nf may be removed You 200. On sale CORN RAZOR ede, 5 Jour Cutlery Department or by mail on rec HE most painful 4000 2 pind pt id si injure the foot. Price, iT Men's, Ladies' and Child- ren's Boots and Bhoes, at 10 per cent less than any- where else in the city. All New Spring Stock Up- to-Date Styles. Big as- { sortment, ' Isaac Zacks, 271 Princess St. AT VAN LOVEN'S. Tots Apples to hand--- Sples and Cooking Suveral choice Talmonin, Russols, Apples, Bweot Oranggs, dov., 15¢., 20c. and 25¢. Large Valendia Oravges per doz., 124¢. Choite Messing Lemons, per doz. 15¢. 1 California and Oregon Prunes, ut 10c, 124e. wand wi wines 2B tosdor 28¢, riod Apples, bright stoek, Mince Meat, in pkgs. #lokien Syrop, cans, "Fume, in glass, at 10c., 15¢. and 20¢, - hoice Pure Jams, 20c. size, at 20c. dlome Made Jeilles, - fn glass, at 10¢. Sl ipton's Gherkinh, in bottles, at 15c. By iptons Small. White. Onions ERIN cari eredh apuarnesm asd grsavs si ADR _aldpton's Mixed Pickles pnd Chow- Be Senses Subei 16e 'F, W. Van Luven - Phone 417 « 246 Princess St 124c., 80e., 90. la H ony Yi, i Guice Twill be excused for the sceming ex- It-= All After a i fall 3 , bra. don't want to ake, CHRCTS. CRAWFORD | sucoession dues, are giving so much 1 [0 THE WHIG, 75th YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 306- 216 King sgveet, Ki lo a, at $6 per year. itions at 330 and 4 o'clock pum. WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages, pub lished in parts on Monday and Thursday morn. ing at $1 a year. To United Seates, charge for has to, be made $5.08 for Daily; of the best Job Printing Canada; rapid, stylish, and cheap ; nine improved presses. The British Whig Publishing Co., Ltd. EDW. J]. B. PENSE, jing Dir Daily Whig. A VERY COSTLY EXPERIENCE. The experience of Mayor Mcllreith, of Halifax, will have an educational value. He went, in 1905, to Winnipeg, as a delegate to the Union of Muni cipalities, in the interest ol the city, and the jaunt cost him $400. He was sued for a refund of the money, on the ground that it was an illegal ex- penditure, and though he resisted the demand he has alter an appeal from the supreme court of Nova Scotia to the supreme court of Canada, been or- dered to meet it. The city may have got 'a very decided benefit from the but as the law stands there is no way in which he can be compensated his. outlay. The item in question like unto many that are passed councils for the public good, and yet not strictly legal. It is onlv occa- sionally, takes action with a view of forcing will not go on any more deputations. The one experience of the kind will be sufficient. It is probable that he may he $2,000 or more out of pocket, to say nothing of the irritation to which he has been exposed, 1 NOT KICKING IN VAIN, "Certain Cobalt citizens, who object té the mining laws of Ontario, are talking," says the Montreal Gazaette, "of seceding and setting up an inde- pendent province, They had better shut up and go on with their work, Their work for the time being is to agitate for their needs. They made the concessions which are now by the premier as "balderdash,"" when |= advocated by a liberal, Had the people submitted to thet snub, as they were expected to do, there would have heen no further ip- vestigation, and no attempt by the government to amend ite laws in or- der to confer "a boon for those who developed northern lands." The people who enjoy few advant- ages, and who see the. riches of thew territory removed without much thought on them or theis condition, t i tremes to Which they go in order to accentuate their wants. It' may ap- pear to be the proper thing for the Gazette to tell them they should hush up in their complaining, The proper reply for them is that they have _been discharging a plain duty in demanding recognition, and they can congratulate themselves that they have not revolted in vain, MR. SMITH'S STRANGE VIEWS. Goldwin Smith is evidently not a believer in the higher education of persons at ¥he vost of "the state" or the people generally. "The man who by a voluntary act," he writes to the Weekly Sun, "brings children into the %orld is in strictness bound te pro: vide them with education as well as with food and clothes. He has at all events no right to call upon his. fel- low-citizens to provide them with more than a plain and practical edu- cation, Nor in fact is a benefit con- ferred upon the children who aré in: discriminately over-educated, inas- much as there is not room in the higher callings for more than a very limited number." The state, by the way, is doing a good deal for higher education, and it is not an acceptable theory that it should be restricted to. those who are able to pay for it, and that the high- er walks of life would lose some of their attraction by over-education. The people of this ¢ity, by a small majority it is true, gave some indica- tion of their feeling on secondary edu- cation in a recent vote, and when the people, through public grants, snd for college purposes, it will hagdly do papef, will stand by in the option law "il enough petitions were sent in to paper the whole par, ment is not making with that ? ,» | Up. its destructive tacties ? gaining from them ? . these needs known a year ago; and because public works have been sug- {cussed during a provincial election. gested were then roughly referred to | How really good some people have dollar boost of THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1008. places which weed anendnient =THE COUNTY FINANCES and make a beginning in the reform by insisting upon a change in them And the rity buliffngs and schools should have first consideration. When these properties have been provided with the means of easy exit, in the event of fire, the council will le war- ranted in demanding that the church- The point is that something should be done to. give effect to civic jegisla- tion, and show that the council is nut wasting its precious time in alk. It has had reports from , two or three engineers .with regard to the public buildings, and up to the present it has not done anything about them. They have suggested radical and ex- pensive proceedings which the city fathers are not prepared to take, EDITORIAL NOTES, The sale of the London Times by auction would be the last indignity up- on the record of a great and powerful Who would have expected it? The Belleville Ontario wants an en- mayor's connection - with the wnion, |quiry made into the conditions of a contract whereby a Trenton tory gets for |a public contract out of which he is is {clearing $75,000, by [fat job, Truly he has had a -- British Columbia will not have any however, that some one |°P® investigate the coal combine but Mr. King, the deputy minister af la- the municipal legislators to live with- [bor- He's an expert in the business. in the law. The mayor of Halifax It is not surprising that he is in general demand. S------ The government, it is announced, the three-fifths clause iament buildings." What does it care ahout public opinion ? It is alleged that the federal parlia- much headway 'Whose fault is Why does the opposition keep What is it its business. A conservative paper is "alarmed" dis- uddenly become. Of course no. tory would think of bribing the people with heir own money. It is proposed to establish a refuge 0 which some convicts may go upon heir release. Places in which men may get rehabilitated in character bo fore going out into the rworld. the prisons, then, complete failures in their corrective effects ? SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Are ar lip A Heavy Tax. Ham¥tod Spectator, It 'cost the printers $4,000,000 to se- cure general recognition of the eight- hour day. But the battle was for a principle rather than a mere matter of minutes, Mystifies One. Victoria Colonist. It is a surprise to read that, while many men are out of work in Ontar- io, the farmers of that province have asked the Salvation Army to provide nine hundred farm laborers. A Big "Ad." Ottawa Journal. William Mackenzie's three-million- the Niagara Develop- ment company is about the most im- pressive argument we have yet seen that electric traction is going to come in considerably on what are at pres- ent steam railways. Hitting Him Hard. Toronto Telegram. Whitney is not at heart a progres- sive. Hon. W. J. Hanna, the master of the administration, is "an able lawyer, strong administrator, and a useful public man," outside of his in- eurable legal bias towards the theory that the corporations are always right and the people are always wrong. A Great Hold Up. Ottawa Free Press. Mr. Wilson, of Lennox, spoke, last night, of "two respectable citizens" of his town who went to every hotel in his town to get a drink on the Sab- bath day and were unsuccessful. They must be very "respectable'" if they sought to persuade the license holders to break the law of the land. A Heavy Penalty. es, society halls, und other places be | ctor | similarly treated. -- ARE AGAIN THE TARGET FOR DISCUSSION. Auditor Minhes is Asked For Some Explanations--Treadsurer Again Discussed--The People Want Information. Kingston Station, Feb. 18. --(To the Editor) : In your issue of the 15th you state that the surplus of the county, given me, Was not correct, and that $12,297 56 is the surplus veri- fiel by the county auditor. 1 see by that report that there are debentures and interest on some which have been allowed to accumulate for three years back. But why were they not paid, when the act provides a rate to cover those debentures as they fall due, and also when the county would still have a surplus if they had been paid ? Now, take the assets and liabilities for the year 1807, and, after provid. ing for all the past due debenture debts and interest thoreon there is still a surplus of $14,361.71, a differ ence of $2,064.15 more than Mr. Min- nes says is the correct surplus. Will he kindly explain what ites are to be taken out to cover this difference ? 1 have not got all the auditor's re- 1900, three years later, and it shows a surplus of $23.3534.69, an increase in three years of $9,172.98, or, in other words, the rate levied was about $3,000 a year more than was required for the running expenses of the coun- ty, and in that year the amount ex- pended on jail and court houses re- pairs and supplies was $4,605.84, which amount would seem 10 be quite suffi- cinent to keep those buildings in good cent to keep those buildings in good increasing at the rate of $3,000 per year, The next report 1 have is for 'the year, 1906, and it shows a deficit of $15,311.48. In that year jail and court house repairs and suppli's cost $4,275.- 86, about the game, as 10. The amount expended on bridges in the county for 1906, is $191.43, And wp to 1906, there was no great amount ex- pended on roads or bridges. 'the big outlay along that line was in the year 1907, of which | have no official record, but if the same amount had been adhered to from 1900 to 1406, and gaining a surplus of ¥3,000 per year, there ought to, be a surplus on hand, at the end of 1906, of about $41,000, but instead we have a deliat of $15,000, showing that the councils of these iast six years have been spend- ing at the rate of about from $6,000 to $7,000 a year mote than the coun: cil before I¥00, for the rate was the same each year. Have they got im- provewents to show for this large ex- penditure ? It looks to me as it there has been a lot of it misappropriated and there should be an explanation to the ratepayers, before they should be saddled with another consolidated debt. In conclusion' a word ve "the de fence of the county treasurer.' When the board of works in fhe city at- tempted: to koep 'mhythmg back from the public, you objeetéd very strong: ly, and rightly kept rapping away at them until they opened their doors to the press. Why should not we enjoy a like privilege 7 The question that was asked the treasurer, by a reporter, the other day, "If the councillors had taken pay and mileage when they came in a week before the time," is something the - taxpayers should know. That surely does not come un- der the head of unfinished business, which you think in some instances is not well to give out. You state that Warden Foley will sustain the treas- urer in his efforts to be careful in giv- ing out information." 1f the warden or any other councillor has taken his pay for that day, ke has taken it il- legally, and could be made refund it, and if he tries to cover it up by sus- taining the treasurer; in not giving it out to the public, jt makes it all the worse, You say "What the people have to depend upon is the auditor's statement, which is issued vearly." Will the 'auditor's report for 1908 show whether or not the councillors drew pay for that particular day. 1 will not--and if the warden sustains the treasurer in keeping the seeret, the people will never know it. Indeed, to look at the amounts opposite some of the councillors' names in the report, one would think they drew pay from the county every time they wen: 10 the city. Il you would give the same publicity of county business as vou do about municipal affairs of the city, the county finances would be in a more bealthy condition, asl 1 think it a duty you owe to your many readers in the county. Yours truly, COUNTY RATEPAYER. Ayer's non- Lips white? Consult your doctor. t your doctor. . ports, hut T have the one for the year hock RT -- IN DEAR OLD. GANANOQUL. to Play Frescott. Gananoque, Feb. 21.-A pleasant event took plate at the residence of R. C. Rotters, Lapsdowne township, Wednesday morning, it being the octa- sion of the marriage of his daughter, Florence M, Rotters, to W. H. Rath, also of Lansdowne township. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Jous- eph C. Coraell, before immediate rela- tives. The bride was attended by Miss Jean Cross, while Stanley Rots tery was best man. The bride was the recipient of many testimonials of es- teem from her many friends, The groom's gift was a handsome brooch of diamonds and pearls; to the brides- maid a pearl crescent, and to the froomsman a. pearl scarf pin. After the ceremony, a pleasant wedding re- ast was served. The young couple eft to spend their honeymoon in Mon- treal. > Quite a number of attended the social at Llogd's near Thousand tion, last evening. Messrs. John Conner, Gananoque, J. T. Gallagher, Newhdro, and M. W. Steacy, Warburton, have been ap- pointed as license inspectors for Leeds. ' The bankers of Prescott have ar ranged to meet the Jocal bankers = at the Maple Leaf rink in a game of ey on Saturday evening. St. Andrew's Young People's Asso- ciation held a tea-meeting for the children last evening. Henry Upton, of Montreal, was in town a short time this week. F. W, Atkin, of La- fargeville, N.Y., spent some time this week with relatives in town. Messrs. Joseph Flunder, of Saginaw, Mich., Edward Flunder, of Carleton Place, and Mr. Horton, Almonte, spent some time in town this week with relatives. Gananogueans Mrs. James Island Junc- A Maker Of Canada. y latest addition to Morang's series, "The Makers Of Canada," is the work of Dr. G. R. Parkin, ( MG, upon Sir John A. Macdonald. It is probably the most interesting of the series, for the reason that the man is remembered with affection by. many people still in active life. Dr, Parkin had a difficult task to be free from political bias. He was himself one of the closest friends and devoted ad- mirers of the "Old Chieftain.' Ia only rare cases has he allowed his allgiance to Sir John to prevent his seeing the mistakes. Taking 'the volume as a whole, ke has given an impartial review of the life work of Macdonald and of his share in the creation of the Canada of to-day. He is not quite fair in his treatment of George Brown or of William McDou- gall, but, on the other hand, he has not failed to acknowledge the evil in- fluences with which Sir John was at times surrounded and the bad instru- ments he sometimes used for the ful- filment of his political plans. The spirit in which the volume was writ. ten is illustrated in this passage from the preface : "No public man ever in Canada won in an equal degree the sustained ad- miration of his fellow-citizens, and, at the same time, their affection, as had Maedonald at the time of "his death.' The of grave political errors and ae knowledged personal defects, and as the general outcome of a life spent in the very furnace of party conflict, makes the achievement all the more striking." Dr. Parkin has performed a patriotic purpose in this valuable addition to the history of Canadian politics, for, after all, the life of Sir John Muecdon- ald was for more than forty years the story of the politics of Canada. High Price For dealth. Mark Twain. It seems a pity that the should throw away so many good things merely because they are wun- wholesome, I doubt if Got has giv. en us any refreshment which, if taken in moderation, is unwholesome, except microbes. Yet there are people who strictly depuive "themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokeable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health, And bealth is all they get for it. How strange it is! --it is like paying out your world whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. John Scott, Belleville died, Wednes- day, night from an attack of pneu- monia. Deceased, thirty-nine years of age, was born at Brantford. Some thirty years aga he took up his resi- dence on College Hill, where Le had since resided. Sir. Scott had been for many years a member of the Metho- dist church. An aged widow and one son, Dr. A. W. Scott, Syracuse, N.Y, and two daughters, Mrs. (Dr.) Tucker, Orono, Ont., and Miss Gertrude, at home, survive. . Him Ask your doctor about taking Sarsaparilla. Trust him. Do exactly as he says. ersSarsaparill NowALcoHOLIC Cheeks pale? Blood thin? Losing flesh? ? Poor digestion? Discouraged? A lansdowneée Wedding--Bankers | That he should have done this in spite } PEERED SEERA REREES A;DIFFERENCE IN 2Y, ERSseeee OUR NEW SHIRTS FOR ¢ SPRING ARE READY Every one of them has a " Worth More "' Appearance. hey come from the best of Shirt Makers: The fabrics are unusually handsome. The Shirt-making throughout is of the very highest character known to the trade. There is an air of elegance and gentility in every one of them, It will certainly be difficult to find another such line of choice Shirts, as 'wé are now offering the Spring Trade. See Our Great $1.00 Shirts. Exelusive Designs and Patterns. HE H. D. BIBBY GO. The Shirt Store of the Town. 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