"The Cause Of Ca quiet. This is to be expected, it re is regarded with no anxiety hy one party, 'and no hope by. the other: - How is that? The News explains: "From 1808 to 1905 the parties were 'wo ovenly balanced that every bye-elee- tipn was momentous, ahd might have | decided the fate of a government.' The importance of the election is mini- fied now hy the fact that the gov- | ernment has a large following, too large for its own good, and that there can be no object in adding to it. hong since the conservative party | emphasized the ixpediency-of having.in federal and provincial houses a strong and vigorous opposition, Mr. Metcalfe belonged to it for many a long year, when he was Kingston's member' in the orders | Jogislature, and Kingston did not suf- ITISH WHIG, 1 in \ Managing Director. or. [ThE DAILY WHIG. ""gpifer per Orbem Dicer." Labor not Used Right The workingmen must be wonderful: i t towards them ! Fame op been allowed to vote, under the Manhood Franchise Act, and they are threatened with disfranchisement. All of them were promised the fa vour of having conviet-made goods abolished, or so labelled that they eould be identified when offered in competition with the product of free labour, "The has not been cared ofit, nor ia thers any prospect of it. "The workingmen are, therefore, under no compliment to the goverment of the province and have no reason to of endorse it. 5 ; he Stained at the tli fs not neces: non ere all other AlG Sir ns 1 them. 1f the Manbood Franchise Act is to the workingmen, with votes under it, will have something to say. ' ® ------------ off Loss In Revenue. The Delleville Intelligencer tells how that oily "losing annuilly a dace of money in the non-collection - of poll tax or statute labor tax. % amount in any oasd is small, only 81, 'and there are threo hundred persons in the city on the bay who should pay it. But the notices of the tax were mail: ed and the collector ealrulated that there was no money in the transac tion, at one per cent. for him, so the statute labor tax was lost. In Kingston the loss on personal income in statute labour tax for three years, from 1901 to 1908, inclusive, was $1026, or 842 per year, and in 1904 the loss was '$441. In 1905 practically all of the statute labour or poll tax was collected. The plan of campaign was so changed that the young men were notified of the tax early in the year, and they were given time in which to pay. Failare on their part brought police court actions and costs, and these were not invited. Belleville should change its mode of procedure, The cost of serving notices on the taxpayers is very small and the item of revenue very when it is complete. considerable City Hall Insurance. The finance committee may have an early meeting in order to dhseuss the civie fire insurance question, Incidentally enquiry with regard tb municipal insurance That is something which cannot be developed in a hurry. considered hy the finance committee, or members of it, two years ago, and with the result that it was not con sidered expedient to procead. Why insure the all ¥ has been made It was duly city buildings at The police station is located in There-are always meh oh daty, eofitigiious i5*the fire station and its quota of fre fighters, Inthe corr dors 8A good fvatet siipply, and hose for 'fire purposes. The only drawback is the presence of stoves in the northern wing, and in the Awo gublic halls, For $1,200 or £1,500" the hot water system of heat: ing could be extended, and then there would be little danger of a conflugra- tion. | The city has expended an enormous amount in fire insurance, The money in large part has been wasted because for a time there was an insurance on even the fire stations with all mien and equipment and fitness active service. Can the their for city afford, in view of all the facts, to carry its own insurance? "I is a subject worth considering. ES franchise electors-- 'students, ot al--will allowed' to vate al 9 Such © is: the an given out in behalf of the A ¥ fer on that score. No govermwent that has any res pect for itself could enunciate the doc: trine that only the places which sent the government supporters could ex- pect to receive of its aid and benefits. The Mowat, Hardy and Ross povern- Fments never preached that, and all of them wore good enough for King |] ston. The Whitney government has declar- od by its members and inissionaries, that it has no desire to do other than what is right hy Kingston, in the distribution of its favours, and it could act wisely and fairly do other- wise, and look for the consideration of honest and right-thinking men. | people_do---net---wm anything to be ex- cited over. The candidates have been before them several times, and their records have been thoroughly read and understood. The Axe In Evidence The thing which the Whitney govern: ment did not promise and which it has Lifftroduced with fine eck, <s the axe. It became the implement of progress in every department of the local gov: ernment, and Boss Beattie Neshitt re- cently intervened when there was an apparent lull in its operation, Heads have been decapitated by the score, When they failed to fall the government really seemed to have gone ot of business at the old stand. As the seats of the mighty became soarce the seats of the minor officials came in demand. Even the marriage licence issuers were disturbed, and the little incomes which theyd received were monopolized by the hungry office | hunters, The Toronto News has been moved to refer to the miserable pettifogging which was exhibited in connection with the office at Parry Sound. There W, H. Bundy handed out papers which occasionally warranted the nnion of devoted persons and in the year he collected the large sum of 832 ! The News is surprised that such an income would arouse the cupidity and avy of any one, but it did, and noth. 'ng would do the local boss hut that the place and the perquisites should Ye given to a follower. "Henceforth," says 'ontemporary, "'as Toronto Cupid wields the how Hymen should be depicted with an axe." By the way the axe is the 'atest party decoration, It is worn on buttons, on tie pins, hat pins, and vatch chains, and is the symbol that ntitled the wearer to honor and tinetion anywhere, our dis- Editorial Notes. It is work that counts, friend, talk. not M. Faillieres is the new president of France. Though of menial origin he has risen to distinction on his merits. Who is acting as chairman of the focal license board * Not the superin- tendent of Rockwood ly ? Hospital sure w---- Public and municipal ownership the craze in New York. The political parties are vieing with each other in advocary of it. -- London wants "something" local = government in school or a "college, from the the way of a but is not quite clebr, as to the detail? Hon Adam Beck cannot be denied a favour, department. of On- is practically paralyzed. It is without a deputy, and its head, ac: cording to the Toronto News, nothing about it. ------ The London Spectator is surely jok- ing when it says "may join: hands iste," The education tario knows Mr. Chamberlain with' the national Oh, no. He cut them once. -He cannot do it a second time. a . Ba the people of Kingston believe that the local legislature should be without an opposition ? What sort of a government wonld the trovinee hae mo that ease ! -- The license inspector has good rea Son to cry out, "Save 'me from my friends." Some of them, ardent' con- Servatives, have threatened to drive Him out of the fire insurance business, Wil they succeed ? Mr. Hanna posed as a serious man she Tints, News is not surprised that the Kingston byeelection is 80 marks, "from the fact that the result The bye-election is quirt because the § © fen 'he suggested k that Kingston's ood ns -- of 'its ember. Were sthose whe protested 'the election desirous of puri- fying the edhititusney * Not much, in saying that there was a small-pox say that there was a smallpox "scare," and the telligencer tells us that there was it. ------ 5% The Whitney idem in opposition was to make the administration of the license law non-political. And the first step in that direction was to dismiss the mixed boards and appoint in their places political boards only, What is thespurpose of this? - Yio i ten The conservatives in the legislature used to denounce the inheritance tax. Mr. Matheson said it was a "robbing of the dead." The member for Hamil ton called it "confiseation.'"' And now that the conservatives are in power the robbery and the confiscation go on apace, ---- Municipal grafters are now known to have taken $5,000,000 of the peo- ple's money in 'the course construct- ing the Chicago waterworks, what a riot of grafting would follow the pad ing of street railways, gas works, elecs tric light works and other public utili- ties in the hands of the politicians of that city ! -------------------- SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The Better Way. Hamilton Spectator, Perhaps the British way of spread- ing ihe the elections is bette ould be an awful dose for - 0) tories in 'one day. --- A Good Example. Toronto Globe. If Galt, at the' instance of Mr. Gol- die, sets a Jgxample in the way of beautifying the town by private en- terprise, other places. will probably follow its example. A Tip To Cochrane. Hamilton Tames. Does Hon. Mr. Cochrane, minister of mines, think that the Cobalt contested claims are held by grafiers ? Or does e wish to make "Opportunities for grafters by ousting 'the original hold- ers ? A Gooa Ghange. Toronto Star. They are going to use electricity in opening the locks at the Welland can- | al hereafter. Hithert§ it has been the enstom to open them chiefly with cuss words from vessel captains, Hughes And His Work, Taronto News. In studying the: British election re- turns we must Bot + that. Col. Sam. Hughes went "to "aid' Bal- four, Sam.. really you must be a rot- ten campaigner, Have. to do better than that in Vietoria. Curry"s Good Work Ottawa Free Press. 'Jerome' Curry is doing great hunt- ing these days, Orie hundred and twen- ty-two guilty plumbers 18 a pretty big haul. However, i is a mere matter of hunting the hunters; they had previ ously fleeced some thing like 122,000 citizens. WISE GENEROSITY. How the Ross Government Saved the Soo. St. Thomas Journal An evidence of the farsight and public spirit of the Ross government and the short-sight and pessimism of the conservative opposition, in the late Ontario legislature, is" afforded by the guarantee of "the two million loan to resuscitate the Soo industries, then in a stateof collapse. The Ross government felt that it was their duty as well as the part of patriotic wis- dom, to come to the help of these industries, with the object of re-ostab lishing them, and vreventing an im: mense and valuable plant, with a great future of usefulness, from pass- ing for a song into the hantls of some gigantic monopoly such as the United | States Steel trust. The opposition, when the proposal = was made, constituted themselves a hoard: of calamity howlers, anf denounced the government as betrayers of the interests of the provinee. Mr. Whit ney, the then leader of the opposition) going so far as to declare that the gd might as well he thrown into « lake, thus showing his faith in Zhe resources of our northern country, and his deep knowledge of 'industrial conditions, of evil been foolei ? From the very moment the guarantee act was pass ed, its justifieation began. The re organized company proceeded {6° re vive the dormant industries, with re sults, generally stated, of resurrecting town of Sault Ste. Marie, which was threatened with practical extinction, repaying the loan advanced by the government, to pay wages, payment of interest regular v mare. The solicitor of the company, is in Toronto from Sault Ste. Marie, wives the pleasing asstirance that it is the intention of the Soo company to pay the two milijon dollar loan when it falls due, on May 1st next, The town has resumed © its former prosperity, the monthly pay roll for" wages, ele. ambunting at present to about R150,000, or at the rate of 81,800,000 per year, neatly equal to the amount of the loan advanced by the Ross government only two short years age who McCoy Goes Into Business. Albany, Jan. 19.<"Kid" McCoy's determination to abandon ring and enter business, some time ago, materialized here to- day in the form of a certificate of in- corporation granted "Norman Selby company," of New York. The pany is of R10000 to jewelry. The directors Selby. Gicorge R, Simpson and Renj min Marcus, of New York, i) com The Whig did { Belleville an injustice "patient" in the city: It was meant to. lv no occasion for 3 av after all | conservative | How have these prophets the prize expressed incorporated with a capital manufacture and sell | are Norman THE HIGH SCHOOL HAD A BIG TIME. Commencement, - . Exercises Opera House--Hon. R. L. Borden Spoke--/Mother and Child Die Within a Month. Gananoque, Jan, 19.4The school commencement exercises, last evening, were - brought toa most successful issue. The opera house was packed to the door. An address of welcome was read to Mr. and Mrs, R. L. Borden, by Mayor Wilson. J. I'. Sinclair, M.D, filled the chair, in a very creditable manner. Un the platform were : Mr. any Mrs. George Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. MeMurthy, Mayor Wilson, Councillors M. McPar- land, and Dr. W. J, Gibson, Dr. E. I. Atkinson, W. B. Carroll, Freeman Britton, R. G. Graham, 7. M. Gal braith, A. 8. "Farmer, J. (. Linksla ter and 'H. J. Foik. Solos were ren- dered during the evening by Messrs. Roland Lafrance Jack Timberlike and Clarence Skinner. Addresses were delivered! by the chairman, J. P. Sinclair, M.D, R. L. Borden, W. B. Carroll and George Taylor, M.P. The Misses Florence Reid" and Beatrice Fakins read their hizh M. FALLIERES, President of the French Senate and one of the ablest Conservatives in France, the successor of M. Loubct as president of the French republic. prize essays on "Portia," tus," winners in the and third and fourth form competi tions. J. C. Linklater and J. M, Wal- Ker presenting the prizes. Miss Lottie Smith, on behali of the school, pre sented Mrs. Borden with a beautiful bouquet of red carnations. The Rees orchestra furnished excellent music during the evening. The meeting came to a close about eleven o'clock hy singing the national anthem. During the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Borden paid a visit to the school, The funeral of the infant C. Hadigan, who died took place to Gananoque this afternoon. Mrs. within the past month, about four months old, 'The funeral of the late Farrett Johnson will take place front the home of F. C. Johnson, Sixth Concession, township, on Saturday afternoon, Miss Olive Henderson, Hickory streat, is visiting frends in Lans downe for a few days, Miss Grace Pot ter, Kingston, has been visiting Mrs. J. A. Bean, King street, the past week, Miss Lillie Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lee, Broek street, is spending 'a few weeks in Kingston. R, G. Graham, headmaster of Gananoque high school, will intro duce the topic in the Manhood League meeting next Sunday. The "Onur National Heritage." Edgar Waldie, who has his leg frac tured a few weeks ago, and who since been in St. Vincent de Hospital, Brockville, has home. Miss Mae Logan, Logan, John street, entertained a few friends at her home on Wednesday evening in honor of her friend, ' Miss Dora Sauve, of Garden Island. Misses Mary and Annie Brady, of Newboro, who have heen visiting Mrs. Freeman Moore, Garden street, past few weeks, have | Miss Edith Truesdale, the guest of her cousin, Miss Orma Wilson, Watertown, NY. this week. Miss Aretta Moore, after spending the past four months with friends and re- latives at Plum Hollow, home. Mrs. David Kingston, who has been spenamg a few days with Mrs. Freeman Moore Garden street, has returns 'd home. J. Ross, son of J, Ross, deft this week to attend Duff lege at Brigham, P.Q and "Bru first and second, son of F. Wednesday cemetery Hadigan died The child was Leeds during topic being has Paul returned daughter of JJ for the returned home, of Wilstead, i) has returned Carpenter, of barrister, erin Col- Kidney Troubles Overcome, Peek's Kidney Fills do énre dinary kidney * and bladder troubles The remedy © is a scientific one, It goes right to the afiected places and gives prompt and certain reliof. Bene. fit is usually noticed from the first dose or 4wo. The entire system, 98 cleansed and Strengthened. In boxes, Be. For sale only at Wade's drug store. Money back if not satis factory ------ "Saturday cigar cent cig I's Prag Store, A man called Lufiman, asking the police runaway wife. i Value Of "Ozone." . The Yalu of "Ozone! : fit is really all or bargains," 1 {on "25e.. Gibson's Red Cross Belleville, is to help him find his Lo medi- germs of in- If taken in science, 1 kills the ternal disorders, trated form: (and that tion of Ozone, the ensures a speedy concen - means **Solu- coupon kind") jt cure for asth bronchitis, Bright's iim trouble, malaria and rheumatism. "his stringent remedy needs with it a tonic laxative to secure the best. re sults. Your druggi will give vou sixteen ounces of "Solution of Orone™ for Bfty cents, 5% H vou insist on ; the coupon: kind will guarantee a free "nackage of "Celery King.' The Pub. disease, : GANANOQUE TIDINGS | gE Apollinaris THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS" Bottled only at the Apollinaris Spring, Neuenahr, Germany, and Only with its Own Natural Gas, 0 WAI I et, Bibby"s Bibby's OVERCOAT SALE 20 Per Cent. Discount On All Our Winter Overcoats Fine Black Meltons, Beavers, Vicunas and Some Nobby Tweed Tourist Coats. We're doing business now with but one end view--the absolute clearance of all Winter Overceats, THE H. D. BIBBY CO. The Overcoat Store of the Town, 78, 80, 82 Princess St. LS ae -- "0 -- UE AN TREN ARREARS ACR 3 po) AN LAR >) ar Cod Si Qil. Cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis. A splendid tonic as well as the best cough remedy. Equally good for children and adults. Sold everywhere 35¢. for large bottle. J. L. Mathieu Co., PROP. SHERBROOKE, P.Q. c-110§ A) AS Esme RRR Gray's Syrup Red Spruce Gum For Coughs and Colds. POP PEOIOTLD PEPLLIPP POPPI Typewriter Bargains We have too many second-hand Typewriters en hand. You can get a Bargain for cash this month. Ne. 2 Smith Premier. Good as new. Good value at $75. Sale price, $565. A snap. No. 2 Underwoods and No, 4 Williams at $60. No. 2 Remington and No, 2 Williams at $25. Jewetts at $30. A Dougherty or Hammond for $10. J. BR. C. DOBBS & €0., 171 Wellington St. $3344 Jiserises $2333400 $2034 DO NOT Do not get your feet wet-- WEAR RUBBERS. Do not get your feet cold-- WEAR OVERSHOES. If you want the best in Overshoes or Rubbers ask for CANADIAN We have many kinds to choose from, MOGCASINS, WARM FELT BOOTS NICE WARM FELT SLIPPERS for house wear from 25¢. to $1.25, lic Drug Company, Bridgeburg, Ont. The Sawyer Shoe Store ""TORONTO NEWS TORONTO. Want Ads, 4 Bring results. No doubt of it. The "News" covers Toronto and 2,475 other Post Offices in the Pro- vince of Ontario. Just a little better than most other papers for results. 1 cent per word per insertion f kidne A WOMAN'S BACK THE MAINSPRING HER PHYSICAL SYSTEM. Tous Liable to Cause Years of Te Suffering. No woman can be strong and b unless the kidneys are well, and reg their action. When the Kidneys 3 the whole body is ill, for the poisons the kidneys ought to have filtered the blood are left in the system. The female constitution is na more subject to kidney disease | man's; and what is more, a womer is never done--her whole life is tinucus strain. How many women have you hea "My, how my back aches Do yo that backache is one of she fir st 8 trouble? It is, and should Other syv -, thick, tend: when urinating, 1 ing und ler the eyes, sw sb These symptoms it cured at once, will cause years of | iduey suffering. All these symptor lin aid, these diseases may be cured DOAN'S IDNEY PII hey act directly on the kidney ake them strong and healthy. Mrs. Mary Galley, Agburn, N.8., For over four months 1 was troubl lame back and was unable to turr ithout help. I wasinduced by a fi y Doan's Kidney Pills. After usi hirds of a box my bac Price 50 cents per 4 1.25 at all dealers, or sent direct eipt of price. The Doan Kiduey 1 Worouto, Ont. IMISCALLED "HAIR TO} fost Hair Freparatioris Merely Scalp Iiritants, Value. Most hair | calp irritants, When hair is brit bro's He alp fever, o he falling hair ig instantly, to grow. Sold by leadin Send 10c. in hr picid > Mahood, special stamps for our rion? ite fet your a Digney bec if nots: Fhe Great English A positive on sexual WV JRE AND ArTak Brain Mk torrhoca, Impotence AS, of Excess, all which Viead to Co , Insaqityand an carl Re Bens 1 3 alldri ste or mail on ait of price. Writefor '00d Medicine Co... Windso e For Cement. oston Herald Bostonians will remember hina pitcher which stood fi ars in the window ~ of ( itcher's famous. resort on M Ong day a proeior went i and tried to sell him saving it would even ng pitcher, which had son rome woken. Col. "Bill" tol £0 up to a certain number + time givii ¢ he man that he had cracked p vas of wa England's t the reeks only Bryne x h after its much horald rom Venezuela, in spite of oney and beef 'tea, The only place von ean of ip of Boveil, hg Store, Gibson's | It's free there.