THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG,- THURSDAY, "FEBRUARY 6, 1908, " | speaking THE WHIG, path YEAR mi lions, which is unremunerative , published | dividend is paid § ot 306-310 King street, per your Edl | DAILY BRITISH {each evemin, |tions at 2.30 and 4 o | WBEKLY BRITISH wie, {and over, biished in parts 'and Peg morning at party wm . year Attached a) one of the best Job Frint | Canada; rapid, stylish aod | will be limited, presses. {that would mean disaster. Damage to| The Ltd. | fog Offices in {cheap work ; wine Improved The British Whig Publishing Co., EDW. J. B. PENSE, Managing Directors "Daily Whig. 13 Monday (but if its earning power be redu CUTTING DOWN THE Mr. McLennan, K.C Toronto, COURTS, of Cornwall, in on law reform, fi | advanced the idea that there were tog | ~All Hockey kates & Sticks we AP 26 Per Cent. Off. A pleasure to show goods pd compare prices, OE, | 20 5% Reduction interOvercoats | gation. n's and] Boys' Suits Great bargains in Underwear. Sweaters, Mitts, Gloves, BSocks, Caps, Rubbers, Over- shoes, ete. Cdine; to-day and get your choice or the best bargains. | ISAAC ZACKS) # 271 Princess street SOFT CYPRESS A nice wide stock and good lengths. Just the thing for boats and launches. Also OAK Poth Red and White, Plains und Quartired, | | | | £8. ANGLIN & C0. i Bay & Wellington Sts. : "Phone 66. Real Estate Headquarters If you want to buy or sell City Property, go to a man who makes a specialty of same. \ ao. JOEO. CLIFF, 95 Clarence St., Opposite Post Office. "Phone, 225. » Wood's The Geeat is Remedy Tonos and tay ner the whol nervous fystons, makes pew Hod In old Veins, Cures Nore n Mental end Brain PV Fat Des acl 1H Cafury oma [I "UNION WE Swposite Grand Central Statien BEW YORK CITY C mary satisfactory. judges and too many appeals. | is remarkable, because that the work of he courts is glutted because there are The argument t is ysual to hear ot enough judges Mr. McLennen hbuld be that aholished, not equipped for disposing of certain and that it expedient should go to Ottawa which holds that there only one court of appeal, minority decisions should . be that the supreme court is | * Lenses, is not | that cases jeould as well be disposed of in some {of the lower courts, In like manner he did not favour ap- | ovale to the privy council-much as it corported with the Britisher's idea of | carrying his grievance to the foot of | She throne--because the British jurists could not be familiar with Canadian [fae and Canadian conditions. . McLennen would duce the number of courts, the num- ber of appeals, and the cost of liti- The Me¢Lennen idea is to sim- In a word Mr, re- | plily the court procedure and cheapen the resori to law, and it is something which the people would regard with very great delight. THE CRY OF DISTRESS, The Montreal Gazette containg the following "At the English at Hull, W, Trades Union Con- R. Trotter, repre sentative of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, said that there between 8,000 and 10,000 unem- ployed men in Toronto, and that in Winnipeg. the labor situation was un- There are in Toronto a number of unemployed, gress, were considerable {and Winnipeg has its worthless ones. however, that in the situation is as bad as Mr. Trotter makes out. His state- ment seome to be designed dor the de- terring of British emigrants to Cena- da next season rather than for mak- ing known the truth." No one knows just how many are idle in Toronto and elsewhere in the province, but the number appears to be very large, and the disiress very real. No one can read of the dis- tress which prévaily, asit is recited in the papers, and doubt the suffering of the impoverished and the necessity The papers It is not believed, Toronto men is there is for prompt relief. that are making known the Mistress of and appealing for aid, have of the effect on im- or at any other the suffer- children, of 50 generous the poor, had no thought migration next year, tinde. They are moved by of it people that their ing helpless women and is to the credit they responses, and great our are in THE QUESTION OF SALARY. The salary question has Len kefore the and the finance committee has recom- Board of Education in Toronto, mended increases which will add many thousands of dollars to the pay roll. Every Liraneh of-the setviea is affected the principals, teachers, assistants, official staff, messengers and caretakers, li the reason for specialists, in: crease in any case is increased cost of living it affects every interest or con- tingent in connection with the schools. be It comes from the women principals, who In Kingston a petition is now fore the board which is peculiar. ask for more salary because living bas gone up. That is not the best reason, perhaps, or the only one, The princi pal of a school, whether man or man, has certain duties ta perform, and certain respousibilities" to carry. The ,women may carry them as well as the men. I not then there should be a difference between them and male principals, and' this differencs is open for consideration and not the ques. tion merely of current expenses. By the way the school hoard will have to proceed cautiously in financial affairs, It has the average increase of expenses, incidental to the salary list, and it has to meet the burden of the free first form in the institute, if the re-examination of the vote cast on the subject sustains the impression which went abroad when the vote was tak- en. There is a "doubt," it seems, and it could not be removed or di until * a certain time, specified in the faw had 'passed. The school expenses this year will be very Bulky; and every economy will have 16 be practiced in order to limit the demand on the council as much as possible. ---------------- UNIQUE LABOUR DECISION. WO- No! no dividend ield- | in interest or ds | dd | because is earned. The preferred stock is | ing something ANOTHER STOR ORM TOOK A CRACK AT KINGSTON. Drifting Was the Worst i Feature--Street Railway Again [ the' financial position of the company | would mean the i Tied Up--The Trains Were All Late. | Against any possible improvement in i i the | {tinual demand, {the 'borrowing power of the i compan not ended, and | loss to employees. | The city had no sooner shovelled it- self out of last Saturday's snow con- tribution than it wae, this morning, again called upon to exhume itself ; i revenues of the railway is the con | on the part of the people, for lower tarifi and improved } { | service. {from a liberal supply of the beautifd] { "The growth of carnings is not keep- | white snow which fell and drifted all proportionately * the | night. The bluster came from the west sivas the com and reached here about six o'clock : {when the suow began falling/ Fortu- nately it wasn't pearly as heavy as must be | the fall last Saturday, but it was] . and the | quite strong enough to block the side cop | walks and roads. The snow started to | pro-| 18H lightly at six o'clock last evening, jand continued till eight o'clock this | morning. It was accompanied by passenger rates, inasmuch as every re-| strong west wind, which made: huge of | drifts> in many places, The wind kept the snow. from piling upon that al ready on the Bey The people who bad to turn out eas ly to, work, this morning, found walking harder than it has been winter, on account of the heaviness { the snow and the drifts, some of drifts being ling pace with growth of expenses," "If the wages to employees mission. operating expenses | and the increased from time to time public so demand, very serious siderations must be given to posals for the reduction of freight and A duction directly affects the ability the railways to pay the wages asked by their employees." The argument is good that there should be ® fair day's pay for a fair day's work, and that the cost of liv- but "the pro- ing has been increased, lenders is to be practically | confiscated between the demand of the public on the Bune mand of the employees on the other, it must lead to a general reduction in in the number | perty of firmly together, anil this made it all 'he harder for the people. The girls side, and the de- had a very hard time, many of them turning back, on account of the Snow, The storm, up' the street railway. o'clock the cars wages or a shrinkage of with a much greater ultimate loss to labour. took a comprehen: realiz- two sides to the Trunk com- on Wednesday night, tied After eight had a very employees, ' The commission ed in. The snow made the rails. Jike ice, and tHe hold at all: X : foal | The suburban train, on its way out pany not 1n a position to dea {to meet the carly morning train, go as liberally with its employees as She | stalled in a snow drift, just behintl C.P.R., upon a basis which N C. i olson's | ware house and M "ne .« b Of Ade w le oy » was generally accepted. The decision i ck 'as not cleared until lat this moraing. The passengers were was unanimous and the members of the | {akon to the junction in cabs. A big sive view of the situation, and, that there were that the Grand ing question, was agreed art it? Ling wartime as to the efficacy of pray report. | gang of men were engaged in clearing | off the snow. The snow which fell dur ing the night was of the soft, sticky conciliation board signed the and shows It was a peculiar finding, how the members of the board looked at the it from every standpoint, and in a most reasonable issue" before the rails, it was impossible for the engine to make headway. The stretch {of track from Queen street to Brock I street had to be cleared right out be- {fore the train could move. « It was] stated that this piece of track is one of the worst to contend with in a storm as was experienced last night. The side streets were placed in a far worse state to-day, snowfall, and horses heavy loads had a very difficult time in getting along. Teams hauling coal were giv en a very hard pull. On account of the G.T.R. train ing stalled in the local yards, the Kingston and Pembroke morning train could not start out from the depot. The train was made up at the round house, and from there proceeded on its way, . Many merchants ware telephoning the city engineer, this morning, want- ing the snow piles removed from the | west side of the street. . The east side only is clear. However, other blocked streets have first to be attended to be- fore Princess street ean be completed. When Barrie, Union and Alfred streets have been somewhat relieved, Princess] street will be finished. The street cars did not inake appearance this morning. The er went out at 8:30 o'clock and sue ceeded in getting the belt nearly all elear of snow. it will be a very difficult job to get it clear and nothing can be done un- 3 'e Ini : less the city draws away the snow : The turnkey of Ottawa's jail admin- that was cleared off the tracks afler isters the to the the last storm. Out on King street The doctor's prescriptions are written | some of the drifts are five and six} the feet high. The banks are about routine | feet high on each side of the track] en "Land in between this the snow is about | a foot deep, so the sweeper can not | clean it off. The depot line is also blocked and a great deal of shovell-| ing will have to be done belore line will be open. way. sisson -- EMTORIAL NOTES. Canada is not yet ready for old-age pensions, Like the rural mail d livery it costs too much, How much is the snow ing the city ? The account will make a big bole the incidentals, storme cost- in People do not talk any' more about the fine open winter. Of the beautiful snow there is now an abundance. Are you taking part in the house: to-house visitation? No ? Then' you are not doing your duty to the church and the city, hundred will taking the religious on the 18th. What is it all Get to of the ward meetings and find out. -- proposed by the that who sells liguor to a rail be fined $500 instead of $30 the About three be engaged in persons census about ? some I Bo the man way man, as at present. law at this rate. is senate It pays to obey medicine prisoners, store and Yoneer in a book. The drug turnkey do the rst, Rain In Wartime. The late Gen. Joseph Wheeler told this story as illustrating the firm be- lief which prevailed in Tennessee due- Had A Slight Run-Off. GT. RB. night, The at 1.20 o'clock The great storm was provincial in ex tent, and the trains last night, from Toronto were much delayed. The train got along slowly, and morning in entering the station at Ernesttown, the first of the two en gines hauling the train had her front wheels forced off the track. The train and mails were held up all forenoon, waiting for an auxiliary force to put her on the track again. The company | transferred the passengers to another | train and they west east about 10.30 | © clock. The eastern trains were also very late, The first reached here at 7.20] a.m., the second at 10 a.m. The tracks | are much hampered by the. great bod-| ies of snow, er There meeting No rain, + The last here mail aftefioon had been a summer _ religions in one of the rural districts, it soems, bad fallen in a long time; everything was about burned up. Consequently, the preacher cons cluded his prayer with this appeal for rain : "Oh, shower western thisl this we need a refreshing ! Be pleased to send us the blessed rain, so that the drooping vegetation may be revived--oh, Lord, none of those light, drizzly rains, but a regular ground soaker ! A heavy rain, oh, Lord! But not heavy en- ough, good Lard, to raise the Cum- berland river so that the Yankee gun. boats can come in and take Nash- ville 1" Ei "Three Swallows." Sir John Power & Sons "Three Swallows" Irish Whiskey, amous for over a century, Of highest standard of purity, Distillers to His Majesty the Lord, LETTERS-TO THE EDITOR... -- Children Sent Home. Kingston, Feb. 6. (To the Editor I noticed in last night's Whig an ar. ticle commenting upon the good héat- ing in the public schools. If Sieh was the case; "petinit me to ask why chil- dren in the junior classes of Central were sent home Ly the teachers at-10 a.m: on Wednesday, 'and told not to come on Thursday if the wea- ther continued cold. If children brave the elements on suc a day as Wed- nesday, and get to school on time, it is the height of folly to send them home an hour later --MOTHER OF MANY. Support From Below. Condon Express During the Mid-Devon bye-election a libegal temperance speaker concluded an impassionate oration with the words : "I sav in all sincerity that | wish all the drink was down in hell," . "And so do some of them chaps as. is down there, guv'nor," cried a veice fram Jom back of of the hall. 'Stop that ticking cough! Dr. Shoup's Cough Cure will surely stop it, and with perfect safety. It is =o ly barmiess that Dr. Shoop tells mothers Jos thao else even with wery young \bahies. The whole- sine green leaves and tender stems of nih, healing mountainous shrub a ---- i you are tired taking the large sldfachigned griping pills, ny Car- ter's Little Liver Pills and 't some the curative properties 13 Dr. mfort. A man ean's stand every- s Cough Cure. It calms the | thing. One pill & dose. Try them. a Is the sensitive brom-| 7 Dickson, collector of inland re- ruembranes. piu, nO venue, kas received a set of the. new ghiatoldem, nothing. harsh. usd 0 In: (eoing issued at the new Canadien or suppress. Demand Dr. Shoop's. mint in Ottawa. ake no other. . All dealers. Chief of Police Grabam, of Napanee, It pays to use braine in business. /came to the city. to-day, to attend 3h Jot haven't them it will 'vay ta}ih the late James Me- -- SNOW AGAIN MASTER. kind, and when it got packed against | such | ns result of thejused around in be- | Un the Portsmouth hoe | five the | had a hard tine of it | reached | mail| i DIED AT OTTAWA. Thomas Miller, of Ottawa. Ottawa Journal. Ibe death occurred morning residence of her tinclaw, DD. D. Dowling, _ 389 Meleod siraet, of Margaret Fhizabeth Neeley relitt of the late Thomas Miller, of Famworth, Addington county. Death heart failure following la grippe. The deceased lady, her sixty-eighth year, has of late vears resided her daughter, Mrs. Dowling, of this city, and a sc of New York. Her home was formerly in Tamworth, where her husband eupied the position of clerk of the t for Addington. The funeral will take place to her old home. A family of two daughter; and two sons are loft. The latter are R. M. Miller and A. A. Miller, of New i York. The daughtess are Mrs. DB | Dowling and Mrs. Hendrie, of Rye, NY. Formerly Wednesday son on at the at the was caused by an attack of in with n of con Frock For A Young Girl. the | this | the | four and five feet deep. | The soft weather made the snow pack | going to the mills, at seven o'clock, | wet | i | | i hard | time getting around and were all call | wheels would not take | ! | | Dotted silk mull was used for the model of the here bu¥ the design would also be excellent for {making up wash fabrics, such as dot lawn, ete. valenciennes insertion was the little round valenciennes to gown shown, {ted swiss or mull, Inch-wide fused as trimming, {voke being of allover pute n. The Jong was made with are model sleeves, which {rather smarter than the the lower sleeves being made {pufis of the_siik mull, of insertion. The insertion also the lower part of fs skirt between wider puffs of the { terial. now considered short ones, of scant joined with rows was the ma- nr. { | Budget From Westport. | Westport, Feb, 4.~Farmeas are | frightened over the scarcity, of feed | owing to the hard winter. 1. J, Mc Parland 'lost one of his best cows last week. The animal fell on the breaking both of 'her hind Jegs. large number from here attended the {Ottawa ive races. Messrs, J, Mulville fand A. C, Bradley attended Ottawa | exhibition last week. The latter 400k | with hisn some of his prize fowl. P. J { McParland hes recovered from his ill- {ness and js able to be around again. | Mrs. Al. McCann, Perth, is visiting at [ Mr. aud Mrs, F. J. McParland s, Uen teoville. J, Mulville and Mrs. J. Bot tang are doing a rushing business in horse dealing, Wood hauling to the { village has been stopped owing to th | late The II. & W cursion to Brockville on Tuesday last to enable the sports to attend. the | Montreal Wanderers and Renfrow ho { key match. Stephen O'Neil, of Mica vile, visited the Wardrobe on Sunday { last Jumes McArdle, Toledo, is visit ing friends here. Ther 1s talk of the [Hoy ran hotel chan ring hands. Westport tends having an exhibitic nm hockey mateh during the k Ihe [teachers have snowshoe {club iu Westport storms ran an ex coming ganized W a Tidings From Plevna. | Plevna, Feb, 4 On ace irouds the from Lavant Denbigh, left Saturday ing, did not arrive here till afternoon. Miss Father Wood i after visiting friends jrton and Delta, - Bove J. Lyons jviturned back frum Portland visiting his mother who was posed. Rev Mr, and M; tNewboro, have fetarned visiting Mr. and Mrs. Osle week. Benjamin Lloyd ke roads through thé village | banks with his plough [ Miss Esther Wood, who has been visit ting friends Delta, home {It is with sorrow that is place read of the sad death of Fhe late Mrs. Clifiord' Richardson, of Montreal, whose funeral took place in | Picton last Wednesday, January 29th. {Decensed, whose maide Nn name was | Edith Kellar, was the only daughter {of Catharine and the late Frederick | Kellar, of Picton, and is well remem- dered around here, for ste was a {favorite with all who knew her, unt of bad tage and morn Sunday When arrived King hax | Lome in after neki Stanton, home alter nr a the clear of |&Enow DOW in has returned the people of I vou sufier with indigestion, stipation, feel mean and cross, strength or appetite, your systom is unhealthy. Hollister"s Rocky Moun- tain Tea makes the system strong and healthy. 35¢., Tea or Tablets. Maliood's Drug Stere. Enthusiesm tempered with conserva tism seasoned with enthusiusm sel dom attains resaits $1. bottles of Wa-Hoo tonic for ¥ only at wwson's Red Cross drug store, AWhere others' give up is just the place to get your second wind. con no Our Special Starts We have about One sold at $12, 12.50, 1 31 to 44, Bibby's Special No.-11 $10 Suit Sale To-Day. Hundred Sample Fall and Winter Suits that were intended to be 1, 14.50 and 15. Size Our Price, $ THE H. D. CATHARINES STORE. Left Brockville Asyluni---Says Just Walked Away--Left Asylum Clothes When He Took New Ones. Catharines, Feb, 1.-The who broke into Bissonnette & Case clothing store Cov Bros'. hard ware, about two 'week WES Ar rested in Buffal He tum out to be an r& from thu Brockville had grip from store night, goods. ait to The pn Stanley, his Stanley than his own, th were St, mat and 0 WV asvion which Buffel with about £00 w Buffalo him soner first e the nam but not name beeau whicl clothe those lum. guthoritic bx inmate Brockville for eighteen NY Chicag said here n an spent bury ne born in Asked Brock ills walked a how not want him BOFORS ADVWAN Wagarville News. Wa arville, Feb. 4 old res $ recently an nt away some 1 H but wilh A i The funcral took place fror here and his remains the vault. He Ie family. Mr. and have. been visiting prise. Mre dad Mrs, Mrs. George Raymon day in Kingston, Owing storm, they were théir homes. The weather favorable for S. number men timber, abl until n few da aves Mi una Jarkson of employed Miss May Hyatt, stands eighth in he coptest. She looks fo belp her climb still and at least fourth place before the the month. Last week big advaice 'min from aud too hearty eating once by taking ope of Cart Liver Pills immediately Don't forget this Heral » nels bigher reach end ol dy ¥ werd Ht s Little din frdigestion i r alter ne could not be moved herself on her Jovely indisnosition Deputy Warden O'Leary has been in Ottawa attending the funeral of sister-in-law, Mrs. COC. O'Leary. Our idea of a wise man is one who isa't foolish enough to try to éom vinta a woman hy srguing with her The people who suffer mod are al ways those who have a sense of jus Tron snd Wine, "Uur Own" money to burn furnish sion firwt quality to be con IN ESCAPED LUNATIC MAN WHO ROBBED ST.! He | to | i she made & | Piya, | Beven fine animals perished in a car | on a siding at Brockville because they A cheerful invalid is one who prides | his | bottles, 50c,, at Wade's! BIBBY GO. 'Cash and One Price Clothing House. COMMERCIAL MAT TERS, -------- What is Going on in the Business World--The Markets, The foreign trade of Japan in 1868 amounted to 130,600,000, and in HIG to #,215,300,000 Trank railway earnings will a decrease of half a millon for Januery. Trafic earnings for the first nonth were 8.510.114, compared with B2M,5504 last January, a drop of 30.740, There igh Grand show Le at hy at the works, mdging 100 men ate number will the spring will tw tunes company s will be busy Cement Ann, next inditations, and this reased when Lehigh WV nor summer, Over it present employed, largely ine ens ug ihe off now » prople are neither money thing Move | Fou some time past plumbngi los past two hase heen the an air il. Mr xpervsenting ol acti MeCon in who ha manulactare of plumbago exten d operations last the work on the been the will I is who conse up Ow has that operations in manufacturing on un large scale, YO Ofig moles ap induess renewed what in Tea will Mahood s re will leave to tm Sunday Presby he was McTavish St, Goorgs preach in the tecinn there, of which pastor time red 0 chreh have with el manager ter a { A $1 two-quart hot water bottle lor 1 50c., at Wade's drug store, There police was another clean sheet at the court this morning | 900000000000000000008a 'Slept Poorly Tired This Morning Health is Failing ¥ nerves were burnt your blood thin, and to slowly ebling away with shortly stare you ig face a. powerful reconstruct ive tonic taken. Phywiciane who walthed casts just like yours sa nourishing, so sireng the ax etesssssnsay It out~certainly your vitality Prostration i your looks ax ie 1 the unless have toni *0 sure to supply fay ho | thening, with the elements it lacks, blood Ferro one. Ferronome makes the vitality of youth | ming in your veins---it circulates health and th to every commer of the | bendy, imparts that buoyasey and cheer that snes only with perfect health Reiwuild, revitalize, get strong: Fer. rozope provides the means--it destroy « morning tiredness by making you sleep | and nothing wu more strengibening than { slerp. Lae will be worth living, becauss Ferrozone will give the Vim and streng- {th to enjov lle Health will be vours~bhealth that's | permanent~if you use Ferrozone regu. larly. Thousands take Ferrozone every dey i} and a profi by it--why not, you ? Said by afl deglers in 3c. hoses and jor youez end vid, Miaengy