VU ndigested Food in the stomach and refuses to "digest. 1 1rie nits of indigest: undige sted food rapidly sensmive t of the Stomach, Ww other head, suffer in consequence it causes the te fermients, srritating fhe 3 ' parts of the body, pari ligested food in the stomach, the i remains discomfort continues. A few doses of BEECHAM'S PILLS sweeten the contents of the stomach and give relieves the stomach of its burden. The use strengthens the stomach nerves and stop all fermentation, Sataral assistance that @f Beecham's Pills gradually bon restores them to a normal, healthy condition. Beecham's Pills positively cure all stomach troubles, while their neficial effects on the liver and kidneys greatly improve the gen- al health Beecham's Pills have been used and recommended by the gen- al public for over fiffy ycars. Rrovaned oniy by the Proprietor, Thosias Beecham, St. Helens, Lancashire, Eng. Sold everywhere in Canada and U. S. America. In boxes 25 cents. LIPTON'S LIMERICKS Several friends who do mot drink very much ated us to include our Table Jelly Tablets. this competition. $800. TO 128 WINNERS FIRST PRIZE, $250 CASH 2nd 4" 50 " Srd a 25 " Each Hach 50 Prizes of 75 Prizes of CONDITIONS The conditions of this Limerick have to dois to fill in the last line of the Limerick, below, "and then send it, accompanied by a tim lid (with tached) of a package of LIPTON'S TEA, or LIPTON'S COFFEE (embossed fid TABLE JELLY TABLETS, reader to in one Limerick are perfectly simpe. orange, pink, label, pers of LIPTON'S titled the as many Limericks as vou like, so Thblet wrappers accompany each Limerick. LIPT be any flavor, You long as a tin lid or sen d may three 0 p-- NO PACKAGE GENYINE 2 WITHOUT THIS SIGNATURE PACKED ONLY nN AIRTIGHT TINS Ee ---- | Tea or Cofiee have They are included in All you which is shown label at- red or gold only), or three pint wrap- which en- send in Jelly LIMERICK a lady will have the Said who's "You For you drink Lipton's You a quite up-to-date best nineteen naught eight I'ea will readily see 1 agree to abide by the decision of the Editor of The Mail FEanpire as final and enter the gompetition on this distinct "standing, Signature * Address The competition will be decided by the editor of The Mail Empire, whose decision must be accepted as final opes must "Lipton's Limerick" and sent to and Empire not later than the day, January CAUTION. cover, seal, tion of ounce Toronto, be addressed Building, Toronto, Sst, 1908, separately--put all o = cents' per Don't send lid and answer under and prepay at letter rate, Qunee, or and under- and Envel- Mail last mail on Fri: one frac. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, THE 5P.M. EDITION ANY DE IW A FR: PLACE NUMBER OF DEAD i ° AT FROM 25 TO 50. Opéra House Destroyed--Disaster Occurs at Boyertown, Pa.-- Many Persons Perished. Pottstown, Pa., Jan. 14.--A report from Boyertown, sear here, says that the Rhodes Opera House was destroy- ed by fire, last night, and that Ynany persons perished in the flames. Ra- mors place the number of dead at {from twenty-five to fifty. The opera house was ¢rowded with {the members of St. John's Lutheran {Sunday school, who wefe attending a 'benefit given for that church. While { the show was in progress a tank ex- ploded. = The actors endeavored to [quiet the audience, but in 'their anxi- lety to make themselves heard and to Lg the awfyl stampede of the wo- men and cuildren the coal oil lamps {which were used at the footlights were lovesturned, setting the place on fire. The flames, fed by the oil, shot al- Imost to the ceiling, and there was a {wild rush of the 700 persons to escape {from the burning building. Scores of women and children were trampled on and several who escaped being burned to death died after being dragged from the operg house. In many cases, lit is said, eRtire families have been {wiped out, The scene which followed the explo- indescribable. Scores of per- sons who were in the balcony at the {time the explosion occurred, jumped {from the windows and "sustained frac- tured limbs and skulls. | To add to the terrible disaster the fire apparatus became disabled, and the structure was left entirely to the mercy of the seething flames. It not a vestige of the unfortunates who were overcome by the and perisifed ever will be found. Assistance was asked from Pottstown, but the fire apparatus from that city reached this place the entire centre of the tructure was a roaring furnace. Had the women and children heeded the warning of the cooler heads in the au dience the horrible loss of life might have been avoided, but there was the usual panic and stampede which in- follows - at such a catastro- [ ¥ion is is al most certain bodies of the smoke before variably phe The flames spread rapidly and com: municated to the other parts of the theatre. Men. women children rushed for the many exits and the weaker sex and the children were trampled and maimed in the mad rush | to gain the street, Assistance was at once asked of both | Reading and Pottstown, and special | trains carrying nurses and doctors were rushed to the scene of the disas ter. Every home within a radius of | half a dozen blocks of the opera house | was made a temporary hospital, where the wounded were rushed by carriages and other means of copvevance. Boyer- borough with a population S500 and is located about between Pottstown and Read- and | midway ing. SUFFOCATED BY GAS. ---- | Young Canadian Couple Poisoned By Gas. , New York; Jan. -- H--~William P: Grenville and his young wife, Cana- | dians, were suffocated by gas in their | hoarding-house, here, last night In {turning off the gas they accidentally turned on the jel leading to a stove | Grenville was a eompositor employed | by Joubleday, Page & Co. { i ---------- 1 Women To Pick Oakum. London, Jan, 14.--The vagrancy committee of Bastry, Deal, Board of Guardians, to whom the proposal to introduce oakum picking for. women casuals was referred, have recommend- {ed that the women be employed" in sack-making, and in the event of their | refusal, in oakum picking. The oakum | picking was opposed, as being con- jtrary (0 the wishes of the local gov- {ernment board, out of harmony with | the spirit of the times, and most un- fair to the women. The report, how- ever, was adopted by eight votes, Diabolo 'At. Sea. Liverpool, Jan. 14.--The diabolo leraze has reached fhe Atlantic. The sticks and spools have become part of ithe marine games equipment on the i {giant White Star ships of the Adriatio Used over 40 years as a Specific for Coughs, Colds, etc. Besides the actual distress you are Suffering from a , there is always the dan it developing into something serious. o case of Consumption started with "just a cough." cured, there would have been no con- sumption. Cure your cough NOW with. Gray's Syrup. 25¢ and soc a bottle. At all drug stores: * Never Neglect A Cough | Phones, Main 6733-34 > F. H. Deacon & Co. STOCKS, BONDS INVESTMENT SECURITIES Dealt in on Al Surumges {ture ascribed to If that simple cough had been tand Baltic types, and on the recent {homeward voyage of the Celtic the {sun deck was renamed the diabolo deck, - "The Robber Robbed. London, Janu. 14.--It was said at [em London, in the case of a man | charged with burglary, that among {other things he stole a bottle of whis tkey, most -of which he consumed, and [that while he lay in a hopeless state lof intoxication in Kensington road he {was robbed of some of the property {he had stolen. , Another Yan Dyck Find. Brussels, Jan An unknown pic- i Dyek, and be- lieved tg be a portrait of the artist's {sister, has been discovered in a cons jvent at- Waesmunster, in East Flan. rs. ¥ i . 192 Farthings For A Fine. London, Jan. 14. --A Chelms ford oy clist, dpon being fined 6s. 6d. for rid- {ing on the footpath, téudered a par- cel of 192 farthing® towards paying the fine. The coins were refused, King Of Siam As Author. _ | Caloutt + Jan. 13.-~The King of J Siam is publishing a book on bis re cent European tour, under the title of "Letters To My Daughter. One-Armed Golfers Play. London, Jan' H.--Two one-armed golfers, J. Scott, of Silloth. and A. Park, of ~Troon, played a round of cou holes at Troom, yesterday. =A 'and Mrs. T. D > Westy rt, 1908. MYER'S CAVE NEWS. DIED AT 105 YEARS] PATRICK CONROY PASSED AWAY ON TUESDAY. A Budget Gathered Around The Holidays. Jan, J0.-~Mhe meeting No. 41, Barrie held in the school house, on the 26th ult. H. Penny, was elected trustee ih the room { D. Gray. Miss Lillie! teacher; having pesipned her | gone tw her home in and Mrs. Joseph Perry, of} ' were tie guests of the| Ihe latter's parents, Mr. apd Mrs, C. Me | Tuesday Gregor, over Christmas. Mrs. McGre- gor having invited a few of her friends | to a party on Christmas pight, a very time was spent uptil.a late] Cave, annual ior 5. OS. was Deceased Was Formerly a Cab} Driver in Kingston--Ended His Career on Wolfe Island. leath occurred on Wolfe Isla morning, of Patrick ( of 105 years Michael died n Johnson, position has Bath. Mr. Centreville,' MOY who hail reached the age He was the father of the late Conroy, Alf street, who 1906, apd had resided with mary years. Since last' summer he lived on the with his d in-law's people. The red enjoyable his son for hour. 7 Mizs Rilla Bishop, formerly of this place, and Frauk Gray, Harlowe, were | : quietly married, in Tweed, on the 19th | bots in ireland, in 1502, and came to ut, we wish the happy couple a long i Ne n young jan Ne was and prosperous. married life. Miss | P s the oldest resident of ings Sarah Cuddy, Harlowe, and M. J iton. During the past two months he Hickey, Marmora, were also quietly was feeble and was taken around in married, at Flinton, on the 24th ult. | 80 invalids' chair, but prior to that Master Harold McGregor, left: for Bal- he Went het hituelf The pd came derson, the home of his sister, Mrs. Pace ly. a y ha good D. Rintoul, on Saturday: he will at-}8h, heanng and memory to Lhe tend school there d day; he ill 81° last. The funeral will take place on, one yuo ere Suring the Winter. { Thursday morning, whe solemn re Miss Cora Sedgwick, Cloynel was the |" be lel i . 2 roqt of Miss Mollie McGregor, this | Fem mass wi wr Cele ne Te Roman Catholic church, on olfe Is week. Mr. and Mrs. D. © | Gedy and fami- { land, after which the remains will be ly spent Christmas at Lake View, the | guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and |eought i ! . the ga by The Steamer Mrs. J. C. Mitchell. ollie ander, and then taken to the Miss Ida Curtis, | alt in St. Mary's cemetery. The who has been the guest of Mrs. Flias | Lite m 4 y ary RB 3 Wood, Harlow, for twife of the deceased died over two weehs, re {five vears ag His or , p Pars yO s Uy turned home to-day. New ivar's day | lati ¥ lite] ative le passed very quietly a number having | -- gone to Cloyne, to the oyster sup-i| per given by the C.0.0.F. The Chosen | Friends are to-be -congratulated on] This the success of their yearly social gath- the held, erings, : 1C.A. Miss Jennie and Master Willie Gray | gia. are spending the week at Lake View, sus of the guests of their grandparents, Mi. |... both and Mrs. J. CC, Mitchell. Our late the laymen. reeve, {!. McGregor was again elected in . 3 . » . eye in the reeve for 1908, with a majority of discredit will last for ten years over Mr. Salmond. Mr T. nas lost ereuiv and favor, Harlowe, and Mrs. 1 {for a decaying town, which a drop of same place, spent Fri: 1.900 means. is Yar the Juests of Mrs moters of new business to keep away Mrs. Elias Wood, Har |. = 3 »' had fifts guest of her parents, Mr jrain rn We 'ae ity | Perey. Moers Fav and seventy-five more families, and, | Farnese. ore busy' drain teh Te therefore, had over numbers of | armers are busy drawing marsh Lev | cg, The viatly 'wunitiba) from the Humphrey Marsh, as un te "eh \ Hapa the present Long Lake phi . ads ' unsafe to travel on. Mr. and Mrs &- 1 sh Jo ie fenzus ONY Smith, Ardoch, are visiting their wi bur daughter, Miss C. Gray, Grayville, |" have a thoroughly Master John Lowsks in visiting friends tion It will help the at Arden and Mountain Grove fut hor n Ye Socks ond 1 Mr, and Mrs. D. Spicer, Cloyne. vis- So treah confidence within and ited their daunghtér's, Mrs. T. Dellyea and Mrs. W.. Loucks one day this week, W. Pipe is doing a rushing busi- Citizen ness with his saw mill cutting logs | In geing into the game and shingles. Miss A° and F. Ben { Wander rs and playing thro ny, spent Sunday at Lake View. the| 'Marty' Walsh, ithe Ottawa guests of Mrs. J. C. Mitchell. Mrs. 7. [man, gave one of the pluckiest exhibi Dellyea and Mrs. 1. Dellvea visited [tions on record All day Saturday Mrs. Alec Dellyea on Tuesday. Rumor with pains in his Walsh was troubled save another wedding in the near fu- | Side In the afternoon he consulted ture, Hanley, Dr. Caskey, Ottawa, and Dr | Kingston. Both physicians feared ap pendicitis and Walsh was told that he {at not play. He refused. to listen {to the pleadings of the doctors, how fever, and suffered with pains all | through the match, but refused to re COLORS AID M MEMORY OF! tire, He was ill after the game, but WONDERFUL GIRL. aughter was island, deceased Conroy very twenty surviving re here is his grandson, The Coming Census. evening another meeting will at eight o'clock, in the Y.M. building, of. church representa united for the purpose of a cen the city. ~The considerations civic and religious Kingston received a black Dominion census and among twenty-one Whitmore, Neale, of the day at the C. MeGregon lowe, commercial a good one for pro more houses | is the our ensug has small egular growtl time has Leen) a regular gre wth The years oid) Now let good enumera real strength, churches to help the city without Marty Walsh Gritty. Ottawa contre {nothing serious is anticipated. Walsh thought that the other Ottawa play ers might lose courage if they knew-he Young Greek's Feats of Rapid | not in the "pink" and made Drs ! askev and Hanley promise Mental Calculation Puzzle the | (oll his team-mates of his illness until Scientists. the finish of the battle Paris, Jan. 14.--A ' group of dis pe tinguished French savauts are at pre- sent much perplexed by the incompre- | hensible psychology of a girl of twen ty years of age, Mlle, Uranie, of Greek | origin. She was rdcently ing of the French Society of Anthro pology, and her astonishing memory and remarkable aptitude for vetaining and repeating a complicated series of figures completely disconcerted the learned scientists. a Mlle. U'ranie has beén a fervent stu- dent of mathematics from childhood, and she holds several French diplomas testifying to her achievements in that line. a congratulatory" letter from a vie One of the most curious things about | tor who concluded as follows "Let the girl's memory is that all figures me offer you a suggestion--see to it and letters are fixed in her mind by [that the face of the city clock ig means of different colors. iwashed and its. hands In Mle, Uranie's mental vision the! The suggestion is a good one, number one is black, two is luminous mayor will, no doubt, have a vellow, three is old gold, four chest-{with the property committe nut, five blue, six dark vellow, seven man. marine blue, eight pearl gray, nine ------ -- bistre and zero white. . Barriefield Represented Names appear to her as a complex) Thistle Hockey Club, Ba color with a dominating tint. ~~ For built one of the best instance, Deroulede is associated in her [in this" district The ice mind with smoky gray, and other [banked in, and is. as larg words take a chocolate or deep blue! would want for hockey or tint. The management of this club Mile. Uranie knows figures by the hax done vthing power to most attenuated colors, and at the keep the interested It moment of recalling them shé has altered a team in the vision in which the shades of color League, harmonize and intermingle. | This astonishing voung girl ha< been subjected to very severe tests, but * she has borne them without hesitation. In the presence of many eminent ma- thematicians she performed remarkable tests, such as working out almost in- stantly, and by mental process, only, the Bay of Quinte, towards the #uare of twenty-five figures, sub- quite thick, and the tractions of sums of twelve figures, ing across the Batteau the square root of from eight to sleighs. twelve figures, and the cube root of from six fo ten figures. Bellman For Eighty-Five Years. London, Jan. HM. --John Needham, of Leicester, the world's oldest Another feat of mental arithmetic she performed in less than a minute | Barwell, seconds | bellring ger and sexton, has now rung the bells. on eighty-five Christmas days | was to give the number of within a period of twenty-five years. : . : in. succession. He is in his ninety-sixth | | year, and a few weeks ago received al congratulatory letter from the king. not to | Better Housing' For British Miners London, - Jan. 14.--The royal mis$ion of mining, appointed to deal with the safety of British miners, is about to take 'up the housing Dr. 'Haldane, the scientist, will visit January com question of at a meet-| miners' eminent mining centres in inspect the miners' to embodying a recommendation from the royal commission, Dr. Haldane is brother for the secretary of for wary present Seottish and will houses with a view state A Good Suggestion This morning, Mavor Ross received manicured and The has energetic every in its boys Junior " Ice In Bay Of Quinte: Capt. Allan, New land Wanderer, to-dav. there was a thickness of Cape Vincent 'harbor, f herst to of the steamer reported quite Simeoe Islands. Bath, people are dri channel with Lombardy Locals Lombardy, Jan. 13. -8decial servie- > es were held in the Ronjan Catholié | Basketball Games. church to-day. Rev. Fatl$r Staley of The basketball games at the YM Smith's Falls. is assisting the pastor, CA. night, in: the cit league Rev. © Father Hanley, g Miss © Minnis promise to be most interesting. The Ryan, Smith's Falls, s {teains have been getting in some ge vod | her home near here, E practice, snd are in good trim for the went to Montreal "last battle. Basketball is becoming more large shipment of livd stock. Miss popular' every Kingston Marie Dooher is © visitipe her aunt, TRE ITY Mrs. Hamer and other nds in West- To Meet January 15th. port. Edward Dooher aged Master Tabu! The, philic school board of Porta were guests Mrs. Hamer, fmouth will hobt its iret meeting of last week. FE FJ. Kelly was | the vear, on Wedaesday evening, Jan- in Perth last Friday of business. Mer. [nary 15th. vyn Duffield and St y Moorshouse * gave a very emjoyablh. dane to a | From The Garden Of Allah, large number of thei friends last! The choicest dates grown, on the i A%n Breen was stalk, just as they grow. Packed a nt Sunday at} bard O'Mears | week with a ¥ season in ska od to mab. Pusey J wi A i Ty So TT Sy BT TR eS Re a rE pO A . Ww MS TS A AE iio a ESTABLISHED 1873 THE'STANDARD BANK OF "CANADA Head Offices -. - - - JOINT DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS be made or withdrawn by either of the two members of a household ntry, as dither Toronto b ney may be withdraw by the survivor without a of cost. Write or call for farther t particu! ars. interest added four times a year = | Savings Bank Department in Connection' with afl Branches. JINGSTON BRANCH "J. §. Turner, Manager COR: PRINCESS AND BAGOT STS. Monday evening. Mrs, chaperon. Miss Rose Welgerty is visi: {faney boxes, weliing for Me, ot Car ing friends in Balderso . (movaky's, Lit i ! 000000000000 2000000028 PRON ANONIRANEIIRIEDE ou] ow pe fou] me i Our Annual January Discount Sale Now in Full Swing. Big Savings for Those Who Buy This Month for Cash. A so RIA 3 a + ju] I It pays us to clear up our stocks this month, even if some of the prices mean less than cost, and t certainly pays our customers who have the cash to spare. a] Enameclled Stew Kettle, holds 7 quarts, 32c. x. = Enamelled Dish or Bread Pan, 9 quarts, 32¢ pair, Carvers, good quality, 68c. per oe) #130 Wire Door 14x23 §9c¢.' Mats, inches, Tea Trays, Wine Strainers, Roast Pans, Coal Scuttles,. Carpet Sweepers, Lamps, Lanterns, Raisin Seeders, Food Choppers, Plated Kettles, Tea and - Coffee Pots, al come under our Janu- ary Discount, JR] and Make a Hst of in and see us. McKELVEY & BIRCH, x 69 and 71 Brock St., Kingston. | . {3 Fo Fo Fe oo oe Ff Foro fo -- your requirements come oe SE EERE 4 jai an 1000000000000 0Q0ORNINNN00NOT0ERRRNNROISOROSS Abernethy's Special Bargains We could not begin to mention one-half of the bargains we have to offer. It will pay We start this S000 OOOOOOIESTOIROOOY,| you to come and see them. week with the following : ~ 89¢ 1.19 OF BOYR' SCHOO! ABOUT 45 PAIRS price, $1.25 12, 13. Reg Sale Price 60 PAIRS OF nr, 81.50 Sale Price gq 40 PAIRS OF MEN'S WORKIN Regular $1.25 BOYS SCHOOL BOGTS 7 and 8 only Boos a IH Sale 'rice 98¢c 55 PAIRS OF WOMEN'S BOX CALF LACED FOR MOTH Sizes 2§ to 4. Will make a real good skating bos Regular $1.75 value 1 49 7 ah a dn rl . Sires 3 to 10. Regular 5 WOMEN--Sijzes 3.3.51, 1 sed 6. Reg #75 1a 82-56 Sale Price FINE KID LACED BOOTS 69 and 5c. ° Sale Price . uv 2) Hale Price fpr "pus soos 70 PAIRS OF CHILDREN'S ONE LOT OF J FINE STRAP SHOES 1 09 . 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