UEFA le ke. Issued 4 beautifully BLTEEET ITE d. St.John', PQ. n Is Hot Furs while is on and yuld be ob- ager buyers that packed s_ there such an opportu- Come and be convinced eld in Kingston id. rincess St, ompany. ND, AGENT, {ing St. ? Needs ! here is a lot of things needed i chen that you never think of you keep house or a tin store. e have been supplying peopl e things for so many years that can tell preity near - what th t. 1 the different shapes.and styles in i and Pans, Bread Boxes, Ket ce Pans, and the dozens of 1 should be in a well ap hen are here, at prices very low. BROS . 'Phone 35. PEP PIPLOPLE Back Number 3 Oo not use a Type- 'he visible writing will please you and for a month. % + pany, Royalty ;iesis OF CANADIAN SORT. WEST HOM TEAD REGULATIONS ES rr -- \ 'pumbered section of - Domin- wo A toba or the North- vinces, excepting 8 and 26, net Fro may be nomesteaded upon by who is the sole of a py male over 18 years of extent of one-quarter Sec 160 acres more or lees. Eh de personally at the Batry WAY 1, tho district in which eal to be taken is situated, or if the he land r desires, he may, 1 to the Minister of the Interior, the Commissioner of Immigra- or the agent for the land is situ- ate feceive 4 for him. mike ent) XD DUTIES : A settlet who Ho A an entry for a howe bas Deon ed to perform the cum- sed ein therewith under one of wlans : 1o00 least six months residence 'upon a vation of the land in each year nd Se term of three years. of the oe Ii the father (or mother, t a is deceased) of any person who is a to make a homestead entry un- o sions of this Act, resides gt {Rg the vicinityZed the land red for 'by such person howe uircments of this Act as to lend. {he oor to obtaining patent may satisfied by such person residing with in father or inother. y (8) If the settler has his permanent dence upon farming land owned hy Joi in the vicinity of bis honiestead, the him In ents of tms Act as to residence rey be satisfied bv residence upon the said land. FOR PATENT should APPLICATIC three years, the end of be- fe ade {ical Awent, Sub-Agent oF the 0 ad Inspector. pe ne annlications for patent he settler must -give six months' notice 9 iting to the Commssioner of bu- hy Lands at Ottawa, of his intention o do 8 ; YNOP OF 8 CANADIAN NORTH- WEST MINING REGULATIONS. soul --Uoal lands may be purchased at 0 re for soft coal and $20 for anthracite. Not more than 320 acres can be atquired by one individual or com. at the rate of ten cents per ton of 2,000 pounds shall be collected on the gross output : Quartz.--A free miners erapted upon paymeost in advance of $5 per annum for an individual, and from $50 to $100 per annum for a com- pany according to capital. A free miner, having discovered mineral fn place, may, locate a claim 1,500x1,- 500 feet. The fee for recording a claim is $5. At Jeust $100 must he expended on the lain each yoar or puid to the mining re- corder in lieu thereof. When $500 hes been sxpomded or paid, the locator may, mon having a survey made, and upon complying With other requirements, pur chase the land at %1 an acre. provides for the payment of 2} per © on the sales. mining claims generally are entry fee $5, renewable certificate Is ER square ; A free miner mov obtain two leases to dredge for gold of five miles each fora erin of twenty Vears, renewable at the discretion of the Minister of the Interior. The lessee shall have a dredge in oper- ation within one seaspn from the date of the lease for each five miles. Rental, $10 ner annum for each wile of river leased, Royalty at tho rate of 24 per cent collect- «lon the output after it exceeds $10,000. WwW. W. CORY, Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. N.B.~Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for. n Crests and EMBOSSING sce for Paper and Envelopes ENGRAVING cide" Letter haads Besides all classes of Letter Printing from a card to a volume. Press THE WHIG, Kingston "THERE IS A TIME FOR ALL THINGS." Now, while prices are low, is the time to fill your coal bin with best quality SCRANTON COAL from P: Walsh's Yard BARRACK STREET. masa mS A ---- At Strachan's Hardware ste. vm, ENTER NOW Civ} Strvice "these. Shorthand or Kingsfon Business - Limited Head of Queen Street Kingston = « Canada Spacious apartments, ' excellent 3.B, McKAY, H. ¥, METOALFE President, Principal, Guarantee RUaranteg Kington Milk De Cor, : oy oes Bagot Sts, on appli- | onest THE SUGAR DUTIES AS DISCUSSSD BEFORE THE TARIFF COMMISSION. ---- A Memorial Presented--Decline in Values, Duty and Protection, Volume of Business, etc. Dis- cussed at Length. ttawa, March 19.--The following is the memorial on certain statements regarding the duties on sugar fyled Ind March, 1906, with the Tarifi Com- mission by the Canada Sugar Refining Co., in reply to the memorandum sub- mitted by Robert Anderson on the same subject : ; On the 8th February, Robert Ander- son, acting on behalf of Messrs. Ro: bert Crooks & Co., importers of re fined sugar, presented to you an, ela- borate statement in regard to the sugar duties, covering 42 of typewritten matter, which may he summed up as an udreserved indict ment of the Canadian duties on suear, under which Mr. Anderson asserts the refiners have a complete monopoly of the Canadian market, and amass enor- mous profits at the © expense of the Canadian consumer, Mr. Anderson supports his case with an elaborate series of figures and cal- culations, and has spread his memori- al broadcast. Under these circumstances, the reply which we now make is an endeavor to show you that Mr. Anderson is not' a reliable authority on this matter, and to give to his conclusions an empha- tie denial and contradiction as incon sistent with facts, * Before, however, dealing with the main question, one or two points may be noted. On page 3, Mr. Anderson as- serts, quoting his own words, refer- ving to last season-- "The refiners wore maintaining - an artifically hich market in Canada until recently, when they reduced their prices to make as unprofitable a return as possible for the domestic beet factories in Ontario.' This statement js absolutely devoid "of anv foundation, as the following facts will show : 1905 was a disastrous vear to every dealer in sugar, decline after decline in values. took place, the refiners were obliged, as usual, to follow the mar- kets wholly independent of the ques: tion ofyloss or profit, the following successive declines actually took place: Reauctions in price of Refined Sugar from January, 1908, to date. Declines. 1905 Number. Amount. February ... wail $0.10 April i 10 May 3 30 June .. 3 25 August 1 L0 September 2 20 Octoher 3 30 November 1 10 1906. Jamuary oo... ... - 2 20 Pebruary : -.-,... 1 d0 Por 0 Ibs. .\ wise oun $1.75 Total amount of declines hefore com- mission met in Montreal, $1.35. Total amount of declines after com- mission met in Montreal, 40 cents, The great majority of these declines it will be noted took place long before the Ontario beet sugar came into view (about the beginning of November), and it may be summed up that Mr. Anderson's accusation is wholly base loss. Another of Mr. Anderson's state- ments runs as follows: "The refiners' actions savor of a demonsyration to impress the trade and the country, for on the morning the hearing was open- ed in Montreal (7th November), the facts were that at that time [says Mr. Anderson), there. were no supplies of preferential sugar available for im- port." Now, the Tariff Commission op- ened on 7th November, and we direct special attention 16 the last sentence of Mr. Anderson's--for we would draw attention to the fact that the mani- fests of this port show at this very time, that is, during the month of Je- tober, 1905, when, as he says: "No preferential sugar could be had' --his firm alone imported at Montreal, over 11.060 hags of sugar--what duty this sugar paid we do not know, but it must have been preferential, at a re bate of 33 1-3 per cent., because Mr. Anderson says elsewhere, that that kind only ean come to ('anada, And if further proof is reanired of the value of Mr. Anderson's "facts" we would quote reports of one British port--Greenock--from which the fol- lowing exports took place for Canada: Week ending Tons. 1th October, 1903 M0 21st October, 1905 | 365 2%th October, 1905 : 150 41th November, 1905 . 200 Mr. Anderson goes on to another point where he assumes to speak of things of which he knows nothing and can know nothing. In page 5 he says: "I'he Canadian refimer buys only in bond, and does not pay on the aver age any premium to the British West India planter for his sugar, over what the New York refiner would eive for it--which is pocketed by the Canadian refiner as extta profit." All this is false, the Canadian refiner has paid and does pay a large share of the pre- ference to the West India planter. In 194 we paid to the West India sellers an average premium of 129-10 cents per. 100 lbs, over and above the New York market price of the day on account of this preference. In 1905 we paid an average premium of 137-10 cents per 100 lbs, Now, the sugars on which we paid these extra prices, ranged in test from 75 degrees to 96 degrees, and the pre ference to which these sugars were en- titled by law ranged accordinaly from 13 cents to 24 cents per 100 lbs. A large share therefore of the reduction of duty on raws has gone to the West India planter. As it is a fact that Nr. Anderson 'is engaged in importing re: fined sugar. represented to be made from' West India raws, and claims and collects a rebate of over 40 cents per 100 lbs, it becomes appropriate to ask if he himself, or his firm, contri- butes anv portion of this large premi- um to the West India planter, to whom it is as righteously due as from Canadian refiner uses, a Mer. Anderson proceeds to his main argnment, viz.: That the Canadian re- finers are over protected, his assertion a i 30 per cent. more protection than is given to American refiners." that portion of their crops which the} ng that, to quote his own. words, -- "The sugar are granted over Mr. Anderson's statement in support of this assertion is as follows: Canadian duty on refined Canadian duty on raw ... .. My Apparent protection -.. 55 U. 8. duty on refined $1.95 U. 8. duty on raw ... 1.684 Apparent 'protection ... .. 26} In these figures Mr. Anderson con- veniently conceals the followine facts: Ist. He takes the highest rate of Canadian duty, viz, on granulated, omitting to mention that on all soft sugars the Canadian rate of duty runs down as low as $1.08 per 100 lbs, which reduces the Canadian duty on refined to $1.20-and by the preferen- tial tarifi to 80 cents. While the Am- erican duty on all qualities and grades of refined is at the uniform rate of $195 per 100 pounds. He hirther assumes that the Ameri- can refiners are paying. a dutd of S164 on their raw material. Let examine this. The United States consumption of sugar of all kinds during the year 1905 was 2,6R2216 tons, and the sources of supply from which this was drawn were as Jollows : ¥ U. 8, CONSUMPTION, 1903, Source Duty 'Tons. Domestic cane and beet. free 578,121 Hawaii and = Porto Rico...free $01,425 Philippines 1.968 14,673 Cuha... .. .... ...1.34 8-10 1,101 G11 Other Countries ... 1.68} 438.083 From these figures it is proved that the percentage of Sugar imported paying full duty only 21 1-3 per cent. of the whole. Sugar consumed paying full duty is only 16 23 per cent. of the whole. Consequently the average duty paid on imported sugar, basis 96 degrees, is $1.00} per 100 lbs., and on sugar con sumed, basis 96 degrees, $0.8518 per 100 Ibs. The foregoing table shows that the American refiner, instead of paying 1.68) on his raw sugar, really vontri hutes that duty on only 21 per cent. of the total importations and the ac tual contribution to the American re- venue by the American refiner is $1.09) per 100 lbs, at the most. Applying these "corrections to "Mr." Anderson's table above, we find the true situation to be: us Pe: 100 lbs. Applying [Preference the Can- adian duty on Refined of all grades i estimate ... .. .. 30.80 UN POW: vance co oh si ie ne A8 Apparent protection ... ,.$0.32 Per 100 lbs. U. S, duty on refined 81.95 Us S. duty on raw, as explain- ed 2 havisns nase Sunt a 094 Apparent protection ..;..8$0.85} Ro that by deducting '23 cents from the Canadian protection, and adding 39 cents to the American, we arrive at the truth, which, as above, is :-- American protection 83) cents 100 Ibs. Canadian protection, 100 lbs. You will observe that the word "ap- parent' is used in both cases, because, as it takes more than 100 lbs. of raw to produce 100 lbs. of refined, the pro- tection to refiners is reduced. Mr. Anderson proceeds to calemlate the advantage accruing to the Cana dian refiners from the dumping clause. Now, it may be said in reference to the dwuping clause that while it is a righteous provision against that pro cess, applicable to other commodities besides sugar, it has never had the ef fect of adding one single cent to the price of Canadian refined sugar, and never can do so as long as British re ined can be had, to which the clause does not apply. He proceeds to contrast the price of granulated in New York with that in Montreal, to quote his own words "The net prices were recently on the same day." per 32 cents per Per Per 100 Ibs. 100 lbs, Granulated in New. York $4.15 Paying a duty of .. . $1.68) Granulated in Montreal 1.08} Paying a duty of 723 £1.20 56 Therciore, he says, while the New York refiner paid $1.20 5-6 per 100 lbs more duty on his raw than the Cana dian refiner did the return to the Can 'UESDAY, Can't Eat Mooney's Perfection Cream Sodas are different from any other cracker. Nothing heavy or doughy about them but so light and crisp that they are trans- parent. Mooney's biscuits will be a regular dish cn your table if you will try them. Say "Mooney's" to your grocer. A LONDON MOTHER WRITES ABOUT LACTATED FOOD. SAVED THE BABY GIRL.--~A Lon don, Ont., M0ther, grateful for the preservativh of her baby's life, writes thus + "My baby girl was very sick during the summer, and the doctor said it was almost impossible to save her. Diarrhoca had reduced her very much, and Tor days she lay in her cot helpless and weak. | fortunately read about vour Lactated Food, and deter mined to try one can for the baby. Two or three days after feeding it to hahy, | noted an improvement, She gained strength and slept naturally. The food agreed with her stomach, and she seemed to like it. For. a month, Lactated Food was the only nourishment | gave baby. To-day, 1 am happy to say that my child bright, strong and in good health. 1 wish 1 could talk to every mother in Canada who has asck infant; I would certainly advise the use of Lactated Food," Ask your druggist for it, Table showing the ad valorem equivalents of present duties at pres ent market value : Duty Raw AWE material, p.e. Cotton, no duty Wool, no duty , 0% Silk, no duty Jute, no duty Pro- tection, p.e. 20.to 33 30 to 35 Rubber, no duty . 251033 tod Sugar Raw Refined on pavs the average (Gen. tariff). 45 2.5 *4S8 1-5 243 (Pref. tariff). 302-10 *32 3.9 17-2 The above figures show that sugar refining instead of being as alleged a specially favoured industry. has pro hably a lower rate of preference from the tariff than any pther industry of importancd in the Dominion. A differ once of less than two and one-half per cent, ad valorem existing between the duty collected from the raw material and that on of refined competing importa Toronto Street Market. Toronto, March 19.--~Wheat, white, bush., 4c. to 5c; red, Te. to de spring, ¢.; goose, Tle. oats, 39c.; barley, 52c.; peas, Tc; ry bay, timothy, ton, 9 to $10.2 EX to $10: dressed apples, per bbls . new laid, dozen, 20¢ Jeg butter, dairy, 2e, ~ to 25¢ creamery, 0c: chickéns, per Ih, 12 to Me; fowl, per 1h, le le; turkeys, 17e. fo 20¢.; geese, 12¢ to He; cabbage, per dozen, 40c¢, ed, 86 to 8%; $8.7 hog to He. cauliflower, per dozen, 75c. to ¥1: po tatoes, per bag, to per bag, ¥I to %1.15; cel 3 to 40c.; beef, onions, . per doz adian refiner was apparently 84 1-3 York refiner got. Applying the necessary correction to | this statement, we find that the cor rect figures for the day Mr. Anderson | appeared before the commission were | as follows : | Per Per 100 Ibs, 100 hs, Granulated in New York het ...... os . $1.15 Paying a duty of........ 81.004 Granulated in Montreal 3.847% Paying a duty of......4723 | 61 0} leaving Montreal 1 7-12 cents per 100 Ibe, better than New York instead of $4 cents as Mr. Anderson has it. But we attach little importance to the comparison for it is next to im possible to follow the ups and downs of the New York market, Substantial: ly, however, the comparison has been just about the same as the corrected figures given above through the year past. It seems unnecessary to pursug the analysis of Mr. Anderson's calculations further; what rewains is affected with the same disease of erroneous data and conclusions as in the cases above dealt with. We do not hesitate to affirm that the information he offers the govern: ment is inaccurate and unreliable, and his conclusions absurd. His proposed tariff changes would certainly answer his purpose and transfer to the im- porters the entire business of the sup- ply of refined sugar to this country, and deprive the West Indies of the traffic and preference they now enjoy. Red, the inaccurate state! ith regard to the protection | fits of the sugar refiners, a glance at the subjoined table will bef ins : cents per 100 Ibs, more than the New | #5¢ { to 85; | earcase, hindguarters, 5 to 40c.; beef, hindquarters, $ forequarters, $4.50 to $5.50; choice, carcase, $6.50 to 86.75 83.590 to R6; ewt., $8 to $0; veal, #10; lamb, per ewt., 5; mediuy, mutton, per per ewt., $8 to S050 to ¥11 Thomas W. Butler, governor of Nor LTolk county jail, died at Simcoe, aeed sixty-two years THE EASY OIL. Scott's Emulsion" is "the easy oil"--easy to take, easy in action. Its use insures deliverance from the griping and nau- seating sensation peculiar to the raw oil., Nobody who has any regard for their stomach thinks of taking cod liver oil in the old way when Scott's Emulsion is to be had. It is equally certain that no one having a regard for their health will accept a cheap emulsion or alco- holic substitute for Scott's Emulsion. It fulfills ev- ery mission of cod liver oil and more. | scorT & BOWNE, Toreate, Oat, You MARCH 20. ROARING. BLIZZARD 7 femongst SWi Pi RIGHT OVER BRITISH COLUMBIA. Havoc Wrought in Vancouver and' the Rural Sections--There Will Be a Scarcity of Labey in Van- couver Next Summer. Vancower, B.C, March 12.---Strayed into the province of British Columbia, and on down to the Pacific coast, a wild and roaring north-west blizzard. How it happened to get here without breaking to pieces coming over the mountains is a mystery, for it came as though the old "Nick" was after 1 it. Everything: was lovely here until Saturday morning; the robins und the frogs were singing as usual, tha all at once we were greeted with a roar. Silence was at once proclaimed the songsters, whijst the Nor'wester which had just entered our midst. immediately became boisterous and began throwing things around, and from that time up to this pre- sent, three davs and two nights it has behaved in a most uncomely man ner. In our city it has been the direct cause of fifteen fires, some of them de structive, and even now as | write this the fire brigade goes rushing by, while the fire bells ring out 5-4: this makes the sixteenth fire which we can charge up to our unwelcome visitor. Out in the conntry it has wrought havoe even more serious than in the city. Up the Fraser Valley, in Lang- ley, Chilliwack, Port Haney, Port Hammond and » other places we are informed by telephone that the de- struction to the fruit crop, such as peaches, pears and plums, which are just now in full bloom will be serious, Garden stufis also will be greatly damaged. This, raging, roaring waste of energy, which seems to have about spent itself, was unaccompanied by" and for this we would give were it not that the Vie toria prognosticator tells us that snow is in its trail, but as. the Vie torin man sometimes makes mistakes we hope that the worst is over, and that the songs of the birds and bees may again he heard, and that the next nor-easter that starts west may change its course ere it reaches hare, and go to Halifax. Down im Oregon the storm was even worse than here, for there it was accompanied hy snow, there aiso the iff crop will suffer severely, The worst fire here in the city dur ing the gale was at the Orphans' Home. The building was totally de stroyed, but' the poor little creatures were all" rescued. There were thirty- seven of them in the building. Notwithstanding contradictions hy interested parties in the ecastern press, there is going to |} scarcity of Ia bor in Vancouverye coming summer, and wages are going to range high. Labor is quite_as scarce, and wages as high at the present time as they were in July of last year, and: unless there is a great influx of labor before the canneries start, what we are going to do is a problem. This scarcity of la hor, we believe, applies to all classes but bartenders. Of * this latter have enough and to spare. We have no special inducements to offer to the man with the "get-rich-quick" idea, but the honest workman, be he skill ed or unskilled can find just remuner ation for his labors in Vancouver the coming summer, H. i snow, thanks, we E. NEWTON. THE ORIGIN OF CATARRH Is Interesting, But a True Cure is What You Selibgn "Find. Scarcely anyone escapes catarrh some form, At first it is a cold. But each day makes ii more sicken ing and offensive, As the nose gets plugged "ap the patient has to breathe through the mouth, and run the risk of letting consumption germs get into the lungs, No use wying to eure with snuffs, atomizers or stomach medicine, The germs are in' the nostrils, the throat and air passages. Only Catar rhozone can reach the trouble, for it goes wherever the air vou breathe can go. Into the smallest air cells, into every passage, catarrh--vou ean quickly arrhozone. Sore spots are healed, inflammation subdued, the mucous membranes cleansed and strengthened, the of the trouble being cured hy Catar rhozone, thorough eure quickly fol lows. Foolish to put off when eure is handy. Your druggist sells Catarrho- zone, two months' treatment $1. of apply Cat wherever there's a sign ar: cause 20 Wants To Drain Dismal Swamp. Washington, March 19.--A bill has heen introduced in the house by Re presefitative Small* of North Carolina, to drain the great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The bill provides that £3,000 000 of the money hereafter arising from the sale of pub Aic lands may be used to construct a comprehensive system of drainage for the swamp. Interviewed on the nea sure, Mr. Small said : "The drainage of this swamp would open up thou sands of acres of the most fertile lands in the country." He contends that the great Dismal Swamp is more capable of being drained than the North Dakota lands. Will Benefit By The Strike. Pittsburg, Pa., March 19: With a sufficient water stage to ship coal south, the Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke company is holding 5,000,000 bushels of coal in Pittsburg harbor. After April 1st it is expected that is the wage advance is not grant pd the miners, the price of coal will go up at least fifty cents a ton to the consumer. With 'the amount of coal in the harbor the company will net a hig profit. Officials say that the reason for non: shipment ix that the mills in the Pitts. burg district are storing foel in anti cipation of a shut-down of the mines. -- If you had taken two of Carter's Little Liver Pills before retiring you wonld not have had that coated tongue or bad taste in the mouth this morning. Keep a vial with yon for oe- casional use, ©. RUBBERS ~ AGAIN I$ It seemed as though spring had comie, yes, but only to go again Now, we pay particular attention to dry feet. Wear our Rubbers and save colds and trouble. We highly recommend. the "CANADIAN" RUBBERS. They fit the best--wear the best. 338 We have Rubbers for everybody--=men, wo- men, boys, girls and children. : Try us when wanting Rubbers. Abernethy's Shoe Store That The Paint -: Won't Come Of that's Sterling Paint ! It's sold at Lemmon & Son's, King Street, And carries with-it an absolute guarantee. It's cheaper than other paints, too. Try a gallon. » - a ---- Shoe Whims Almast every man has shoe whims of his own. Nothing irritates him more than being urged to buy a totally different kind of shoe from those he wants, simply because the Shoe Store in question doesn't carry his favorite kind. We can please nearly every man with shoes. Not all--that would be impossible--but at least you won't be talked into STi shoes. THE CHOICE OF GOOD SHOES Here is both, exceptionally and surprisingly large. Take for example our Men's Patent Colt Biucher 5 and Bal at $3 50. They are better by a dollar and more than any other shoes you can find at the price. hi H. Sutherland & £ Envying the rich is one way of wish- ing for money- we never earned,