EXCLUSIVELY HIGH-CLASS E John MKay Fur House, Kingston, J 'Diamond Facts TO REMEMBER. Diamonds come fo us from Amsterdam, the great centre of the diamond-cutting in- dustry. }} Dian onds free of duty. Our diamonds are carefully selected from best class of stones. We make our own mount ings. We sell at margin Our diamonds are a secure form of investment. Spangenberg? = JEWELLER Issuer of Marriage Licenses. enter Canada very the a very close i i bwen | friended a few THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1908. until she was in and stage » good fortune, this week the sow her no more 'PAID Wi NEE } i MINER LEAVES A AN ACTRESS, $75,000. Miss Rita Redmond, Now Playing inn Hamilton, Storey One Lent Hundred a Handsome Return. Hamilton, Ont Redmond i wm one of Feb, 26 i* engaged, vaudeville Mies Rit this weel informed son City the James Storey loaned him curity for ber met : name at ¥pokane, 2i00 without it. she Is ognen a Wash. an for we She had forgotte 1} doz. Oranges 3 Lemmons Total Will make 20 bottles best Mar malade, 20¢. bottle Net saving of cutting in a few minutes, cut costs $1.75. Will save the one lot Guaranteed or SOLD AT' Mitchell's Hardware. James Dollars | When He Needed It and Gets! was theatres, has | that a miner she be- . : { vears ago died in Daw. | 75.000. Shel taking He having known him Marmalade - Season Cost « . .50c. ===» 50c, $1.00. $3.00 Sterling Slicer will do the work ting everything tain and even and price of itself in money refunded. 7 A SENSATIONAL EPISODE, {Fight With a Highwayman In a| Cutter. A voung lad named Storia shout four famwort: 88 held up on his way home from hurch on Sunday night. He attended church in the village and was driving | home, when a man stepped out | stepped t horse. Storing thought it some one who wanted a drive » and told him to get into the a utter. The hold-up man promptly a k,| opted the invitation, and upon get- ting mto the sleigh, told Storing to {get out that he 'wanted the horse and utter, The man drew ' a revolver on | the owner of the outfit and threaten «| #d 10 shoot him if he did not get out 4 | Young Storing made a move as if to 1get out, but instead grabbed lman's arm. > In the mix-up the wont off, the bullet passing Storing s coat, but did not injure him. The two men geuffed in the sleigh for some minutes until the horse became fnghtened and started the unwelcome visitor and got away. miles out of and { along gun n made a jump | Boyle-McGrath Wedding. A very happy wedding niced Wednesday Mary's Cathedral, when Rev, Father {1 O' Reilly. cousin of the united | m marriage, Misg Alice MbGrath of this city to John Joyle, of Winnipeg. I'he bride, who wag handsomely gown- ed and presented a charming appear- - ance, was given away by her brother, loseph Metirath, of Mount Ches ney, and wag attended by her _gister, Miss Annie McGrath. The groom was as sisted by his brother, James Boyle, of Enilton Mr. Bovle's present to bis | bride, gold locket and chain, Land to the bridesmaid a gold brooch set with pearls. After the cerer mony, a breakfast was served at was solem- mormng at St. groom, was a the home of GRAND UNION HOTEL Sykes Grand antral Sdian NEW YORK CITY I IN TORE CITY ava Rooms $1.00 s day and rs S-oeat stamp LN te New Toms tary the bride's sisters, 252 the happy home at Univergit, nue, couple left for their They will visit Chicago and principal points | en route. The bride heautiful travelling: costume of brown ans mink furs, Mr. amd Mrs. Boyle have hosts of friends in Kingston and vicinity, ave and future Winnipeg. wore a BEST'S SHORT Stop Cures ALL COUGHS ALWAYS, AND costs But I5¢ New | Spring Goods New Embroideries, New Veilings, New Hand ~- Made Laces, New Valenciennes Laces, | New Hand Embroi-- dered Linen Dresses, New Hand Embroi- dered Doilies, who join in wishing them many v of happiness and 'prosperity in their home Death Of Mi A. Rochefort. Mrs. A. Rochefort passed peacefully away al her' residence, 101 Raglan Road, on Wednesday morning, after an illness of nine days from pneumo- nia. Deceased was born in St, phore, Lower Canada, it has re sided in Kingston for the last twenty seven years and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. . Her loving dis- position won her many friends, who sympathize with her husband and children in their sad bereavement. Be side her husband she leaves five child ven, George, Arthur, Joseph, Clara and Mrs, J. Lyons. Deceased received the last rites of the church from Father Hanley and Archbishop Gau- thier, western Teles- | Labor Men Meet. A meoting of the Independent Labor party was held last might. lt was ru- mored that the labor men would dis- cuss the advisability of placing a candidate in the field for the legisla i ture, but from all accounts, no such a step was taken. Une of the leading | workers in the party stated that there | announcement to make 'con cerning the meeting. Other labor men spoken to, stated that there was very little chance of the party bringing out | to contest a seat in the was no any person legislature, | -- | The Train de Luxe Of Canada. | Ihe "International Limited," the | premier train of Canada, is endorsed | by 'everybody who has ever had the] experience of riding on it. It leaves | Montreal at 9 a.m. every day in the | arriving at Kingston, 5 | p.m.; Toronto at 4:30 p.m; milion | { 5:30 p.m.; London, 7:48 p.m.; Detroit, 1 10 p.m., and Chicago, 7:42 am., fol- lowing morning. It is a solid vestibulg | train--modern equipment throughout-- | with Pullman sleeping cars" through to | Chicago; also cafe parlor and library car service. Have the experience on | your pext trip west. i year, A Social Event. Tuesday evening, was the time of a} very happy gathering at the home of | Mr. and Mrs. DB. Hopping, in honor | of Mrs. J. Baker, Deseronto, who has} been visiting relatives inthe city | Vocal and instrumental music and games were enjoyed. The music ren- dred by Mrs. W. Stavlake and Mrs. . Brown was highly appreciated. At a large table in the centre of the room about seventy-five guests gather: od to enjoy a midnight tea The Ex-Chairman Missed. The civic light and power commitice shuld ~ have had the ex-chairman, Ald. Toye, as one of its number this year. Why he was left off is a mvs tery. Now, the present light commit- tee is being cracked by Ald. Nickle, onic of those who helped appoint it, for not being able to give informa- tion. Ald: Toye always had a thor ough knowledge of light plant afiairs and no one could ever take him at a ' | disadvantage. Youthful Prisoners. Deputy Sheriff. Watterworth arrived in the vity this morning, with two youthful prisoners for the peniten- tiary, Joseph Clifford Fisher, aged fil teen years and John Paul, aged six: teen. A sentence of two tears was imposed upon each, for breaking into a railway station and setting fire to a barn. Both the prisoners are In- dians, and live on the Muncev Re- serve, near London, em br ren dtion in in -thade clothing d living | the | through! to run, when | . lin the west to 3 | the | i | the 1 | | {vised to t who had taken their tgot to his | antl reminded Me SAD T0 THE BOARD | PROPOSAL "10 EXTEND GRANTS. ini, Opposition Caught Talking { Against Their _ the Slippery Ways of the Tories: Own Ottawa, Feb, 26 --~There or no discussion yesterday on Mr Graham's bill fo amend the railway {act as regards the constitution of the'| board of railway commissioners. The mover explained that the amendment was really to provide {for the ap pointment of an assistant chief com- | missioner at a. salary of $9000 per | annuen and of two additional commis- | | sioners at salary of $5,000 per annum | { each. These nice little appointments | | will be discussed in committee next] { Tuesday, but * Mr. Pennett of East! raised a pont of order when | that Senators and M. Ps From Our Correspondent i was little] | Simcoe, { he urged { j should be disqualified. | Mr. Lefurgey was worried about a| j story he had beard to the effect that | 200,000 bushels of grain for the webt | | had been purchased in Prince Edward | 1s land, but the minister of agriculture | calmed him down when the state ment | { was made that the fact was a fact. | { Mr, Elson, East Middlesex, had also | {a thorn in his flesh--the ice races at | Hull last Sunday, and was anxious to} { know where the powers of the Lord's | Da Alliance came in and the soothing | reply was thgt it was up to them to] I to the attorney-generals of Shel rf is provares to consider any ap- | { |p lication for prosecution. | Mr. Oliver's motion to graut land Manitoba, ete., volun-} teers, who saw service in South Af- rica, then occupied the attention of | the house, Mr. Bergeron wanted to know distinctions were made be- | east apd west, and why fish | made of one and flesh | Ontario came | why tween the should be | of the other, and where in, Sir Wilirid Laurier refreshed the] | member's minds across the floor, when bé quietly stated that the government | making them all fish or { flesh: the volunteers in the had | already received emolument, and that these were attending now to was busy east | why west, | The South African veteran, Colonel | | Sam, Hughes, wondered why land! | should not be given to volunteers in province was as bold on floor the field. Nir. | lergeron acted as aide-de-camp, but | the government were adamant and | threw back smiles and sallies, My. Borden also joined in the at tack, and declared that every volun- | teer in Canada irrespective of province | should be treated alike in regard to | the grant. In Sproube land was and as when in every maintained that the | belonged to the also did the volunteers and no differ | ence should be made in the handing out of the grant. The government siwek to its however, get hot position including Mr, ward Island, point, | and the discussion began to Several others of the op joined the "gallant colonel," | McLean of Prince Fd-| who thought that the! glory was sufficient, a remark that | brought Mr Lennox to his 4eet, who expressed surprise and rubbed it in to his fellow-conservative. He also ex pressed the remark that those vinces which had rewarded volunteers had and the remove pro not her disgraced themselv that disgrace, He thought | that the whole of the » the dominion should be treated alike, | and that the provinces should be ac make supplementary to their volunteers in the cases where | grants have not vet been made | Dr. Barr thought that the provine which had not vet made grants could not. afford to follow the example of Ontario. Warming up to the subjoet., | the doctor implored "the government | to remember that if all the volunteers' | lives subsequently the those in the grants | made gifts fact would § cast, hands, wer | by their { come hard on had received no land, Sir Frederick ernment laugh when he government of these asked the - dominion parcel ott thes suggested by the motion The leader of the oppo feet, and, after with Sir Frederick powit that ends Lin laughter, went on to de It termed 'the thumped the table the vol- Africa} provinces, who | i Borden made the gov- stated that th provinces ha gov lands in the roanent tog} tion again | swords Jorden on a trivial amid what he motion: He vigorously and declared that unteers who went to South were dominion volunteers, provincial, and that, therefore, ought all to receive eq from the dominion government, CHSY, scribe unfairness ! of the and they had done Duncan Ross rose qui kly Borden year he was in favor of the of the motion as it now stood, but this year he was against it. The member for Yale-Cariboo soon got go- ing and grew enthusiastic over ihe fact that the opposition were forget ting that the government had been asked by the government of the North: West to parcel out their land. I the members from Uuebee, eto, thought they were acting unfairly. then, why he asked amid cheers, did not. these provincial governments give grants of their own od to their volunteers ? Col. Sam Haghes then returned to the attack again and in glowing terms to his feet that last sentiment Own Motion--| | Sir Wilfrid Laurier Referred to | | views gn the {ol all the i while | often and {the new iin Picton | Miss 'Bertha Hall, {have | row | and {at Sydenham street choir {hall, 1 [3 our street dominion, as las they | the give a play on | which are to be | the early | Ramona dominion had to step in and |s olunteers in |G T.R. | Comunittee Having manner | large { from yet, son to feel encourages i, crossing {a night and only honors {in {along > these {pst day. not lg {say eiial- treatment [suceess the citizens of irre: [nat expect the board of directors to spective of what the various provinces | carry the burden longer. one of the only two courses open in that case, mortgage the close it up. many directions. gency of the for righteousness [among the members. a from praised the | oud of went out to South Africa The house subsequently cheered wl | Sir Wilfrid Laurier ment that the | colonel was one of them. © premier, in 8 witty speech, pointed out to the that they that Were had asked t was being given to tho When the deha e ha prog ress good ma on desks in disturbed speakers opposition away land them land away, comld not give not belong ww giving away to give aad simply Deen and they and Who were on it been in hours a deep sleep when rose to certam thew thump give : subject of volunteers. The opposition kept on their .point, a uifferent having the Hoor every the government fen parried raised by Van ww husiog mem ber few minutes, ocd Just us all attacks on the point other side of the house : » The resolution was carried, bill embodying its terms was duved and read a first time, INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. the and a mtro- | Newsy Paragraphs Picked Up By Reporters On Their Rounds. There will be no normal the Y.M.C.A. this week. Any winter overcoat priced from $15 to $22.50, for $12. Livingston's. liekets for Syde nham street choir concert can be bad from members of the choir. John Caldback, Albert street, has re turned home, after visiting relatives in Loronto and Buffalo. William Kirby, Barriefield been seriously ill for weeks, is recovering slowly 230.000 is needed to complete Collegiate Institute building Already $30,000 has been class at who has the past few Some spent on it Miss Neta Lemmon, Earl street, and Ontarfo street, their aunt, Sunbury have left on a visit to Mrs George Ritchie, at All the games and gymnasium classes at the Y.M.C.A., this week, been called off, owing to the campaign which is being held. James T. Sutherland leaves, for Boston, and Florida, be absent about Hear Ruthven Miss to-mor en route to Georgia on a business trip, to three months Macbonald (baritone) Irving ~ (eloomtionist), concert, city "uésday evening, March 3rd Froderick Scrivens, visiting her Mr. and Mrs. William Ward, Chestnut street, for the past months, returned to her home in Ot tawa to-day Do your the spring rosh, while. D. Jessie Ns parents, two now and avoid make it worth Will xm papering We Il , Fraser, 78 Another driving party got stalled in the Tuesday evening, and did not reach the city until gbout eight o'clock this morning Those present did not seem to mind it any, bad a good time A delightful evening spent at home of Miss May Cambridge, 156 Ordnance street, last night, twenty five of her 'friends dropping in to snr prise her There was plenty of dane ing and other pastimes, and a dainty repast was a midnight feature The young girls of Lord Clive Chap taking up the work tuberenlosis plague, will Friday and Saturdav, at '"'Batescourt," country, on was ter, who are against the in aid of the shacks built for patients in JOR of the disease for the steam vacht from the G.T.R slip at Booth's coal morning, by. thre teams boiler weighs fourteen and a half Ihe old i boiler has been taken out and the new one will be installed at once. At Mullin's, Thursday Fresh egg=, for boiling The new boiler was taken tation to the Tuesday The new tons, vard, on 1925 --- Choice print Nice, mild ch Lemon biscuits, butte per cose, per Ib Corner Johnson streets in their own | - ENTHUSIASM HIGH. Success--Much Remains to Be Done. The first day of the Y.M.C.A, can mign closed with 8600 pledged : work to bx heard busines and a amount of The men have rea but realize that time gone Inst a fourth of this amount sight. At the Soo $700 was ph d at the first Kingston wanis to third of the was Perhap records noon lunch reak. all ines and give £1500 the to those who ari and It is only fair iving of their time that unless this e money of this work We dislike to think of wither any building or met in a good Men they ex pect to' give something some tune but will not pledge now. That tion ix mot quite fair when the ur situation is considered In thirty bours from vow the Future of one of Kingston's greatest factors will be determined in this. matter and business-like pro One _diflicaldy is say posi We are in earnest bave submitted a position. : Mr. Davie. chairman of the business men's committee, was asked to-day "if the campaign would be a success In reply he said: "Yes 1 have too much faith in Kingston people to think Yor one moment that the pur pose and aim of sich nn institution as the Y.M.C.N. would he defeated, Our only diffioulty is in getting people to realize that this thing must be de cided by to-morrow might." A small committte of young men pave undertaken to raise the Inst $300 This witl mean thew are cmall splaries. A message their chairman Jike this, "We opose 44 see this thing throng, ho the right spirit behind it. What is your how Sorgh? Today ja the {ime to provide the right kind r five the saerifice heeunse many of getting pegging awa ony Advance Guard pring Stuffs. Come and take a peep at the New Dress Goods, a veritable feast of color, after the sober and dull tints affected for winter wear. We would like to de- scribe them to youn, but de- scriptions could never do them justice. Though they ave weeks ahead of the song birds and winter has hardly begun to loosen its grip, these dress materials will be very ¥ interesting as a showing of what spring and summer are going to _ wear when dressed in gala attire, New Worsted Suitings New Broadcloths New Chevrons New Panamas New 'Dauphin Cloths New Florantine Poplins And many other materi- als quite new. 25, 35, 45, 60, 55, 75, 90c., *$1.00, 1.25 up. Come With A Dollar To buy a pair of Corsets and see what a can give you--STYLISH you made from good materials all sizes and only Lo good one we will admit and that will last well, One Dollar. French Model Corsets $1.50, 2.00, 2.50. Queen Corsets He, ioc, $ 1.00. Children's Corset Waists 200, 39c, 19¢. Nursing Corsets. : CEEEOEEAAELAAAAALALEAAAALAMLEALLASLLSEEERIN Two Splendid Bargains One Lot, all sizes, Ladies' Dongola Kid Blucher Cut Lace Boots. Very attractive style; excellent quality. of Kid; would be good value at two-and-a- half; will sell while they last ~ AT $2.00. Another lot just as good quality, but not so well finished nor quite as good style, but splendid leathers and e reArcrs LY $1.50. Ghe Toochelt Shoe Store. Large stock Trunks and Valises, ' mrp