but probably the most impor: ar in advance, the char of prices are practically | incom= sowiig of Whitewear this sea- 'ome and as much time sre's BO 1 n to buy un" ay fact, all those we'll show, weh work in'trimming and so red for so little money. The ut here are two extra-specials hosen from our White- 1 front, with six rows of wide neck and each only sleeves trimmed 39 45 'o of wide Rutger 39 s In Nightgowns is year's Nightgowns--and 4 ever before. It would be a satisfled with mentioning the nd 99c., $1.20, 1.25, 1.39, 1.49, le way up to 6.00--and describ- od ribbon, wery generously 9% at, each . with yoke composed of three rows embroidered butterfly medallion set eading insertion and ribbon ] 99 » to match. Extra-special, with embroidered full front, with three row kirt set on, neck and sleeves Extra- special, each only tch neck and elbow sleeves, tucked front ocular neck with narrow yoke com- tion and ribbon, cap sleeves wo rows Honiton lace. ~4.50 ne Cotton Chemise; with shaped sleeve trimmed with lace around peck and sleeves. Extra- special value, at only 33 mey Chemise, of fine imported nain- sook, having French neck with em: broidered yoke joined by small bead- ing, trimmed around sleeves with fine embroidery to match in design, finished with ribbon. 1. Extra-special, each only | Underskirts es we ever offered in white un- see 'them. The entire price 1.20, 1.25, 1.35, 1.49, 1.69, 1.75 full flounce of e tion skirt underncath, finished al, only embroidery through 95 em 'an assortment from than we would care to Il greater number this 50. 2.25 each. B1.25 cach. from 5%. to $6.50 thes 13 =~ a drtne 1 BOYS START FLL BOOTED? y and: warm, and their' brain A Hobs at on sale 30 pairs Boys' Gen- ots, sizes 1 to 5, worth to-day RICE $200 « t t66 heavy for school, and will tt Shoe Store Te \ a ™ This sets at 4.37 pm, day? in history smPatiiament Exploits. 'YEAR 74. NO. 2 \ KINGSTON, ¢ ONTARIO, THU RSDAY, J ANUARY 8, 1907. a ---- -- ------ -------------- ep -------- SL00000000800884 = dairy MEMORANDA. py INV ENTING. ion Carnival to-morrow an SPECIAL REDUCTIONS 3 The sun rises Friday at A in] and 'He Wrote a Book of His IN HIGH GRADE Furniture Buffets, China Cabinets, Music Cabinets, Easels, Leather Couches, and Easy! Chairs, Rockers i in Oak -or Rattan, at low figures. ROBT. J. REID 6 Doors Above Opera House 230 Princess Street. 3 Phone 577 Ambulance BEE SRE PERE EERIeY : | s 3 house ut of Britain an get a "Also a knobs, Taronto, Princefon, WHIG TELEPHONES. obbing Department. Embossing and Engraving a specialty. This is the time you can piece set, $4.90. color, with gold handle and DON'T MISS IT 'It's like giving them away. Robertson Bros. 1825 Union 1801 burned, 1737 Ireland, 1801 Battle of Great NNER SETS REAL SNAP, 97 very pretty set, any $5.90. CLEARING ~ SALE! All goods must be sold by the middle of February. as I am leav- ing the city. EVERYTHING BELOW COST Prices from $14 Per Suit Up. Sold by the piece or made to order: Alex. Waggoner, Wellington Street. pi Gold Cuff Links at $2. 50 "'No Mane "aif is more ap- , Meck » a Selid Gold pair of Fo inks. Special a. Gol Cutt $2.50 are the best value in the city. | Kinnear & d Esterre, 100 Princess Street. Our Links at LOOK FOR W. T. HODGES' NEW sHOW "THE BABES IN THE WOODS" After years of corresponding through out the Uliited States and Great. Bri- tain, I have found and purchased "The Babes in the Woods," and puy- pose visiting all the towns and wil lages through the country. This is the only one on the continent. Old in years, entirely new at the present day; refined, high-class. and instructive for old and young. Wait for it, watch for it, and come to it. Hockey Match First Game of the Season, SENIOR 0. H. A. Argonauts of Toronto vs 14th Batt. "Hockey Club FRIDAY, JAN. 4th. Game called at 8.15 p.m. 14th Band in attendance. General admission, 25c. Reserved peats, 25¢c. and 50c. extra Plan opens Jan. 8rd, for sale of re- served seats at Rink Office. Try a Pound of ladies. cessity, people. in the building. Ladies Like and. Fusg their warmth, but: they are also models of style for the dressy woman, and hence her admiration for than. We have a mew and varied stock of Genuine Furs in a variety of skins, Mink, Ermine, Beaver, Séal, Chinchilla, ete These are all well made and lined, and look like. what they are laxurious garments for stylish JOHN McKAY FUR HOUSE 129-163 BROCK STREET Marine Lectures. Capt. Thomas Donnelly will FRIDAY EVENING Olid Collegiate { All interested are urgkd to Furs always become 'the They of course, are a Winter ne- on account of KINGSTON be At 8 o'clock Institute at- This Is The View Of Witte's Paper. PUT RUSSIA BACK AS FAR AS LAKE BAIKAL AT LEAST. z tis irl is Japah and China Will Likely Combine With This Aim in View--Japan is Making Ready and ~Her Forces and Fortifica: tions Are All Being Strength- _ ened, Petersburg, Jan. 3--Many people in gi are serious in the belief that another far eastern war is sure lo come, and that in the next conflict China will be arrayed on the side of Japan against Russia. Bven ex-Premier Witte's journal, the Slovo, has the seare. It pan is arming and war is inevitable. Japan will seize the Amur province and perhaps will push forward as far as Lake Baikal," that is into the heart of Russia's Asiatic territory. Despatches from Manchuria say Ja- pan's preparations, besides an increase in her navy, army and fortifications, include a railway from Korea to Muk- den, with a bridge across the Yalu, which will enable Japanese troops to reach Mukden in five days: Japan has also a garrison at New Chwang, al- though that port has been nominally transferred to China. In southern Sakhalin Japan making military roads, and could raise fortifications in a fortnight. In Manchuria the Russians regard a war with China as inevitable. says: "Ja- is The Russian Budget. Petersburg, Jan. 3.--The prelim- inary budget estimat prepared by the ministry of finance, for the six months, of 1907, commencing January I4th, provide $23,415,000 for regular expenditure, an increase of $18,896,000 or 3.7 per cent compared with the same period of 1900 The greatest part of the increase will be absorbed in the payment of interest on the big loan of 1896, which increased the to- tal charges from $11,098,000 10 $04, 730,000. DISASTROUS FIRE Ri Swept About Montreal Early in Morning. Montreal, Jan. 3.--The worst fire in the season occurred early this morn- ine on St. Antoine and St. James streets, west, causing a loss close to half a million dollars. sing the death of one man, and injuring half a dozen firemen. This was caused by the collapse of one of the brick walls Hormidas Gagnon, a carter, who lived in a little house in St. David's lane close by the burning structure was the victim..He was going back to his house to see what had detained his son, when he was caught under the falling wall. His son got out without hurt. The injured firemen were ing on a ladder in the when the bricks came down all sustained more loss fractures and bruises. The fire started in the St. Antoine street, occupied work » locality and they serious ~S0 or building, by on the Smith, Patterson Co., wholesale jew- ellers and the Gorham company, sil- versmiths, From the rear it spread over to the buildings, facing St. James street, at thé corner of Little Craig strect occupied hy the Ches- borouch comvany, the Dodee Mani facturing comnany and the Standard Clothing company. Half a dozen of smallpr firms and manufacturers'. ag ents in both structures were also suf- fevers. The burned = structure the estate of G. W. firemen injured wore Josevh Dunuis, John Livineston, Mi chael McGrath, J. Brosseau and James Messette, ir owned by Stephens. The Patrick Hamel, BRUTALLY BEAT MOTHER. New Hall, "The 1888, ty rain fc the York, low, Gen, namely some ¥ after seventy 'atmospheric has learned the and clouds. Autochronological of An Inventor" ences as He patents and in nw federal fleet HALL : H. ork, Jan. 3.5Chg dift," stat secrets of He will telling an inventor fre has taken out m Genetal Lowell, Nr. years to aries es that the m 1838 and is still inventing, THE BATTLE CRY. Berlin, in a vigoro taking the form of Ve democrats, purpose to free dependence to steengthen the the reichstag, bination with the successfully oppose destructive reactionary lor then announces that the poll hat- FAC EASIAIORK ous Manifesto. Jan. 3. m Liebert, managing committee League, of the Heary studying, he winds shortly. publish Reminiseences of his experi: to than fif- ING2 constructed a destroy Hall lives in New Chancellor Buelow Issues Vigor- Chancellor: Von Bue: election manifesto, letter to Lieut.- chairman the Empire formed to combat the social in appealing the the on clerical conser the work of the clerighliem. 80 T member of the royal family a visit to the sick room. party liberal groups so that these, in atives, growth wialists he explains he had a double to the government from and court, in com- may aud and chancel te cry is "Fight for the honor uni prosperity of the nation against the social democrats, Poles, Guelis aad Centrists," oo ---------- IHGA * * Ww NEED NOT KOWTOW. ¥ + Se---- E 3 NE Pekin, Jan. 3.--An im- +# 4% perial edict just published ¥ #* raises Confucius to the ¥ same rank as heaven and :k ¥ the earth, which are wor- ¥ 4 'shiped by the emperor + ¥* alome. It is believed this -= ¥% action is in deference to # the religious scruples of 3 ¥ the Christain students in + % the government colleges, ik ¥ who object to "kowtow," ¥ # an act required by im- » ¥* memorial custom by the ¥ ¥ tablet of Confucius. * ¥* * AHSAN HS EAH Natural Children. Trieste; Austria, Jan. 3.--~The letters and documents of the fate Archduke Mtoe were made public to-day, one be ing addressed to Emperor Joseph and the other to his brother, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, disdosing the fact that he was the father of two natural children, aged five and six years, by a Viennese actress. The archduke has mn plored the aaperor to take care of these children It is stated, here, on authority, that his majesty will give the mum of 200000 crowns for the maintamance of the. childeen, but the archduk Ferdinand has announced that he will ignore them. The moth er of the childrem was present with Archduke Otto, in the garb of a nurse, until his death, retiring only when paid HAEARIHOOK / Upheld. THE BOOKS AND PROPERTY OF THE PARISH. S-------- Legality of Associations Estapblished--Fined For De- clarations and Insulting Re- marks--Accused of Begging-- To Hold a Plenary Council. Paris, Jan. 3.--The Tribunal, at Barley-Due, has rendered judgment in the action of M. Varmesson, president of Association Culturello, at Culey, against M. Camus, treasurer of the vestry, to compel the latter to surren- der the parish books and property. M. Owmus is ordered to surrender every- thing to Varmesson under penalty of The paying Gity francs fine daily for a month after which a new judgment wi wo made, according to damage. This decision establishes the legality of Associations Qulterclles, which were farmed, despite the papal interdiction. Three priests were arraigned before the tribunal, at Chawmont, yesterday. not makilig a declaration and for say- ing the issuing of the summons was a dirty job. The other two were fined twenty-five francs each for not making remarks. The mayor of St. Savine has summoned a priest for: making house-to-house collection on behalf the clergy. The summons charges the priests with begging. A plenary council of Prench bishops, to discuss the situation of the church in France, his been' Summoned to meet on January 15th, at the Chatean Do La Mutte, where Louis XVI and Marie Antonictte passed their honeymoon. PITH OF THE NEWS, The Very Latest Culled From Al Over The World. Mrs. Charles Beers was burned death in her home at Sparkhill, N.Y. Richard Harrington was thrown from his cutter at Rothsay, Ont., and died of his injuries. The Ameer of Afghanistan has cross to ed the Indian frontier on his visit to the viceroy. Hon. Mr. Emmerson intimates that he has no intention minister of railways, In Western Russia snow has fallen a dopth of seven feet on level. Manv meople perished. William Manson, M.P., for Alberni, has been appointed . provincial secre- tary of British Columbia. John 1. Rockefeller has presented ( hie ago University with a New Year's gift of three million dollars One thousand troops have returned to Tarkey out 4000 sent two years ago to suppress an Arab revolt. Four boys of Newark, N.J., who were ste ling a ride, were killed "by a train at South Plainfield, N Thirty-five persons were killed and forty injured yesterday in the wreck on the Rock Island railway in Kansas. An industrial farm and training schogl ix likely to be estphlished hear Montreal to reclaim young offenders. Fourteen persons were killed or wounded on New Year's day in fights between nationalists and socialists at Lode. The Western Assurance company, Toronto, will take over the business of the Keystone Fire company, of New Brunswick. Arrangements have been effected for the affiliation of the Prince of Wales' College of Prince Edward Island, with McGill: Ustiversity., Application has been made to have the New York exchange denied the use of the wails on account "of alleged fraudulent practices, The Berlin, Ont.. town council has taken up the award of the arbitrators fixing the value of Berlin and Water loo street railway. of resigning as "0 WERE FINED The Law in France Strongly MUST SURRENDER: a declaration and for making insulting Promises of | A of the « t do away with an evil that has be come rampant, it may result in some good being a h 9 ¥ #7 rolutionare HOME-MADE Sausag \ * El Itis reported that pn revolutionary yers Ls es tend. © Sight Too Much For Young Man, | ¥ MURDERED CHILD. # | outbreak occurred in Honduras last For Sunday's Bre Sa = So He Shoots Ww Fai ea ™ * week, but that it was erushed by the ' 3 . : a. # aris, Jan. 3.--=The ap- 3} | covernment forees, 60 Brock Street DR. WILBUR F. CRA S, Hob Lovis, Mo. dan. Toman # proaching trial of the ¥| Hon. A. G. Blair will be in the next a QITIS, © age twenty-two, shot his | ir Vicomte Chenay and his_#|hovse as liberal member for St. steplather, Henry Miller, forty five | wife,. who are accused of ¢|.John, if his candidature is acceptable i 0 ureav, ; old, at Miller last nigh So Bob Sleighs Washingt Yillin es at u s home, last night, |» murdering their infant, is ¥ |to the government supporters of that 4 killing hmm instantly, r] Pei Leman i a ™ 2 Sets cheap, also a first-class ashington Horie told the police 'that he fired > Re S ana Sis > Opes Welliam is making money ow lot of Furniture, Carpets and | Will address a mass meeting of | the shots because his mother had been | trict. d the blame for the ¢]of its telephones. From last roa Stoves, at JURK'S Second-Hand | Citimens, at = Sydenham street | severely beaten by Miller" She had [3 SeSumed U8 blames for the E10 (0 Lot, ro ning a) Store, '398 Princess street. Methodist church been accused bY hee husband of taking 4 willed that Ee husband 'x | interest. and deprecigtion of plant, it m-- a $5 bill from Ja pocket. id ac + kill the child because of the *¥ has $2,300 of clear profit. OPERA 1 O-NIGH i 'Laould not bear to see him heating [i expense it would entail. #| During the past week seven foet of pe HOUSE my mother, and 1 fired," said Harris, * % | mow has fallen in some parts of i > - | who lives in New York and has been ge on ae | Russia amd. » t i . THR BUSY ONE, a Regus visiting his mother during the holi FAAS I ea et oR Me crutee Out-o-ToWwn engagements accepted. days. w p ge George Towns, the Australian scull- Violin, Viola, Cello Instruction. ST. LAWRENCE WARD. N------------------ omen Farmers exas. er, "Eddie" Hanlan Durnan, of E; H. MERRY. : > -- There are many forms of nervous, de Galveston, Texas, Jun. 3A wom- | Toronto, Cangida, hgve signed articles 155 Sydenham St. ? City: * | TO THE ELECTORS -- bility in men that yield to the ws of | an's experiment in farming is being at- to row on the Nepegn river, March Ladies and Gentlemen, your vote -gnd Carter's Iron Pills. Those who are tanpust in this state under the leader 10nd, for the scalline championship of THE ROYAL RINK ihfluence Are luspectiully Jolicked troubled with nervous weakness, might | ship of Miss Mary Hay By a Rovefist the world snd $2,500 a side. ect me as Alderman for St. lawrence » al rth of Chicago. She has pGrehased 50001 Gordon Walte " i W. G. Wal- Quened Dec. 26th, 1906, to the Publi hs hh 0 awl sweats, ete, should try them. ) as § alton, son o . G. Wal iokets, Aduits $1.50. AONE: | Ward at the gumiog ya) nS. The London Yoo hippopotamus, | acres of lund for the purpose of fownd- | ton, the well-known ice and coal deal- sh jekets. Children, 75¢. R. F. . which died not long ago, cost the so- | ing a woman's colony. Mise Haydon] er of Hamilton, while in Collingwood, ating, Mon ny And Pr | ets | ciety: nearly £1,000 in transport from [and her associates, all of whom are | boarded the Glenclah. lying at the =k aflernoun u Svening. Snlarged ae A Af unmarried ladies, are; going in for dock, and slipped falling down the commodation. Come an ave a gOO rica. erie dies, are yr fe ok, ¥ dow nights' fun. " COUNTESS , CLANCARTY DEAD. In 1890 Longman "and Broderip | light farmifig and invite women with | hatehway to the hold beneath. His in- < 3 :» | made miniature pianos thirty inches | small cavital or "useful" women With: | juries proved fatal. SYDENHAM WARD. Formerly Belle Bilton, a Music lonz and sixteen inches wide. out capital to join thom. Women mav| At Odessa an pitempt was made to Hall Singer. : Hard or soft corns cured with three | have the ir husbands accompany them {hlow un the Atlantic liner Gregory i have again been nonduated as a can-| London, Jan. 3.~Countess Clan- applications of Peck's corn salve. if it is absolutely unavoidable: but no | Morch. The crew had a desperate didate for Alderman for Sydenham Ward. | carty, better known, perhaps, as Belle | Guaranteed. Money back if not satis- | mar Il have anv voice in the man- | strewde with 3 band of wnknown men n ny fees during the JPrSy tex vents Bilton, an ex-music hall singer, is dead | fyctory. In boxes 15c., at Wade's Drug | agement of the colony . |dwrine which several of the sailors Tar at aur infhienes ig seenre--my | at the age of thirty-eight vonage. Her | Store. : were shot, but they succeeded in put- lection. marriage, in 1899, at a registryNoffice, | Total horsepower of the world's Burn Swift's Scranton conl. ani be | tine ont the fuse before the fire rench- R. H. TOYE. to Lord Dunlo, who succeeded ' Kis | steam ngines is reckoned at about |ascured that vour're getting vour pod the bomb. dem | father, the Earl of Clancarty, in 1891, seventy-five millions. . money's worth while it burns. ~ x niahini * One-thifd of all ready-to-wear over- used a sensation in society. The | Odessa is said to be the prettiest Livingston's xustom made suit sale, go Tat pr tit. off all furnishings. coyts, Livingston's. See proved 0 be a happy one. now on, See quivy. P " advt, and mest European 'town of Russia. | pases conderning cabled from Seotland. Of late he had ial Charles J. Holman intends to testify at the trial of her son-in-law, Harry J. Thaw, for the murder of Stanford White, and that her decision will pro- bably greatly surprise Thaw and her daughter, Evelyn, Mr. take thorough satisfaction to myself for his treatment of my da myself," said Mrs. Holman ed to have him arrested long ago, be- fore he married my followed One of them was fined forty franes for frained in order to avoid the notori- ° that during the coming session of parligment a measure will be intro so changed as to provide for compul sory voting. While justice is satisfied that this will not to' he introduced amend igs to throw apen the lands with the right to to purchase 160 aeres adjoining their homestead of a similar acreage. This privilege of pre-emption will also be extended to present settlers, timated that of land awmilable for settlement in the west, railways and land compagjes. GOLFER'S BODY FOUND. Robert Dunlop, Scotch Profes- sional Was Drowned. New York, Jan. 3--~The body of Rolitrt Dunlop, the Seotch profossion- al moller, wos found in Van Cortland Lake, Kingsbridge, yesterday. Dunlop had been missing for several weeks. He was about thirty-seven years eit. and came to America from last July. He played in several cham- pionship mate He& was an ime structor of the New York Golf Club when he disappeared." It is beljoved he fell into the lake while walking across the park at night. His body was removed to the morgue. Numer- ous enpwiiries regarding him had been' received By golfers recently, two mes him havin~ been not' prospered , financially, THE MOTHER-IN-LAW Will = Testify at the Thaw Trial. New York, Jan. 3.--A dispatch to the Herald from Pittsburg says Mrs. "Harry Thaw has White to thank that 1 did sot "1 want daughter, but. I Mr White' advice and re ty. IT IS COMING. -- Compulsory Voting Will Be Introduced. Toronto, Ont., Jan. 3.~Hon. A. B. viesworth has intoruind the oe ign for the suppression of te iy Jo and corruption tuced increasing penalties for elec: oral corruption and the election act the minister of LANDS FoR SETTLERS. 0dd Numbered Sections jn West to Be Thrown Ottawa, Jan. 3.~The bill which is . int by. Mr, Oliver . 16 the Dominion lands set pro- for settlement odd numbetsd sections of the settlers Extra fine mali, colors sky, Helio, read oe It is es wa there are 73.000 acres J exclusive of land held by the SHOT THE BRIDEGROOM. In Love With Bride Had Revenge on Husband. Lagrange, Ga., Jan. 3--Frank M. Ridley, Jr., Lagrange, was shot and seriously wounded by Harvey Hill, Atlanta. The shooting occurred at the wedding of Miss Ellie Ridley, a cousin of the wounded man, while the Quests were pressing forward to extend con- gratulations. Hill has been arrested. Ridley may recover. Both belong to prominent families. It is said that Hill was deeply in love with the bride, Gans To Fight Britt, Tonopah, Nev.,, Jan. 3.--Ben Selig, acting for Joe Gans, and M. M. Riley, on behalf of the Casino A. UC. signed articles for a finish fight between Joe Gans and Jimmy Britt, The purse is to be $25,000, sixty per cent, to the winner snd forty per cent. to the los- er. Weight is to be 133 pounds two hours' before the fight. -------- "Just think of it," 3c. for a goed Je. bulh syringe, in a wood box, during the January rubber goods sale at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store, Still worrying over clinkers, algte and other impurities, which you have | Francisco present 4 served up with your coal? Get Burns - O'Brien In M. Plety, t it BLTSE TI, ie p02 +The heavy-weight ba for smacy of modern pri J % « Direct from Madison Swift's Scranton coal. The greater proportion' of divorces take place between the filth and tenth year of married life. Waggoner's eloaring sale now on. Goods sold by the piece or made to order. Mass Meeting A STUDHOLME, "toi Labor M.P.I'., Mlamil- SMAL. LANDERS, Labor OGrator, Hamilton. P. M: DRAPER, Sec. Dom, Trades Congress, Ottawa. W. KELLY, Chairman B ard of Fduea- tion. Kingston. Amd others, will speak for - . Independent Workingmen's Candidate for Mayor, 1907, CITY HALL, 8 P- m., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5th. 'Everybody Welcome ELECTORS. Down Politics in Municipal Let the wheels of civic pro. gress move. Vote for Richardson