Daily British Whig (1850), 2 Nov 1908, p. 6

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PAGE SIX. | WRETGHED WF eT SE Pathetic Meeting of Brother and Sister Who Had Long 3een Separated. . London, Oct. 31.--The pathetic meet ing of a brother and sister, after being parted for more than forty years, was described yesterday by Mr. Barnett, the missionary at the Westminster police court. . The man was Alfred Borgins, whose appearance at the court on a charge of attempting to drown himself, and whose sad "diary of starvation" has been chronicled in the newspapers. The sister is the wife of a working man, and she has taken her brother to her home in Cubitt Town. "l cannot describe adequately the meeting of brother and sister after forty-two years of separation," Mr. Bar- nett said. ~ "She sat silently by his side --she is two years younger than he-- and for more than an hour tenderly stroked his hand. "They had written to each other for years, until the sister changed her ad dresss. His letter were returned to him, and they lost sight of each other. newspaper, and telegraphed to his sister. That is how they came to meet. "His sister is poor==the wife of a working man. 'But,' she said to him, 'you must come home to Cubitt Town.' Borgius passed his first day "at home" yesterday restfully. He cannot eat much, but loving hands and hearts are trying to make him forget the miserable past. He has been introduced to nep- hews and grandnephews, and nieces and grandnieces whom he has never seen, and all vie with each other to make "Uncle Alfred" happy. The family history, like his own, is romantic. "We descended from the "Huguenots," he said yesterday, "and our ancestors were compelled to leave France. "For many years I was a ship's car penter in the navy, and on leaving I went to Australia, where I remained for a quarter of a century, I returned Al relative in Wales saw the name in a | * i the crowd. to London in 1806, and afterward work ed in Woolwich Arsenal. Then when was discharged I secured work of a casual kind till--the trouble came." MARRIED PRIVATELY In Order to Escape Curiosity of Crowd. DUKE OF ABRUZZI. Naples, Oct. 31.--Tt is reported that {the Duke of Abruzzi and iss | katherine Elkins will marry, private {ly in order to escape the curiosity of It is reported also that the duke and his wife will land at Naples, on their arrival from America, and for a short time be the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Aosta. ---------- Rebellious Stomachs. When the stomach has lost tone or there is an insufficient secretion of digestive fluids, the stomach and allows food to sour and ferment. Then it is time to take Day's Dys- pepsia Cure, which will give the sto- mach precisely the help needed. This preparation has digestive, to- nic and laxative properties. Each bot- tle contains sixteen days' treatment. For sale only at Wade's drug store. FELIPE PTA IP IIIS E ETE TNE A Revolt Against Borden. fn SPH PH PES Toronto Telegram, (Cons.) Canada yesterday saw party broken in every province by a race and creed stampede to Laurier. The whole story of the victory in North Waterloo is told in the truth that one element in the electorate, which formerly divided on party lines, united for Laurier and King, irrespective of party lines, and carned its favorite to victory. The Borden opposition was the victim of a race and creed stampede for Lau- rier in every province. The Borden leadership suppressed the issues which might have inspired a counter-stampede against Laurier in the English-speaking provinces. The conservatives need to win thirty- five more seats than they carried yester- day before they can form a govern- ment of Canada, They might win by waiting until Sir Wilfrid Laurier passes from the scene, unless Sir Wilfrid is succeeded by some other statesman who can unite the minority in every province of Canada as the minority was united against Borden. Or, the conservatives can go in to fight for the right because it is right, realizing that courage can not fall worse than calculating cowar dice failed om Oct. 26, 1908. The great hope of conservative vic tory in Canada 1s in the virtues of the Whitney government. The unspoken eloquence of a party's usefulness to public rights will make more votes than all the junk that can be thrown together in the Halifax or any other platform. a lines and the province had been "cleaning up" $100,000 a month from ifs own sil- ver mine the conservatives would have -argument that could not be answered. And R. L. Borden will have to gel himself and his party out of leading strings to the Montreal Gazette type of toryism. The conservatives in Ontario and the west must be tired of having their federal leadership at the beck and | call of a lot of Montreal reactionaries who never give the party anything but advice. The Halifax platform has its merits, The place to build a platform is Ottawa, not Halifax. The stuff that R. L. Borden must put into his platform is not the brave language of sincere speech, but the valiant deeds of a par Itameéntary career inspired by sympathy If Hon. Frank Cochrane had started operations on the Gillies Limit, | with progress, respect for public rights and fair play to public ownership. The leadership of R. L. Borden is now accepted, even by Canadians, who be- lieve that Mr. Borden should have faced Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the school ques- tion with a determination to do right and leave Quebec to do as it pleased. Mr. Borden could not have taken any position on the school question that would have "1éft him weaker in Quebec than he was yesterday. No form of hostility to Laurierism could have united the church and state vote in the constituencies of Ontario and the other provinces more solidly: than that vote united against the Borden candidates yesterday. It is not to be doubted that Mr, Bor- den handled the school question in such a way as to gain nothing from Quebec or its sympathizers in the other provin- ces, and to lose at least twenty-five English-speaking constituencies that Sir Wilfrid Laurier could not have carried if he had been brought face to face with the issuess raised by his betrayal of provincial rights, his hostility to nation- al schools. But R. L ly judged position success Borden is not being harsh- Mr. Borden is the only op chieftain who ever lost ve general elections without losing his leadership. diminished faith in Mr. Borden. the privilege of the opposition leader to justify that faith. Let Mr. Borden make more use of W. F which Mr. Maclean has largely made his own. If Mr. Borden is determined to cut Mr. Maclean's throat let him use the knife after he has become premier. The needless isolation of the Borden apposition from the policies of W. EF, Maclean interferes with Mr. Borden's chances of becoming premier The future belongs to R. L. Borden if lie will only realize that the strength yf the conservative party in Ontario and the west its progressive, not reactionary, n L. Borden can make consesvative opposition at Ottawa the party of public honesty, fair play to public ownership. Let Bor- den put his hand to the plough and the sorrows of his present, and not alto- cien th he | gether undeserved defeat will be forgot- ten in the joys of the success he may yet command, by th¢ simple process of deserving suecess ee Run Down . If your doctor says take Ayer's Sar- saparilla, then anything better, it. If he has take that. NON-ALCQHOLIC If you are all run down, casily tired, 'thin, pale, nervous, go to your doctor. Stop guessing, stop experimenting, go direct to your doctor. Ask his opinion of Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla.. No alcohol, no stimulation, A blood purifier, a nerve tonic, a strong alterative,,an aid to digestion. Free from: Alcohol . C. AYER CO,, Manuficturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass. HST IER rebels two The conservatives may well go back to Ottawa with un- It 1s Macldan and the ideals of progress and public rights, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. TAKEN LONDON TO FOLLOW PHIL- ADELPHIA"S LEAD: ------ Ten Thousand Acres of Waste Land in City That May Be Cultivated. London, Oet. 31.--The city of Lon- don is about to follow the example set by Philadelphia. "Within en omnibus ride of the Bank exist, it is reckoned, quite 10,000 acres of waste land. Much of this lies vacan' even for years, "eating its head off" and of no service to man or beast. = These vacant plots, even when to al appearance masses of rubbish and brick- bats, are capable of growing most things that a garden is expected to grow. hy then should they not become actual gard- ens without delay? : It is hoped that this consummation will soon be reached. Philadelphia--the pioneer city in making waste places blos som like the rose--provides, it is learn- ed, for over Soo families out of its va- cant sites. Cannot London and Man- chester and every great town in England do the same? A society has been formed--the Va- cant Land Cultivation Society--with the object of obtaining the loan of unused land. from the public authorities and private owners, and a first-class gard- ener has been retained to visit the gard eners and give advice. The county council has made a beginning by grant ing a loan of land at Fulham, and twenty men are now at work on the patch. But now is the time to make the move- ment general all over the country. If these melancholy rectangles, these per- nicious eyesores, where a tangle of weeds indicate the capabilities of the soil, could be taken in hand this winter, the carly spring would see rich gardens dotted all about the town, bearing in London alone $500,000 worth--it may be $1,000,000 or $1,500,000 worth--of pro- duce where nothing grew before, and serving as happy recreation grounds-- for there is no recreation like gardening --where no one, not even a truant child, refreshed himself before, For this ideal to be achieved two things are wanted : the free grant of the vacant lands for tins temporary but precious work, and the quick sympathy of the public. Expenses are small and results large. The English society, whose headquarters are at 390 Wilson street, E. C., hope for as great a return in England; and Joseph Fels, who has inspired it, has the advantage of Am- erican experience. There is reason to hope that the movement will spreal rapidly all over England, as it has in America, but clearly London, with its 10000 wasted acres, should give the lead. THOUSANDS IN PARADE. Bengal's Protest Against Parti. tion. Calcutta, Oct. 31.--A remarkable anti- European demonstration was made throughout Bengal to-day, on the oc- casion of the third anniversary of the partition of the province. The natives observed the anniversary as a Jay of mourning, discarding their clothes and footwear, and abstaining from food. All shops were closed in Caleutta. Special police proclamations were posted everywhere forbidding meetings and processions after 5 o'clock, and or dering the arrest of any native found carrying weapons. In consequence of the alarming ru- mors that the Bengals contemplated an attack on Europeans, two companies of Gordon Highlanders were turned oul for patrol duty and the remainder of the regiment was kept under arms in the fort Two hundred police with fixed bay- onets marched to the scene of the prin cipal assemblage in Calcutta, while soo other police, including plain-clothes men armed with revolvers, were posted in the native city, in order to be ready to quell any roiting. Forty thousand Bengalis paraded the streets, the procession being a mile and hali long, and§stopping all traffic Surrendranath Banerjee, the '"'un- crowned king" of Bengal, was escorted by a bodyguard. He walked beneath the standard of Bengal. The police prevented being made by the tempts to create promptly suppressed poration ofhcial was the university, and his carriage was stoned. One of the footmen was severe ly injured, and only escaped death in consequence of the bravery of the coachman. any speeches agitators, and at- disturbances were A European cor- attacked outside Race Suicide In New Zealand. France is not the only a falling birth rate. The Hon. J. A Miller, the minister of labor in "New Zealand, has been calling attemicon to the "staggering statistics" on this sub ject in that part of the empire. The New Zealand birth rate has fallen from forty-one a thousand in 18g0 to twenty- seven last year. The reduction of the attendance at their schools very noticeable. It is feared that New Zea- land's industries, instead of expanding will shrink and disappear if the popula- tion is not maintamed. country with 18 Jennie drew six little rings on the fe two rows of three in a line as I have out one ring and place it somewhere ¢ in a line." What an easy puzzle! Ju as to have four rows, instead of but The ternoon. The prince, accompanied by MONDAY, NOVEMBER VISITED THE CZAR. Crowm Prince of Servia at St. Petersburg. oH OR OHO OH OHO ROROKOHOHOKOHONOM O ROO KOKOKOKOMOMOKOKOM RTRA OF SERVIA'S LATEST FoSWN PRINCE St. Petersburg, Oct. 31.--The visit of rown Prince ory of Servia to the zar, from which the Servians hope reat things, took place, yesterday af- x-Minister of Foreign Affairs Pas 'teh, went to the Peterhoi by train, aking King Peter's letter to the czar. he interview lasted about twenty rinutes. It is reported to have been ost cordial, but nothing can be earned of what passed. SCHEME TO AID CHARITY. England's Queen Becomes Auth- Ooress. London, Oet. 31--~Queen Alexandra, ever thoughtful of her poorest subjects, has decided upon the publication on their behalf of "Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book : Photographs from My Camera." The queen thus turns her well-known hobby of "snapshotting to profit for a benevolent ybject; the proceeds of the sales, no Joubt very considerable, will be devoted to charit- able purposes. . Bv her majesty's express desire the "Christmas Gift Book" will bear. he: name as authoress. All the contents pictures and letterpress will be queen's own work. The 'pictures wii all be photographs taken by Queen Alexandra, and beneath each one will be a description which the queen has written, Her majesty is well known to be an nthusiastic photographer; she is not illing the gift book with set ceremonial | subjects, but has selected informal, un- | official, everyday snapshots. i The only page in the book which is not her majesty's handiwork is the (§ frontispiece, a charming new portrait of {0 the queen in private dress. Following | ¥ this will be a number of snapshots of | Q the king and other members of ,the royal family few of them posed for and most with the especial interest at- taching to pictures taken informally, on the spur of the moment, as it were. Many were "snapped" on board the royal yacht, many at Copenhagen, show- | ing the queen's father, the late king of Denmark; a few on her majesty's last visit to her brother, the king of Greece; HOH OHOHKOKOKORONKO HOF Aid HOHOHOHOKOKOFORC KO OXON O% < HKONOS 0 # | Oo some at Reval, during the recent visit of the king and queen to the czar, and SOHOH 2, 1908. w= J} : Rah! Rah! Rah ! On the Stroke of Midnight on Sunday Next HE MYSTER . RAFFLES of the Kingston British Whig He will mingles with our Commences operations in this citys i ill att t1 uildings and still attempt to citizens, talk to them, visit our publie conceal his identity. i He Will Depend Entirely on Cleves Character Impersonations To evade the vigilance of local sluths, coming to this city with no less than 33 Different Costumes He will act under the personal direction of L. Hayden O'Connor and George Felix Green. Tackle every stranger who in your esti- mation is the mysterious man. Comply with the conditions of the contest and yoa will have a grand chance of winning $50 in Golds Conditions of the Contest of the Daily British Whig on 1--If you have the latest edition $10.00 your person at the time the capt ure 2--If you have the latest edition and have subscribed and paid for 2 months between now and N ov. $25.00 3--If you have the latest edition and have subseribed and paid for 3 months between now and Nov. 4--1f you have the latest edition and have subscribed and paid for 6 months between mow and Nov. $40.00 5--If you have the latest edition and have subscribed and paid for'l year between now and Nov. 15th $50.00 Keep Your Eyes Open for the Smoothest Stranger, Who Ever Visited Kingston several in Scotland and at various coun- try houses where the queen has stayed. In the descriptions members of the Jueen's family are referred to by their | Christian names or by their relationship. Her majesty does not specify which of the many charities in which she is nterested are to profit by her book, but er sympathies extend, as well known, over a wide area. In order to bring her book within the means of all classes, and to insure a large sale, she | 1as decided that the price shall be no | more than half a crown, The book will consist of about 130 pages, and the photographs, which are »f various sizes, will be reproduced by the latest and most perfect processes. They will in most instances be mounted upon stiff green sheets, the book itsclf being demy quarto in size. The publi- cation has been undertaken'by the Daily 1 elegraph, and it is anticipated that the wok will be ready and on sale early in November, 18 No Time To Leave.. Harper's Weekly Rastus was on trial for the theft of 2 turkey, and took the stand on his own behalf "I didn't steal no turkey, Squar; I stoled a rail." : "Well, Rastus, how dig those bones get in your back yard?" "They done come dar without my permishun; an' I aint 'sponsible. You see, Squar, I wuz needin' firewood; so [ took de rail, an' toted it home, an' der wuz a turkey on it, a great big fellah. Well, sah, what's on my lan's mine, an' I didn' give 'im no time to run off neither, Squar." The Squire deliberated a few seconds, then he said, "Case dismissed." ro, 3 4. > ig OH OH [HARARE EOKOKOHOKOKOKOKOKOKO? MADE. IN CANAD High Laced Shoes For re AVE HISIICICISIISISISIICION KK Ap i HH SOLD IN PACKAGES AND CANS Same Price as the poor Adulterated Kinds E. W. GILLETT CO., LTD. Toronto, Ont. AAA HAHA SS We have a large assortment of High Laced Shoes, suitable for Street Wear, Hunting, Trapping, or Prospecting, etc. SK TT AAA *Siloer Plate that Wears® Men's Tan Boots, high tops, £5.50 & 6.00. No Other "Just as Good" Ask for silver plate marked Men's Black Boots, high top, $4.50 & 5.00. K HEI Also many styles of Heavy Sole Walking Shoes in Tan and Black, $4.50, 5.00 and RS SOLD BY LEADING DEALERS Silver dishes and plates that lend e fo the table are made by MERIDEN BRITA CO. - ENDABLE > . el HHH ¥ HK about the Lh fal | MARVEL Whirl ing Spr zy a lent. It cleanses Now is the Golden Opportunity to Buy Cobalt Stocks. nce and said: "Now you can only see laced them, but 1 want you te mark | so as to show four rows oi three st change the position of one ring so Se, South African Veterans Land Script Bought. If you are interested in either, call or communi- cate with J. 0. HUTTON, Agent, 18 Market Street, Kingston, Ont: two. Answer Wednesday.

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