br % only 1le. Corbett's SOFT CYPRESS A nite wide stock and good Just the thing for boats and launches, Also OAK Both Red and White, and Quartered, » lengths. | | Plain | S. ANCLIN & CO. Bay & Wellington Sts. "Phone 66, nae aes a UTR . : + Made in Canada + -. . { So Rann Cini! Vou | a ms IMPERIAL Imperial Grown Brand Underwear Is made after years of experi- ence, baving gotten over the ex- perimental stage. Comfort and duralsikity, our motto Guran- teed unshrinkable, Made only by THE KINGSTON HOSIERY €0. LTD., KINGSTON, ONT. Ask Your Dealer For It. +443 + FEES EEE @* BELLE 2444444400044 WINDSOR TABLE SALT ought to cost mére--it's purer, finer, more carefully prepared. But it's no dearer than other brands of K standard quality. ne FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER. Roll Bacon, 134¢. per Ib. Fora Pinger try our Hambiiy Steak or _ Vuddingy H. J, MY . 63 Breck Bt a - Real Estate Headquarters . If yuu want to buy or sell City Property, go t a man who makes a sp claily of same. ey GEO, CLIFF, %95 Clarence St. Opposite Post Office. SIEFLI IEA S44 +444 Cdst of light for 18 hors) | | ¢ ditor's protest, and take the respon- ceives the report, and authorizes payment corrected the better. The auditor ap- doing and neglect to the federal gov- 'THE WHIG, 74th YEAR |i be duly' analy zed when the time) | DAILY B |onch ov, K , at $6 {tions at 3.80 and 4 o'clock. i= WEEKLY BRITISH WwWBIG, 12 and over, a pas morning of the RITISH WHIG at . per yoar y on y $1 a year. 'is ome best Job Print ing Offices in Canada; ra cheap work ; nine improved The British Whig Publishing Co.; Lt'd. EDW. J. B. PENSE, Managing Directors "Dailv Wibig. WHAT WERE THE SAVINGS ? ! Tn May, 1906, at the request of the | council, Mr. Ross, of Montreal) of the | firm of Holgate & Ross, figured that | by the. contemplated changes in | power house there would be the fol- ! lowing savings : i . §800 170 166 180 In. eon] .. ... nts In oil, grease, waste ... ... In repairs to plant... ..... In rent of dynamo... ... .. In gas, fuel and petroleum 834 500 we 2,500 In labour, gas plant ,.. .. In maintenance $0,450 'A financial statement has been called for . touching the year's operations. Is it too much to ask that some attempt estimate has been realized ? What has been the savings in the different counts 7 And when may the plant ix said to give evidence of that efficien ¢y which will warrant Mr. Ross predicted ? ae the economies SMOTHERING COMPLAINTS. The city auditor has been calling at- | tention, from time to time, to financial transactions which have not been in confdrmity with the rules of the coun- cil, and his reports have not .gone any further than the finance They should have gone to the council as well, and clause 8 of the audit by- law provides for this. | of have The by-law says: "In the case shall not authenticated, wein provided, or, in respect of which, there shall be ne®sufficient appropria- tions, : which shall be any circumstance calling for observation, the auditor shall forth-| with report thereon in writing and shall deliver such account with his re- port thereon to the finance committee and city council." any account which ren certified and as | or in respect of there 4 | { | | The meaning of that clause is plain. The accounts and the auditor's report are handed to the finance committee. | They should go to the council as well. | It may pass the account over the au- | | sibility, of its act in a public way. As it is now the finance committee re- the of thé account, and the ' council and the people | know nothing about it. The sooner that routine | is | { 1 pears to have been doing his duty, but the people have not been learning about it, thanks to the unholy inter- vention of the finance committee, | THE TROUBLERS AT WORK. | The Winnipeg Free Press has exposed | the hypocrisy of the Roblin govern- ment on the Manitoba boundary ques- tion. In 1905 the assambly had ad- journed without taking action on the subject, and three weeks later Hon. "Bob" Rogers and Hon. Mr. Camp- bell reached Ottawa and demanded legislation at once, and because the federal government did not supply this it was declared to be under the thumb and control of the papal ablegate. | In 1906 a conference was held at Ot- | tawa. These provincds wege represent. | ed--Saskatchewan, Manitoba and On: tario. The question was, How shall the territory of Keewatin be divided ? Manitoba wanted a big slice of it. and because its demand was not com- plied with. the * Roblin government | had a grievance which it carried into | tho election. The want was territory, larger territory, and nothing more. Later, and on behalf of the liberals of Manitoba, Mr. Brown, the local leader, petitioned the federal govern ment for new Poundaries and for such financial 'aid as would enable the pro- vince fo assume the larger burden of its administration. That was an "eye-opener" to Mr. Roblin, and he has not hesitated to change his plans in consequente of it. = Mark the result. The Manitoba gov- ernment has suddenly determined that tho federal government cannot act without its consent. In its previous demands, in 1905 and 1906, it was acting without conscience and grace in attributing evil inflaence to - the papal ablegate and in charging wrong- | | | { { | | { | { i erfiment it was fet by improper motives and made election issue of the boundary question without cause. All at once, and as if it had received a new lation, it wants the boundary #xtended as it dictates, with financial aid of the most prince ly character. And it is not for the federal government to hesitate or de bate, Its duty, according to the Rob- lin plan, is to act as it is requested, and turn the Manitoba government's memorial Jaw, ' It is well that Mr. Roblin 10 KX 306-3 oy _stigst, pid, stylish and presses. the They should be made to show how far Mr. Ross' | committee. |° {self in favour of women's sufirage. ied to {ous shrub, furnish the curative » THE DAILY BRIT for this servide comes. Election eries vi have their value, but the boundary question has had Manitoba. The local government simply trying to keep it a means of agitation, and in this hope it will be surely its day disappointed " A QUESTION OF ORDER. The proper procedure in public busi- {ness is not easily learned, but who have been in the council year af- ter year should know what to do. : occurs be- civic committee, in going 'or instance, friction cause one out of office, leaves as a legacy cer tain unpaid accounts. These accounts should not have been outstanding. known te | some officer of the department, have been and should have been called on and paid before the end of the year, or provis- ion should have been made to meet | them out of the appropriation for the i vears It is not a sign of good manage ment when a lot of accounts turn up early in the new year and confront the new chairman and his committee. {The suspicion follows that the out- going committee was improvident and [so retired without any funds. There | may not have Leen a balance sheet lest a deficit appeared. It is the manler course to have a complete accounting at the end of the year, and the mayor will be doing his duty to the people to insist upon clearing up of all departmental liabi- ilities before of office the there is an offsetting asset in the sup- any committee goes out | Granted that. if | gone in one case this year. money is all plies on hand, there shonld still be a | balance sheet, showing the precise con- {dition of the civic office, brand h, or | of the! the adjustment of last jdepartment. The, experierice present, n year's accounts, should not he re- peated. EDITORIAL NOTES. "As safe as a bank" is nowmionger a popular expression. Foster has | Hon. Mr declared him- | Is he afraid of offending the suffragettes in North Toronto ? ---- Strange that the United Stptes gov. | not move for the con- | Not ernment does trol of the oil and coal afraid of the great trusts, surely ! The Roblin government has appoint: | tele- | main qualifica~ | business. ed a commission to manage the phone business. . The tion of each is that he is a tory. | The Canadian bank depositors have been secured, and no one has lost hy the crises of the last But the shareholders--some of them have been enred of the craze for big dividends. -- It is proposed to lengthen out term of the Manitoba legislature five years. One year will thus be add- | the public life of the minister | year. ' the to whom the returning officer eleiied with his casting vote, Dr. Eliot, president of Harvard Uni- versity, declares the Lemieux act is the greatest triumph of the age in the | settlement of , labour Of | course the loyal opposition in Ottawa | "Hear, hear." To Heal A Cut. First, wash out the dirt, then ly Dr. Hamilton's Ointment, and bing oh a clean linen bandage. Pain taken out, new skin is formed, cut is| healed in quick order, Nothing so soothing, so healing as Dr. Hamil | ton's Umintment. Useful n home. Try a 50c. pox. disputes. | | | | will say ap-| id | is | | every There'll probably be no one in hea- ven better than the average man thinks he is during the coming yvar. A tickling cough, from any cause, is quickly stopped by Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. And it is so thoroughly harm- less and sale that. Dr. Shoop tells mothers everywhere to give it without| hesitation even to very young babes. | The wholesome green leaves and ten- der stems of a lung healing mountain- | pro-| re. | { i | perties to Dr. Shoop's Cough Cu It calms the cough and heals the sore and sensitive bronchial membranes. No opium, no chloroform, nothing harsh used to injure or suppress. Simply a resinous plant extract, that helps to heal aching lungs. The Spaniards call | this shrub which the doctor uses, "The Sacred Hérb.," Demand Dr. Shoop's. Take no other. Sold by all a a: ruggista, Charfottetown, P.E.I, has a large skating pond, which is flooded from the sea by the rising ride. The water heing confined by a dam, nature clears the snow off the ice. Over two thous- aud people can skate on the pond of ice, | It fills the arteries with rich, red] men, women and children. Nothing can take its place. No remtdy has done so much ged as lister's Rocky Mountain 35¢" Tea or Tablets, Mahood's drug store. The town of Uxbridge is seeking legislation to establish and operate 4 municipal light plan men | any desire to get | i | last season, a {was a good average | railroad { and steel spans. | most of the roads, on this copst, | same little light | They are now { all. Building and improyments { going on all over the state and land | ways in the finest Gountries on earth, | and yet. the people while in cold, stormy dismal northern | earthquakes | Here in Santa Cryz county, near the | {thence to Hardisty, a line eighty-two { found in any couniry { ways enough rain fall to produce a | wealthy people, from land cooks aad waiters, blood, makes new flesh, and healthy | than {POW on ISH WHIG, TUESDAY. JANU | | |OLD FRONTENACER LIKES + EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY. | Thinks fitable Than $ Francisco i Former Heated Criticism. Santa Cruz, Cal, Jan. | Editor) : Thinking jt might be inter- esting many of your readers to | hear from this part of the continent, {1 have concluded todvrite to vou once {more. Thank you for giving 'space t {a sketch 1 wrote of my trip to fconst, last May, at the request {friends in Kingston, have 'been rustic | the hills and tand Santa Cru or minety miles south of San Fran- jeisco, and near the coast. | was up {to the city on business, for two or | three days, between Christmas and | New Year's. | had not' been there | since last May, and was surprised to {see the great changes that had taken | place since, many line buildings, only {started at . that time, are now com- | pleted, and many others under way, { while much more of the burst district {has been cleared of ruin and debris, (and prepared for building. I believe if the present rate of progress is kept {up for five years, Sap Francisco wll tequal her former greatness, if not sui- {pass it, One thing is certain, the city will have a better cluss of buildings and as much as has been done this there would have been much more done only for the money stringency coming on in the fall. Take it all through, it has been very good season in California. There crop of grain, hay and fruit of all kinds, and plenty Rising Fast 9 the of Since that time | ating down among valleys of Santa Clare {of work for all kinds of "labo¥; skilled and unskilled, at good wages. The companies, especially, have been doing a great. amount of im- provements on their lines, this sea- son, raising their tracks and putting rock ballast under them, aad laying new ties and heavier steel in many | places on the main lines, and puting he could have 1 and cut- their old wooden the old steel on side fracks, ting out many of . . I | bridges, that were set on piling, and |vear, thirty years later, in 1901, when | piers with concrete trouble in massive The putting is that they have kept on increasing the | weight of engines and the weight and revenue expanders 'and exploiters carrying capacity of cars, unul itis about doanlde what it was twenty five to thirty years ago, while they! |are still running many of them on the the running rail, weighing only | fifty and sixty pounds to the yard,| laid on soit, light 6 x 8 redwood ties, until they are cut half way through. | But of course, everything tokes time! The companies are beginning to see | what they have to do, and they are getting after it as fast as they can. | and strength and carrying capacity of | their road beds and bridges, | Eastern: people were = inclined to think that the earthquake would prove a great set-back to California, but it does not seem to have shaken the con- | fidence of the people in the countsy at values are continually inereasing. The | fact is, that it is too fine a country to! have more 3 be seared out of. Earthquakes occurred in all apex; and wilds, where .few people care io live, seldom. or never occur. | coast, where | lieve is the am at presént, | be- most ideal climate ever tare ranges most of the year from 60 to 90, while over in Sacramento and to 120 jn summer, and down composed of big gravelly hills,, with a deep top soil of loose black sandy | loam, well adapted for the" growing of | vines and jruit trees of all kindgand | berries and vegetables. The hills were | once densely timbered, with redwood | pine and fir, but the forests are mow | nearly all cut off, and the land mostly cleared and set in vineyards and fruit | orchards.' There is no irrigatiop need: | ed here, as in the dry hot valleys of | Southern California, for there is al | | spring | and i | crop, and the finest kind of water courses out of the hills rung in clear brooks all summer, em ptying in small rivers that'wind about through little valleys .on their way down the sea. Thousands of 11 parts inland, vome down here in the heat of sum- mer to spend a month or two among the bills and shady graves and spring brooks of Santa Cruz county. Many of them stop at the summer hotels, while many of them bring their own tents and camping outfits, while others board with the farmers and fruit growers. They have their automobiles and go flying up and down the hills and valleys at a mad speed, splitting air for pastime, for there are fine roads here in summer. ! Let's see--January, by the way, 'it must be winter back home. Come to think, well, it's a little eaoler here - it was two or three months ago, and we are getting more rain, but it comes down wildy, and he grass is green 1 can hear the familiar veoh nd 1 cow bells off among the hills, - and see barefooted boys bringing home cows in the even ing. Some mornings T see a little frost on the grass, and lumber piles and ice onesixteenth of an inch thick on pools of still water. Speaking of farming I am convinced that fruit growing is better, much easier and more satisfactory than dairy farming, for though'in a dry season you may have a lighter erop of fruit it will cost you nothing to winter vour trees, and the next sca- son the tress are almost sure to bear heavily, niter taking a season's rest. With dairy farming you have your vour hands "and they have to to o I IPI ITIIT IT AIT IIT IT LITT IT OTI TITY SUNNY CALIFORNIA Fruit Forming More Pro- and he began Dairying»--San | early to and finished his late ones in-the last Greatness--Somewhat | °F November. 12-~(To the | Z counties, some eighty i inereasing the weight | {who has been here for the past are | days arranging the construction pro- al. | that it is the intention of the | to do a never left them, | | { taken. {struction between The tempera- | | Weston, and a line twenty miles north |° i San Joaquin valleys, it often rans up | near | | zero nights and mornings, sometimes | wastward fifty miles. A large amount in winter. The country around here is! ARY 21, 1908. berd of good milkers, that took you years to get, and will take you vears| to replace, The next spring there! { might be plenty of grass and cheese 50c. a pound, and you would have no cows, ' { In the hills of Santa Cruz 1 havea friend who owns a big apple orchard | to pick and ship his jarieties in the last of August, | | he 5, In three months and two boys picked and shipped 000 boxes, which he sold at $1.25 a box. Now, that work is all done in| ithe finest season of the year, for the autumn, on the east of California, | cannot be surpassed for lovely weath- | er, even in Paradise, if there is such| a place. For the other nine months | jof the year he has little to do to the {orchards but plough and harrow be. | [tween the trees ahout twice during] {the spring and early summer, and | {keep down weeds and rubbish. I meet many old time Canadian | {boys out here that were raised on the {farms of Ontario, and when you come | ito ask ' them 'why they left the old] {farms they nearly all say the one] { thing, they were, tired paying heavy | [taxes to support conditions that they | | neither voted for or approved of, over- | | governed, almost exclusively, by a par- | {eel of 'professional and business "men | {who had neither interest nor sympa- | ithy in their welfare. Building and | subsidizing and bonusing and exempt. | jing from taxation railroads and other | plants and ° manufacturing establish. | ments that they owned directly or] indirectly, or held stocks in, or that | | their friends owned or held stocks in, | {going on borrowing and yAuandering | millions - for the people to pay inter- | est. Tt can he seen from this that | many of onr Canadian boys gre get. | ting wise and getting tired of the] conditions that exist, and the pros. |" perity that those fellows at Ottawa! and Toronto are dishing up to them, | Fact is 1 had a similar experience in my own life, for though of late years! I struck out in the world and made | a few thousand at mining, when 1] was a young 'fellow I worked hard for my father on one of those old] farms in Ontario and 1 often heard | him say that back in 1870 to 1875 taken $12,000 for his | those days he paid | some $45 or 850 al Wouldn't you thank your lucky stars if you could walk right into a Splendid Fall and Winter Sait, plank down Ten Dollars minutes ? [That's B what you can do if you come here. Everything that- il tailors can do to make good Clothes will be found.in our {Ten Dollar Suits We ask you to come in--examine the Suits and See for Yourself Try the garments on--note the excellent workmanship--the J WN quality of the Fabric--the st yle--and then tell us--if you can-- §| Where, and when you ever saw the equal of Our TEN DOLLAR | SUITS, all sizes, 34 to 44. | Bi and walk out in jus about ten exactly good i 1X THE H. D. BIBBY G0. The Cash and Oye Price Clothing House, 78, 80,82 farm, while in his taxes with he died, the selling value of his farm | had decreased to 28,000, while his! taxes had increased to 885 and $90 a | vear. That's the way onr hoasting | are poor | the revenue of our from | | Ontario, going on year continually increasing | gxpenses of the country | and driving people out of it. { With my kindest regards to all fel | low citizens at home, and wishing | them all a happy and more prosper- | ous new year than they experienced | last, I conclude for the present. -- | GEORGE RISBRIDGE. | Princess St. expanding L: K farmers in X & RS ma - year to OC 1 5 a TT eT we TT TT | TO DO MUCH WORK, ---------- 1 The C.P.R. to Improve and Build | Many Lines. | Montreal, Jan. 20.--William Whyte, | second vice-president of the C. PI, R., ten gramme of the C.PR. for the coming season, has completed his work and leaves for Winnipeg to-morrow night: Mr. Whyte announced this morning | road | large amount of work this summer, and that, in addition to |: completion of the work already under taken, much new work will be under- Amongst this work is con- Kirkella and Aw | mith, on the Edmonton branch, and TRANSFER CASES whether when you want to refer to them later miles from Laniggn to Shehoa, a line | twenty-three miles from Wolseley to | T depends upon the kind of Transfer Cases your records are intact on, you buy of Winnipeg to lcoland river. The line from Tuxford having as an objective | int, Lacombe will also be continued | is also contemplated | n bridges in | replaced by pe It is poor policy to iritish | will soon fall to pieces, rman- | of bridge work and many woode Columbia will be ent structurn put valuable records in Transfer Cases that LL Advice to Mothers: Don't let your are. childfen waste away. Keep them stro o ; ing winter | Seong 2nd bablihy awiiiy thew Tea | By using them your records will be protected and remain Tt is the greatest tonic for children.| 85.long as you wish to keep them Pure and harmless, does the greatest | . good. 35¢. Tea or Tablets. Mahood's | drug store. | The Dominion District Steam Heat ing company, Toronto, is suing Berlin District Steam company $50,000 under ® a contract. It asks for 'the appointment of cetver, You hardly realize that it is medi- | cine when taking Carter's Little Liver | Pills, They are very small, No bad | effects, All troubles from torpid liver | are relieved by their use. n order was asked for at Osgobde fall, for the winding up of the -Rob- ertson Machine company, Welland which wae incorporated in. 1903 with an authorized capital of $40,000. 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