#2 EERE RI RC AAS PAGE FOUR. 5 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1908. SAVE FUEL | DALY | BRITISH 310 pub Kingsiom, por year Exi- tions at 2.80 ty WEEKLY BRITISH wHiaq, 1 and over, jished in parts on ay morning at $1 a year. Attached is ome of the best Job Frint ing Offices in Canada: cheap work ; mine improved {The British Whig Publishing Co., Lt'd. EDW. J. B. PENSE, Managing Director; Daily Whig. FITTED FOR THE WORK, 'The appointment of Prof. Shortt, as hairman of Conciliation Board which deals with the Canadian North- is. a further evi- Queen's aflord to lose him depart- 80 power- the ern labour difficulty, of his acceptability, it very well Political he has made fully attractive, but his place i= on a conciliation board. H® is {pec uliarly fitted for its work, and he in dence eannd from its Economy ment, which This B y sifting your ashes. permanent ane for 15c. & Others at 10¢,, 50c., £1.75, 2 50, 3.00 and 6.00. Best assortment at orbett's SPECIAL SALE NOW ON. 30 Per and. Overcoats 10 Per Cent. thas been successful dealing with the cases that have come particularly before him. | -------- MUST WAKE UP. think you, are Only FARMERS How many the farmers, House of Commons ? of «the The Tribune, | twenty two hundred and nine | members. statement is. made by | the Winnipeg and it is going | the rounds of the press and producing { surprising results. The farmers are "not their duty the { take as sound an interest in political | unmindful of to state, and they affairs as any other class, lack } | purpose, of in cohesive- in fixedness in some respect- in persistence, | ness as a fraternity, on Suits according to number Cent. Discount representation [in. the counsels of the nation they do | Boots | | the Discount on not get because they have not found eget of SUCCESS, In the nating and Rubbers. ¥ gislatures they are a domi they be | ISAAC C 8 cine One saw this when they pro- g i y | 271 Princess street. | tested, through the county members, | | against the The. | TBERE R JUANY BAKING POWDERS § obnoxious in some re. \\ liz | spgcts at least, at once suspended, or | Ft and cannot team sen school legislation. measure was, | withdrawn Jom enforcement, The | want to be a They | what ? -- | MUST THE TREATY GO? | f farmers must wake up if they | political force in Cana- must but | ' | da. do something, \ The Montreal (Gazette occasionally lindulges in some gueer philosophy. It { thinks, that Parker Wil- {liams, a ranting socialist British ex- for instance, in { Columbia, "right to some | tent" hers at the coast, BUY THERE IS | Mr. Kennedy, ONLY ONE { Japanese 'united pro- MAGIC BAKING POWDER | | 4 ---- | the Pacific coast members might have | ' ! tis Pure, Whotesome and Economical | prevented the of Commons | SOLD IN ALL ze: | | from sanctioning the treaty that gives E.W.GILLETT 200 ChmiTeD | the Japanese cubjocts in Canada their JORONTIO.CL | special privileges." The Anglo- Japan- {ese treaty was not passed or endorsed The house had it under con- and the is when he says the liberal mem- save and excepting are to blame for the situation. A says our contemporary, House ---------------------- DON'T WAIT TILL YOU ARE | hastily. RICH TO BUY A | sideration for a long 3 | conservatives had a grievance with hs Victor Talking Machine gard to it, namely, that the govern- t did not show ehough eagerness it. Had _the protest to offer ? Is it on time, in and enquire or write us | men { pr about our {to accept Easy Payment | Plan. DAWSON & STALEY, 217 Princess St., Kingston. | the High Grade Pianos, at Living| * Prices. Drop loval opposi- [tion any | record anywhere that the conservative | | party disapproved of the action of the Be enreit ? Late "big talk' in par- may not sound very well to "bigger talk' at Borden and his al- seeing ? | liame Gazette. Later the coast by Mr. {lies in very much out of place, { that they are more culpable than mem: Vook's Cotton Root Soupount | [ere of the government for the cond Gath | tions that now prevail. goMfi: HERESIES KNOCKED. ra Reeth pet | k ard system some | Sold by all iy or | Hamilton left the w aoe a iD Dt of § | years ago because its people believe wok Meena. Torokre Out. dormerty Wis that they would, by election from the secure better men. The) . ee: ki - ? plan has now been aban- N but Salt --and such doned, and largely because it has | Salt! You will find no other so been descredited by the politicians, | delicate in flavour, so pure as {They found that they could run 'the i WINDSOR TABLE SALT. | machine fo advantage, and so held TMs | their caucuses and - put in the field {tickets the special merits of which were that they would be er the docile voters, a Politics can be resorted to'in any! election. They can be the bane of the ward system. as well as of the general vote system, There is onb advantage, however, on the side of the ward scheme in that it confines the opera- tions of the party within certain lim its, and the surplué vote of any divi- sion cannot be used in nullifying the expressed decision. of the electors in {another division" The return of the 'people in Hamil ton to the ward method of selecting representatives of the council comes as a surprise, when it is recalled that {the party which has prevailed for some years in municipal matters, and which has preached the despicable doe- trine that litical considerations should rule in every public body, has been against this change. A vote of four to one emphasizes a truth, to the discomfiture of the conservatives. It is the party have evidently disapproved of its tactios. \The masses are sane in 'a, civie sense. { They do not want to see so much of | the. partizan spirit and they have giv- en a knotk to certain well-known whole people, s¢ general vote THE ACME HEAT PRODUCER. AEN Pe EN that will make a On 6aFth the THE WHIG, 74th YEAR| Habed rapid, stylish cround for a grievance presses. required to But they | What they want | | ministers. fC Guelph {art and delight {drunk is not this, that many who belonged ta' LIVE COMMISSION The announcement of = the Trunk railway company, that April 1st, the rate ou fuel trumsport- WANTED 3 Sages ed over its road east of Toronto will | be advanigd by ten cents a ton, gives Are the being discrimina- peo: district H so they Canada has a commission, ple ted of any against ? should have a remedy. fwitich is absorbed with large issues, and Ontario has a commission which lis out of the time hat a Public Utility | Gommission such as New Yoriy po | sesses. Before €lovernor Hughes' "Elec- which the faulty their of business most is wanted is {tion there were commissions were supposed to be devoted to but they were and failed of new | public interests, lor incompetent, THe commission marvels already, and they only a year. of them is their accessibil- mission have | {wronght {have been in existence {The lity hy anyone, virtue their quickness of act- With | Oshawa would ion, their directness of results. | sue h a commission {have only a few days to wait until it [would know the meaning of the Grand | Trunk's No twould be permitted to linger, no dis latest order. |erimination continue beyond the time | get the proof of it. slow in Ontario Commission is too its movements, too cumbrous in its i too much given and form and style. A business com- animated by the spirit of the when they service, to ceremony mission, | times, and which reforms, are needed, for itself. could make a great name EDITORIAL NOTES government not Its annuity scheme is quite another thing. a------ New York state leads in an attempt It and defen does The | propose Laurier to found a pension fund. to stamp out tuberculosis. has set apart 850,000 for ofiensive sive purposes. The News thinks that in any reorganization of"the senate there should be Toronto direct representation of the Why ? inn, aniversities, . There is an agitation for a removal or modification of the postage on for- Will it succeed ? The French papers and French Chamber of demand redress. -- The Montreal Star of under-secretaries for It calls the proposal "grab". or 'genteel bribery." cont@ridporary * should unnecessarily. eign periodicals. ('ommerce is Tot in favour the Canadian a Our not get excited The North Grey conservatives -- had the plan prepared of gerrymandering the liberal leader out of his seat, and the government refused to hit below the | belt. There are some things that the Whitney government will not do. in favour of making contracts with the Hydro-Electric cheap power. Jut to come--to Thirteen cities in the west voted Commission for the big job is yet give orders for a specified load, and guarantee the selling of it. It's time to get busy. The Toronto World tells us that the high voltage that can the Niagara Falls will "sen the eles the extreme east and west of the province. It will be in order then for Mr. Beck to give the people of Kingston electricity at the cost of tallow candles. He promised that. be secured tric power to Grand | after | jconnection The | | tions. ie urities are Mothing ONTARIO'S POWER FEVER. Less Enthusiam Two Years Hence. | somtrea: Gazette. Pesides 1010R to, tern Untario cities voted in favor of cipal lighting and with which the or twelve other west- and towns have establishing miuni- power plants in the hydro-electric legislature at its made provision for. In the lst are: Hamilton, St. Thomas, Guelph, Galt, Woodstock, | Waterloo, St. Mary's, Hespeler and New Hamburg. In only one case, that {of Ingersoll, was a municipal power {by-law defeated. | the by-laws were éarried were large, {the minority votes running irom fifty {down to in the neighborhood of ten {per cent. of the total cost. ation is interesting. ed curious. It is marked {like Hamilton, whose |growth has been due {part to the enterprise of a local cor- poration which supplied ' power rates consumers seemed to find {sonat le. Indeed, even in Toronto, ! scheme, {last session {eluded in i London, Stratiord, | : . in places | rea- {may be called high, whole Included jon the of, its in some of mpnopoly that, elective service, those who put their money may be "grasping," of thing, robbing capital obliga- its bonds. while supplying mito the public. Its experience, even when it is remembereyl that it is | that of a pioneer, js not promising that the>~power to be through the hydro-electric commission will be any cheaper than that which is now supplied . through the enter prise of private individuals acting to- gether under a company charter. The municipalities whose voters have been caught by the "cheap power" talk are to get nothing they will not selves have to pay for. the law " the province contributes to the cost of the com- or its works. The com- mission is to buy power at, Niagara It is to provide transmission Knes, in terest on the cost of which, with a contribution for the sinking fund the cost of maintenance must be by the municipalities which make mission paid use of them. The 'municipalities must also | take and pay for a specified amount of power, and must depend on selling it all to save themselves fram They must create and maintain muni loss cipal distribution plants and adminis- | trative, repair and collection rervices If any of them make mistakes the cost | will fall on their taxpayers The bonds to be issued to pay for the works that will be necessary will be that the towns as a whole will be sponsible for. There will be no radi cal difference between the interest and expenses that will be thus charged re Yagainst the municipalities and the in- form that, terest or dividends that would the profits of the companies where there was reason to think enterprise was justified from a busi ness point of view, were ready to un- dertake the work, without the muni- cipalities or their taxpayers being put to any cost or risk: Had this business view of the situation been duly presented it is possible that the favor shown to the power would have been less marked. Those who should have led in this duty, however, even when it that they saw where their duty lay, seemed too anxious to be in with the multitude, and the result is as jt is The risk, moreover, is not to public interests alone. Municipalities which at |pay no taxes on their properties and plants are to go into competition with their own residents who do pay taxes, and will work, either to drive them out or buy them out of the busi ness they have established often at the cost of unsuccessful first experi ments. This will neither help the eredit of the towns in question, the province, or of the corporations which age alone able to carry on great enterprises -- within its boundar or SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Hear, Hear. Mercury. Some of our local calendars would | make admirable framed pictures, if the | getter up would only keep his blamed | name off. the calendar. {comes with the { field, | surance A Fierce e Rebuke. Toronto Mail > Dr. Beattie by the lobbyists and friends of rule than any man in public life the city to- day. . Nesbitt is more favored | ring | in ag It Seems. Toronto New : i The Ty oX the loeal option c¢on- tests seem to Aes that the grac+ful al pastime of getting so popular as it once was. You Don't Say. Ottawa Journal. There is no present demand in Can- adg for a higher tariff, except on the part of & hardy few in the Canadian Manufacturers" Association. Bat Mr. Edward Gurney can't sec what that has to do: with the matter. A Revelation. Syracuse 'St andard. To up-state people with pleasant memories of bountiful Christmas and New Year's dinners the announcement by tharity officials that over 20,000 New York city children, if not starv- ing, are without food to sustain life properly, has. an appauting force. Egxing Oni "Opposition. Lordon Pi Imperial } obligation does not seem to be a valid plea in defence of the Can- adian government. If Australia and {New Zealand can continue to main- tain restrictions upon Asiatic immi- gration without endangering the Jap- anese alliance--which presumably ie of some value to Japan--why should Ca- --. be debarred from adopting a similar poliey ? ' Genuine Fu¢ 5 { nerisies that have been tolernted al en f is safe {or possibly in two, lenthusiasm for municipal power { there | ey away. shows a beautiful reproduction, in col- There will be a sobering up. It to predict that in five years, there will be less than ies is to-day A Triumph Of The West. The most imposing calendar to reach the Whig office so far this year compliments of Old Kirby & Garden, real estate, in and investment brokers of | Winnipeg. In point of size it is magni {ficent. The figures are large and dis- {tinct, and could be read a block The upper half of the calendar ors of B, E. Ward's famous painting, "Beanty Triumphant," This picture, which was exhibited at the Royal at | it | {does not appear that the ruling rates | It is declared in | | the city press that the company which | | took the, risks in connection 'with the | |developnfent of Niagara power and its | injustice Mong distance transmission has not vet | [been able to pay interest or dividends | the defaulted se- | Al an | makes no profits for | it | and all that sort | but it is not in its charges | obtained | them- | Under | and | bonds | the | plain | scheme | was e wident | i Five | i i } Brantiord, | The majorities where | The situ-'| It might be call- | industrial | in considerable | 333 Young women who work are especially liable ~which-kitt-beauty-and youth. builds health znd strength for all women who creates the vitality that makes work easy. In office and factory, shop, store or kitchen girls are at work all overthis land, and, alas | far beyond their strength. to female ills. Too often the girl is the bread winner of the family and she must toil unremit- tingly, no matter if her back does ache, her limbs and abdomen throb with dull pain and dragging sensations, and di utterly unfit for work These are the sure signs of female irregularities zzy spells make her Tydia E.Pinkhamis Vegetable Compound work and are weary. From the thousands x grateful letters written by working girls to Mrs. Pinkham we quote the following : Dear Mrs. Pinkham :--Overwork and long ho to go to work. 1 tried change of scene and climate, regain ny health. 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Oh, if Canadian girls who work would only realize that they have but one life to live, and make the most of their precious health and strength | cordial invitation to write her for advice. strictly confidential, and from her vast experie | ! | Mrs Pinkham extends to every working girl who is In ill health a Such letters are always kept nce Mrs. Pinkham prob ably has the very knowledge that will help you--and may save your life Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Cures Where Others Fail FALSE THEORIES. Worthless Remedies, Stimulating the scalp may allay the itching of the dandrufi, but that does not cure the sealp. The disease won't | yield to quinine or capsicum nor alco- hol, it 1s caused by a germ To. cure dandrufl the germ must be destre Until re cently there was no hair preparation, or dandrulfi cure, or hair restorer on the market that would kill that insi- Mous germ that dries up the scalp in little 'scales called dandrufi, and ab: | sorbes the vitality of the hair, caus ing failing' hair, and finally baldness Newbro's Herpicide is the onlv really scientific preparation to cure dandruff, prevent falling hair and baldness Sold by leading druggists. Send 1k in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, : Mich. Two sizes, Bic and §1. G. W. Mahood, special agent Lead to or 'Harmful re because {or parasite Academy of London, in 1906, is a vi gion of the old Greek conception of Arcadia and a golden In this garden-épot of the artist's imagina tion no discord finds a place; nature the brute beast and the woman existing in perfect harmony thing age are The halves calendar doesn't do not ey when it west s hy en issues a Easy Corn Curing. Get a box of Peck's ( day. Apply orn Salve, to it as directed and a few days he all your corns will be en tirely removed. In bix boxes, s15¢ Wade's drug store , at men are { need all their br of difficulty The best time to you want business Some that they to keep them out 50 smart by one of the best Shirt-n and $1.25, TO-MORROW, See Our ans advertise is when Public School a public, school. is tg be used asa weapon in the fight to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. A moventent has been started to establish an' ade quate system for protecting the count less army of school children from the White Plague. Among other innova: tions, children suffering with aber losis in & contagious "form wi segregated, and provision; madd for their especial education Patents shodld be very careful to act promptly in checking a cough or cold. The strain on the respiratory or- gans from coughing jeaves them sore and susceplible * to the tubercular germ. To break up a cold quickly and cure any cough that is curable, the mix- ture of two ounces of ine with a balf ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine and eight ounces of good whiskey, given pi 3 Bargains. At Karson Bros." clearing sale of {be In Fight With Disease. Weapon The ingredients are inexpensive and can be purchased without troubld at any good drag store. To avoid sub- | stitution of some' inferior pine pro- duct for the Virgin Oil of Pine, it is ERE RERApTRTRNR UPR YISRRTRER Bibby's Special No. 50 Dozen Fine Colored Shirts. Stiff Bosoms and Soft Fronts, akers in neat genteel in Canada we start them at 50c. Window' Display. Our 50c. Neckwear Now 25c. Our 25¢. Neckwear, 15c. THE H. D. af 00 Cash and One Price C Noting F House. patterns, Sold regularly nade $1 SERREENT ow AS Re = yo REE 8 x better to purchase each separately and mix them at home. : : Tos gobuine Virgin Oil put up jor dispensing, only in half-| ounpe 'vials, each vial securely sealed | in a round wooden case with an ' en-| graved wrapper showing plainly the | name~Virgin Oil of Pine, prepared only by Leach. Chemical Co., Windsor, Ont. Be sure to get the genuine, the oil sold in bulk and cheap imi tations put out to resemble Virigir Oil of Pine in name and style of pack- age are ineflectise, being largely vom- | posed of a distillation of pine nee | dies, or leaves, instesd of from the, pine tree proper These pine needle oils are gir tended for internal. wee, and when taken internally vsually cause naysen-| Their use is mainly confined to the manmifactare of soap and similar par poses, 3 be 2 Ye of Pine is] Een asl oe a ! losin out at a price. JAMES REID. iC an Ss TE adie COUCHES A few left over from our Christinas trade we intend "Phone 147 USIC AND PARLOR CABINETS in a fine ma- |hogany. finish this week at sale prices,