= gs V hy She ow Twin Kincstong Pema RAILWAY IN COANECTION WITH Canadian Pacific Railway I-- TRAINS LEAVE KINGSTON : 12.10 p.m. ~Exprese--For St. obo. LCL ve, | pen, 5.00 p.m with xed~Fon ts K tongs m. am. Bt, Joba 11.30 a.m. KINGSTON OTTAWA. Leave Kingston, 12.10 p.m. Ottawa, 4.4 am, arrive ington, 3.45 p.m. sot sommections at Hemfrew with CP.R. No. 1, leave Renfrew, 4.15 p.m., for Pem- , Port Arthur, Winnipeg aad Paci points. F, CONWAY, Gea: Pass Agent, Bay of Quinte Railway Porat, ang gil poet pots Troms Pil pial epost 4 pmo R- CIXTRET Orgine will leave and merive ad Oily Depot, Foot of Johmson street, GOING WEST. Wve. City Arr. Ciy oy a.m, 1.02 a.m. ---- RAILWAY. SYSTEM 5 mall Lve. City Arr. City 148 as. 2.13 am. 2.38 a.m. 8.02 am: K.18 a.m. 8.50 a.m ' an. 1.29 pom y 39 p.m 4 2 £3 p.m 6, 7and 8, run daily trains dally except Sundays Nil particulars apply to -- express [INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY Royal Mail Trains From Montreal : to Halifax CONNECTING WITH Royal Mail Steamers From Halfax to Liverpool (Canada's Famous Train THE MARITIME EXPRESS Leaving MONTREAL Fridays, at 12.00 carries baggage an opean mails, dock at HALIFA day afternoon SPECIAL TRAINS Cart, passe mails when ing pa Sehyers and ors Of commect with the MARLIIME Pres, leave HALIFAX immediate ly after the arrival of the st Tr. make connections fo [oronto, FOR TICK urs. ARD FURTHER JE FORMA + to nearest GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY AGENT, of to Montreal Ticket Office 141 St, Jumes Sg, reaching the steamer's X the following Setur QUEBEC 8.8. COMPANY BERMUDA in 45 hours from New Jo mudian," 5.500 tons, Sailings Dy Sate 10 a.m. to Nassau, Bahamas 8.8, "Trinidad™ for tl, » ad toightly ia February West India Cruises from New York way all u - ht i d improve other Hy sail orn New York svery 10 days. TO LIVERPOOL, a. dy. a1 Sat. Feb. 1. ia abies PE Dijana, Mon , Chicago, Denver, Heer | row, it Ste, , Duluth, St. | hand BRITISH SOVEREI THE KIND OF HAND WORK. { i ? § | { i | | i | GN ING THEY DID. - Aims, Characteristic Styles of the British Kings--Queen Eliza- | beth Possessed All the Ele ancies of the Pen. King Heary VIII. wrote & strong He seems to have written with Lake, | the haste and vehemence with which | P.R., Kast and West.| he spoke, and hence nt de- Renfrew end | struction ol many an bones he 'quill. h~ + Edward VI. wrote in a fair, legible, but somewhat effeminate hand, and managed to .complete a neat manao- seript diary; but the unfortunate bov- king had barely learned to write when rive .m. Leave Ottaws, 10.45! he ceased fo reign, Queen Elizabeth, thanks to ' the pains of her assiduous tutor, Roger | Aschain, wrote an upright hand. after the manner of the Italian school, and had acquired "all the elegancies of the pin," tury James I. wrote a®slovenly scrawl, strongly indicative of that persoual negligence which he carried into.sall i the little things of life. Charles I. wrote a 1air, open. Italian hand more correctly, perhaps. than any monarch who preceded him on the English throne Charles I1. wrote a little, fair, run- } ning hand. He often wrote in odd atoations, and his natural ness and vivaecity peevented his pen- manship from having (he dignity and repose of that «of his illustrious but unhappy father James TI. wrote a large, fair hand, and Queen Anne's writing was round and fair, but a servile copy .of that of her writing tutor. The autographs of the Georges and of William TV. were for the most part "serawly." but beyond this had ne special characieristic. \ Queen Victoria wrote a large, gr ful, old-fashioned Ttalian hand Specter of Revolt in India. India is in the throes of revolution, says Saint Nihal Sing, of Rawalpindi, Punjab, India The press despatches that have found their way into American news- | papers fail to give a comprehen- sive idea of the real situation in Hindostan. Lord Curzon, on the eve of his assumption of the Vice-Royalty, | declared India to be "the pivot of | "If this Em- | the British Empire.' pire," he emphatically declared, "lost any other parts of its dominions, we could survive, but if we lost India the sun of the Empire would set.Y To- day this "pivot of the British Empire" is wobbling. - Britain is apprehensive | lest this "Bun of the Empire" is los- | ing its Alre taken dia. country, is rent with riots. The two oteney. y bloody demonstrations have Bengals, at the other extremity, are proclaimed hot-beds of sedition. The Presidencies of Bombay and Madras are disaffected: The unrest in Calcutta, the upris- ings in Rawalpindi, the riots in La- hore, and the agitation 3 and Madras, separated from one an- other by hundreds of miles, indicate that community of ihterest is binding he faces, nationalities and castes of indostan together, inspiring them to act in concert. A subtle chord of sympathy appears to run through the length and breadth of the land. This is a new developmént for In- dia. The country, notorious for its antagonizsms of castes, creed, color, oustom, climate, and language, now seeins to paulsate at its vital centres, with the same heart-throbs. The native press and leaders in In- dia are pulling ther and present ing a bold front. dans, Sikhs, Brahmins, or Pariahs, they have the regeneration of India at heart--amtonomy for India is their aim, their endeavor -and they are resolutely working singly and jointly in the fade of "prosecution, persecu- tion, and conviction." India's awakening has not been sud- den nor spasmodic. Gradually Eng- lish education has been instilling into the minds of the people love of liberty Imperceptibly English edncsation has been fusing together the different castes and races of India, them more tolerant toward one A Free "Ad" The little village could not boast of very many entertainments, and conse- quently a concert was looked forward to with great delight by the inhabit- ants. 'It so happened on one deeasion that a singer of renown who had just scored some signal successes at Cov- ent Garden came down to spend a tew days with the squire, and smilingly acqu in the request of the vicar that le should sing at the village concert. His song. which was delivered with deep feeling, for which he was famous, was the old favorite, "The Village ksrmith." n 8¢ to a vociferous encore he was ut to give onc of his opera. tic successes when the chairman hard at his coat tail. sing t'owd 'un over * he smd. "I , but he seldom had a good" the untimely de- | according to the notions of | polite society in the sixteenth cen- | reztless. | lace in different parts of In- | e Punjab, at one end of the | indus, Mohamme- | making | age. Lorn Phe collapse of THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1908. I | BUILD TWO SHIPS FOR ONE. EW, Double Germany's Efforts. | Mr. Stead, who 'was ong of the first to arouse national interest in the navy, has in the new issue of the "Review of Reviews" an vutspoken pronouncement on the question of maintaining the British navy and lay- ing down two ships to one in answer to the German program. Mr. Stead, | it will be recalled, wrote in 1884 "The | Truth About the Navy," which he | claims was mainly responsible for the ! rebuilding of the first line of de- fence. "There is no question" says Mr. Stead, "as to what John Bull will re- ply to the German program, be it litttle or -big. He will say that he is sorry, but if it must be so he eanpot help himself. Without any unfriendly feeling he accepts in all courtesy the challenge which is offered him. He { wishes for nothing more than the maintenance of the status quo "He has no army to speak of; his only defence 1s his navy. The main- | tenanoe of its unquestioned supremacy is for him a matter of life and death. His readiness to secure. that supre- magy is the condition of the existence of the British Empire. He does not | waste his breath in idle moan or pro- | fane objurgation when any of his neighbors challenge him to see whe- | ther or not he is prepared to hold his own and maintain his position. The | challenge is none of our seeking, we | simply take our stand on the status quo. We are willing to maintain the | status quo, either by reducing arma- { ments or by arresting the increase of armaments. But if it cad be- main- tained in né other way, we are ready { and resolved to maintain it by com- petition. > I" "We shall bring forward no im ling counter program. ~ But when | the Kaiser lays down one keel we lay | down two. That is the formula of | safety, We shall no more discuss it | than a swimmer discusses the neces- | gity of keeping his head above water. | We shall simply do it because we { have no alternative except that of | suicide, | "We ghall not be any worse friends | with Germany becduse she wishes 'to | alter the: status quo to our detriment. It ia a fair challenge and we shall ac- cept # in the same spirit in which we accepted the challenge for the blue | riband of the Atlantic. Only insteaq | of allowing the paval Deutschland v | take the prize and hold it for years | while the Luisitania and Mauretania | were buildiing, we cannot afford to | allow our naval supremacy to be im- perilled. No, not even for a single day. 'Britons, hold your own.' And | so say all of us." | The cost of what we may call Mr. | Stead's naval program for 1908 | would be: | 8 battleships, ete., at £3. 000,000 shisce : £16,000,000 rotected cruisers. a ! £300,000 : 1,200,000 | 4 destroyers at £80,000... 1,920,000 £19,120,000 This would involve naval estimates of £40,000,000, | { | | | The Political Woman. The English suffrageties have done | good service by showing us plainly | what the political woman would be. | They are, of course, picked specimens, | but it would be the picked specimens | that would mount the political plat { form. Nature has apparently ordain- ied, and for plainly good purposes, | that the family should be a unit be- | fore the state, répresented by the { man, on whom falls the duty of pro- | toetion; a duty from which no suffra- | getté apparently proposes to absolve | him. Not all women are married, but | marriage is the normal state, and as | vet we have apparently no proof that | unmarried women have been special | sufferers by the lack of the franchise. { It can hardly be denied that legisla- | tion generally has long been,-and still lis, favorable to women. 'Nor will A { be denied that the sex has its privi- leges. Both privilege and equality it | cannot have as when it came to be | represented by suffragettes would { plainly appear. In England the par- { Hamentary champion chosen by the | women demapds for his clients not {only the suffrage, but seats in both Houses of Parliament. Both the po- litical parties in England have used womanhood az they would use any- thing, if possible more sacred, for the { purposes. of their fray: In the Unit od States the movement which- al one time appeared to be carrying all be. fore it, has of late appeared to flag. A cat may look at a king. but it is sometimes at the cat's peril---at least so it woyld seem judging from this anecdote concerning Alfred Tennyson. The then poet laureate of England was once dining at the home of his brother-in-law, Professor Lushington, and among the guests was an inoffen- sive stranger who, never having had the honor of being in Mr. Tennyson's company before, every now and then stole a glance of curiosity at the illustrious poet. Suddenly, however, those present were startled by the poet, who had been rather quiet for somé time, looking up from the' table- cloth and *glaring wrathfully round the table. He fixed the young man Tot Sat oe Beang br a enough to 1 ent, "You are looking && me, 1 tell the of a gentleman was, course, te and instantaneous, YC edp Year Propels. What i ES -------- S-- ¥ avoman had been deposited. ee CRIME. FORGOTTEN Stead Would Have Britain ' Story of a Welsh Tragedy =~ Human Remains Found. On the crea! of a melancholy hill! overlooking the wide Conway Vale' stands 8 lonely farm, called Pen'ralit Inco. It was from this farm that an unmarried woman, of exceedingly small stature," named Jane Owen, mysteriously ~ disappeared in the | spring of 1877. From that day to this the strange affair Las remained a pro- | found mystery. A discovery which | has just been made by s miner in the immediate vicinity suddenly re- vives interest in the almost forgotten | tragedy. The miner, a man named John Williams, while rock-blasting at | the Trefriw Alumimum Mine, came | upon some remains, which were at once submitted to two medical men, and they unhesitatingly pronounced them to be those of a woman of small stature. The story of the tragedy reads like a chapter from one of Gaborian's famous novels, At Pen'rallt Inco there lived at that time a farmer named David R. Griffith, who was a widower, and for whom Jane en acted as working housekeeper. There also lived inthe house the farmer's | son, a young man of about 20. Op Thursday, April 12, 1877, about five o'clock, Griffith was awakened by the woman, who told him that she wished to leave his service there and then, and asked him to be good enough to pay her her wages. While the money was being count- ed in the kitchen, the servant observ- ed: "Don't make so much noise with the money. Somebody. might be lis- tening."' "Nobody will hear it this time of morning," replied Griffith, "Perhaps there ay be somebody out- gide listening," whispered the other suspiciously. . Instantly there were sounds of footsteps close to the win- dow outside. However, Owen depart- ed with the money in her possession. Bhottly after she had gone Griffith opened the door and saw the woman in the distance talking' to a stranger, and walking in the direction of Tre- friw. That was the last that was seen or heard of Jane Owen, and such was the story related by Griffith st the time when the affair created such a sensation. Memories of the Crime. There were, however, others who had their own theories as to the dis- appearance of Jane Owen. Some of these were related to a correspondent who visited the scene of the tragedy. Some people were of opinion that the woman had been the victim of some foul play, and that, having been done to death, her remains had been bur- ied in some of the fields close to the farm--the fact that at that time of the year some fields were plowed lend- ing plausibility to the theory. Others thought that she had been killed and her verb burnt to ashes; while other theories werg to the effect that the body might Be found in the Dulyn Lake./ All these theories were inves- tigated, all the lakes in the distriet were dragged, avery inch of ground thoroughly searched, and every pos- sible inquiry made with the view of elucidating the mystery. It seemed as if she had been swallowed up in the darkness of the jagged and sin- ister hills Remarkable Dreams, Clairvoyance was not in vogue at that time, but a man named John Evans had a series of 'remarkable dreams. Within a space of two months he dreamed. he said, three times, and declared he had seen the spot where the remains of the missing Evans' description of the scene as depicted in his dreems tallying with the ac- tual situation of the farm and sur. roundings, a police constable accom- panied him to Pen'rallt Inco, but the results were fruitless. What is ex- ceptionally strange, however, in this connection is that the picture which Evans gave of the spot where the re- mains had been buried practically agrees with the actual place where the human bones have now been found. There existed in the history of Jane Owen a collection of circumstances which lent color to the suspicion that she had met with a violent end. Bhe was known to have had three illegi- timate children, one of which had boen adopted hy a wealthy family in England. The secret of the where- abouts of the child had been cgye- fully kept from its mother. and was known only to her master, David Grif- fith. This, it was well known in the neighborhood, had been a constant bone of contention between Jane Owen and the farmer, Chase Through Snow. An extraordinary gtory of a delir. jous patient's mad act comes from Belfast. "A 'carrier named Stewart was lying so seriously ill with pneumonia that hope of his recovery had been aban- doned. Robert MeClure, his brother. in-law, was watching the patient, who in his delirium imagined that water Jas being dropped steadily upon his o It was about: five in the morning when Stewart suddenly leaped from his bed and seized the watcher by the throat. There was a fierce strug- gle. but McClure succeeded in get- ting away and ran_out of the room, leeking e door, beh hind him. Herd] y bad he got outside when the cras of glass was heard, followed by a dull thud, and McClure and his wife, rush- ing into the room, found that Stew- art had leaped through the window, Mr. McClure at once started in pur- suit of Btewart, who was clad Now that our January Sale is over, and it being a great succes --we have decided to have a Clean Sweep Sale to SWEEP OUT many odd lines. Some broken sizes. Some discontinued lines and all small lots, Inorder to clear them out at once, we will make the prices so low that no one can'afford to miss this Sale. Our Clean Sweep Sale Starts Saturday. Feb. 1st. COOP PO0000000PROIOINIOIOIOIOIOCIOIRIDOROROROOSIOOOROOTOYS 00000000 RCOIOIOIRIOINONS Coit and One lot of Men's Pat Bluchers Beresford, Waukers snake, regular $5. Clean Sweep Price -- -8$3.87. One lot of Men's $4 Box Call and Vici Kid Blusher Boots; most all wives. Clean Sweep Price - - -$2.87, One small lof of Men's Tan Calf Bluchers, real good soles, regular price, $5. Clean Sweep Prize - --$3.97. Oue lot of Meu's Box Call wmnd ine Kid Bluchers, regular $4.50; Clean Sweep Price -- -$1.97, Box Calf Bluch Ona lot of Boys' 1 regular price ers, whes 1 to 5, $2.50. Clean Sweep Price - - -$1.97, Buff Leuther One lot of Boys' $1.50, School Boots, regular sizes 1 to 5. Clean Sweep Price - - -$1.17, Also sizes 11, 12 and 13 sane price, Hox siren $2. lot of Boys School Boots, and 13, reguler Ove i 2 11, 1 Clean Sweep Price - - -$1.47. -- Ove lot of Women's Up-to-Date Patent Biachers, regular $6 Clean Sweep Price - - -8$3.87. $4 Patent High Laced Women's Kind One lot of sat Vick Shoes, Clean Sweep Price - - -$2.87. One lot. of Women's $3.50 Pglent and Fine Viel Kid Shoes Clean Sweep Price - - -$2:67. One lot of Women's Fine Kid aod Patent Colt Shoes, regular Price, $3. Clean Sweep Price - - -$2.27, One lot Gf Wouwn's Biuchers sud als Patent 'oem, good styles, regular $2.00, Clean Sweep Price ~~ -$1.97, lot of Women's $1.75 High Laced Shoes. Most all sizes only a few paks left. Clean Sweep Price - - -81.27, One Women's regular $1.00 Kid Laoed Bods, oy and boavy soles Clean Sweep Price ---$1,17. Kid *Laced regular lot of Girl'a Fipe Boots, spring heels, $1.50, sizes T1 to 2. Owe Clean Sweep Price -- -$1.17. One lot of Girls' Box Cull Laced spring heels; sizes 11 regular $1.50, Roots to 2, Clean Sweep Price -«-$1 27. Vue lot of Ohikien's Fine Kid Loowd Boots, sires 8 to 10%, regular $1.15 amd $1 93, Clean Sweep Price - «-:8%e. Une lot of shout 85 pairs of Children's Fine Laced Boots, heels, only gises, Oy regular Sc. spring 9 Clean Sweep Price --- -87c. of Baby sives 3 lot x Boots, Ope Bat ton ta 7, pod Values Clean Sweep Price -«. 3%. REAL Little only lot MAKE Boots, of ENGLISH School sives, 8, 9, Owe Boys' 10, regular Sic, Clean Sweep Price «-.-87c. of Children's Jersey Clos good [EE Loggins , (regular $14 real yundity, Clean Sweep Price --. 7c. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000is00ese 20 Per Cent. Off All Trunks, Valises and Suit Cases, 20 Per Cent. 47¢c. Women's Felt Slippers, Regular price 6ic. 85c. for " 47. v WE DO AS WE ADVERTISE. Abernethy's Shoe Store A GRAND SERVICE On the G. T. R. on Flyer For Chicago. The Grand Trunk recefitly placed in its Chicago-Boston line, Canada, via Kiny Montreal, service operating though ston, Toronto and the lat. est style of Pullman Standard gleep ing cars of twelve. section and draw- ing room capacity. The interigr of these cars ig finished in mahogany, the wood having specially: selected for its bemutiful grain and markings Plain, highly finished surfaces are predominant throughout; no heavy carvings are seen, the almost plainness being relieved by exquisite marquetry work, fine 'inlasd lines and delicate designs from panels around the berth frontings and around each end of the body of the car. The upbol gtery is of a delicate' shade of with rich Wilton carpets to match, The smoking rooms are finished throughout! in' very handsome dark wood, somewhat resembling walnut, but much richer in appearance and up bolstered in leather A noticeable feature and a newer in novation in these cars is a greater space between the upper and lower berths, and thoagh the regular sleep ing cars operated' in this service be fore wete roomy; the present berths are still more so. The hygienic features are plainness of finish, highly polished smooth sar: faces, concrete flooring under carpets, rubber tiling on floors of smoking and toilet rooms, passages, platform and galoons, the walls of the latter on been severe green, being ble | HEIR TO $50,000. | Actor at the Gayety, Gets a Fortune. 31. Francis Grabam Gavety theatre, will to élaim the $50,000 | father, who died pst four hour Jan at the go sonth at once eft. him by afternoon wife { Graham, Sr rare warried a rich aged | her she ho money to her husband Toronto an actor his on Tuesday af ter his Nr recently sixty-five, and tjueathed her Should he predegase her to the stafe of Mi Now if Yepes to the sem , vightv-nine widow in will was 10 go | iwsipp for charity, Not Ths Same. London TAR-Bits After yeabs of waiting A admirer of Kipling at las man of the "Plain Tales." You!" she cried, staring at "Youw-you are Rudyard voung lady | t met the | the | author, Kip | ling 1" i Natorally Kipling felt "Nes," he murmured modestly The lady I thought," she finally explained, "I thought you were, oh, how shall I say it *gomething quite different |' "Oh, I am," Kipling hastened to | tell ber in a very confidential tone. | "1 am, madam. Only, you see, this is | ny day off 1" | embarrassed continued to marvel. "Bat i How It Happened. } Harper's Weekly. A certain member GILLETTS PURE POWDERED LYE Ready for Use in Any Quantity, or making SCAR. Sallsuing Wajee old s Ing nt, éintscting SOLD EVEAYWHEARE, EW.GILLETT Soares TORONTO.ONT. Eczema, Salt Rheum. Bosom or Balt Rheum, ss § is often | salled, is ome of the most agonising of of the fashions Gisasess. It maifests itelt in Metropolitan and Chevy (hase | vound blisters, which contain an yr finished in white enamel tiling, the sa- | Clubs at the national capital Jos all | levitating fluid. Thess break sad subse - loons being with plumbing ¢ equipped yaghout. Another new feature is the lighting |. arrangements, the cars having been fitted with the latest Pintech gas mantle lamps, enclosed with beautiful opalescent globes, which ge a beautiful soft light. : The cars are equinped with all the latest inner for eafetst and strength such ad steel platforms, wide | vestibules, ete. of his exceedingly diminutive stature Last spring the diminutive clubman | {took unto dimsell a wife, the daugh- {ter of a well-known {who is said to be father, "Mrs. Blank," said a fridnd one day | jrseontly, "1 have just seen your hus | iband for the first time 'sipee his mar | riage. Do vou know, he seems shorter "Why not?" asked the wile, with, a] smile: "he's married and settled LLL -- Oral !, Oranges ! Oranges. Edwdnis & Jenkia. Phone 775; The German government's naval pro- gramane, providing for an annual ex- penditzre of over $i90,000,000 for ten : woond reading in | Ing, especially ot night or when the : federal official. | Skpossd 10 any strong hest, are almost as witty ae her | unbearable. open [his life borne many quips by reason | quently & orust or scale ie formed. The intense Virning, itching aod smart part in than ever." | Ing