Onions and Chow, hostles | Apple, per can | ard and served Plums, sealers. be, Mexican Sweets Navals, per dozen Yc. © I tin Carn, Tomatoes Meat Sausage, Cheese, ol Dry P 246 PRINCESS ST. all 'Phone 417. : erie Killed by an Avalanche. an avalane the house of near Asser Villgraden. The on ---------- Bois topdie Mado" orn of the tater, is Basket seriously ill at' Kharkof. . | and provision | Anderson Bros. 'Phone, 458. . THOS. HILTON 3806 Princess Street, Tvol Laturney's Carrlage Shop: Trunks and Valises u nes Anderson Bros. Celebrated olato Butter, Che i -- poors Bele¥ jie = gh 1 ; * Trunks re willowed i Keys fitied, ete PRICES MODERATE. § roe i i the 49) After | require up fre Porter "No Judice' archs | rection money years and go me: "et mean "As much States might: free s the fi "Re a for raised ence | of Ine Dr. 8) educa It is loves man | ada : P to you, telling you bow 1 "over two years steady dor oe medicines besides, und. As a last resort Bop and try Lydia E. Pink- Compound, and 1 am so a, for after following our which you sent me res of monthly periods, SATS it not act hea A ad be in my grave today: rely trust that this letter may ad uffering woman in thé country you for help as I did. When women are troubled with ir- regular or painful menstruation, weak- jeucorrheea, displacement or ul- tion of the womb, that bearing- feeling, inflammation of the ova- AD sekache, fatulence, general de- Sit indigestion and nervous prostra- ly, vw should remember there is i Lydia E, one tried and true remedy. 's Vegeta y d at once "In § Vegetable Compound Paka troubles, : the r "oother femalé medicine in the world | Goa as received such widespread and un- | cepti Refuse all sub- | Arter qualified endorsement. es. o. oo Pinkham invites {a write her for advice, thonsands to health. Mass. m------me------------ A GIFT FOR FRED. and corn the othe Mexi State as al ftal- dern torri bors and thin, boy. all sick women She has guidea Addrys, Ln, smembered Before Leaving For States. Yesterday afternoon, -W: Fred Sim Wont, who is retiring from his posi- tion. as electrician of the Kingston Light, Heat and Power company, was fvited to attend little recoption given in his honor by the staff and I sn Re | ng a employees of the company. A com wy plimentary address was read by Fred Ene Murray, after which a presentation § qe Faas made by 1 JJ. Hartrick. The r were o silk umbrella, an pllows' ~ emblem, and a set ol handled silver knives in a hand- oak case, lined with purple , The recipient was taken com pletely by surprise but in a few words, expressed gratitude for the | tokens of appreciation. L Mr. Simmons has accepted. a position in his profession at Peck: kill, XY., and will leave next week to assume his new duties. His de pacture from the city will be preatiy rigretted by bis wany friends. the reds orig pec) the Im the Am plas Wa goud we alo oan Dropsy is One Positive Sign of Kidney Disease. Have you any of these unmistakable sign %. Puffiness under the eyes ? Swol- Im limbs? Smothering feeling Change of the character of the urine ? Exhaustion after lemst exertion? Ii you Bave there's dropsical tendency, and you shouldn't delay an hour in putting yoursell under the great South American Kidney At Wade's Drug Store.--6, Cure, ~ Mr. Whitney's Gift. The Cornwall papers contain a pleas mg incident in the life of the new pre- ner of Ontario, They say that Hom. J.P, Whitney has a good memory. As ® generally known, he went to school i Comwall in his carly days and be oming a law student in Sandfield Macdonald s office and warmly espous- ing the latter's cause on all occasions me to take a warm interest in poli ties. He often talked polities with a fiend with whom ho lived in town, ad the lady of the house used to en fourage him with the remark that be Would be premier some day, "If 1do.' said the buddimg statesman, I will nd yon the hest silk dress 1 can ELT It took some time for Mr, Whit BY to realize his ambition, but the ® arrived last Saturday to the ht of the recipient, : RE ---- For An Impaired Appetite. Lows of appetite always results from faulty digestion. Al) that is needed is & few doses of Chamberlain's Stom- &h and Liver Tablets. They will in Yigorate the stomach, strengthen the Eton and give you an appetite © a woll. These Tablets also act as & gentle laxative. For sale by all druggists, : eet Penitentiary Ice Impure ? I is seid that the ice being stored At the Peilentiary is not as pure as n should be, as it was cut near a slip and which sewage drains. An examina- of the ice would be to the advan of the inmates. ----------b------ Butter 25¢. Eggs 20c. Wis or rolls butter 20 Cooking We. Crawford, es ---- Cd Em rubber hot water bottles. ms Red Crosg Drug Store. Lever's Y.7, (Wise Head) Disinfectant Soap Powtler is better than other a it is both soap and disin- Many private fin. are to be con- red by the Ontario legislature at he LOMIng session. The applications » more numerous than usual, or Old-fashioned horehound candy "Tul, & Red Cross Drug Store. butter {7c por To., at Mullin's. Thaker 1 or roll butter, Crawford. v freuson, of Leland, Ont., in this city,