--_-- _ Sd 'THE WHIG, 7sth ¥ | DAILY BMTISIT WHIG, published st 806. z he King areet, and 4 Rl & v . WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG. 18 panes pub v ing a $1 a year. To ished in ts on Monday sad Thursday morn- & 'nited States, char) for Postage bas 10 be made 60c. for Daily; 0c. for Weekly. iy Attached is one of the best Job Priating Offices in Canada; rapid, stylish, and cheap work; mine improved Led. v The British hin ory fo FF PAGE FOUR, Teme _-- AVERT RTA™ 8 avi (vr war aw vumpws - RA SEE. Eres Shs AAs "GOLD PAINT B. PENSE, : anaging Direetor, :|- Daily Whig. £ SPIRIT OF THE PRESS WEARIED OF KICKING. At the last session of parliament x | Col. Samuel Hughes moved that ip | grants should me made to the#veter- i [ans of the South African war from 'ithe land which the federal govern- { ment owned. The government accepted the proposition, When the matter came up at this session, and the government attempt- ed to give effect to the motion, the | tory opposition protested, and then leading. in the row, as mulish as anyone, was Col, Hughes. He wanted the arrangement to apply to all the Provinces, The premier pointed out tha$ the Provinces of Ontario and British Col- umbia. had already recognized the p | Veterans out of the lands which they fl owned, and that the federal govern: ment acted in the case of the newer provinces because it held the lands. This made no difference, The opposi- tion warbled away, for hours, wast- ing the time of the house and impos- ing on the patience of its members. At last the veteran Hon, John Hag- gert, who can stand a good deal on behalf of the party, protested, "This obatruction," said he, Picture Frames, Light Fixtures, Furniture, Etc. PRICE, 15¢ and 25¢. ~~ Corbett's. PNR REET ITy FIIVTTYYTYYeYYy '] "is little too monotonous gnd 1 of it." od The duty of an opposition, says My. McKay, of the Ontario house, is to getting a am tired YEAR]. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1908. of education cannot ignore. Dir. Pyoe is foxy. Before the byelection there at Hamilton. It has not materialized, and the government is undecided what to do on the eve of a genera] elec- tion. ------------ MAN THE cITy FANTS. The council bas been tendered the resignation of the city - engineer, and it will probably be accepted. An offer of the appointment has been made to one who was formerly in the city's sefvice, in the same office, and the conditions being favourable it is said that he can be secured. The city has been fortunate in ite officials, and not because it has al- ways. shown the appreciation which is their due. They are free to do their best, to do the public business most faithfully and to do eredit to them- {selves and their superiors. But they do not get much applause, Ocegsion- ally, indeed, some new members of the civie government, or iis legislative body, who has not been familiar with the work of the man; finds fault and so adds to the burdens he must carry. The engineer is considerably in the limelight. His work, in iroet im- provements, the people cantsee. They are critical, sometimes, severely 80, and the official may not be guilty of any shortcoming or any neglect of duty. He can report upon matters ag he pleases, 'and he can make recom- mendations, but unless the council Provides the funds the service is not performed. Perhaps the engineers in the have been too meddt in their ner. They have®heen content to say little and take censure rather than have the fault put where jt helonos-- upon the council, It would be a change Wf some man asserted hig opip- ions, if he declared most positively how work should he done, and let the council assume the responsibility of past man- help on useful legislation" as well aus offer criticism of doubtful measures. The duty of the opposition, as Mr. Borden interprets it, is to obstruct overythifg, and to deny the paternity of ita own little bantlings, 8. ANGLIN & C0. | Cor. Wellington & Bay Sts il one 66. THE SENATE WANTS WORK. Many years ago, when Hon. George Brown was nominated for the senate, some people rejoiced because they said he would infuse new life into its proceedings. Mr. Brown's career was ended all too soon, and before he had the opportunity to bring about any change. in the upper house. He was not enamoured of its condition at the | time and he could not have endured the dreariness of its proceedings, for. he was essentially a man of action, The man of the hour in the senate now is Hon. Mr. Ross, the former pre- mier of Ontario. He is .s man of ideas, of force of character, of reform and progress. He made not long since a splendid speech in defence of the upper chagaber, and of its greater usefulness. le candidly admitted that it could be improved, but not abalish- od, without serious menace to the Canadian system of government. At the present he has before the senate a proposition to name and create a number of standing commit- tees, whose duties will be comprehen sive in their character. They would have the power of inquiry and inves- tigation. His iden was that the sea- ate had a wider service than the re view ol legislation passed by the com- mons. It could originate measures and so help on the good government of the country, Mr. Ross disliked, even repudiated, the suggestion, that "the senate was a body of old gentiwen who dreamed life away in perf&t serenity." The senator from Kingston endorses the Ross plan, and it looks as if the senate will give it a trial. The mem- bers are eager for service, and among the number are some of the ablest men in Canadian public life. F.W. BOSCHEN. | Member Consolidated Stow Exchange of New York. STOCKS, BONDS and GRAIN Bought atid Sold for Casi or bl DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE T0 NY W. HECTOR H. HUME, mon. Qlarguos Chambers: Phone, 838, | TES DOLLARS FINE FOR PROV. ING THIS IR A FRAUD, The Canelian and American Shoe Re ott ing Shop, 201 Princess St., will fix ther soles and rubber heels on your boots tor 786¢c. Half soles and heels, ladies aud childron, 60¢c. a pair. 1 am able to do this, having in stock a large of the best lemther and rubber heels, Give me « trial and I guarantees satisfaction. I lead, others ow, J. Green. : FREE Tor 37 ple: of or veo int10ceats each. When wold us the 3% aaa willsend you these TWO SOLID GOLD INGE. We trust you with the Jewelry and willsend 15 all charges pati. Sead us your name and address now, STAR MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, M1 UL. 8 A Real Estate Headquarters - HM you want to buy or ssl! City Property, go to a man who makes a specialty of same. 3 RA GEO. CLIFF, vp Orposite Post ONLY FOOLING HAMILTON. Hamilton is sure it will get a tech nical college, at the expense of = the government, but the minister of edu- cation bas given no real grounds for speculation to this effect. A deputa- tion went to Toronto to say that the city contemplated going into $echni- cal instruction and had an idea that it should secure enough land at the one time to meet the requirements of the school and college, Dr. Pyne looked pleased, and thought Hamilton's ambitions were very laudable, but be did not advise the city to rash into building - a technical - school "until it knew. just where it stood." What did he mean Ad T i § i 2" @ bi directing it his way or not at all, The average alderman should be will. ing to accept the professional advice of the engineer on the matters\ ap- pertaining to his department, and he ought to be akle to give decisions clearly and without equivocation. That is the kind of a man Kingston has heen looking for, and it is the only kind that can hope to succeed. ------------ } EDITORIAL NOTES. #On dit, that the foderal elections will ur in November. But the rumour is from a tory source. Jf both provin- cial and federal elections occur in the sane vear buginess will suffer. -- "The bold babbler of the domin- ion," is the manner in which Mr. Fos- ter's opponent in North Toronto re- fers to him. Talk is not cheap at 8.30 per column, the cost of Hans- ard, Mr. Dewart's description of the lead- er of the opposition is good--'*a pret- ty golded weather-wane, answering the breath of every wind that touched it, and pointing nowhere." What do yop think of it? . The conservative party i quite cer- tain that it does not owe Mr. Met- calfe anything. When he had the sup- port of the party he was a "trotter." Now he is regarded as a "ringer." Well, so be it. The Healy Falls power question is The company is more certain of its water power... Which will mean what for Kingston? That it will receive electricity as cheaply as candle light? That was Mr. Beck's promise, ---- Mr. Pettypiece, in Fast Lambton, eannot run as a liberal candidate in the next election because in ill-health. It is not a matter over which there can be reasonably any tory hilarity, and, strange to say, the humourists are at work, The temperance wave sweeping Quebec City. Five thousand people, including the Roman Catholic clergy, have petitioned for the closing of the bars on Saturdays and feast days. They also demand a reduction in the licenses. heing settled. esis in Mr. Whitney will, on Monday, dis- cuss with Mr. McKay the redistribi- tion bill, and it will then be known what manner of measure it is. There have been some hints of a "gerryman- der," but there is no'evidencs of the fact. : Prof. Ross, of the Toronto Medical Sehool, speaking at a recent fi » said that medica! students too much time in scientific and ry work and too little in clinics. The student of the future would get more training at the bedside of the pati- iterview on warning which the bowstd was the promise of a technical college DEPUTYS EARS: BOXEDIALM sie RR -- EXCITING SCENE IN sower| " FROIT-A-TIVES" SAVED WIS LiFe | HOUSE AT ROME. | Senator and Deputy Passed From Heated Discussion to Blows | Latter Had His Ears Boxed, \ Beard, Home, Feb. 27. There were exciting times, 'yesterday, during 'the discus. sion in the Chambét of Deputies of ve- ligious teaching in the schools. Signor Rava, minister of education, dplivered a speceh 'Wn thé subject, in whieh: he declared that the government aims to respect the liberty of conscience, which is the chief chargeteristic of the sep- aration of church and state. The gov- ernment considers it its duty, he said to respect the fhith of all and not to impose' ou any state, as neither a re. liglous nor ag ants-religious, an agnos- tic nor an atheist state is incompetent in the matter of religion. Meanwhile, in the lobbies of .the chamber, Senator Pierantomi, an ex- pert on international law, became en gaged in a heated discussion on the question of religious teaching with the republican deputy, Signor Mirabelli, and boxed the latter's ears, calling him a liar, Signor Mirabelli retorted by pulling out a portion of Senator Pierantoni's whiskers, which later, as a4 matter of curiosity, he passed around the cham. ber in an envelope. It is expected that a duel will follow this inter change of hostilities. Senator Pieran- toni is sixty-eight years of age. -- NEW YORK LETTER, Out of Town Born Men Are the Best. New York, Feb, u8.--It is certainly gratifying to the writer to know that his eflorts to get up a weekly spicy, | condensed 'column of metropolitan! news, is appreciated by scores of read: | ers, No less than three hundred let ters have been received expressing sat- isfaction at the effort to picture New York life to out-of-town readers. One wrote--"'I never expect to see the great city, but I feel that 1 have been there--you tell so many interesting things, and so plainly about jt." Such shall stimulate your correspon: dent to still yreater efforts to make the "New York Letters" better and better. In the rush and bustle it is not a question, of what to write, but one of what to leave out, The average New Yorkir has little foundation and.less time to think of People away from here. From early life to old age, it is one continuous, steady push and grind. To say that ninety per cent. of the people--male and female, are slaves, machines, or Parts of machines, js pot putting it too strongly. To a student of human nature, there is no limit to subjects bere, Reared among the "tall pines," the writer has been here long enough to grasp and familiarize himself with surroundings and instantly finds the mind comparing life in the city to life out of it. The deeper the investigation the more convincing the fact that all wisdom 8g not massed in the big cit- i®s as many are prone to believe. The city man is born, brought up, kept in a channel, a rut; he knows as a rule oné thing and knows it well; is a specialist, That all round fund of in- formation cQmmon among men in small or medium size locations is not found in the city man. The horizon of the majority is the city line ; he has no chance to know much of the out- side world, for time is preciops; he must apply himself and keep the nose to the grindstone or some other! crowds him aside and takes his place. There are exceptions, but they are few r between, The great achievements here have been not by the native born, but men who have migrated here from other places. The great majority of New York city's na- tive born are employees of of re--jof Persons who have forged to the "TFont in smaller places--outgrown their na- tive heaths and gravitated to the metropolis, it offering greater chances for the development of trade and tal- ent, tors, divines, doctors, geniuses, are out-of-town horn, These new-comers develop faster here--the field is wide, opportunities great for those who have fitted themselves by that experi ence obtainable only in a less crowd- .. and Former Lost Part of His fa The leading merchants, lawyers, edi- | | Me Dingwall was Superintendent of | 8t. Andrews Sunday School in Williams | town for mine years and License Come | missioner for Glengarry -- and Tax Collector for Charlottenburg--for 0 years continuously. Read how stroagly Mr. Dingwall comes out in vor of *'Fruit-a-tives." « Williamstown, Ont., April sth., 1907. I have much pleasure in testifying to the alnsost marvellous benefit I have derived from taking "Fruit-atives." [I | was a life long sufferer from Chronic Constipation and the only medicine I ever secured to do me any real good was "Fruit-e-tives." This medicine cured me when everything else failed. me bad practically given meap, Iam now over eighty years of age and I can stronghly recommend " Fruit-s-tives for Chromic Constipation and bladder and kidoey trouble. This medicine is mild like fruit, is easy to take, but most effective in action. 147 (Sgd) Jams DiwcwaLs. *! Pruit-a-tives"' -- or * Fruit Liver Tablets' are sold by dealers at soc a box 6 for $2.50--or will be sent on ip of price. Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Pr -- What is Going on in the Business World--The Marbets, The failures in Canada this week totalled 53. game week, 1907, 37. The Canadian Pacific Railway ocom- pany has $35,000,000 of cash in its treasury, The annual report of (he Dominion Coal compapy asserts that the direc- tors have obtained a fav orable opinion of their case from several legal men of high standing 'and intend to fight it out. The wealth' of the Rothschilds at present is estimated "at £400,000,000. It is calculated that in seventy years more they will possess £15,000,000,000 an amount that'can hardly he ceived, A German company has just paid a dividend which, if not unprécadented, is certainly rare, A rompany called the Ipternationat-- Boring company, which has a capital of £50,000. has recently announced a dividend of 500 per cent. It is generally understood that the Dominion Coal company, after paying the four per cent. on the common, in- volving $600,000, will show, a surplus of slightly over $1,000,000. In other words the company has earned a little over ten per cent on the $15,000,000 common stock, A factoryato manufacture whey but ter may he established in Picton by the St. Lawrence Dairy Produce com- pany, limited, of Morrisburg, Ont., whose representatives ave there to in- terview factory men and prominent dairy mén. The Central manufactur. ing plant, to be located in Picton, will entail an investment of $15,000. The farm land sales of the Canadg North-West 'Land company during the month of December gmounted to 164 oon. jacres for $1,664, which compates with | LIS] acres {ponding month of 1906. for $11,819 in the corres. haring the whole yoar 15311 acres were sold for $174,712, which is very appreciably be. low the experience of 1906, when 60,. M2 acres were disposed of for $592, 635, although it is satisfactory to note that the average price last year was 81.59 per acre better than it was in 1906, the actual figure being $11.41, as against $9.82, King Leopold's latest demand from od condition." These come here clothed for the fray and "pitch in," fearless: ly and confidently, knowledge of men and things help them greatly to goon take a front rank. Not every one can come here and do it. The winners are those en- dowed properly. The streets are full of failures and among them thons- ands of disappointed: ones who imag- their all-found | | the Congo is said to be 'a civil list of { $660,000. The Belgian parliament is said to be getting out of patience, and threatening to abandon the Free state altogether, Wiliam Dewar, the legislature in bas been in the field will retire on ness. liberal candidate for North Brant, who for. some months, accpunt of serious sick ined to set foot here was all that Was necessary, Space forbids streteh- ing out this article at greater length. At another time it will be dealt with more extensively, A Great SEip Launched, Berlin, Feb. 2. Cermany"s first counterpart of the British battleship Dreadnought, which has been provi- _ Brigadier-General W. p. Otter, C.H., 5 offered the command of the 5th Ig. fantry Brigade, at Aldershot, Eng. land, from May 1st next. ! KOKOMO WOMAN GIVES FORTUNE -- To Help Women Who Suffer. In the past few Mrs. Cora B. 125,000 sionally named Ersatz Bayern, will be ' at Wilthemshaven, on 3rd, She is of 17,960 have speed of nineteen knots. latinching of a companion = ship, the Ersatz Bechsen, will follow shortly at Bremén. Two larger ships of 18,700 tons i Miller bas spent 00 ving wedice! treatment 10 a wut 0ST GIVEN UP these complaints for me, when the physician attending . Our New Semi-Ready Suits, Top Coats and ~ Trousers Have Arrived. \ Our Suits are ready-to-try-on, Finish ed to your order in two hours' time. "See Our New Spring Derby Special $2.00." THE H. D. BIBBY CO. SEMI-READY TAILORING, New Heatherbloom Underskirts. New Silk Moreen Underskirts, New Wool Moreen Underskirts, New Lawn and Muslin Waists. The finest as- sortment we have ever shown, Ranging in price from $1.00 to 3.50, New Corsets All the latest and most perfect-fitting styles. Corsets to fit every figure here. New Spring Coats, New Spring Costumes, New Veilings, &c. SPENCF'S The Leading Mantle & Milline.y Store, 119 Princess St. Sale of All "Odds and Ends" At Little Bits of Prices. 67 Boys' Two and Three-piece Suits, Odd Lines, but the lot together contains all sizes, from 25 to 33. Every Suit a good one and reall worth the original price, but they are odd, and as suc , they were inven- toried at a price to clear quick, Not a op worn suit in the lot. Regular prices were $3.50, 4.00, 4.50, 5,00, 6,00 and 6.50, Take Your Choice for $2.45 15 Children's Fancy Suits, new styles last fall, Regular $4.00 to 6.00. Sizes 21 to 26. Price to Clear, $2.45 en's Trousers, odd lines, regular $3.00 70 Pairs M and 3.50," ki "© Take Your Choice for $1.95 Don't put off coming to see those Bargains, but come early, . Ca * A prominent Canadia ian in Losdon, wha. objects to having iis name con. nected with 'the Joseph Chamberlain by Mrs. Chamberlain, left the Rivitra, whore they will remain ; mouths. Me. Chamber- Benltle Continties to improve Only one place you dan buy high. slags candy in ".mgwton. Mc onkey's end Hayler's, sold only at Gibson's lore. ace nied hecoupa » Cross drag ey