Whether Youbuy by the earload, + bushel br hundred your right and wnt orders are lodged with us. an wo ax mote, execpt. that. of Crisis At Hand. 'J didly as did Chamberlain recently. in his birthday address un to speak in 'behalf of the Hl and to say that they would cast | the education bill aside, a8 a thing of ovil, and that in the appeal to the people he and his party would de if HT Ere ; i Arecont years by tory appointments, | may invite the collision that has been anticipated for years, and with the '| result that' the hereditary chamber will be ended 'or mended. The duke in- sinuates that the liberals are disturb- ing the social conditions of the coun- try, but it was the Balfour party, with the help of the Devonshire- Chamberlain faction, that undertook to fasten an unpopular educational system on the people, and the great vote in the ~eneral election is an evi- dence of how public opinion rerarded the question. The developments of the next few days will be watched with profound interest. oA Want Of The Hour. Ald. Bassam has said that he could retire contentedly from publio life if he could see' the way cleared for the ercetion of a bathing house, His faith fs in the engincer, and in this respect it is not wisely rooted. What can the | engineer do about it? He could pen haps draw a plan of the building, but others can do that and still leave no hope of the institution whose want grieves the worthy alderman beyond expression, The want of the hour is & sum of money suflicient to warrant the ereo- tion of a bathing resort in keeping with the city's demands, The council does not offer any cheer in this direc tion. It had a little oxura revenue this year from liquor licenses snd it wag fondly anticipated. From it there were to be increased grants to the charit- able institutions, additions to the salaries of certain deserving offivial, and other things not necessary to mention hero, "The hospitals got their relief. 'The officials are living in hope. The civic improvements oan bide awee, The bathing house depends, appar: tly, upon private generosity. Some | citizen of lurge : Daily Whig. "Is thore anything menacing in the address of the Duke of Devonshire on the bducation bill? The duke i a liberal of the old school, and acted With the liberal party until Gladstone Projected the home rule bill; His fami: Iy had suffered through Irish distrust and distemper. Viscount Cavendish, his 'brother, had been assassinated while acting as lord-lioutenant of Ireland, The duke left the liberal party, with Chamberlain, and became a liberal un- | ionist. He broke away from the newer | party on the trade question, but b [not a supporter of the Bannerman government, | The address, in its form, is enigma- tical. The duke does not. speak ban (The man of many views and many 'when some years avo, Montreal rose two to the point of asking for power to Sad embark in the electric light business, 'in order to seen the monopolies, the sty- | lovitlatire repulsed it, : And yet Montreal, of all the cities in Canada, has wuffered from imposi- tion, It has been ~practiclly at the mercy of 'the gas and eleetric light companies. No so lone ago it was muleted in $110 per street lamp per Year. A company, including Sir Wil liam Van 'Horne and Senator Deum- {of mond, offered the same service at 854.75 per lamp per year, and it was refused, The council, labouring under Some strange infatuation, gave the ated J. §, contract to the old company, at $90 | News, for nd later $60 per lamp per year, cents per thousand feet. The vas com- changing, and that an appeal to the attitude of the legislature on public ownership. 1t forestalls this hy sug- vesting that if the council will pro- long its purchase for thirty odd years it will reduce the price of vas {fo 95 cents per thousand feet now, and give a sliding scale so that in the far distant future there would be gas Jot a lower rate and Perhaps far less than 80 cents, The press is opposing the proposition and. with every indication of success. | Thé one thine to the eredit of the f | Montreal papers is this--that in the tthe honest at | contemplation' of monopolistic deals they act with such vigour that there them now it is a case of 80 cent gas without compromikes, or an appeal to {is no standing their onslaughts. With [| the people and the legislature, Editorial Notes, They Toronto Star says the Temis- caming railway commission should re- sigh. O1 course it should. But will it? The Bannerman government does not halt because the uke of Devonshire threatens, The duke is pontlerous in his talk, but not hurtin, -- Jerome, like the coon on a still hunt, *'is not sayin' nuthin' *' hut the may accept the challenge to run for the governorship of New York, and then there will be something doing. -- What good Purpose can be served by the jarring and quarreling of Mr, Murray and Dr, McKay in North Kenfrew The snarl hag gone . on long enough, -- Now that the Zionites have elected Voliva their new leader the less will be heard from Dowie. He can graceful ly disappear, and the world will find no fault if he ceases to advertise hig sing. -- What's the use of talking about cheap gas here when the extensions are made. The extensions only in- directly aficet the situation. The con- sumption of gas and revenue thero- from are the determining factocs. ---- Success to Matheson and the pro- vincial loan, 1 he floats the three millions at par he will thank the liberals for the suggestion to offer it to the Canadiens, as they were able to buy. He lost enough by the last loan, which he sold abroad. The Citizen wants it to be under stood that ifs attack on the govern- mont regarding the Murphy deal is according to the eternal fitness of things. So it is, But our contempor- ary is not always so just in its con- tensions. This is not the first sin of o the Whi 20 nt colate covered peppermint marsh- mallows,: "MeConkew's," are sald 'only at Gibson's Red Cross drug | Store, Tunnels and - 727 won in Railway of About. Ligluna, 130 Miles--A Great State AoA most interesting | 'I'wo tric cars collided near Ver- ath was inaugurated million, Ohio, killing * two persons ioli to Trieste har- tillustrating the wonders thah forty-eight: 88 * innumerable widest span of a the world, ted to-day forms opened in 1908, which sting to Trieste, over d ravanken moun: oven in the field where there is the Most 'reason to expect returns. Hence, Over The World. road employees. and seriously injuring about fifty. Probably fatally. covered at Whirlpool, and St, Leonard's, N.B. or act. to southern Germany. with the Adriatic, SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. . 1 -- A Good Guess. Kipling's verses come poetry as the twaddle Comes to being prose. A Quick Change. old has now nomin- Willison, of the Toronto This year the council, wearied of its oonflict with the vas company, called in an expert, the great Bemis, of Cleveland, the best authority on the Hit Him Again. which for a time to comfort Whitney, gainst the Cobalt sil 'not a proper way of pany realizes that public opinion was At Work Somewhere. Somewhere in the dead waist middle of this Canada of ours an surance commission is sitting. That's The Question. Herald, bhy Shaw says women to be free so long People might warrant change in the | them to be free, Abbe Poor Judges Of Water. Belleville Intellivencer © are clamoring for a report on their water sys- ter in the! swhol¢ town Rivalry On The Lake. officers of rival steamers are trying to obstruct an example shoul The safety of pas- sengers must not be jeopardized | corporate rivalry or official spite, ---------- MOTOR BOATS RACE. ---- So Long II. 'win Represent Club in Gold Cup Contest. thotar Dour rd held shape up to the time of their last Thousand Island Saturday afternoon, drew race, called at 2:30 determine the boat which is to repre- sent the Thousand Island Yacht Club Chippewa Bay the latter part of Au. George Hasbro an easy winner over her speedy com- » owned by Clarence Pp | Brockville and Portland, n second, with tl over Boldt, fourth. that Dr. Stirling has so far recovered "he second race was to leave his home in Picton and go to Picton' has been taken over by » Queen's, Dr. W. G. Tyner, Dr. Tyner, last fall, took a post-graduate course in New York, practised. during the winter in Norialk, Va., and, month, with Mrs, Tyner (nee Hep- burn), returned to Picton, Jewel, owned by a Mr. ng on Grindstone Island. ------ NO BLAME ATTACHED ---- To the Steamer John B. Cowle For a Collision. lows of Napanee Lodge, No. 86, on of steam vessels find taches to the steam. Cowle, which sank that no blame at bis: 6 : 7.6 a.m. Kingston Junction, 8.03. Special train both special leaves Ottawa, 7.30 p.m. Tie kets good to return by all regular shy crowded trains the following day. f a oollision with one bound beats, and that 0 be a case of self Welchrad, » popular Moravian resort of pilgrims, where the bones of the Patron saints St, Cyril and St. Meth. dius are preserved, has been devastat- ed by a flood. preservation was conside Cowle's crew. Although buildings were swept awa persons are missing, Immense damage Was done to cattle and crops, but the sacred bones were from the flooded church, speed, leaving the Fein help) tunity was given them t : ---- Wednesday, August 7th. meric makes another of fo long as you fear to soil your slewves, wou the rule of gold ima the golden He ------ rate, for fifteen vears or so getting under his skin, rished at Barryvale Wallord cam) flou --have there heen In The Good Old Summer Time. ites enjoving them: selves in the invig- were saved. Great Britain. leans, by President Lincoln, railway commission. in canned tongue and ham, opponent, ---- HANGED HIMSELF Prison Asylum. hanging shortly before seven o'clock, lately, and this necessitated his con- fnement in the insane department of prey continually on his mind, caus: ing him to request many interviews with his spiritual adviser, Father Me- Donald. The culmination of his men- tal anxiety occurred in the tracie end- ing already mentioned, Guards Ben nett and Ryan were on duty at the time and evervthing was in proper round when they discovered Hobin hativing from the bars of his cell door by strips of his bed sheet, which he had torn un. The unfortunate man was then .dead. The matter was re- gation to-day, for a report to head- ouarters, As far as can be learned Hobin has no friends or relatives, hut was a well known character about Two Picton Doctors. Kingston friends will be glad to hear from his recent illness as to be able Bancroft, where he will spend the sum- mer, under canvas. His Practice in n Kingston "boy, a graduate of last Excursion To Ottawa. Under the the auspices of the Oddfel Wednesday, August Sth. Return fare, 1.95. Train leaves Kingston city, ways. Returning ---- Shrine 1s Swept Away. Vienna, Aug, 6--The village of Twenty houses and fifteen farm yY, and pine rescued by priests You never can lift the submerged There is a world of difference he- You cannot get at a man's heart by That's when cramps and colic gre rom. Calahogie Lake, Buy Castorin at GQ fresh prevalent. The quickest cure is Pol. son's Nerviline. Ten drops in water ross .cures the worst case, 2c. .at all deal 1 ors, [oy oe Se" } A boy named McFadden was prob ably fatally shot near Glenboro, CW, H. Harvey, Toronto, has distinguished medical honors A bomb was thrown into a railway Station at Moscow, killing two rail- Send 3 Corks drawn from quart bottles of our Whiskies and receive a For 8 corks we will send a with enamel charm, : WRITE FOR OUR PREMIUM LIST, M. CORBY DISTILLERY CO Limited, At Buffalo, N.Y., John CU. Lingki, @& car inspector, shot and instantly killed his wife, and then shot himseli, rge Colgate, Jr., St. Catharines, took an epilelptic fit at Niagara Falls fell into river and drowned. Body re Customs officials are making a vig- 4 orous attempt to stop the smuggling going on between Van Buren, Maine, innipeg journeymen plumbers are ing action against the business agents of the Employers' Association, for alleged violation of the alien lab- The Norwegian barque, Benjamin Banks, rammed and sank the French Bishi h La Tour Dupin, on the Grand Banks. The schooner's crew ed +An official denial is of the report from San Francisco that France was abandoning her official and military establishments on the island of Tahiti preliminary to ceding the islanfl™ to Colonel Cuthbert Bullitt, Lowlsville, Xy., one of the most widely known Kentuckians, died on Saturday, at the age of pinety-seven. He was appoint- ed collector of customs at New Or- The Ontario government has declin- ed to approve of a lease to the Right, of Way Mining company of Ottawa of mineral lands on the right of way of the Temiskaming & Northern railway on the terms recommended by the Men who have comfort always wear Serge Suits. They're the dress. iest Summer Suits and the coolest,. Twenty women nurses of Bellevue Hospital, New York, ill of ptomaine Poisoning, have been under treatment since Wednesday in the Bellevue School for Trained Nurses, It is said that they were poisoned by ptomaine Our Serges are the sort that hold color and shape. The ability of the tailors who make our clothing shows at 'its best in these plain, dark fabrics, SEE OUR SERGE SUITS Single or Double-Breasted Styles, $10.00, ' 12.50, 14.00, 1500, 16.50, In New York, while escapine from a policeman, who arrested him on sus- picion of theft, Patrick Hennessy, thirty-two years old, was Shot and probably fatally wounded. Hennessy had beaten the policeman almost, into unconsciouss, and was runnine away. ir J. 8. Randles, Unionist, has been elected to parliament for the Cockermouth division of Cumberland, succeeding the late Sir Wilfrid Law- son, who died July 1st, The success- fl candidate received (00 votes more than the Hon. F. Guest, his liberal With Part of Tom Sheet, jn' he H. D. Bibb y Co. Michael Hobin, a young man, sen- THE SUIT STURE OF THE TO tenced from Brockville, last March, to : seven years' term in the Kingston Penitentiary, committed suicide, hy Sunday morning. The deceased had been acting queerly for some time the institution, His conduct was very despondent, and samething seemed to "BICYCLE TYPEW £ SEWIN PEP PPPPP PO RITERS GHINES d Repaired DOBBS & 00., 171 Wellington St, * 34 34 - ee -- MID-SUMMER SALE! If or 209% G MA Sold an ported to Coroner Kilborn, and he Will hold an inenest at 7.30 o'clock, Warden Platt will conduct an investi- 1 9$$PF$SEEP$4PS4 200, or Men's Tan Calf Blucher Oxfords, § Ladies' Tan or Chocolate Oxfords, $3.50, now $2.50 $3, now $2.40; $2.50, no wW $2; $2, now $1.60; $1.50 Among these Dunn, Geo. grade shoemakers, you can select shoes made b, J. and T. Bell and other high- Shoe Store -- Give Up Title to Land Ad Squaw and papoose in th ug. 6. Commissioner Mo. 0 Indian department, wil (Kas.» Leader-Courior. the inner door and give raps. The "devil" will tr 'alarm. You give him treteh of country 8 to the north and north-east of Alber- ta and Saskatehew, Over to the newly centre of the room . editor with the Sion: Extend the two feet from the and address the Square miles, with, an In tion of between 12,000 vided into numerous ba nger clasping o $10 Cash payment wilt drons into the extended editor, at the same time . "Were you looking for me?" or will say, "You bet." After im the news you will be oblic- receipt. for the SSS Li ARN Sometimes so its a quest the ball or th Its . very what you wa to 'get just w SPORT Ii you con everything. DON'T like these Angro 88-90 PI Preravsesen 'ENTE For a Bu | Civil Service ngs Head of Kings: Spacious s pment, mm in individual petent and @ every departm out the Who '@ free. J. B. McKAY, Presiden ous Debility, Ment: pondency, al ¥ Pricati por bo. ig rico X, wil cure. Bald Ma . On rs res. The (formerly Wirdsor) Getting a New Has No ¥ Everybody in 1 Col. 'Daniel Sear alist and publici 10th, 1900, th used a couple of Herpicide with m dandruff disappe: hair has taken spot is rapidly picide is the o that kills the ds up the scalp in its way to the roc it destroys the ing the hair to | drufl germ, with leading * druggis stamps for sa Co., Detroit, M special agent. A SECR] Interesting Di Sistin Rome, ' Aug. 6. its have been 1 during an exami which is showing secret prison has the garret and t) chapel. These cell famous Plombhi o ed to have been ¢ for recalgitrant high ecclesiastics people of olde Through loyg ¢ the: prison had 'b is known that su that one or twe them. They are » and decidedly cra Wall decoration Udine and Pierin found, under ma wash, in some o the - vatican, has centuries. It is ce tolic palace, wi fifteenth century, tirely reconstruc walls, internal a a dangerous sta cessive alteration by various popes Friendship 1 Friendship, N.Y bration of the o vVersary of the fo began here to-de through the week gramme has beer celebration and attracted a larg from the surroun village was foun ard Friar, who © ston and settled. ed. 'As' the size creased, "dissensio people, and the s the place was cal Later, however, amicably settled, gestion of one Place was named incorporated und wae in 1815. For dry, cracke use Dr. Shoop's | tively makes lips Sold hy all drug The Duke of R: ing duke, died in of August, .