Offices : rapid, sty- lh ang cheap work : nim improved rd ; "Hritiah Whig PubMshing Co., Limited. annie Director, Daily Whig. School Book Question. The school book commission took the evidence of wu disgrontied hook: binder and paper-maker regarding the quality of work and material in the publie school readers, The commis sion sought no explanation as to ex isting conditions, but the Toronto News supplies it, thus : y "It need not be surprising that the "binding of many of the text books fused in the Ontario schools has been Faulty, Publishers in this » country have not had the perfected machines y to do such good work: as is dane in Groat Britain and in the great blishing centres of the United tates. The publishing industry in Canada has been an infant industry, and only recently has it begun to show appreciable growth. One or two of the machines are naw set up in To- Jronto, and more afte coming, so that better bindi ay be expected in fu. ture, Wena has not been easy always 10 secure good paper, 'made in Canada, so it would be. unfair to lay the whole blame for poor school books n the shoulders of the publishers, tions in' the' Book trade are = im- " , and explanations of not hold good much "Un- {this nature' will The report of the commission upon this point will be awaited with inter ost, # Ear Marks Of Corruption. The Ottawa Citizen has the temer- ity to talk about the ear-marks which marked the practices for which the people of the province rejected the Ross government. Yes ? And what ab- out the earmarks which marked the London elections in 'which tory cor- ruption and erime triumphed for a time and kept the seat for the party bluffcrs » In 1802 a great frand was = per petrated, The revising barrister refus- el to be governed by the rules he had Prepared - and the voters' lists were stuffed with five hundfed names. Al ter appeals to the courts, resulting in favour of the liberals, it was raled that 230 of the names were wrongful ly on" the lists. They remained pend: ing further legal discussion, and an turned but deprived of his seat by the" returning officer, whose conduct parliament later refused to invegti- gate, "In 1898 another great fraud was committed when Mayor Beatty was given the selection which Hyman had again won, This is the contest in which there was the worst corruption on record; in which there were 200 votes, nearly all Hyman's, spoiled, the returning officer rejecting 290 *hecause he 'could not recognize his own jui- tiale; in which the tories had a gym- nasium or club where liboral electors were enticed and imprisoned; in which voles went at from $4 "10 $20 each ; and in which When wanted for disreputable practic o8, disappeared. : Talk about the earmarks of prac- tices in the local election ! The worst of the local elections were more res pectable than the two federal elections to which reference has been made. I" Outlook For Ireland. Mp, O'Connor, who is one of Liver- pool's representatives in the imperial parliament, discourses most cheerfully : upon the outlook for home rule in freland. He rogamds it as near wt hand, and because of this fact the Irish contemplate the subject with some degree of impatience. 5 The. Wn government, repre: sented by some of those who were as. seated with Gladstone in his home rule legislation as far back as 1886, « |i# committed to do something : for Ireland, but Mr, O'Connor is not at all Whether you buy by the carload, , bushel or hundred weight, is your "right and what you will get it your orders are lodged with us. Can we say mors, excePt' that Bannerman 1 pared . | stimulates the people to do their best election took place. "Hyman was re | twenty tory workers, 'a id gf t EE Ek iter ! £2 i ' 5 = i H and Mr. ('Conngp-mecy reason correct- ly when he says that "Ireland will never be worth living in until she is governed by her own people." Popular goverument is a great deal, A progressive government--one that to develop their industries and natural resources as well as their nationality is & great deal more. Whether an Irish parliament could do for the land what an English parliament has not | done remains to ho proven. Ireland had twice as many people a hall cen- tury ago, and this imlicates that it is not now over-populated. Editorsal Notes. The Fredericton Gleaner does not sce _anythiig wrong in My. Fowler's speculation. The oditor's reason must be defective. Mr. Bourassa's position as a mem ber of parliament has not been chan: god. He is an independent liberal, with a fondness for an ocegsional di- version. ~-- Sir Mackenzis Bowell must enjoy the Precicament of Mr. Foster. He has never beeome roconciled to that gentleman's holt and: never recalled the expression which marked his con- tempt for it. -- Mr. Foster has not made his case much better by the story he told of the land deals. The point of greatest moment is that he could not stay in politics and give to business the at- tention it required. ---- The local government is going to look into things in Elgin county and sce if thete is any ground for the Matement of Magistrate Hunt. The association of local option or tem perance with immorality is simply shocking. - Papi 1 HM the Cuban troubles were accen- tuated by the desire of the native government to keep the blacks down. how is the provisional government go- ing to succeed ? It cannot show the colored people any favour and be true to the republican policy. a ---- SPIRIT OF THE .RESS. Al Nice Question. Toronto Telegram. Is it law or justice that allows the promoter to water 'his stock, and for- bids the farmer to water his milk ? Working For A Fall, Brantford Expositor, T is to be a three-cornered fight in North Renfrew, and the worst of it is that two of the comers are held by, liberals. "United, we stand; divided, we fall." Value Of Air. Toronto Mail. According to the professors of in- ternational law, air is free. Accord ing to the actual experience of many people living in cities, it is a high- priced commodity, which only the for- tunate few can afford. Not In Luck. | \ Hamilton Herald. J conservative party has not had any luck for quite a time, but the cruel fate which has brought the Foresters' revelation within a month of the time when My. Borden hoisted the political purity standard would bo incredible if it were not true. How Long Indeed ! Lindsay Post. ? ow long will the electors sland to be represented, or wWisrepresented, bye men of this character and ealibre, who come around every election: with tong winded addresses to "true men and n women," and perhaps put in the intervening five years serving railway companies, obtaining 'favors from them and filling their own poe- kets ¥ ------------ A Bank For Bath. Bath, Oct. 4.--Quitg.q number of our citizens went to the Stella fair, and they report it as. being a very. sue cessful one. Rev. Steame Tighe, King- ston, conducted services in St. John's church here on Sunduy last. Thomas Barrage, lately in. the employ of W. W. Redden; butcher, has left Mr. Red- iden and has established nn butcher next week. Miss G. Reynolds, who has been visiting fei in Muskoka for the past month, has returned to the village again, Wise Heads. Wear Camphe] 1 Bros.' new 'hats t------r------ Try Bibby's special $2 derby, the flat st brims. {-eowpany t he district. : 'y 'oitizeps stopped' their Thoutn r pe of he Sdn 1 te La negro guilty of assault. Suesdssion dues to the province for in i etiding September, were 0 pk, which is $00 more than for same period '| extensive lines of this sort, and that s made oblong in shape, with handles thon an rereet, fei. the. town at either end, and a broad rim slant- benefitted by the eal en a | Pg upward. The bottom is perfectly the Crown Bank jn our | 184 and the shape gives an appear midst. bank. will occupy the | 8R0e of much depth. a uilding whee the library is, and the | One of the popular punch bowls library will move into the store for. | "més in the shape of a Frope leat mer! ded by Mr. Covert. My, | With a stem and standard, and is or Covert moved into 'Mr. Toplifi's namented with a vine pattern. stare. cy expeots to move hero |. Shah 'of Persia, Muzafier-Ed- in Seportat to be seriously ill. The strike in the Crow's Nest Coal pan is in danger of spreading last yeur, \ "At & Bre' in the leather district of New York, three firemen were injured, 956,000 worth of property des eyed and: minety familes left home- "The St. Petarsburg police have raid- ed the Engineers' errbio seized cighty shells and bombs, and arrest- ed four students of the government college of engineers. By a series of reinarhable Soe tions, Matgaret Huber, who became blind at 'the age of seven, three years ago, has béen made to see by New York doctors. ashe White, head of the dry goods 'of Johm White & Co., has been | offered the eoloneley of "Woodstock s proposed mew city regiment. Mr. White has sionified his willingness. A call has been extended by the first Congregational church, Woodstock, to Rev. Charles 8. Pedley, B.A, Myer's Cliff. Mr. Pedley is a brother of the Rev. Hugh Pedley, pastor of Ema: nuel Church, Montreal. ON THE FARM. Notes on the Practical Side of the Life. or ny The value of. ploughing matches has been recognized in many sections of Canada . and the United States. Though ploughine is a mechanical opuration, and each farmer ploughs mary ueres annually, "not ene farm- er in one thousand knows how to set un walking plough 80 as to do the best work with the least possible draft." The soil should be turned evenly, rather than straight, and of the same width and depth. In one section of Ilingis, where corn is growh extensively, the vicll has been increased fully « thirty per cent. by improved ploughing. 1 Prof. Shaw, of the Michigan Agri- cultural College, well-known to] On- tario farmers, has given excellent ad vice to dairymen. He spoke strongly against the reckless tendency of cross- breeding their stock. He urged each dairy farmér to select some dairy breed suited to his needs, and then stick to it, not changine from a Jer : sey. to a Shorthorn, and thon to an" Ayrshire, or Holstein, Guernsey, ete. This year sixteen cow-testin- asso- ciations have been organized through the initiative of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture. Records are be- ing kept of the production of 4.500 cogs owned by the 350 members. The results will be published after the sea son is finished, This is only the be ginning of what should be a great na- tional movement for the improvement of the dairy industry. Ontario farmers this fall are testing the alldimppriant question of cost in the production of pork. It has been ascertained already that thrifty shoats may be purchased at a hicher rate than .the prevailing market price 'and fattened and sold at a good profit, That coarse grains and second grade wheat, by judicious. feeding can * be marketed at handsome profits has been proven beyond a doubt. A big crop of potatoes was grown in Aroostook county, Maine. Fully 13,000,000 bushels, or an increase of 2,000,000 bushels over last vear, will bo harvested. Some difficulty has been experienced in getting help to house the crop. The yield is running about 200 bushels per acre, but in numerous. instances the yicld is 300 bushels. ' Alreguly shipments are. aver. aging 40,000 bushels a day from this one district, and the average price is $1.10 a barrel, i.0b. cars. It is genprally asserted that less than two 1 cent. of the cattle in .the United. States are the offsprin-- of re gisterad of pure-bred sires and dams. The statistics on this point seem to indicate sbout one and one-half péde cent. AR. there are about 17,000,000 cows 'in the country, that percentage would indicate that 255,000 pare-bred cows in the milk line, This is a very small showing, but it means that a 1 start has been made. The indications point to a considerable inerense. ------ Styles In Cut Glass. Jewellers' Circular Weekly. Cut glass manufadurers have .intro- duced during the present year many special services for certain courses of a dinner, and reports indicate consid- erable cagerness on the part of buy- ers in taking up these offerings. The prediction is made that next year the show rooms will contain even more entite d'nner rervie:s of glassware are not far away. The larger and more elaborate dish- es for the table are ornamented with scroll and 'geometrical figures in beld® designs. Louis IV. cuttings star style in design, have proved quite salable this year. The pieces are generally light, and have sharp séalloped edges. Platters for 'meat, fish and game are Try Bibby's special $1 shirts. George R.- Wallace has assuméd Perth, Ont,, as sucosssor to the de faulting H. W. Brick. Mr. Wallace will continue to be Canadian re- presentative and the business will run ad the old name, Hemry K. ampole commany, James F. Ellin. ) inspector, on Thursday, celebrated the heart that loves must be re to suffer, pre; » eichtioth anniversary of his birth, '| ofiend a law of nature and will prob. will 'give you instant reliof from these { { \ ER 3. A BIG 'FORTUNE. -- | NN Has Fallen to a Fifteen Year Old . olay ; W. ZIEGLER, JR. New York, Oct. 5.--William Ziegler, | Jr, the fifteen-year-old adopted son | of the late promotor of polar expedi- | tions, will have an income of $1,315 | per day, now that his right to the inheritance of the fortune of $13,000, 000, left by his adoptive father, has been established. He intends to con tinue the exploration work of hid adoptive father. HUNTERS' EXCURSIONS Cheap Rates Now Being Granted | Over the C.P.R. i The fact that the C.P.R. line runs | mg lands, where moose and deer and | smaller game galore wax fat and await the advent of fall and the ac | companying guns and dogs, is, of | course, the principal reason why ab-| out this time of year the enthus i sportsman turns to the i yellow-covered folder and studies time | tallies and mage so industriously. Hunters excursions are round again, and single fare will soon be the order! of the day. The C.IP.R. announces that | from October 9th to November (ith, | retarn tickets to all stations on their | main line," Mattawa-Port Arthur, and Mattawa to Temiskaming and Kipa- wa, will be on sale at single fare, and from October" 25th _. to November Gth, tickets at the same low rate to. sia tions on the Lindsay branch, stations between [Sudbury and the Soo and | Havelosk and Sharbot Lake. All tie- | kets will be good to return until Dé- cember Sth, with stopovers allowed anywhere, Special steamship rates to the 'Soo and Port Arthur will also be in effect. Intending hunters should make a point of calling at the near est C.P.R. ticket office for further in: formation and for copies of "Fishing and Shooting," "Sportsman's Map," and "Open Seasons and Game. Laws" all of which are of pafticular interest and use to sportsmen and are free for the asking. C. B. Foster. district pas- senger acent, C.P.R., Toronto, will gladly mail them to any address, if difficulty is experienced getting copies. Roosevelt And Dean Swift. President Roosevelt would have re- ceived short shrift at the" hands of Dean Swift. The latter roundly de nounced the poets who had introduced the "barbarous custom of abbrevia ting words to fit them to the measure of their' verses." Swilt instances | "drug'd" and "disturb"d" as mortal i offences. The © custom. so introduced. | had begun to dominate prose. An- other eause~horrowed, Swift suggest «l, from the clipping process=which hé held had contributed to the maiming of the language, "is a foolish opinion advanced of late years that we ought to spell exactly as we speak, which, besides the obvious in convenience of utterly destroying our etymology. would be a thing should never see the end of." | we a -- Building New Barn. Ida Hill, Oct. 4.--The recent rain was a4 very. welcome visitor in que district. Many of 'our ~ voung people took in Lansdowne fair, and report a-fine show. Makins Bros. are orect ing a aew barn, which will add to the appearance of the -homestead. W. Langwith and P. J. Shannon are all smiles; both dre girls. Our vil lage school is still running with gn goodly number of little folks. Robert Cuddy had a horse badly cut in «o wire fend, whieh will lay him up ior a few vecks, Visitors: Mrs. John Kelly, city, at R. Cuddy's: James Gay, Britain, at William Shannon's: Robert Robinson at Opinicon: Wiss McKendry, Washburn, at R. Keil's: Miss Phia Bennett, Kingston, ad Joseph Gordon's; Mrs, Young and Miss' Knapp; city, at R. Robinson's. Arrived This A.M, We have just reecived a shipmeit of the new flat set stiff hats, special $2. The H. D. Bibby company. Prevost, Brock street, has received all his fall and winter importations for order work in his tailoring de- partment, consisting of Scotch tweed, blue and black serges,. great variety of black cheviot and Vieunas; also a splondid_stock of overcoating, Any one trusting him with an order may | rest assured they will he well pleased | in securing a good fit 'at low vrices. Edward Roomev, * the | well known horseman, is dead. in St. Luke's hos pital, Ottawa, from bronchial pnen- monin. "He was a member of Prescott Oddfellows lodge, and was aged. forty. | vine. V : Try Bibby's for Men's underwear, The number of dead in the Virvinic mine disaster is estimated at sixty. Toe "Much Food. Every time you eat too fast, cram | ton vc food into the stomach, you ably suffer headaches, nausea, bilions ness and "all the horrid distrosses which are so caused. Now if you will assist nature a litle in an agreeably manner with such a pleasant and offi- cations treatment as Hutch you need not. suffer these troublss. Hutch litle complaints and if vou give it a thorough trial vou will find that it causes which produce them. Hutch is Try Bibby's, special $1 shirts. a doctor for ten cents. 25e. and Soe. at all drug stores, THE DISCOVERER" jr SA for so many miles through ideal hunt- | | Ulceration. No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. wo No: other medicine has such a' reeord of cures of female troubles or such hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Tt will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, Inflammation and Falling and Displacement, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. . It has cured more cases of Backache and Local Weaknesses, than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumors in an early stage of development. Irregular, Buppressed or Painful Periods, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility quickly yield to it. Deranged organs causing pain, weight and_backache, instantly "relieved -and permanently cured by its use. Under all circamstancés it invigorates the female Rystem. ~ Tt quickly removes that bearing<down feeling, extreme lassitude, *don't-care" and "'want-to-be-left-alone" feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, dizziness, faintness, sleeplessness, flatulancy, melancholy or the "blues" and headache. These are sure indications of Female Weakn or some derangement of the organs which this medicine surely cures. Chronie Kidney Complaints and Backache, of cither sex, the Vegetable Compound cures, Those women who refusé to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want--a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. > BIBBY'S + Cm------_ a ---- IF! hot 1 If you want to see the Finest Line of 4 Men's Overcoats In Kingston, you" will have to come here to do it. Young Men, we want you t6 see the handsome . French Back Overcoats we are selling at $12 50, 14.50, 16.50 and 18.50. Smart dressers, who want the "swell thing" will be greatly interested in our Peletot and Paddocks, at $15, 18 and 20. : We take pleasure in showing you our lines of New Overcoats, Sir. We repeat our invitation and make it urgent as we can, when we say-- Come, Take a Look! The H. D. Bibby Co. THE OVERCOAT STORE OF THE TOWN S tylish Shoes For You Made of Patent Colt, Velor Calf, Gun Metal and Demi Glace Kid. : They are made in Blucher Lace, or College Cut Button in Nobbiest Shapes and Swellest Designs. Our Prices are Right | $3.00, $3.80 and $4.00 / Bole Ag-uts for Utx and Dunn The Sawyer Shoe Store may, subject to approval of ] rélingiuish I% in favour of fath son, daughter, brother or eligible, but to nu voe else, | cluration of abanduniient: Te an eutry is swumaril or voluntarily ahwndoned, su institution of eanteliation | icant for in tion titled to prior right entry, Annlicants for inspection m what Partioubars the homest default, and if eulweuuently ment is found to be inCorrect lal "particulars, the apnhcant un¥ prior rirht of re-entry land hecotne vacant, or if emt cranted It may be summarily Dulies.=A tier is reruin furan the conditions under tullowing plans i 1) At least siz months' re on and cultivation of the la year during the term -- lather is sed) of a resides upon a farm in the vic land entered [Cr \ (8) If the settler has his 0® upon farming land dim in the vicinity of his she requirement may he esidence upon such land, . Before 'making application' the 'wettler must vive six fnon in writing to the Counnissio minion Lends at Otwwa, o son to do so. SYNOPSIS OF CANADIA! WEST MINING REGULA Coul~Coal lands may be $10 per acre for soft coal anthracite. Not more than can be sequired Ly oae ind company. Royalty at the ra cents per ton of 2,000 pound collected on the gross output. oQuartz.--~A free miner's ce granted upon hayment in adv per annum for an individual, $50 to $100 per annum for according to capital. A free miner, having discove al In place, may locate a cli 1,500 feet. 'The fees for recording a clain At least $100 must be expen claim each year or paid to recorder in licu thereof. When been expended or paid, the lo upon having a survey made, complying With Teruire: chase the land atl $1 per acre The patent provides for the a royalty of 24 per cent on Placer mining clalns genera fest square 'entry fee §5. yearly. A miner may obtain tw dredge for gold of five miles | term of twenty years. remewa discretion of the Ministor of ti rou of the leases for each five mile $10 per annum for each mile leased. Royalty at the rate cent collected om the output ceeds $10,000, Ww. CoO Ww. Deputy of the Minister of th N.B.--Unauthorized nublicatic advertisement will not Re vais oothalls unching oxing Gl ANGROVE B Bicycle Warero 88-90 PRINCESS STR EMBOSSING And ..: ENGRAVING Neatly' done 1 Whig Office. BRITISH - AME 'HOTEL KINGSTON - - to Has undergone altera to the 15 now open » public, W TELFER - - Canadian EF Ladies' Tzilc Best of Workmanship © Styles; prompt service ; fit Cheapest-rates "| 236 Universi