Daily British Whig (1850), 9 Jun 1908, p. 9

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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUFSDAY, JUNE 9. 1508. h--------. EE RTE EE [TW WY STE TR eT we PAGE NINE. Pretty flowerets, gd) All dressed new! % Just like decent folks ) If you have not already picked your Fine Weather Raiment, it's time you're looking over the many new, attractive styles that have sprung up in our store in every line. \ In Men's & Young Men's Suits we show a very large range of Patterns in the new shades of Browns and Greys. No better made goods in Canada, They are ri ghtup-to-the-minute in style, and perfect fitters, We guarantee them to keep their shape. If our prices are not from one-fifty to four dollars less than all others forgoods of same qualities, style, and workmanship, then do not buy from us, Suits, $9.50, 11.50, 13.50, 15.00, 16.50, Other lines at $4.75, 5.75, 7.50 and 8.50, Boys' Suits, 3 pieces, $2.90 to 9.50. Boys' Suits, 2 pieces, $1.90. 7 ------ RONEY & CO. Priic y 127 $86. The Store That Sets the Pace. Style and Value Same met put eoried style above everything else, when selecting Suits and Overcoat: Others demand wear. ! a a de Is In the pocket it- Reforms amis. to guar- * antee that you Will get both. This trademark is the all-important part of a Suit or Overcoat Is the biggest tte thing " in Co because it stands for the best there is in tailoring. + Look for it when you 9 come for your new Suits. Tit-Reform . CRAWFORD & WALSH Sole Agents for Kington: : / Va / RINT spite of industrial @orms and financial depression, fead of losing ground, or even Sanding sill The Me Lee wrote MORE business lag year than in any other one year in the Company's history. The total new insurance amounted to $7,081,.402-- 8 gain of $1,577,855 over 1906. And all but $78,000 +of this was writen right here in Canada. es ¢ The Mutual Life of Canada is the people's Company conducted in the nero of i plcy-hlde who get all y HEAD OFFICE . WATERLOO, Ont. ns abe, Ting THE EDUCATED MAN Much Comes From Intercourse With People--Not Merely Re- ceiving But Giving, Not Learn- ing Alone But Doing. The most important part of educe tion comes from intercourse with peo- ple. From this side comes. the edtica- tion In love and duty and service. The actions of people stimulate imitation and emulation. By these men grow in power and skill. From observation of the character of people men form ideals of character for themselves and are transformed thereby. Herein les the consummate educative power in Christianity the transforming power of the divine man. According to this new idea, educa- tion Is not merely receiving, but giv- ing; not learning alone, but doing. The educated man is open eyed and open minded, quick to respond to inflo- ences {rom without, learning from all his experiences and growing in power as he grows In knowledge. Charles Kingsley said of his father that "he possessed every faculty but the facul ty of using his faculties." He was not an educated man, although he was a very learned one. Education is an individual matte No two men can be educated alike in manner or degree. They respond to different Influences and grow in differ- ent ways. One becomes educated by way of schools and colleges and life, another by life alone, The measure of a man's education is the measure of his use in the world ~George W. Mar- tin in Boston Globe. ---------- A COSTLY NAP. Slumber That Led to the Death of King Charles I. In the middle of Holborn once stood an inn, the George and Blue Boar, and there took place an incident which en- tirely changed the whole tale of' Eng- land's history, As twilight was falling In October, 1648, a very tired post boy mounted on a sweating horse pulled up outside the old tun, The Jad knew nothing of the importance of the letters which lay In his post bag. His orders were to gonvey them to a polnt on the Great North road, where he would be met by other messengers, But Cromwell's sples had followed him from the south coast, for Eng- land's liberty depended upon his dis- patches miscarrying. The boy had Some supper and afterward fell asleep, his head pillowed on his post bag. While he slept Cromwell's men took the bag and found in it a letter from King Charles 1. to the Scottish gener- als arranging for his rescue, an imme- diate advance on London and the ar- rest and execution of Cromwell and his friends, That same evening Cromwell had the fatal letter and determined on Charles' death.--London Tit-Bits. -------------- Fish, Pen and Ink. "One year I found a lot of cuttlefish that ran into the surf," said a worker on one of the California beaches. *1 was riding along the beach, dnd I got a pole and rode into them and killed about twenty, 1 guess. Some were eight or ten feet long. I hauled them up and showed them for four or five days in my whale tent; then 1 sold them to the fishermen, who salted them down for bait, taking out the bills, eyes and pens, which I sold as curios. Each ecuttle, besides a sac of indelible ink, had a pen a foot long, a beautiful object, as delicate and fraglle 8 a feather pen. The eyes when hardened looked like pearls, and they Are mounted as pins. The bills are chestnut color and look like a parrots bi" What Was Left. "Mostly of Chicago" is the way a man described his residence, His char acterization seems reasonable. When he was six years old, he cut off one of his toes with a scythe. When he was eight, he shot off two Joluts of one of his fingers. Me ran away from home when he was fourteen, and the frost of a winter night took off three more toes and the tip of his nose. At twenty-five he lost his entire right foot. A drunken half breed bit off an ear in the Klon- dike, a Dakota corn sheller took his left rm, and since then he has lost three Wigers, a joint from another fin- ger and one eye. ---------- Almost a Death Struggle. A large crowd had gradually formed around the two fashionably dressed and oblivious Young girls, and at one time it seemed necessary to separate them. "What can it mean?" said the stran- ger who had just come up. "It took me," said the man addressed, "some time to learn; but, as I under- months In Europe, and while she was gone the other one has learned to play golf, and they are trying to tell each other about it."--Lite, | WOLVES OF FRANCE. | | A Picture of Their Ferocity In the | { Eighteenth Century. | "The ferocious wolf," sald a nature | i student, "is the most perfect expres sion of earnivorous bioodthirst that walks. His jaw Is the most terrible of | weapons. Its slashing bite can break the leg of a buffalo, and the noise of it when at work In a sheepfold resembies nothing so much as the incessant cracking of a heavy whip." He took down a boek. "Here is what the wolves of France were like," be sald. "This Is a letter from the famous Duchess of Orleans, dated at Marly, Feb. 9, 1700: i "'Packs of wolves commit fearful | | ravages. They have devoured the post man of Alencon and hls horse. Two of the beasts attacked a tradesman near Mons, one springing at his throat. In response to his shrieks two dra goons who were walking by came to | his belp. One drew his sword and rap | a wolf through the body, on which it | turned and seized its new assaflant by | the throat. His comrade came up and | beat the brute off, but not before it had | killed the man. Meanwhile the other wolf had selzed the second dragoon from behind and dragged bim down | Finally when effective help arrived | both the soldiers and one wolf were | found dead. The other had got away. | As for the tradesman, his leg was so | piteously torn that it had to be ampu- | tated above the knee." A CLEVER RUSE Remember This When You Next Pur. chaso Costly Jewels. How Mr. Plerpont Morgan madé his | millions would take volumes to relate, but an amusing little artifice by means | of which he succeeded in saving $1,000 | can be told within the brief space of | a couple of paragraphs. | Some years ago a jewelry firm In New York sent the financier a fine | pearl, offering it to him for $5,000. ---- = AN INGLORIOUS WOUND. ! The Hard Luck That Was Handed Out | to the Old Veteran. { On one of the volunteer ranges in | the north of England is a well known | oid Irish sergeant, who has charge. | It may be mentioned that he went through three wars--the Crimean, the | Iidian mutiny ahd the Chinese--and | during the whole of that time never | received a single wound, i Old W.,, as he is called, occasionally | Acts as a marker at the targets, and | his utter recklessness has become aj proverb. | He has been known to walk forth | from behind the mantelet without the | slightest warning and touch up a bulls- | eye which did not quite satisfy him or | to note the exact position of a shot. | At all remonstrances he would sniff | contemptuously, ! "Me be shot? Me?" be would ask.| "Why, I've bin through three war-rs | and was niver shot yet. Pah! Phwat's | 2 bit ¢' lead fying through the pei And he would assume an alr of dis- | | It actually occurred, however, at! last, and he was shot through the | shoulder. ! For a moment, as frequently hap- | pens with rifle shots, such is their ter- | rible force, he did not know he was | struck; then when he observed the | blood streaming down his sleeve he! commenced to walk down the range, | right in the line of fire, It was seen that something was | wrong, and they hurried to meet him. | As he 414 so he tottered and had to be | carried, "Shot!" he groaned, with a look ol shame. "Shot and by a Saturday after | Doon soldier!"--London Tit-Bits. i | | QUEER TEACHING. A Glimpse of the One Time Methods | In Scotch Schools. | To the work of supervisor of schools In Scotland Mr. John Kerr devoted a THE SANDARD BANK The Standard Bank pays interest four times a year on all Savings Bank deposits. Savings Bank Department in Connection with all Branches. - a Toronto -- KINGSTON BRANCH J. S. Turner, Manager COR. PRINCESS AND BAGOT STS. No tacks, threads, stitches, lumps,' hollows nory roughness under the foot shod by a Slater Goodyear Welted Shoe. Strong insole, even stitching, 'wear, shape=retention, coms fort,--all assured when you \ i , This Mr. Morgan decided to purchase, | Dumber of years. In his book, "Other and two checks were made out--one | Memories, Old and New," he has set for $5,000 and the other for $4,000. He | 40wn some amusing filustrations of the then removed the pearl from its box | unintellifent way in which the school and, having substituted for it the $5,000 | Work was sometimes conducted. check, resealed the package, | Mr. Morgan's clerk was next dis- | patched to the jewelers with the scaled | box and a note cortalning the check for $4,000, stating that Mr, Morgan | would be pleased to purchase the pear! | if they would be satisfied with the | check. The unsuspecting Jewelers--in | ignorance, of course, of what the sealed | package now contained--closed with | the astute financler"s offer. And the | box in which the $5,000 check serenely | reposed was returned to Mr, Morgan | unopened !--Pearson's. | -- The Queen Bumblebee. | The length of life of a queen bum- | blebee is probably little more than a year at most. Here Is one reason for this belief: She hatches among the late broods of summer and soon after leaves 'the nest, leading "a vagabond } existence, night and day, among the | autumn flowers, The winter she passes ! in an earth burrow dug by herself and | unaided establishes -a eolony in the | spring. These combined periods of fall | and spring require the dally use of her | frail wings In the fleld at least four! months, Now, we know that the wings | of the worker honeybee wear out in! less than half that time; also that the | old queens who take to the field after the nest breaks up in August fre | quently have tattered wings and soon | The revised code of education which | was introduced in 1862 made provision | for nothing but reading, writing and | arithmetic in thelr barest forms: There Was no suggestion about grammar, ge- | ography, history or intelligence in any study. Explanation of the reading les- Son was not demanded, and therefore | it was neglected in some of the schools. The following 1s an example: The lesson was one giving an ac | count of a clever dog which had res- | cued a child from drowning. It was said that the dog was caressed by the | parents of the child. I asked what was | the meaning of the word "caressed," | and the answer came at once, "Made | of fond led." | On referring to the list of words at | the top of the page I found the ex-| planation given was, "made of, fon- | dled. | Wishing to find out if any child in | the class had got a glimmering of the | meaning, I went from top to bottom | and got from every child nothing but | "made of fond led," pronounced as four | words, to which they attached no mean- | Ing whatever. | The teacher was surprised that I was | not satisfied with the intelligence of | the teaching. | ---------- A Tenor's Rebuke. | Roger, the great French tenor, a sen- { disappear, Nature does mot supply in. | Sitive soul, was prone to take offense | sects with new wing cells as it sup- | At any slight, whether intentional or | plies birds with new wing feathers. | Bot. On one occasion he was engaged | So the loss of the power of flight at | for 1.200 francs to sing at the house | this season of the year to the queen | Of & Wealthy financier. Roger sang his | bumblebee means the loss of life. | ---- i Soldiers' and Sailors' Bank Deposits. "It's odd the different sources of | bank deposits," remarked a bank of- | ficial, "For example," he said, "we re- ! celve thousands of dollars every year | from Cleveland men in the army and | bavy. The amounts range from $5 al month from privates to $30 or more | from some of the officers, "Most of this is sent to us direct by | the paymasfer of the army or navy, | as the case may be. Just now. we aro | getting a lot of money from men In the | navy on this cruise to the Pacific. The | Paymaster makes out a lst of the { various deposits and sends along a! check to cover the total amount. Thus | the men draw their pay and deposit | without ever seein} it. 'Their pass | books In a'good many cases are left | right here." . -- Despair. "What do you want o' the editor asked the office boy, blocking up the doorway, "I have a manuseript poem," said the long haired caller, "which I wish to submit for his Inspection." The office boy closed the door, but re- appeared a moment later. "Nothin' vy We ain't printin' no poetry now," sald, slamming the door in the caller's face. "Bard out!" exclaimed the poet, tear Ing his hair, "Chestnut! yelled the boy over the pagtition. "Ive heard that 'un before." ~Chicago Tribune. wental lady. "1 glafed at a woman I should have ignored completely. first song magnificently, but no one | paid him the slightest attention, and | the guests continued to talk thelr loud- | | est. Presently the host thought the time had come for another song and | sent for Roger. He could not be found | and that evening was seen no more. Next day there came a note from him, | accompanied by 1,500 francs. The note { ran something like this: § "I have the honor to return the 1,200 | francs which I received for singing at | your Function, and I beg leave to add | 800 francs thereto for having' so great- | ly disturbed tbe conversation of your | | guests."--Chicago Record-Herald. Beecher's Wedding Fees. When Collis P. Huntington wag mar- | ted for the second time Henry Ward | Beecher performed the marriage cere- | mony. Huntington's first wife had | been dead less than a year, and he de- | sired the second marriage kept secret | until his return from Europe. He gave Mr. Beecher a marriage fee of $1,500. | When Huoufington returned some | months later he went through a pub | lic ceremony, and Beecher again officl- | ated. He gave Beecher another fee of $1,500. The great preacher had his hn- | mor aroused by his second fee. Turn- | ing to Huntington, he said, "Collts, I! Go wish you were a Mormon." --{yce- umite and Talent. | ---------------------------- .« 7 % The Ratort Venomous." "So this Is your widely advertised dollar table d'hote dinner, is it? sald the indignant would be diner as he pushed aside an entree which be could not masticate. "Why, this is the last place in the world I would recom- mend to friends." Don't plan so far for the future thas h of the present. ustally objects to bav- . of words often pi wear the Slater Shoe, because , it is exclusively made by A Goodyear process. re Slater Shoe For Men For Women to '$7.00 to '$5.50 \L F. G. LOCKETT, KINGSTON. %,, Heading off a Risk Gas is liable to puff out of the front door of any furnace unprovided - for gas escape. "Sunshine" Furnace has Automatic Gas Damper directly connected with smoke-pipe. Gas pressure sways damper sufficiently for it to escape up chimney : (see illustration), but heat doesn't escape. o What does "Sunshine" Gas Dam per mean to "Sunshine" Furnace? Means protection to the furnace parts against evil effects of gas. What does "Sunshine" Gas Damper mean to "Sunshine" bouseboider 7? Means furnace can be operated without fear as to "puffing" gas ; furnace can be left without doubt as to whereabouts of gas. What does "Sunshine" Gas Damper mean to ""Sunshine" coal account ? It meats, instead of ower with "ordinary furnace" fear having 1o keep check-draft indefinitely closed to "let off gas--when there's two-thirds parts of heat-energy to one part of gas passing up chimoey draft can with all safety be opened, and coal saved for another day's duty, 4 4 Vancouver © MClarys i=- LEMMON SONS. This Week 'A Big Sale of JMorris Chairs \We are closing out some pretty designs of fancy er "hades in Morris Chairs, % \ CARPETS. : \ Also imported lines of apestry, Velvet and Union Squares at sale prices. Also a line of Exminster and Smyrnia Door Matts JAMES REID, The Leading Unde er, "Phone, 147, ak -- The 8t. Lawrence Sugar Refining Co., Ltd : . MONTREAL Manufacturers of the choicest REFINED SUGARS Granulated and Yellows. Made entirely from Cane Sugar. Be sure you dsk for "St. Lawrence." STEWART ROBERTSON & SON, Agents for Eastern Ontariey | pe dy a

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