Both uphold the 'high quality of Crawlord's coal. No better 'or | 'more convincing testimony is re F quired. One Knows it is the most _ Sdonomical, Because he pays the bills ; the other kows it vives the | best satisfaction, because she feeds it 10 her fire. R. CRAWFORD, ~ FOOT OF QUEEN ST. J vincial mane i to 'many I happen cial mecretary, "the stren uous life piel i having in my heart the kindliest ings to all men without a single ex- The ease will attract wide attention hecausd it is peculiar, So many men have a wrong comception of the public service, They regard it as a sinecure, as a resort for those who are unfor- tunate in other walks of life. Tt is as | Mr. Wood emphasizes, not all it is mipposed to be. 1+ gives no man room for expansion. 1t mequires ability, In sone departments, but not the ambi- tion that makes one excel. So it is not remarkable that men are leaving it--ns a young clerk did the other day in Toronto, and as Mr. Wood is doing now-in 'order to find scope for larger usefulness in the field of commerce. * Simply Held In Check. | The fact that = Liputenant-Governor Forget "did not call upon Mp. Haul tain but Mr. Scott to form the pro- ment in. Suskatchewan in commented. upon' most seriously by age, it stands to "reason that must sympathize with their tears. they Mr. Haultain is howeter, not they Rim and drop de- {serving of our compgesion. Nor is he meking it. He is a conservative who, during the period of: territorial goy- ernment, posed as an independent, or at least as one who was mild in his political temper and alliances. He | made the mistake of firing wp on fod: | eral questions, and" one heated could not become cooled. Hence it was that he bocame the offensive implement of his party on the autonomy question, and followed this by a dip into the London election. when the feeling was intenso, Humiliated and repudiated in Ontario he went west breathing ven- geance upon the Laurier government. He has been represented as standing by, waiting to be called to the pre miership of one of the provinces, but not as one who was willing to accept the constitution as he found it, but determined, if given the power, to make it unworkable and to appeal for such changes in it as he demanded. There is no evidence that the new provinces desire religious strife in the conduct of their public affairs. There is no evidence that the people as a whole are willing that the bitterness that was exhibited in Ontario on the school question should be sported to the west, So the seeming slight that has been put on Mr. Haultain is for hie good and theirs. Out of power he cannot work mischief. Tn due time he may change his tactios, and if he does the "opening will come for the exercise of his usefulness. 2 Talk On Civic Debt. The American press is giving much study to the question of taxation. It finds that the tendency is upward, ever ypward, and that this is the re sult of an ambition on the part 3f the average official or legislator to do all that he can while in power. Public pease the" clamour of some people. These must be paid for, it 'is true, but the bill need not be liquidated at one. In some way the cost may be {added to the debt. It must be wet some day; but swhat is the use of worrying aver something that is yo many years hence, Fi The effect is made evident by a com- parison of the average debt now with the average debt about twenty years clever | ag0. Then the ratio, in Ontario, was they [4-3 per cent,, while , at the present time it is double hat, and the tax has been increased by 'at least 50 per yoent. R i « : voting power which should make. all works are necessary in order to ap- | rate, which was 12387 mills in 1896 | 5 Ey - : 1 tr 5F 2 been asserting not ? They represent the hone and sinew of the country, the subsidiary influonce pay it proper res rea deputation of these toilers has been calling on the premier, and im- pressing on him a few of their ideas. The spokesman of the party was not a farmer, but an edjtor; and the ghib- est of them all no matter. He is in touch with. the farmers, as a writ er on agricultural subjects, and he knows their mind. Well, what did the deputation want? A lot of things. The budget was pot meagre. It included, however, five im- portant requests : Immediate taxation of railways. No: more railway bonuses, A royalty on minerals. Preservation of the province's forest wealth, Government control of clectrio power rates, 8 The answer of the premier was fav- ouralle. The report of the railway commission--the work of Prof. Short and Mr, Pettypicoe--will be studied so that the railways, which charge what they like for service, will be made to contribute their. due proportion to the government of the province. There will be. he more railway bonuses, except in rare casts, and 'it is the rare event that is always happening. The mines will be made' to vield something 10 the government. The man who strikes it rich will be made to share of his wealth since he is not the maker of the gold or cobalt, "ut merely the discoverer of it. The policy of the late government will be continued, and if some timber is sold annually, for revenue, its value will be replaced in the gradually wid- ening timber reserves. As for the electric power, Will the time of which Mr. Smith, of the Weekly ob, drew so rosy a picture, when every railway will be operated by electric power and many of the farms and farm houses be illuminated with electric light ? Niagara Falls will not be the source of all this energy. It mill not pay to carry the power be: yond a certain limit, The waste in transit would be very great. Eleotric power may be developed, however, around and about us. The water now running may, in many places, be har- nessed and converted into use. Every fall in the land may be robbed of its pioturesqueness, like Montmorency, and made serviceable to the commercial spirit of the age, But over the capital and labour thus employed the govern. ment may have no control, and its rates may be as much exempt from regulation as the produce of the farm iteelf, That the farmers should demand a reform of many abuses is not remark: sble, They ask for large things. Tt is a charactertistic of the times. They may not get all, but they will get much, and the degree of their favours upon the bulk of their senti ment, and the manner in 'which it is ox Editorral Notes. The fire insurance combine is likely to go. The wembers ~ of it have a Strange way of showing their confi: dence in one another, All the charities and hospitals are being provided with fire escapes. Why should the public buildings be ex empt from providing reasonable pro- tection ? -- Indianapolis has under considera tion a scheme by which the people will gt gas at sixty cents a thousand | feet, The franchise is at the disposal of the council. -- Wages are higher in some trades east and west than in Kingston. It is easily accounted for. It is an ad- | vantage to live in this city and it | means more than the difference in pay. The arrest of the young man, Gow-- for a complicity in the Dummer shoot: ing--though a coroser's ry pro: | nounced the shooting accidental, is noticeable. Is the jury system a fail- ture? May be, in this case. The trial if municipal managers yet got the swing of things. a 'prentice hand. printers of - America, on assembled, has decided 'eight-hour day. Tt is to a finish, and the Russo- will be nothing to it and adherence to pur gang in Niagara Falls dor their misbehaviour. fine of $1,000, one of of $100 each, And the mains with the this drive the gamblers da? Perhaps not, but it ---- Do You Think So ? 'strike talk may be only joe of getting the public w bay ily 'while the price is high. i fefoller is tired seeing print. So are we. We'd in writing and on a News Travels Slow, Ottawa Jour No doubt i wil be a good while be- fore the ninety-nine million Russians who can pot read or write will know exactly what the war ended in. All Getting Back. Mon ¢ 4 All of | @ prople who rushed to Co- balt to RL, worth of silver are not home. Some of them have been able to hook rides on the slow freights, ' Make It Unanimous. Toronto ! y "A retired cabinet min- isters" i8 mow a plank in the plat- form of parties. "A pension for retired farmers" is a plank that will carry the dountry for any party. IE 3 a Pabri¢ Of A Dream. New York is 3 hen a } Bits at. a girl's feet under'a tree and plays a banjo to her, she thinks that is the way they would go on doing they were married and had seven children. Last Resort. Ottawa ls . he hove. oy mitt manufacturers have decided upon an increase in prices of fifteen pér cent. If they keep on they' will drive men to carrying muffs, Deeper and tore warmly lined pockets will be in vogue this winter. ~ Struck by a Falling Derrick-- Knocked Senseless. Picton, Sept. 8.--About noon on Fri- day an accident h 10 Samuel Welsh, aged about thirty years, which might easily have caused his death. Welsh is in the'employ of Lake & Killop and was screening coal, unde:- neath they were unloading coal from the schooner Mary. The derrick, weighing 150 pounds, slipped out of Marshall Clapp's hands and fell to the ground, hitting Welsh on the shoulder blade in its fall. The force and weight crushed and bruised Welsh severely, and the rope burnt a streak on his neck as it passed on its flight to the ground, Welsh: was picked up in a senseless tondition. Dr. Heaslip, in attendance, does not, héwever, consid- er his condition as serious, but the ac- cident will lay him up for two or three weeks at least. , Thursday evening, in the parish house, Miss Archer, lately, returned from Japan, gave a most interesting and instructive talk on her wmission- ary work done there. The lecture was well illustrated * by limelight views, and under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Mary Magdalene"s church. A regrettable fact was the small attendance, and this in view of there being no 'entrance fee, save a silver collection. The funeral took place, to-day, to Glenwood cometery, of Mrs. Peter V. Benson, who died on Wednesday, in the eighty-winth- year of her age. The schooner Mary is in port, un- loading coal for #5 & Killop. Af- ter three months spent about town, Capt. Fitz Hourigan, inspector North- West Mounted ice, has returned to White Horse, Yukon. Gerald Norman has been moved. by the Brockville branch of the Metropolitan bank to Toronto." Mr. Norman is a son of R. A. Norman, town clerk. Mr. and Mrs, E. A. Wilson, Strat ford, are in town for a few days, vis- iting friends. Several years ago Mr. Wilson was the accountant in the lo- cal branch of the Bank of Charles North has returned from a several weeks' trip through the west. ern states, inclu a month's stay in California. Mrs, aine and Mrs. B. Demaine Macdonald, Syracuse, are visiting in town. Mrs. Nixon and iam- ily and Miss Hagler, who have been spending the summer with Mr. and rs. V. J. G, Moyle, have returned to their home in New York. Tenders Accepted. Tenders for 835,000 of four per cent. electric light debentures wore opened by the Napanee council. There were nine tenders, the best onc being that Savi Bank, their tender being 899.798, which was accepted. Allis Chalmers-Bullock company, of Toron- to, will build two generators at a cost of $5,480. R. E. T. Pringle, of Montreal, twenty-five arc lights, two twenty-five arc light ca- pacity eauipments. two transformers and regulators, at $1,475. The clerk was [instructed to notify the frms, they would be required to sign a con- tract acceptable to the enginecr and to the town solicitor. The Rost socialist democratic i Inter will tell the story. commities has called the strike and or- dered the men back to work, | Montreal. | of the Montreal City and District _SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9. ARE ON HIS TRAIL POLICE PROMISE EARLY AR- REST OF BIGAMIST. Bluebeard Hoch and Henry VIII. Amateurs in Matrimony A- longside of the Swiss Dentist, if Detectives' Allegations Are True. % A. WITZROFF. New York, Sept. 9.-- Detectives who have been pursuing from one end of the, country to - the other clues they believed might lead them to the dis- covery of Dr. George A. Witzhofi, the DR. GEORGI' bigamist, who is said to have mar- ried, robbed and deserted wore than a hundred wives, have at last struck a trail of a woman in this city by whom they hope to trace their man to his hiding place. The arrest of Witzhoff, the detectives say, is only a matter of hours. The police are now able to give a summary showing most of the wives of Witzhofi, nearly all of whom he robbed and then deserted, after, it is alleged in several instances, trying to drug them. They are: Mrs. Bessie Juster. of Philadelphia, who was formerly Miss Bessie Oppen- heimer, whose money he squandered in reckless fashion, and with whom he lived while studying dentistry at a college in that city. Miss Dora Dorf. of this city, whom he married in 1900, after a three weeks' courtship under the name of Dr. George A. Weston, and whoy, he robbed on her wedding night of $800, her life savings, after presenting a pistol to her head, and then left penni- less in a strange hotel. Mrs. Anna Tinnes, of Sayville, N.Y., whom he married in 1903, when she was a Miss Otto, and whom he de scrted after he had secured, through her, $3,000 from her father to start a dental office in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. E. R. Muller, who was Miss Randall when Witzhoff met her under. the name of Muller at her mother's home in Somerville, Mass., in 1903, and who discovered = his double life when she followed hinr to Bridgeport one dav and found hin living with Mrs. Tinnes. Mrs. Sdphie Youcker, of 207 Broome street, whom he married under that name in 1900 and who was drawn in- to Witehofi's net by the "schatchens' or marriage brokers of the east side and (rom whom the bigamist took $1,800 after threatening. her with a revolver. Migs Ella Goldbaum, whom he met in this city in 1900 and from whom and' hdr mother-in-law he got $800 to open a dentist's office and left with- out marrying her, Mrs. Annie Davis, of Stanton street. this city, whom he married under the name of Goldstein, and whom he rob- bed, it is said, of $1,000 after threat ening to shoot her if she 'ever exposed him to the police. rs, Rosa Sehwartz, who was Miss Middlewitz, when he met her sevetal years ago and from whom he secured R350 one night while she lay on a sick bed by showing a revolver and de- manding all the money she had. Mrs. Herman Adler, whom 'Witzhoff married at St. louis in 1902 upder the name of Dr. Solomon Adler and whom he robbed of $900. Mrs. Nina David, of New York, whom he married under that name in New York in 1900, who has two chil- dren and from whom he stole $700. Nrs. Marie Obermeyer, of Duluth, Minn., whom he married a few years ago 'and then deserted after taking $300 belonging to her. Mrs. Johann Peiser, of Detroit, whom he married in that city under the name of Arthur Hauser, and from whom he secured $1,500 and then dis- appeared, Mrs. Betsy Schwartz, of New York, from whom he stole $700 after marry. ing her. 3 Miss Mary Thorpe, of Brooklyn, whom he married under the name of L. D. Laurence and whom he robbed of 2600. Mrs. E. Watson, of New Verk, who formerly lived at 215 Fast One Hun- dred and Thirteenth street. Mrs. M. Wechsler, of New York. whom he married and deserted several years ago. iss Lena Reisner, of , Hanford, Conn., whom he cansed to pose as his sister until she met him one day at a marriage broker's office secking l another wife, A Newark widow, robbed and de- serted by. Witzhofi after he had mar ried her under his own name. She is faid to be the daughter of a former mayor, whose name lawyers refuse to divulge, A woman in Oyster Bay, whom he is alleged £3 have swindled ont of £5,- 000 after becoming engaged to parry her. Miss Berkholz, of this city, to whom ke became engaged and robbed of $360 Mrs. Vokes, of Rast Orange, whom he also swindled out of a large sum in the same way. , A women named Zeller, in St. Louis, whose life savings, the pro- ceeds of a cigar business. he secured and then deserted after marrying her, A Miss Chapman, of Chicago, wha has identified him fully to the police. Paulige Zelochovitz, of Philadelphia. whom he met through agents and robbed of 8800 after be had taken her to Brooklyn and left in a strange hotel. Bessie Rosenfield, who positively de. $ BIBBY'S ~ YEE te BIBBY'sg nl i" All Ready! We've everything ready for you, sir, and we trust that you'll see fit to get your new outfit here, Get your Business Suit, get your Sunday Suit get your Dress Suit here ! - : New Raincoats In all the newest effects, $10, $12.50, $15 and $16.50. Try Our Trousers The cut is the. very latest, and the new fall patterns are beautiful. Trousers, $3. $3.50, $3.75, $4. $4.50, $5. SALE OF SOFT BOSOM SHIRTS NOW GOING ON. . New Neckwear, Pyjamas, New Sweaters, New Hats. New Collars, Night Robes, 'New Hosiery, New Caps, ) Ask "to see! our 28c. Cashmere | Hose. "Something special." Ask to see our $1 Street or Driving Gloves. THE H. D. BIBBY CO. Clothiers and Haberdash ers, Oak Hall. ; 4 ; p 2. | of GEE Heptonettes -=Fashion's Newest Raincoats MORE NEW FALL AND ~~ WINTER MANTLES HEY are coming "in gradually, and the most critical inspec- tion can bring but one verdict the styles are faultlessly correct and the workmanship abso- lutely perfect. Women who are fa- miliar with the way we do things will 'not need to be reminded of the unsurpassed quality and the all-round attractive- ness of the garments we sell ; and this year our endeavor _has been to even better the satis- faction of former years. The greatest ladies' tai- loreys on the continent have contributed their best, and many of their choicest things will be 7. shown only at this store. Yet prices will be on the same moderate scale as heretofore, -- The accompanying cut illustrates one of a large number of new Coats shown for the first time to-day. Some of these cannot be repeated. We'll be pleased to have you come in and look, whether or not you intend to buy. : { SPENCE'S, ™ "Sia. CHOCOLATES ! Ganong's Canadian Chocolates wre AT ie : » A.J. REES®, Princess St. a of op -- of the parlor ear service, of the 1.0. R., between Sydney and Halifax, - cognizing Witzhof's portrait publishc in a section of 4 New York paper hy Sunday last. Witshoff got off (he train at North Sydney Jumction, and ried her a few years ago and * then deserted her after taking a sum of money from her. Fannie Kozwisky, Fa mekes a similar charge, who : : eo took Witehoft In Newfoundland. the premumpgion is that be '7 Halifax, N8., Sept, 9.5The higa:~ RowrBoiad on (het sight, and mist, Vitzhoff, Tor whose capture large found pass rewards are being offered in the Uni. 'hat before Jie_has 19 3 St. John's ted States, was a presenger from age. by a steamship from Halifax 10/North- Sydney Junction on OF Europe. iW » Augrist 26th. The fact has just claves Witzhoff is the man who mar- de- veloped through Conductor Talbot, Wade's glove cleaner, 10 UN 4 g of woman's « the and indicates by achi ek na of the wom néys, and that the aches and ) continue until the cause is re; Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta pound for twenty years has one and only effective remed cases. It cures ally kidney disorders and restor ma ere le Frpans to a healthy con H one cure among tho Mann, 15¢ Vale Ave., Toron No other person can give s ful advice to women who a can Mrs. Pinkham. Her a Lyon. Mass., and her advice | GOING TO ROME. Questions Affecting the of His Diocese. Ottawa, Sept. 9.--Archbish mel will lave in October f and it is stated his trip is w at the instance of the Fre dian clergy of Ottawa, to " movemeat which is alleged t foot to annex to the diocese aniria the parishet of the © Prescott, which are now part wha diocese. The clergy and th i Popnlation of the p question' are sted oppos change, and in favor of t tenance of status quo, Archb hamel it ie reported," wil holy see to create two new seats in the immense territor archdiocese of Ottawa, Hawkesbury, on the south s Ottawa river, and the othe north side of the river at La names of Abbe Silvio Corbeil and Rev, Canon Phillippe. Ha are mentioned in connection proposed new episcopal seats The Huronic's Rough Vi Detroit, Sept. 7.-~The Nort igation company's crack steamer, the. Huronic, which Detrgit, to-day, rode through Supiior gale in safety, alth passengers had an exciting - from ten o'clock on Saturd seventy-five miles out from until Sunday evening. The was carried out of 'her co cabin badly wracked and shifted until she was badly li waves ran very' high. On night, while the passengers v ered in the cabin, the hes broke away from its fasteni ing considerable destructio cabin. Many of the passeng Kfe-piescrvers until the sto sided. Food was eaten in a manner, as the dining-roon chaos of broken china, and | galley 'was temporarily out mission. The crew of the ste ed splendidly during the st did all possible to relieve t! of the passengers. Death Of A Child In Camillus, N.Y., on ¢ 8th, the death took place Blanche, infant daughter of Mrs. E. Theetge, aged eigh Mrs. Theetge was formerly. | Wiley of Kingston. Dr. Hugo's Health Tab! Contain No Opium nor | Dr. Hugo's Health Tablet