"again. This is the barrel that means baking satisfac- tion, Whether it's Bread, Rolls or Biscuits--Cakes, Pies or Fancy Pastry-- : you.can always depend on Beaver Flour for the best results every time. Try it. At your Grocers Defldgn ~ write for gna Grains and Cerenls T H Taylor Co, Limited, Chatham, Ont, 66 LATE AGAIN Being late for work often causes a man or woman to lose their position. There is no excuse. If your watch does not keep the cor- rect time we will make it. Possibly there is some little thing out of order that will only take a few minutes to repair, or it niay need to be cleaned and regulated. Brine your repairing here. Our watchirakers are experts, having . had long and thorough experience We guarantee every watch we repair, Kinnear &d'Esterre Cor. Princess and Well. ington. Pe ou \ i im, by A | I's MAKES YOUR CAKES LioHT, MAKES YOUR BISCUITS LiaHT, MAKES YOUR BUNS LianT. MAKES YOUR LABOR LianT, MAKES YOUR EXPENSES LionT. Order from your Grocer. EW.GILLETT 2arary TORONTO,ONT, . ~ DON'T WAIT TILL YOU AR -« RICH TO BUY A : Victor Talking Machine Drop in and enquire or write us 3 about our Easy Payment Plan. DAWSON & STALEY, 217 Princess St., Kingston. High Grade Pianos, at Living Prices. COLD KILLS THE GERM. Liput. Perry Says There Are No Bald. Hedds in the Artic . Region. J The people who come back from Klondike testify to the fact that no 'native bald heads are there. The evi- "dence is that the cold olimate kills the. germs that eat the hair off at the root. Lieut. Perry, who went to the Arctic regions, gives the same - evi- dence. Newbro's Herpicide has the same effect as the cold climate, It Kills the germ that eats the hair off | at the roots; and the hair grows Horpicide is the first hair rem- ody built upon the principle of dog. troying the, germ that eats the bair | offi. Its phenomenal sale demonstrates | the correctness of the scalp germ the- ory. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10e. in stamps for sample to The Herpidide Co., Detroit, Mich. Two sizes, 50c. and $1. G. W. Mabood, spe- cial agent. {which showed 138 | disputes, affecting {26,014 men, » | : Shari NEWLY MARRIED MAN 'WILL BE BROUGHT. TO TORONTO FOR TRIAL. | George T. Woodman | Check and a Toronto |. Book--A Charge of Theft ferred. fered a Bank | + ee Toronto, Jan. 24.---A Detroit des {patel says that George T. Woodman, i alias "Lord Devoushire,"" who, on | Tueslay evening last, married a Miss | | Beott, of 'that city, and, on Wednes- day, was arrested on suspicion, will {be brought back to Toronto to an"! {#wer the eharges of---stealing $200 jworth of jewelry and a bank book | The. arrest of Woodman, the despatch adds, resulted from artip that Siegel, | the Woodman avenue merchant, gave the police several days ago. Woodman | {called at Siegel's store and purchased | lgowns valued at 2300 to $400, for his bride, but instead of paying for the gowns, offered * the cheque and a To- ronto bank hook. Mr, Siegel kept the bank book and wired to Toronto! to find out whether 'Woodman had funds in the Toronto bank before he delivered the goods. An answer was | returned saving that Woodman was! unknown. The police investigated and | Woodman's arrest followed. | Hawes, Gibson & Co., mining brok- | ers, of Toronto, have entered an ae: | tion for 5,000 damages against John | J. 'Beatty, Toronto, for alleged | breach of contract. The plaintiffs] claim they were to have the sale of | | 100,000 shares of the capital stock of | the Big Ben Mining company, but that | this agreement was not earried out, | | SENATE NECESSARY, .. | Ross Defends it From Charges of Idleness. i | Ottawa, Jan. 24.-The sitting of the | senate yesterday was devoted to an i illuminative debate on the question of | senate reform, and to the discussion | of the subject, the most cogent and | { authoritative contribution h years was given by Hon. G { Boss, In an hour's address h | with the important place which the| senate had filled since confederation, in promoting the legislation of the coantry, noted the constitutional limi tations under which the ppper cham-| her now worked, pointed out some | of the cardinal objections to the pre. | { sent system, and urged the necessity | of maintaining an upper house, evi-| deneed by the fact that the senate had since confederation amended no less than twenty-seven per cent. of the bills sent up from the commons, Fin ally he suguested that .the wisest method of senate réform would be to amend the constitution to make the senate partly elective and partly ap- poiative, hali of the senators being elected | to represent specified provin ciab cjstricts, and the tenure of of- fico to Le two terms of the local leg- iflntures, while ball the personnel should be appointed by the crown for life. In the course of his address he also made a strong plea for bringing the Senate into closer touch with the great departments of state through the 'appointment of parliamentary un- der sscritaries, who could be SPONSOTs in the dpper chamber for the public bills affecting their respective depart- ments. ! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. | Mr, | Gordon Staley Refutes Statements Made By the News. Kingston, Jan, 24. --(To the Edi. tor): My attention has been called to an item appearing in Wednesday's News, which says that an operator wps discharged from one of the thea toriums since the article about! the fire traps. That is another News' lie I'am the only operator who left any of the theatoriums during the last two months. I was not discharged. | resighed of my own free-wi)l, and be fore I ever read or heard of the News' article, and the News' article had noth ing to do with it at all. I resigned for reasons that are private and per sonal, .T was employed in the Bijou for ut three monghs, as door- keeper and assistant to the operator. The five-trap stories in the News are a pack of lies. --GORDON STALEY. l CUT CHANCELLOR'S SALARY. Must Give Suffrage or Will Fight Appropriation, f Berlin, Jan. 24.--The socialists, in| retaliation for the stand taken by Prince Von Buelow on the matter of | manhood suffrage for Prussia, have de- | cided to aim a blow direct at the im-| perial chancellor. When the appropria- | tions for the chancellor's salary comes | up for debate in the reichstag they will introduce a motion that his remunera- tion be reduced unless he promises gq bill providing universal sufferage with- out distinetion . of sex for everybody over twenty yearsof age in every federal state of the empire. More Labor Disputes. Ottawa, Jan. 24.<The Labor Ga- zette, for January, smmming the year 1907, says there --, 149 trade Sigihuton, affecting 34,694 work people caw a loss of 613956 worki Ph od is in comparison to the figures of the year previous, and causing a loss of 492.775 working days. New York, Jan. 24.--The Thaw trial was adj ; today, until Monday, on account of the nomarrival of wit- nesses for the defence. - Picked Up Passengers. Hook of Holland, Jan. 24.--A steam- or, which is Syiaring She harbor, Fo Lying signals to a ong og : Amsterdam's missing passengers aboard. | Gi New York In A Blizsavd. New York, Jan. M.--New York, play. | Was Awho knew bim, honest in his dealings | ner, {irozen to death and was drowned, | { deep, audience in Ontario. No constituency, cease fouling their nest. b THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JANUARY "24, 1908. i 1 PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From All Over The World. Four inches of spow fell in on Thursday. North Middlesex liberals pomdnated Thomas G: Turnbull, reeve of "Lobo for the legislature { Rumors . are current and believed that Gov. Magoon, of Havaus, will soon succeed Taft as secretary of war James Gilchrist, Toronto, got verdiet of $1,500 for the loss of Toronto a his trght leg Eugene Chandos, a Toronto machin | ist, died from bullet wounds, self-in- | flicted A bomb wrecked the front of an Italian bank in New York, exposing] $40,006 in coin, ed as a window dis- | dssize court jury, in Toronto, that the G. T. R. was not to | blame for the death of little Vida | How. ! Paul Pomerian, from Lake Megan-| tic, blew out the gas in his room in | his hotel at Montreal, and is in a eriti cal condMron. New York police have seized large quantities of arms and ammunition and $800,000 in counterfeit money in tended for the rebels at Hayti. A logger named Ban Smith was kill- ed in his bunk by a falling tree at Valdez Island, B.C." Eight other men sleeping' in the shanty escaped. Albert Chamberlain, president of the British Welcomes League, intimated to the board of control, Toronto, that ne may take 1,000 men to the City Hall to ask for work. Major Count Johannes Lynar, whom Herr Harden mentioned as a member of the kaiser's camarilla, has heen sentenced to fiftéén months in prison for abusing his authority. A half million dollars has been spent in Welland in building opera- tions the past year. About 100 re siddences have been built, the bal- ance being expended in factories and manufacturing plants, The postponed conference of White Star, American, Cunard, + Ham burg-American, North German Lloy¢ and other steamship lines engaged in the Atlantic passenger trade, has been provisiogally fixed for February 5th in London. An f found the LATE JOHN HONAN. Highly Respected Bv All Classes. Gananoque Journal, I'he death occurred on January 18th of John Honan, at his home, Honan's Corners, aiter an illness of over two years. Although he wasin poor health his condition did not assume a critical aspect until ten weeks ago, when an operation yas considered ne- cexsary, which ready relieved his sufferings. For a time after there was hope GI hisSrecovery, but two weeks ago he began to fail rapidly yptil the end came on Saturday last gg 10.30 a.m. He was highly, respected by all and always charitable. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Honag, for- merly of Gananoque, and . was born here fifty-eight years ago. He was one of the pioneers of this district, having lived on the farm he died on for fifty one years. He was a Catholic in reli- | gion and a liberal in politics. He| leaves to mourn. his loss a wife and seven children : Lillie, a tra ned nurse | seven children : Lillie, a trained nurse in Chicago; Thomas, foremun for the Winnipeg Brick and Tile company ; | John and Michael on farms near Es-| tervan, Sask.; Joseph, Florence and! his yranddaughter, Marguerite at home; and two sisters, Mrs. Brooks, of San Francisco, Cal, and Helen Dunham, Bvfialo, N.Y. The funeral took, place from his late resitlence: gn Monday, Jamuary 20h, to St. Barnaby 's church, Brewer's Mills, where a solemn requiem high mass wag sung by Rev, Father Tray- A beautiful floral tribute adorn ed the coffin from Mr. and Mrs. B. Shiels, Gananoque. The casket, at his request, was 'borne by Messrs. P. Kel ly, J. O'Neil, Richard Luker, Ab. Street, John MeCaldin, of Taylor; and Daniel Kenny, of Gananoque, | THE DREADFUL STORM. 4 People Battling in New York Against Great Blizzard. New York, Jan. 24. One man was! another, blinded by snow, walked off a ferry ship and Many were picked up | more dead than alive in the st ts | and had to be revived in the ho | tals. James Smith, once a prosper- | ous engineer, was found frozen death beneath a drift , several Severe storms raged along the | whole Atlantic coast. A large fishing | fleet was reported in distress at At-| lantic' City early to-day. -- | Due Notice Given... . Toronto Globe, The result in South Hurou is an- other intimation to the Ottawa op- | position that the country takes no | stock in mud-throwing, where the mud | is so obviously manufactured in the opposition puddle. There is not one of the alleged "'scandals" but which could be riddled before ary impartial to] feet | in Ontario at least, can be stampeded by shouting "Graft" or "Deal; the! little group of scandal-smellers should Manager Burrowes Pokes Fun. An interesting phase of the News- Bijou controversy is that ) nager Burrows has carried the fight into the advertising columns and, to-day, devotes" some fifteen. inches of space to poking bes at the publisher and itor; The (editorial "ad" is on page ree, | charge of bigamy. Auley's | 20¢. | because he ey entually overtakes skating, 10 a.m.: Be. {a course {to know they EW) MD EY Alleged to Have: Forced a Singer to Become His Bride--The Case Adjourned For Present. fan, 24.-NMhe Judge George Kersten, vented t testing of the hypn« 1 loseph Leslie, years old, was called for trial his He of pre- power of sixty wiore Chicago, Hness yveste day, eves, was 10 have angwered a He was charged with having forced Mrs. Mina Wright Leslie into marriage. He did this with ourt; | the great power he is said to held in bis optics. When the case was called Fudge Kerston announced that he was suffering from rheumatism. and post ponted the trial. In many respecie this rial of hypnotic will be of the eye one the | strangest ever held in Chicago. Leslie is proprietor of Lakeview Park house at Grimsby Park, and "as arrested on complaint. of Mrs. Nina Wright Leslie, formerly of Kincardine, Scot land. The maxX: has been in the coun ty jail in default of $3.000 sureties The great eyes which Mrs. Leslie de- clared led her from all her plans, she said were used to prevent her irom telling her story to a municiphl court, but the spell was broken by Mrx. Fd win Kersion, a sister Mrs. Leslie No. 1. "He is like the evil one," declared pretty Kitle Mrs. Leslie. "He looks one in the eye and his pupils seem to swell until he cannot be seen at all. only: his eyes." The girl who claims Leslie forced her to marry him was engaged as a singer at Grimsby Park, and stopped dt Leslie's hotel. She says he forced her to remain at the hotel after her with the park, manage- ment expired, and when the hark clos ed for the season, forced her to come with him to Chicago. It after coming to this country that they were married, of engagement was THE WHIG'S JUMBLE. Tells About a Lot of Things Short Metre. Cocoanuts, . full of milk, fresh, at Carnovsky's. Children, admission 5e., rink, to-morrow aftérnoon. How small a doctor's compared with his bil}, A man way be as good as hig word and still not a saint. Sometimes a wise man fool for "financial reasons. Diamonds are going up--also the rhins of their female wearers You get new goods twenty per cent. discount up to Saturday at the Loe kett Shoe Store, He who speaks from experience leaves a lot of things unsaid. Never do any worrying to-day that can be put off till to-morrow, Burtch's fresh grated horse radish for roast beef, pork and all kinds of méats. Ask your grocer for it. The best way to get money, as well as the slowest is to work for it. Hot chocolate and hot Bovril pensed at Gibson's Red (oss store, in therefore Royal to pills are when be poses as a dis- drug The only way to . stop erwding at the rinks is to cut down salaries. William Swaine, piano tuner. Urders received at M-Auley's. Phone 778. Fate to delight in handing misfortune to some people in bunches It's as easy to make money as it 18 to unmake yourself while making it H. Cunningham, piano tuner from Chickering's, Leave orders at MM: look Store. A woman's curiosity is exceeded only by that of a man who says he hasn't any. Worcestershire 5¢., to-morrow, Mullin's grocery. Extra strong all colors, 25c,; New York An undertaker seems for at sauce, 15¢. size Saturday, only, sweaters, S0c,; toqties, mittens, 10c., - 15¢., Dress Reform. 18 probably so called 'the rest of mankind. You got new goods twenty per cent, discount up _to Saturday at the :Lec- kett Shoe Store. Zion, -- good skating to-night. Sa turday, childeen's hockey, 9 a.m.: n Afternoon and evening, 10ec. Hot chocolate pensed at dis drug and hot Bovril Gibson's 'Red Crass F store, Yale University has announced that in. the theory, design and construction of sailing vachts will be given ito graduates and seniors. Toronto papers style Herb, Clark, who plays in the (Queen's-Varsity game to-night," the fastest and most effec- tive centre in Canada. . 15 the raifroad wreck a thing of the past, or just waiting till money re covers itself ? The many customers at Gibson's can have a glass of Red Cross drug store will be pleased, hot chodolate or hot Bovril there. Saturday last day of our twenty per cent. discount sale, at the Loe: kett Shoe Store. So strong was the Shoreditch, Eng- land, paupers' objection to gruel for breakfast that they raided the work- house kitchen and poured the gruel down a drain. Dr. Scofield, of Benson, - Mich., has presented the valuable geological col- lection that was left him by his fath- er to the University of Minnesota. What is reported to be the largest apple tree in the United States is in the garden of Charles Waterhouse, at Southington, Comnecticut. It vielded fifty bushels of this season. {New York PAGE FIVE PERSONAL MENTION. | Movements Of The People--What | They Are Saying And Doing. | Health and Energy Elton Beal, Brockville, is visiting friends. in the city, : Johu Ryder, siter a pleasant visit in Pittsburg, has returned home Mrs. John Hopkirk, Princess street who has been seriously Hl, is slowly | proving . Mary For you to be found in bottle of "BOVRIL."" "BOVRIL"" contains all that is good In beef. It not only feeds you but it enables you to get the full value out of vour ordin- ary diet, a Sold by your Grocer and Druggist in bot- tles containing 1 oz, 2 ozs., 8 ozs, and 16 0Z8, a Charles street. re.) turned home. after visiting her cousin, Miss Lena Jovee, Joveeville Mrs. Archibald McDougal, of Kings- ton, has been advised of the death of Wer relative, J. J. Mac Donald, of Ot-} tawa i Mrs and son, are and Mrs. W visit { Mrs A. K. Kirkpatrick, Kingston, | renewing acquaintances in Smith's and is the guest of Mrs. R. J William Newman, Lorneviile, with her parents, Mr i Allen, Clergy street, fora! is Palls, Whyte Fhomas Farmer, who has been visit- the dairy the week, has returned his home Winchester, Ont Mrs. (Dry LG, Bogart, Wellington | street, is confined to the general hos-| pital with the onset of typhoid fever ! Her condition is considered grave, ow- | ing to the fact that only one week had elapsed between recovery from an attack of appendicitis and the begin-| school for past. ng to inf ning of the fever GROWTH IN ORE. a The Increase of Gold Since Days of Columbus Gold was the substance for which all the world hungered, and yet when Columbus discovered Ametica the re | was less. than $250,000,000 of it in all! Europe. Surely iv nad been a difficult substance to find. Centuries had pass ed, during which this vellow metal had been carefully hoarded, and yet all of Europe held less than a quarter of a billion of it. That was a matter of 115 years ago | When the great explorer set sail for! unknown the world was in-| creasing Ms stock of gold at the rate of less. than $4,000,000 annually. It would therefore take Europe sixty | vears to duplicate its gold holdings When another hundred years had pass | ed the output had increased to $6,-| 000,000 "annually. There startling in such an increase bring this about it has been necessary | to ransack the treasures of Pery, Mex i€0, and other new countries more we move the hand of time for ward a hundred years until we come to 1700, in which year the average | gold production only" $7,000,000 | yearly. Certainly there was no reason | Just one week more for our Special Janu Sale. Cutlery and Enamelled Ware have had the preference so far. We have ary had visitors from fifty miles away taking advantage of the cit prices. For the bal- ance of the month there will be no let up on our part. We may be out of some lines, shores but are sure to have many others thit you require. Here are some specials: 80c. Step Ladders, the strongest, lightest and best finished we ever had. Always sell at 25c per Step. C Sale price - - = . tle arrangement for moving C ~ --Light covers and lifting hot jars * $1.12 Plated Copper 99 --- JIC, We have not said much about Tinware, but you can save at least 20% on: anything yeii want this month. cKELVEY & BIRC 69 and 71 Brock St., Kingston, Irons, 3 in Handle and Mrs. Set, Stand Potts with was nothing Once | 8 to fear an overproduction' of gold. | Another hundred years brings to 1800, in which comparatively modern | time. The annual production of gold | was only $12,000,000 | Thus we find that during the three! centuries following the discovery of America, the world's average annual increase in gold was $26,666. Had this modest ratio been maintained for the | next hundred years, the total produc- tion of gold in 1900 would have heen about $15,000,000. How niuch do youl suppose it actually was ? Doulie that | amount * Three times it? Make an- | other guess. It was £262,220,915, | us Gem Jar Openers, a handy lit- No. 9 Wash Boiler with Cop- per Bottom No. Nickel Tea Kettle 9 His Old College Friend. Chicago News A rich and well-known citizen of Eastern city boasts of ary authors graphs an an. extraordiy the | auto: | of books wherein their collection have inseribed It is rumored that the envy and fre- | quently the skepticism of his friends have heen aroused hy the flattering in scriptions in ies have even gone so far as to hint | handwriting through question; and some evn of a similarity in the eollection citizen recently purchased a rare | of Montaigne' One | at dhe, volume passed from hand to hand, and the lost sight of it however, did finally hack him, he was astonished find the flv-leaf this inseription "To. John Blank, from his old friend i Mike Montaigne." classmate, Vote Honorably. ont 3 Fhe Essays edition [Ti] evening, dinner costly was for a time When owner it come to to wis [oe] i] Tn 3 3 ooo oc THE CANADIAN BANK "OF COMMERCE | 3 ESTABLISHED 1867 Paid-uptCapitzl, $10,000,000 Rest, papi 5,000,000 Total, Assets, -* 113.000,000 Branches throughout Canada, and in the! United Statessand England is for giving vour race its due oppor. | tunity: the man who led them in 'al BANKING BY MAIL ; i ae) Tat It sulv hover: | yusimeny may be transacted by mail with any branch roi fab, replied Mose. "1 "ain't | 'of the Bank. Accounts may be opened and deposits made or withdrawn by mail. Every attention Is paid to out-of-town accounts. KINGSTON BRANCH, CORNER OF KING AND PRINCESS STS, STEVENSON, Manager and Determined To Memphis Scimitar, During a political campaign in | sippi, Col. Robinson, of Vicks burg, was running for congress on the | republican ticket, On the mor ning of election day one of the friends of the republican candidate chanced to meet dn old negro, known locally ss Mose Thompson, whom he asked : "You going to vote for Col. Robinson, vou not?' 'No, sah, 1 ain't goin' to Vote fer the colonel." "What ? Not vote for the man iss HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO ! B. B, WALKER, President ALEX. LAIRD, General Manager | A. H. IRELAND, Superintendent of { Branches are ure who | t goin' to vote for the colonel... 1's goin' | to be hdno'ble an" chiv'lrous an' vote | for the genulmen that give me five | dollars." i Take Advantage. | Of Campbell Bros." big clearing sale | of fine furs. a Lathan, Mallorytown, and Edward | v : Lathan, Beotiotle, ec. tat voc Ladies' Felt Slippers, 40c. Clearing out Ee friends desert you at the time vou | at 25c¢. ; ei ] Ladies' Felt Slippers, 50c. Clearing out Ladies' Felt Slippers, 65¢, Clearing out ' . When shopping on a cold day call at Gibson's Red Cross' drug store for a hot chocolate or hot Bévril. 1 A quiet wedding took place, on | Tuesday, at the Methodist parsonage, | Brockville. The couple were Mrs. Foi what vou have been doing ~ all your need them most, but they go exactly | "Hot Bovril and hot choeolate dis- at 33c. pensed at Gibson's Red Cross drug : store, > i Joseph Moffat, aged fity-eight years, | E at passed away, on Monday wight, at his | home in Smith's Falls, after a linger- ing illness. 3 : Varsity won the Intercollégiate cham- pionship last year and' they have with them the pick of last year's players. Ladies' Felt Slippers, heavy wool linin i $1.00. Clearing out at 75c¢. y 8 FE The Sawyer Shoe Store short memories. Jove isn Splendid quality flesce-1 212 Princess St. "Phone 159. &