Sioré News for Friday Shopping am --" re Japanese daskets out one week ago the arr, al s0 expressed the belief that t more. We humbly apolo- had good reason to think «, dvance section of our whole only about one-third of },. ame, that that was sure ind;. out. | There you have the ex- biggest part of the order, and writing an adequate descrip. 5 of it all. But that is simply and see them--and if you'll not wait a bit longer than is s of shapes--ever so many and three or four sizes of he prices will be, 10. 121 Pac Display of These Baskets oo ------ ions for Wise hoppers eaph pair in a dainty n the world, pretty designs : beautifully colored effects ry makes we could che | thoroughly ventilated. Pric ecials hes at 86.75, 70x78 inches 87.03 If ever a truly "swell" col Kingston, we have just i e Navy Blue ones in the lot otty handles. Prices, $1.50 5.75 each. er ---- NS ° h ly Things 1s and Stands, Fancy n Scuttles and Coal Sticks, Carving Sets, | lad Bowls and Bake lled Tea and Coffee ers and Plates, and a pretty things that you eciate. One word to ssible, don't shop on elp it. You will get day. & Birch, k Street. NT RECEIVED Y AND PIC LEAD PRICES Toronto! Phone Main 1729 : ---- rey ce Creepers The Two Best Kinds The Featherweight, 35¢ "its either Boot or Rubber sily changed from one to the ther and is perfectly sccurc. The Never Slip, . . 25¢ Men's and Women's size veted to the rubber, closes up when not in use, 7 YEAR 78. NO. 286. The Home of the Safety Razor 1 ee riew Jelhds that wiokes shaving a luxtey. : There is oA nider for a 2 Christmas Present Ever Ready, 12 blades, $1.50 case Star, 1 blade, $1.50 to $5. Clauss, 12 blades, $3.75. Gillettes, 12 blades, $5 to $12. + Plain Razors, in single or in set of fram 2 to 6 Every Razor guaranteed or money re- funded. Goods exchanged after Christmas not satisfactory MITCHELL'S HARDWARE Before buying we invite you to see our Stock and prices. We offer »-- Mow -Caitfornia Raisins. New. Selected Valencias. New Sultana Raisins, 1 1b; packages. New Malagh Raisins, clusters. New Secdod Raisins, 1 Wh. packages. New Cleaned Currants, 1 lb, packages. New Cleaned Currants, loose. New Peels, Orange, Lemon, Oitrong New Shelled Almonds. New Shelled Walnuts. New Dates, New Figs. Also a larwe assortment of Oranges, Lemons, Malaga Grapes, etc. F. W. Van Luven, Phone 417 - 246 Princess St. PLUM RIVER LEAD MINE Treasury Shares 1 still offer = fully paid-up Shares of $1 from the sale of V goes straight into Treasury. See? Buy WESTERN OIL AND Consolidated ~~ Treference shares "PLUM RIVER LEAD" and you will have two wood mvestments. All particulars od applications THOMAS MILLS, larence Street. - For Your Christmas Bakin TRY "Silver Moon"' THIS YEAR, It's a Special Flour made by THE HEDLEY SHAW MILLING CO., fancy pastry. #sk your grocer for "Silver Moon"' Holiday Books, Etc. Family Bibles, in great variety, r $1.50 to $10 each. new styles, in bind- Pocket Bibles, with or without for the Student or Teacher. The British Poets, new Hurnt Leather designs, Call and Morocco Bindines. BOOKS FOR BOYS, BOOKS FOR GIRLS Reward Books, for Day Schools Sunday Schools, at liberal discounts Reward Cards. Text Cards, Cards, Calenidars, etc. F- NISBET, The Corner Book Store. It you find it difficult being ' fitted with Shoes, come to us and it is changed to a pleasure. WEAR ALLENS MILITARY BOOTMAKERS 82 Brock Street sign of Goiden Boot ly bought un. BU Co,, and act at once. Stoves, Furniture and know if you have for sale, y a any J + U will attend to it at once. Try a Pound of five o gina's largest hotel 'This day dt Toronto, 1887 - DAILY MEMORANDA. of The greatest essentials In Furs is quality And you get it at Camphell Bros' Citizens' League, 8 pom. Navigation School opens, 8 pam Zion Bazaar to-night, rouds, good nrogramine, The sun rises Saturday at 7.21 and sets ut 4.28 pam. y : namy Zephra at Opera House benefit of Hotel Dieu Hospital. in Justory --Rebels defeated irst railroad in Ger- inany, 1835 : Lord Kitchener left Tondo for Kgypt, 1898. Special Frontenac Reserve your seats Victor's Venetian Band House. Date Monday, WHIG TELEFHONES, 243--Business Office: --Bditorial Rooms, obbing Department. Embossing and Engraving a specialty. I rr | Tee China! China! We are at present showing the most complete assortment ever displayed. "the city but anywhere in Canada. Come in and examine the pretty China. You dont need to bay, it will please you to see them. Robertson Bros. ® County Dairymen's meeting at Inverary, Tuesday, Dec. 11th 1.80 p.m. : : each for twenty-five cents. IN EXPLANATION :--The money s Treasury 'to develop the Mine, arket' Shaves' are altogether differ ent, beine glealt in by outside speculat- ors, and the money paid for Shad #8!' pever reaches any Company's tions for FOR B.C. AMAL. COAL CO. British. Columbia Amalgamated Coal Co., first stock issue entire- Y NOW AT 50c. Tu shortly advance to 75c. and Remember Crows', Nest Jos. F. Swift, Fiecal Agent TURK'S HARD UP Not fot 'money. but for second-hand | SISTER OR Second-Hand Dealer, 398 Princess St. --------ie na tifa ---- Myers' nosso: Sausages For Sunday's Breakfast. 60 Brock Street. Er ---------------------- Fine New Hotel Destroyed. Regina; Poe. <F--The Waseana Hotel was burned Wednesday night. workmen were putting the i) touches to the interior of the uusilding which had fist been eredted af a cost of =~ oon, The building. was "high, and next to the cently burned Windsor hotel was See Bibhy?s 75¢ used ; store. 'Sweet oranges, Marge assortment, Edwards & Jenkin, 274 Princess street. See Bibby's $2.25 derby hats. Christmas G i i ts For Men $10 and $12 Persian Lamb Detachable Collars wo' have 50 Persian Shawl Collars for Gemtlemen, at $10 and $12, our own make, They are perfect style, and will fit any coat like a glove. Come the corner and see them. JOHN McKAY FUR HOUSE | 14-153 BROCK STREET KINGSTON 'Xmas Suggestions Below will be found a list Xmas rifts which may be seen in splendid arrav at BEST'S FATHER--Hair Cigars, Pipe, Plain or modu ed Smoking Set and Shaving Set. FOR MOTHER--A Work Baske:, Gold Glasses, -~ (eyes tested later on), Box of Writing Paper, Box © Chocolates, or Perfume, Hanad- some Hand-Bag, Manicure Hair Brura, Toilet Set. Case. Be sure and sed the sure to offer a suggestion We want a carload 7 shirts. LADY FRIEND-- Work Basket, Mirror, Brushes,' Chocolates, in Holiday Box, or Hand-Bag. BROTHER OR FRIEND--A Brush and Comb Set, Military Brushes, Shaving Set or Smoking Set, Cigar night ToDes. feathers at once. price paid. Kingston 277 Princess stréet. The choles of rova only ft Gibson's Red Cross MeConkiv's or Huyler's. Jenking' shirt sale Saturday night; ty" candy is sold wholesale prices on KINGSTON, GTR. TORONTO'S MEMBER LAVISHES FRAISE ON QUEEN CITY'S POLICE COURT. Important Messages Held Up at North Bay--Transportation the Big Question in Canada-- Telephones and Telegraph Should Be Government Owned. From Our Own Correspondent Ottawa, Dee. 7.~The house yester- day, gave a second reading and' re- {ferred to committee the bill introduce «d by W. F. Maclean, providing: (1). to put sleeping car companies 'and telegraph companies under the rail- way commission; (2) to fix a maximum passenger rate 6n railways of two cents a mile; (3), to compel inter change of business between telephone companies. Sir Wilfrid Laurier did not commit himself on the section providing for two cents a mile, but R. L. Borden declared in its favor. The second read- ine passed without division. In opening, Mr. Maclean expressed the hope that there should be at every session a discussion of the railway act, and of the conduct of the rail wav commission. The railway act was more important that the customs act. The taxes levied by the common car- riers of the country were heavier and more important than the taxes levied by the government. Inthe United States this question had thoroughly aroused the veople. The Roosevelt rate: bill was larsely modélled upon our present railway act. Senator La Follette had very properly said that it was the duty of the government to require. the carrier to render good serviee upon 'reasona- ble termg. To do this, the railway commission must be strong 'enough to enforce equal treatment of all citi- zens. In creating our present com- mission, Hon. A. G. Blair had aimed at absolute control of rates. Absolute control was but a step away from government ownership. The railway commission was doing good work, but it was entitled to more help than it appeared to be get- ting, from the- minister of railways, and from the attornev-gemeral of Can- ada. It was also entitled to help from parliament, who should pass definitive legislation--to sett'e a maximum pas- senger fare was peculiarly the business of parliament. I¢ could not he proper- ly delegated to any office or commis- sion. Referring to the two cent fare, Mr. Maclean pointed out that the charter of the G. T. R. provided for one train each way over its entire line, for which there should be a charge of one venny a mile. This corresponded to the provisions found in nearly every Fnclish charter. In England the third class or parliamentary train, had The- come so popular that substantially all the passencer traffic in England rested upon the basis of a pepoy a mile. But in Canada the G. T. R. had ip- nored and defied the law. Tt charged three and three and one-third cents a mile. It carried no third-class carriar- as required by its charter. This con- law had been called to the attention of the government by Mr. Maclean, in 1903. Yet after three years delay. it law for a private citizen. at his own the police court of Toronto. "the most admirable court in Canada." members. plause). supreme court, and with all respect too." (Applause.) way companies, apparently without railway commission. T. & Bay and delayed, for hours. prsinems-betwern te Says Mr. Maclean Re The es: it gave no rate of a 'permv a mile dition of afiairs was notorious. The was necessary in order to enforce this expense, and without aid or counten- ance from the government to zo into Here the speaker was interrupted by conservative applause and by laughter and eries of "Oh, oh," from the liberal Mr. Madlean : "Equal to the supreme court of Canada" (Laughter and ap- "1 repeat it with all respeat to the to the police magistrate of Toronto, The speaker pointed out many glar- ing injustices committed by the rail check from the government or the He favored putting the 'sledping car companies and the telegraph compan- jes under the railway commission. The Pullman charges were exorbitant, and the charge for an upper berth should be less than for a lower. The situation at North Bay, illustrated the need of government control over telegraph compunies. The C.IR. and the G.N.W. refused to join their wires with the state-owned line along the N. 0. They joined hands in an ofiort to discredit the provincial line. Hundreds of important messages be- tween Cobalt and Toronto, Montreal and New York were held up at North Mr. Maclean discussed the amend: ment providing for the two-cent fare. He favored compulsory interchange of i one companies. This was demanded by the farmers of Canada. Give the farmers cheap rail way 'tates, chean telegraph and tele phone service. The question of trans portation was the big question in Canada. It was far more important of than the tariff. ; Mr. Ward (Durham) said there were muny telephone companies which had no right 'of connection, and were dis- oriminated agoinst by the Hell Tele phone eampany. These 'were patronised and large! ly owned by farmers and physicians. Several striking instanoes Ward, showing the oppression the Bell company. Dr, Bare (Dufierin), also supported the bill. The two cent. fare had proved a sucess in the United States, He fenred. that we were behind the times in Canada. 'The railway commission Wid gourd work, but it made haste slowly, '40 say the least. He believed that the telephone would, in time be- come 'part of the postal system, so that every farmer would have his tele- phone. : Mr. Clements (West Kent) was in fa- vor. of the two cent passenger rate, Farmers especially suffered from rail: way extortion. Mr. Lancaster (Lincoln and Niagara) opposed the two cent fare, but did not favor putting telegraph companies and sleeping car companies under the railway commission. Un the contrary he favored nationalizing telegraph and telephone companies. He favored com- pulsory interchange of business be- tween telephone companies, Mr. Lancaster then repeated his argu ments made at former sessions nginat reducing railway rates, Ye. Sproule favored the second read- ing of the bill. No case could be lt stanoel, where freight rates had been foreod up by passenger rates going down. . He especially insisted upon * MUCH PLEASED. BE It was with the kindliest feelings that the under: graduate body at Queen's received the welcome news that Andrew Carnegie hed seen fit to. donate $100,- 000 to the University En- dowment fund when the remaining $400,000 of the half 'million was forthcom- ing. This combined with Mr. Uarmegie's generosity in sonmection with his pen- sion fund for professors places him among Gueen's chief benefactors. The feel- ing is also entertained that the stimulus the donation will give toward the rais- ing of the endowment fund cannot be overestimated and. further more the hope is freely entertained that the t philanthropist's mo pave the way for like métiom on the part 'of some of his peers. FEEEEFEEREE REEREEXEEEK EXER RE RE XXX ERN KKK EF EEXEEXXEEFE EF FEEXFEX telegraph and telephone companies be- ing under government regulation. He cites] instances where competing com- panies had practically consolidated and raised the rates. He had been charged fifty cents for a telegram to a point only fifteen miles distant. Mr. Melntyre, Perth, could not sup- port the bill, although be favored some features of it. Mr. Herron, Alberta, said that pas senver rates ran as high as five conts a mile in the west, The freight char- gos were so oxtortionate that they could not be any higher whatever was done with the passenger rates. He heartily supported the bill, Sir Wilirsd Laurier said that he was glad to be able to agree with so muech that had been said and well said, by his honorabie friend from South York. His speech had been moderate and instructive. In the main his observations had been very correct, and if now and then a heresy erept in, it was such mild heresy, that he -conld pot seriously quarrel with him. He believed that the best inter sts of the countey would be subser- ved by giving the bill a second read ing and sauding it to a committee Why should not sleeping car compan ies and telegraph companies be placed under De railway eommission ? They were really a part of the railway sys- tem, and the government was commit- ted to control of railways As'to the exchange of telephone business it was a nice question. He wag not prepared as yet to endorse two cents a mile. Bt might be well ta have the railway commission @onsider the matter first. R. L. Borden thought that the two- cent fare was an important question If the bill did not pass, he would give notice of a resolution instructing the railway commission to investigate and report upon the advisability of such legislation. Mr. Maclean, South Yonk, was glad to find the premier in his company. He recogniasxi the effort of the leader of the opposition to 'bring about ao twao-cent fare bv hig proposed resolu tion but reaffirmed ie own position that it woy!ld be beft to bein - about the result by an act of parliament. A BAD FIRE In a Terribly Cold Atmosphere at Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Dec. 7.--About four o'clock this morn'ng, with: the thermometer thirty-nine below zero, fire broke out in the Canadian Northern railway's boiler shops. Owing to the lack of water and the inflammable nature of the building the entire boiler 'shop was a heap' of ruins within half an hour. A locomo tive, undergoing repairs, and much valuable machinery were . destroved. Loss is estimated to be between $60, 660 prick 8100:000. Fly fire ix mupironed to have orig'pated from a working: man's torch. Dead Or Injured. 'Detro't. Mich. Bee. 7.- Four 'per in a derailment of the Detroit express on the Michigan Central railway, at Otter Lake last night. sons are dead afd | twenty-five injured | denn Education Bill. DURING THE RECESS A COMPROMISE MAY BE ARRANGED, Lord Desborough's Name Men- tioned For British Embassy at Washington--Interesting Relics of Shelley Sold at Sotheby's. London, Tee. 7.--Foreign Secretary Grey, replying to questions in the House of Commons, yesterday, said merchant vessels would be transferred to the American flag in the event of war. It was impossible, he added, for such an arrangement to exist, without the fact becoming. public, The name of Lord Deshorough, (Wil liam Henry Grenfell) is among the latest mentioned in connection with the British embassy at Washington. Lovd Desborough was born in 1855, is a noted Rocky Mountain hunter, oars- man and author. The Victoria legislature, yesterday, passed the second reading of the anti- gambling bill without a division. The House of Lords has passed on its third reading the much amended educational bill, which will be return: od to the House of Commons on Mon- day. There are no signs of the pre dicted outhrenk against the peers, in connection with theis treatment of the hill. The ovinion grows that a com. coming reoess, and that anew bill based on this, will pass at the next session, At the sale, at Sotheby's, yester- dav. of the library of the late Dr. Richard Garnett, keeper of printed books at the British museum, three not» hooks that formerly belonged to the vost Shelley, containing intersst- it never published. were howrht 'hy B, F. Stevens, the dealer. for $15,000 on behalf of an American client. WAS A PEEPING TOM. aii Rev. Boyd Gay Convicted By Committee. Utica, Ohio, Dee. 7.-The Rav. Boyd Gay, formerly pastor of the Utica Presbyterian church, was found guilty of peeping into the windows of wo- men's boudoirs by a committee of the Zanesville presbytery. The formal charge was conduct unbecoming a minister. Several witnesses testified against Gay. It was charged that he gener ally peeped into windows in the even- ing, while women wore disrobing. Mrs. H. C. Deems told the churchmen of catebing Gay pecping at her win- dow. The minister's sentence was that he be admonished, the lightest possi- ble sentence > ---------------- Norwegian Forests Stripped. Ottawa, Déc. 7.~Reporting to the trade and commerce department to day from Christiania, E. G. Sontum, commercial agent, notes a serious eon- dition in the Norwegian lumber and mip trade owing to the high price of Pr The fact seems to bo that the Norwegian forests are not large enough to supply a sufficient quantity of logs for all existing mills, and that those branches of the wood goods trade which are not under existing condi- tions sufficiently profitable to stand the strain of the severe seramble for logs are doomed to go to the wall. It is stated on official authority that the forests of Norway, Sweden and Fin land are not able to stand the drain to which they have been subjected in recent years, Ruining Reputations. Rochester, NY. The. 7."At a meet- ing in the Second 'Baptist church, of Rochester, N.X., yesterday, Clinton N Howard, president of the Prohibition Union of Christian Men, publicly charged two women, a saloon keeper, a lawyer, and an alderman with a shocking conspiracy to ruin his re- putation. and 'declared further that the Rev. David M. Kirkpatrick, who had been foread "tg flee from the city nine Yoars ago, was an innocent man, and mersly a victim to a eonapiracy similar to the one he (Mr. Howard) had just escaped. Mr. Howard says -| he learned of the conspiracy from one of the plotters, who had been con- verted in the recent Chapman revival. Divorce And Desertion. Chicaro, 11, Dee. T.-Over 1,700 families are now public charges, be- cause of desertion by the husband The singular part of the cases is that desertions by husbands have been in- evopding to a marked extent under the law of 1993, making this an in: dictable offence punishable by impris- when work was never more plentiful or wages higher. "Fatal Accident To Workman. Vantouver, B. vietims, J fraterni Agalnst The Peers Over the government had no information of any arrangments under which great promise will be arranged during the) ing autoeraphic manuscript, most ot onment, and increasing during a time C., Dec. 7.--By the breaking of a cable déring the con struction of "the government bridge across the Thomjson river, near Ash- croft, sswen workmen were thrown into the river and three drowned. FB, A. Eldridge, Hagh McMillan and Arth- vr McMillan, of Vancouver, were the 'Death. ; Ithaca, N.Y, Det: To-The Chi Phi house. at. Cornell, formerly the Fri mansion, the finest ad most. elaborate, chapter in United Starter, was hy ground, this morning. Five \ dead, two fatally nied and a Dum: ber geriously injured. The dead are : W. H. Nicolls, a student of Chi dover, Pa. A. 8. Robinson, an attorney ~ of Ithaca. Vounteer Fireman John Rumsey, son of u prominent Ithaca hardware degl- er. Voluiiteer Fireman Esty Landrum, clork of THHaeE and & volunteer fire man. The fatally injured are: James Me: Cutcheon, Jr., Pittsburg, student and "Varsity full-back; Clarence J. C Orange, N.J., a student. The started in the kitchen, The building was valued at $200,000. Later--Another body, that of S. W, Grelle, of Orpnge, N.J., a freshman, has been taken from the ruins, burn od almost beyond recognition. GROWTH OF GERMANY. -- The 'Males Increased More Than Females. Berlin, Pec. 7.~~A census of 'the Ger: man empire to Becomber 1st, 1905, shows the "popsdation to have been 60,641,278, compared with 56,867,187, in 1900, an increase of 7.6 per cent, Frome 1885 to 1000 the increase was 78 per cont, The males increased more than femules, 'the inoréase of males being 2,147.43, and of females only 2,196,666. The inereaso of males is attributed to the felling off of emigration and a great inflox of immigrants, mostly males, FEVER IN OYSTERS. pe -- K Couple Who Ate Them Stricken With Typhoid. 4 Derby, Conn., Pee. 7.-Mise May At water and Frank M. Clark, whose en mt was announced a short ERY ago, are both ill 'frem typhoid fever at their respective homes in this city, The young couple, who are very prominent' in society, wera stricken simultaneously and axhibit the same "dfinptoms. Jt ix balloved that they contracted the disease from oy tars. which they ate xeomtly at' a. Shien resort while on an attemobile | trip. -------- COST $10,604,749, ------ This Sum. a Small Portion of Navy's Expenses. Washington, Dec. 75H wost $19, 1,749 to keep the ships of thenavy! in commission during the past fistal year, according to the annual 'peporis of Paymaster General H. T. B. Har ris. The building of new ships, inelud- ing labor and material, cost the gov- ernment during the last fiscal Wear 831,764,566, and repairs to ships $5, 550,300. The wim of $262,084 was) expended on the naval militin of the Want To See Fitlding. 4 Ottawn. Pee. T~Beveral tariff de- putations are here awaiting Mr. Field- ing's return from Montreal. The! hardware men want the duty. restored on sheet lead, another wants the old prder. restored, whereby silk could he imported at o nominal rate of duty when intended for use in manufacture) of ties. Woollen men are also after} mare protection. ------ Militia Pay Corps. has taken steps to organize a pay corps in connection With the Canadian] militia as the nucleus of an organiza-y tion that would be a very necessary' factor in any force, that the dominion' ever had to equip for active service) The nccountant of the. militia depar ment, J. W. Borden, already bears th title of paymester general. Majo Ward, of Toronto, has been appointed assistant paymaster general, with headquarters in this city. Collision In Maine. Lewiston, Me., Dee. 7.~Four persons were killed and three others seriously injured in a head-on collision between a special and a - regular freight teain on the Mhine Comtral railway near the small station of Annabessacook, late last night. Be sure and see Best's magnificent display of goods for Christmas miving. It is a pleasure to see the goods and tho prices are most reasonable. Charles Goodman, committed to the Central prison for two years, was m- leased on purale, Embroidered handkerchiefs, 2 for Be. well worth 25¢. New York Dress orm. The Allan steamer 'Numidian, from Glasgow, docked at Boston to-day. . Buys - 2 BRICK HOUSES AND ONE - STONE -BARN- ON. Johnson Street, No. 220 and 222 opposite St. Mary's Cathedral. Apply to JOHN MoKAY, 181 Brock Stree cat 0. L. Schmuck, a student of An- | y Mocha and Reindeer. Special i OIRRLLAR. Bb $1 to $5.50, k structions; to ESET BEAUTIFUL NECKWEAR for ladies, all "Xmas novel- ties '85c. to $180. NOLAN In, Kingston, Dec, 6th, 1 " 4 fant daughter of Bie. any Dice this afternoon. Pee. 1906, John Allen, - your, Funeral notios, later, Ottawa, Dec, 7.~The militia councill] 4 ROBERT J. REID ° mESRERS . 227 Princoss 8¢ bd LHLE AGAIN BEAUTIFUL ZEPHRA Friday Even'g 'Dec. For the Benefit of the = L'Hotsl Dieu Hospital : ts to tickle the palates) their Canadian sistérs and brothérss We have imported from (Reatting, ' Bnglond) (Carlisle, Scotland) fine assortinent of 'thelr' Christmas time snd afternoon teas. James Redden & tio "bomedy, NAN ¥o Hall, December 12th. See Bibby's, 50c.