Fi I i four | tions of the Duke of Argyle on Can- "| the present duke, the former Marquis two and a half millions into a dis tributing plant; that later the city may, in extending the service, spend five or six millions more; that in all about ten millions of dollars will be involved in competing with the com- pany which has put ahout fourteen millions of dollars into the business. The Courier goes further and pre- for a fall. Tt has to tackle a sewage scheme at a cost of several millions. proved at a cost of several millions more, "It is strange," says our con- temporary, "that these problems, munity, should be shoved into the . of i I does not speak too highly for the in- selligence. of the community that it al] heavy expenditure for a doubtful advantage. house du jiminiateation. He has been blo) hi to o lows its : against, two ory IRalGw SViy Sous iat was offer year 1908. The he vote an ters have willing to sanction al) what at best is; when Sir "» that whith | again. 'urran bridge was not World and Hoo sirang "meat for him, nor the Mr. Taylor called the Globe to or- der for its reference to him and the Brockville election, and the. Globe replies with remarkable acerbity. George is 4 better whip than a letter writer, t ---- * One must be thankful for small fav- ie, ours, hut the waterworks' department should have' made 5 bigger reduction in the charges for closets and baths. Clehnliness and sanitation are worthy of encouragement of even the city cor- poration. The conservative papers appear to be very much annoyed because George Taylor, M.P., was not allowed to con- tradiet §4 crown witness. Lynch-Stan- ton should have known what his wit- nesses were going to give in the way dicts that the Queen City is riding | of evidence. Dr. Parkin, at a recent speech in people in Canada "who were quite ignorant and had to be educated." Tt is just as well that these samg_people say something tarty in reply, OUR NEIGHBOUR, TAYLOR. Toronto Globe. For fourteen years he was the gov- t MeToo in the dominion the palmy days of tory for as whip men to wry face he were proving hilt, Mr. Tay-, " dumb , ready 'to through t his mas- upon them to vote h, and dragooning others to do He sat wad applauded Adolphe Caron, who was with funds bonuses, declared done he would to i ownership, but it is doubtful that the Queen City can succeed, It is warned to go slow with INDEPENDENT MEN IN POLITICS. Have you been veading the reflec ada end Canadian affairs? Not the old duke, who has passed away, but of Lorne, Among other things he re marks : : "Nothing makes one see the value of the A qopeuden t territorial politi- 5 the people except one were really so ad to meet the expenses of an elec tion and follow up a purely politi. cal life without indemnity, emolument i its expensive pchemes, and the public h ¥ there was Widge so rotten on which he could a simian foothold. If he had been on the Quebec bridge he would have managed Joget ashore in safety. A gentleman with Mr. Taylor's record should refrain from talking about so * COMMON SENSE DEMANDED Renfrew Leader, The failures have been quite numer- ous enough and their cause quite obvi- ous enough to convince all who care to learn that municipal ownership, no more than any other kind of owner ship, can be successful unless it go hand in hand with common business sense. Municipal ownership ag a geoer- al cause in Canada could not stand many signal failures, and the surest way of making those failures would be to rush headlong into all manner of municipal enterprises at unfavora: cians of England more than residence | ble seasons and under adverse condi: in America, where, as a rule, the rich | tions. Hf municipal ownership fails as rich too late for public life, or if {a | means of relief from corpor- er give their sons a fortune, end [ation abuse, it will perish at the they are rich men, Ap not in: | hands of its misguided friends, not of t anything beyond t for | its avowed enemies. A more unfavor- enjoying the "late-carned luxury of | able season or more adverse condi- their father in spending the fortune | tions than the present it would be left them. ., | hard to conceive, and those who urge "I'he father did not, in all probabil: | the immediate undertaking of large ity, care for politics, except insofar as | punicipal enterprises must be regard: io express the opinion, that mest pul ol as badly sed, if well meaning, ic men are bluckguards, riends of municipal ownership. don't see why they should both, munis Mees ip + | themselves so long as | THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. leave them alone. Then the ope When the full and true history of the who do go into polities are not sufl- |g; cia] crisis of 1907 comes, if it ciently well off to ward off the, Sus: | (ver comes, to be written, it may not picion that they fo in for polities to |i, nobably "appear that the main make money by thoice of profes |ouuse of the crisis, so far as the Uni: ; , » by ltd States is concerned, or at all 1d be |SVents the main cause of the gravity t wou to fof it, has been the unscrupulous use absur in of credit. There has been a fantastic i polis | ncing about of persons not merely is a uneducated in general, but untrained commonplaces in their business. They have posed as Nn presidents of banks and rajlroad com- 8 Inanies. Their incompetent = manage L Shey are ment and the extravagance and vul- rity of their modes of living have d a great deal to do with the pub: lic furore against corporation mag- nates. The Ray situation has been va i itive failure to All the role Tor which they cast them- selves, % : LIBERAL GENEROSITY. Hamilton Herald. We don't know how the new list of y-retuning officers was made up. But if City Clerk Kent did all that the aldermen wanted him to do, the liberal alderman are, in our opinion, ing of eredit for to mourns day, the guson was community, sided here all her she was widely known She of whom married, but two G Mrs. Samuel Truscott, § west, Mrs. Grassey were at her at the last. Her fune- ral Service was conducted by Rev. Me. , in the Methodist church, after the remains were taken to Sand Hill vault. Mr. and Mrs. J. Holmes are con- I ag ur: a nurse a daughter, Mrs. David Gamble, of Morton, still in attendance. Ferdinand Holmes had the misfortune $0 have his arm brok- en one day last week. He is doing as Its water system will have to be im-| London, said that there were some well as can be expetted. J. Sears and family have possession of the ral store. Owing to the illness J, H. Morris they have been umable to get possession of taken which' affect the health af the com-| do not know Parkin, or they would |the house. Mrs. (Dr.) A. E. Freeman is very low with typhoid fever, A trained myse and Dr. Wood, of Kingstof, are in attendance. Miss Myrtle is also down with the fever. Norman is home from Sydenham high school. Miss Neltic Johuiston has been em- ployed to teach the public school for cheese factorips have closed. A. Joung daughter has come to ten home of W. Lindsay. R. Knight has purchased the residence of George Uhrisley, in the village. Mr. Bartell has bought the house and shop owned by R. Knight. Wr. and Mrs. J. Simpson have re- turned home after a three months' visit to their daughters in the west. THOUSAND ISLAND PARK. -- --~Taking Farms. Thousand Island Park, Nov. 25.-- Beautiful balmy weather for this sea- son of the year. The social and musi- of this place, has removed to one of the G. C, Emory farms, near Round Island. John Tidd and family have also removed to a farm a short dis- tante from Clayton. G. R. Brown, of this place, has secured the contract of building the new Methodist Episcopal church at. Fine View. The material comes from Clayton, cement blocks building of the acetylene plant. various buildings is now in charge of Camp, as teacher. ciety formed for library, last the winter in week, Several Ira Cupernall is enlarging his tage. ' i ---------- MRS, FINKLE INJURED. away Accident. Napanee, Nov, 21.--Mms. C. H: Finkle and her daughter, Helen, . of Newburgh, met with caite a. serious got its foot in a hole and stumbled, thrdwing out Miss Helen, who was driving, and before Mrs. Finkle could extricate herself the horse started to ran away and went about a mile, when Mrs, Finkle was cither thrown out or jumped and was found uncon- this condition most of the day, but regained consciousness later. Helen was not seriously injured, and Mrs. Finkle's injuries are not thought now to be serious, Their escape fron death was miraculous. Miss Pearl Grieve has taken tie ition as teacher of the Mount leasant schoal for 1908, The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyterian church a very successful apron and calico Wile and a tea on Tuesiav evening in the tea an old folks' concert was render- od, with the principal actors in cos tume of "ye olden time," which, with appropriate music, was a decided suc- cess, proceeds add materially to the Ladies' Fund for church proposes. Another sad death occurred on Fri- when Mrs. Easter Fer- Terence home. She had been [late owner, succeeded Ml but & week and her death was a and highly respected. raised td ters, all a family of eight daugh al The Latest News From This Place | A scow load of have arrived for the The being erected are nearly all enclosed. The public school Frederick Van The Literary So- the new "puts" are being built. Several scow building a double boat house on East coast, - for gasoline launches. Capt. cot- Shy and Her Daughter in a Run- scious on the road. She remaiyed in yoste town hall. After the HOUSES SEATGHED CASH BOX WITH $8500 FOUND IN OLD WALL. Man's Hoard of Fifty Years Be- comes the Unexpected Propertv _ of His Brother. Dublin, Slav. 31.The sum of $8,500 two weeks ago, was ce during his uncle's or ' some time subse- continued in occupation until proceedings were instituted. Cosgrove, a brother of the in obtaining a transfer of the license, and shortly af- went *It is mot known why the search which has proved so fruitful was in- stituted. It is rumored that the mon- 3 0 wo ex had been secreted there for the theit mother, Hér remaining daugh-ilast fifty years by the late owner, ters are Mrs, W. Bruce, Mrs. James {who had the reputation of possessing Shepherd and Mrs. James Lake, of| considerable wealth, this plhoe; Mrs, Andrew McBride, oi| This extraordinary "find" is much Westbrook; of | talked of in the district, and several bi and Mrs. Grassey, of $he{old public. houses in that part of the country have since been so closely searched that their structural arrange- ments have been altered almost be- SHOOTS PLAYMATE Six-Year-Old Boy May Die From the Wound. Corry, Pa., Nov. 27.--Milton Mon- roe, six yedrs old, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Monroe, of Columbus, Pa., three miles from here, was ac- cidentally shot yesterday afternoon, and may not survive the injury. The little fellow, was playing with a com- panion, Bernice Damon, seven years old, She discovered a revolver in « work basket, and thinking it was a cap pistol, pointed it at the boy and pulled the trigger. The hullet, a 32- calibre struck the child in the face, one 'inch below the left eve, inflicting a dangerous wound. The little fellow became unconscious and Dr. Bennett was called and after dressing the in- jury ordered him removed to the Cor- ry Hospital, where an effort will be made to-day to locate the bullet. Re- poi this morning state that the child is resting comfortably and may recover if no complications set in. The parents of both children are distract- ed over the terrible affair. MADE FLAMING TORCH. Saturated Clothes With Kerosene and Set Fire. Fast Fairfield, Vt., Nov. 27.--Miss Hazel Moran, aged about twenty-two years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ber- nard J. Moran, who reside about two miles south of the village, committed cal, held at the residence of E. C.|suicide by saturating her clothing Lewis, for church , was a|from head to foot with kerosene oil success in every way. . C. Conant,| and then setting fire to the clothes and jumping into bed. This was between two and three o'clock. She made no outery, and the family had no alarm until they smell ed the burning kerosene and rushed to the girl's room on the second floor. The flames were extinguished with but little difficulty, put Miss Moran was so terribly burned that she died next day. Insanity is given as the cause of he deed, 4s she had occasional fits of insanity in the past, and had been watched at such times. She was a very estimable young woman. - BEAT HIS RECORD. ag ir, ipl pate: ste., Made in a Famous Walk Forty lessees of the Park farm. Jay J.| 3 Years Ago. Gardner is building a new tow scow Chicago, Nov. 27.--Edward Payson for freight purposes, and will be| Weston, the pedestrian, walked to the completed by spring. Clarance Fox is federal 'building at 9:30 o'clock, this morning, completing his 1,230-mile journey from Portland, Me., to Chi. cago. He has broken his record of forty years ago by néarly twenty-four hours. Fully five thousand persons saw him onter South Chicago. He seemed to be unmindiul of the atten- ion he was receiving. Husband And Wife. "Husbaod," in Harper's Weekly. A man is not happy when he is con- tinually being made to feel that he has acted like a brute. Nor does any Sacident oh Nonday, mommi a 5 lost. man like to have a woman, however woo a sick sister. When, in passing | dearly he loves her, peering forever over 'a bridge oF culvert. the horse into the recesses of his mind with a view to find outif he cares for her as much as he did yesterday. 1 have seen many a decent fellow made -al- most brutal by this sort of affectionate inquisition. No man enjoys having his affections pulled up by the roots to see if they have grown ormnot since rday. In short, every human be- ing Jools the mod of a little decent mental privacy. Ew one has a right to thoughts. of rig By a right to variations of emotions that he is not bound to tell about. Women do not think this; they will relentlessly track every their husbands have to its last hiding-place. Then, when all shantaneity is dead, they nourm for i Father Has Son Imprisoned. New York, Nov. 27.--~Solomon Solo- mon, a picture card manufacturer, had 885 under his pillow when he went to bed last night, and objected strenu- ously when he fouid a burglar mak- ing off with it. He grabhed the man in the dark and turned in a call Jor the police. When the lights were turned Applause. on, Mr. Solomon found that the burg A friend ha declared in Mrs. | lar was his own son. "I will play the Siddons' hearing that applause was {hand out, now," he said grimly, and necessary to , that it gave them | Solomon, Jr., was taken to jail. confidence, = "More," interposed she; "it gives us breath." Asks Payment On Husband. ---------- 2% St. Paul, Nov. : 27.-The Modern The death of Philip McArthur ocenr- | Woodmen of America has been sued red a tere das S49 at: Degpois: Mich. |by Mrs. Jennie MN. Welring, on a 81,- Deccased for i §h-Bello- 1000 policy iskued to her hu-band. The ville, employed in the Tatelligencer. | plaintiff avers that she believes her He was a of the late Nell McAr- | nushand is dead, but cannot prove it. upwards of filty years Hehwing left his wile in 1860 and she he died in 1905 or 1906, Black Clothes Did you ever hear of a black sheep that faded ? We never did. : That's why we have .so much confidence in our Black Suits. If the quality is right, there's no more generally useful Suit than a Black one. Good for business, good for any occasion. Plenty of style and quality about our Black Suits. Single or Double-Breasted Cheviot and Worsted Suits, $12.50, $15, $18 and $20. Full Dress Suits, $22, $25 @ and $30. Prince Albert Suits, $22.50 and $30. Ready to try on, fnished | to your order in two hours. Full Dress - Toggery Tooke Collars, 2 for 25c. Austrian Collars, 20c¢. each, 3 for 50ec. Full Dress Protectors, 75ec., $1; $1.25, $1.50. Full Dress Neckwear, 10c., 15e¢., 20c., 25c. Full Dress Shirts, $1, $1.25, $1.50. , Cuff Links Shirt Studs Tie Retainers White Gloves, 50c., 75c¢., 81. White Silk Handkerchiefs, 25¢., 50c., 75c. and $1. White Full Dress Vests, and $2.50. 82 THE H. D. FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS. BIBBY GO. FIGHTING INDIANS. Tribes of Mould. Baltimore American. | "1 sojourned for more than a year | in Central America, mostly in Hon duras, where I went to make a study | of the native Indian tribes," said | Charles C. Lesseuer, of New Orleans. | "These aborigines are mostly of | warlike mould and as brave fighters as any ol the human race. 1 was es- | pecially impressed with the inhabi- | tants of the Copper and Gracias dis- | tricts, They are the best fighting stock in all Latin America. Three or Honduras War-Like an army of thrice their size. They are ever eager for battle, and reck noth- ing of heavy adverse odds. They are supposed to be Christians, but from what I saw and learned from others I came to the belief that they. prac- tise heathen rites and cgremonies. They are excellent friends, but terrible enemies, and if defeated in battle are apt to visit their wrath on their un- fortunate officers. "These Indians cling to their primi- tive customs, and do most of their hunting with bows and arrows. The way they use the bow is rather uni- que, They sight their game, calculate the distance, and then shoot their ar- rows into the air, whercupon the weapon falls upon the mark, whether bird or beast, seven times out of ten, with fatal ofiect. The country they inhabit is quite cold, and often in the morning I have seen a thin coat of ice over the jar of water placed on my table. Again, when shivering under two or three blankets, I have looked with envy at my mes2o (servant) who, stripped to the skin, and wrapped only in a thin cotton sheet, slept as comfortably as though in a steam heated apartment. Men Who Help Thieves. London Standard, The *'rechristener'" is the profession- al name of the man who alters the names and numbers on' stolen watches The rechristener is usually a clever engraver, who, through drink or other, wise, has lost the chance of obtaining | honest employment and aids the re ceiver of stolen property. When a watch has been stolen the number or namk or other indication of make or ownership may be forwarded to the police and by them ecommunicatéd to four hundred of them will often defeat™ 2 PEE RRRRRRRRERRERINREER EEE ERE RER REE RER RR ~ . . THE WIFE'S TEARS Husband's Heart Faint Within Him. Harper's Bazaar, which is settling all feminine problems these days, has turned its brilliant editorial attention to the subject of marital disagreement. This month's issue (December) gives the husband's opinion of his wife's tears--an opinion in" which thousands of suffering hushands will coneur : One night he woke up and found her Can Make crying; nor will he, gx long as he lives, forget the dj y this caused him. The, fir Jounidation.of his little 60k under his feet. He so wanted her to be happy; as far as he knew he did everything to make her happy, and here she was awake 'in the night, crying. Nor would she tell hin iwhy. No woman fully understands | the awful ship-wrecked feeling it gives |a man to see his wife cry. He never | gets used to it; he may get accustom- ed to anything else, but never to {that. A man whose wife cries often | mav learn to put a stoical face on it | --~grit his teeth, and bear it without | wincing outwardly, just as he may {learn to bear some ever-recurring pain; depend upon it, however, * his heart ds water within, him. There nothing that so saps one's manhood as tears. Men have different ways of showing this. Some it makes brutal from sheer despair; others are 'dumb {in the face of tears, unable to utter a cheering or sympathizing word; while, again, others take refuge in flight. since they can't bear 'the unnerving spectacle. However, » man iakes it, 'be sure he suffers all his worst enemy ould wish him .to. Tn where marriage is a warfare the woman has here a weapon at her command: that can always rout her opponent and give her the final victory. is cases The death took place in Ameliasburg on Monday, of Mrs, , James Gorman, a very highly respected lady. She was seventy-two years of age. Nearly all her life she had resided in the town- ship of Tyendinaga. At Perth, Ont., on November 26th, Tohn A. Stewart, son of Robert Ste- vart, and Jessie Mabel, daughter of Mrs. J. T. Henderson, of Thuresson Place, were married. George G. Jones, a railway mail clerk, died in Brockville hospital, on Monday, aged seventy-two years. pawnbrokers, There is « quently an element of risk in attempting to dispose of it. ere are various ways of getting over the difficulty, and re- christening is one that is frequently resorted to. The engraver addy or prefixes another figure to the number or he turns the name of "J Robins" info "T. J. Robinson," the extra 'ini- tinls serving to make 'the name look level and central on the witch case This is done very cleverly, and the rest of the letters or figures are touched up to make all: appear' to have been cut at the same ime. The Correct Purse. Harper's Bawar. One fancy in outer accessories * is worth mentioning here. There is now an etiquette of the pocketheok. Fash- jon's latest flat is that the parse or pocketbook must retire: with the noon hour, since it is chiefly designed for shopping or marketing purposes, Af- ter the morning duties it must give way to the headed or metal chain items in the fashionable women's" out- fit. This must be Ia enough held card case, drs purse, handkerchief, and "as vostly as owner's income will allow. Between the two ovil Ricker a knocker-there's no ote, 3 a reticule, now one of "the most costly |. R HWE ome MANUFACTURERS, SoM at 'all Dry Good Stores. [i THE RICHT MEDICINE * FOR PELVIC TROUBLI FOUND IN PEI RS. CAROLINE ERAME! Collins, Col., writes: "The majority of women who fering from disordered peric other pelvic troubles, have such faith in doctors that they allo $0 experiment on them for kidne or stomach troubles until they completely discouraged and thei is gone. "This was my unfortunate #] hardly dared believe that a had found the right medicine, | kept on using it and was finally 1 could only thank God and tal age. "I have had most satisfying from the use of your medicine a advised dosens of women who v fering with woman's ills to use and let the doctors alone. "Those who followed my ad! better today and many are fully to'health." Mrs. Wilda Mooers, R. F. 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V need them remember they ai Ti , - vg > Gihsgn's Bed Cross drug ste A food many people are happiness in heaven that things' in this life that aro erable doubt about their there. The' steamer Plummer w government dry dock, this on her way to Montreal, wi eral cargo. from the west. "Rath Mitte and wash r: them at Gibson's Red C¥ store. Phone 230. Differ with the egotist anc once disgusted because of 01 goed judgment. I would not count much friendship of the man who ! liking for the dog. Nah "Hugler's George Washing so at Gibson's Red | store,