of dee, NO SALE THE EQUAL OF OUR "CLEARANCE." Everybody is buying and saving. Every price in the store has taken a slamp and rock bottom prices rule. It's our deck clearing and selling time. IT'S YOUR BUYING AND ) SAVING TIME. Don't delay 'your attendance. Don't put off your buying, There are things here youneed and will bay later if you don't lay them in now. Later they will cost you one-fourth, one-third ahd one-half more. | the 'big maich race at the Marathon b the 'f A five TWO RUNNERS. Pig Diffecence in the Build 'of 'the Two 'Men--ZLongboat's Pfiends Are Copfident That He Wik "Win, The two athletes who will meet in distanoe, 26 miles, 385 yards, in Ma- dison Square Garden, New York, on Juapuary 26th, Alived Sifubyh, of Eng- ofigboat, of Canade, laid, and Tom are certainly worth going miles to Experts say the contest should prodiee the © greatest struggle since os Fon Myers-W. (: George match, ad! 'all indications point to the experts being correet in their poe dictions. "The" little, Englishman is the dis- tance wonder of the age. He holds grey world® record, both amateur ana Jrolédsional, from two miles up tp: on The time that he has made £t those distances is really wonderful. Longboat has run the fastest twenty- five wiles ever credited to man, go- ing the distance through sleet, snow and mud in the Boston Marathon of 1967, in the great time of 2 hours 24 minutes 20° 4-5 seconds. He has de- featecd all the cracks in America, George Donhhig, of the Trish-American A.C. YHeiwg the only Yankee athlete that ever led the redikin to the tape. The race will be between twp of the most dissinvilar- men that the mark. Shrbb is an Anglo-Saxon; while Longhoat is of © pure Tadian blood. It will be a race between vouth and age. Longhoat is twenty to years 'old, while Shrubb is thar thirty. The Fnglishman hort, chunky fellow, standing only feet two inches. He weighs 126 pounds in his best condition. Long: hoat is five feet eleven inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. The Indian one of the cleanest built athletes (that ever donned a show, He has an ideal build for a distance runner. Framed like a race; horse, long, lean, with a big, roomy chest, giving pienty of lung space and tapering down to limbs that are as slender and gracefully sinewy as a thoroughbred's, he the athlete from head to toe. No man was ever better equipped by nature for a foot racing trial of speed and endurance than the speedy son of the forest, who carry the maple leal of Canada in the big race January 26th. Shrubb ig: the antithesis of Long- is a looks 1" Vik! on Every department is: represented. Nearly everything in the line of Winter Goods is re- duced-and such reductions ! Come and See for Youselves. umley Bros. . ' | mE | the 13th YCUR LUCKY DAY? that's the opening "Store-Remodelling" Sale. Our Annual Red Letter Sale has always been an opportunity for cheap shoe buying that none could afford to miss. BUT THIS YEAR we are driven to cut. our stock down in double quick order. We must have our store ready for the con- tractors 'to'-come in by the FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY. There is Only One Way to accomplish this. Shoes must go out qficker than they have ever done at any of our former big olen. . Prices, Will Do It Mand we intend making "the pric es 80 attractive that you'll byy them quick. All Ready Wednesday Morning. J. H. SUTHERLAND & BRO. HORII ISIC ASIII SHASISIIIIGICION Because date. of our Big | ar {nual | the | vear Canada Lite Assuranice Company, Wants a good, live Agent for the City-of Belle- ville, « Energetic men desirous of forming a permangnt connection, should address the office. 18 Market St., J. O. HUETON, Kingston, Ont. General Agent. Best "carload © received in (Canada this season just in. Come in and gee them-- they're beauties. Naval Oranges Different grades at different prices. R. H. TOYE, King Street. | ry -above jr | roomy l, {i not | windf%He does | dian, | as { | | helow | personification of ease. | fet | from their | that { Hamilton, | Arthur ' Adsitt, | boat. 4 his | much shorter He is shorter and stockier than reddskin rival. The little Briton is more like the great Lou Myers one respect than any man singe the days of the marvelous man of the } Manhattan A. C. The one respect is | that Shrubb has little weight to car- the waist, He has a big, chest, oy small-Honed and little flesh on his framework. Below the waist line Shrubb boasts a pair of drivers that, while they are pretty and do not taper in the graceful racehorse lines of Longhoat's limbs, are fully as muscular and and sinewy. Longhoat has the long lope of the forest. vanner. His stride is friction: and in action hé appears to be drifting along on the wings of the not bound off the rorind in kis strides. He lands soft and eatlike, with just enough spring to carry him: forward in another full tride without waste of energy. He | Hits chostlike over the trail. The In- however, does "not have nearly long a stride as most persons have been led to believe. It is longer than the average athlete's, but is than many runners. Longhoat does not "reach," and there is not a movement lost in his action the waistline. Shrubb also has a stride that His stride per more springy than the it is just as smooth and His movement is-«perfect in the expert's eye, but to the ordin ary who enjoys seeing the so-called ratty' form, it is not as pleasing. Shrubb possesses ability to do something that few athletes can master. That is to punctuate his con- tests with a series of heartbreaking sprints, that the Englishman's sup are hoping for a victory over They that his early sprints will give him a leaa. over "the Indian 1hat . Longboat will not be able to overcome. Longboat's friends, lowover the great Indian will t such even, stiff. pace that Shrubb © will be run into the ground, and are willing to back their opinions with ali the simeleons they ean dig The race will be one betting propdsitions racing ever furnished. built in is | carries lg; is the haps is a trifle Indian's, but frictionless; spectator, porter Longhoat. say Say an jeans. the biggest foot of What Will The Harvest Be ? Py an order-in-council, two years ago, the light and water departments not required to present their an- reports 'until February 15th. They are awaited with interest, in | view of the raduced rates in each de- partment. A 'year ago the water rates | were reduced, but it is expected that surplus for 1908 will be at least The reduction in the light rates affected only half of the 1907's receipts. Last year was the first whole year it 'afiected, and in view of this it will be interesting to know if .the loss in revenue thereby {has been made up materially by new { business. The taxes on thé plant are much higher than in 1907. Ii 'the light plant business shows a surplus for 1908, the aldermen can well aliord tc clap their hands. B. A. Hotel Arrivals. A. Snider, Niagara Falls; St. Louis, Mo; Ww. J. Bremner, Medler, H. WW. Johnson, Toronto; C. £4,000. { plant In. EB Dodds, Ingersoll: A. Ken White, London; Wilson, E. M. Hamilton; C. B. M. Britton, ney, apapee; George A. Anderson, { Thomas; George J. Lee, Montreal B. Belry, Ottawa; A. MacDougall, Cle- veland; Thomas Templeton, Chicago; Quebec. Harvester Company Fined. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 11.--The Kansas supreme . court in a decision handed down, affirmed the verdict and fine of the district cowrt for Shawnee "€oun- ty, against the Intermational-Harves- {or "company.. The company must pay a fine of $12,600\ on forty-two counts, earh count charging a violation of of the Kansas anti-trast laws. F 'ever toed | more "A sweeping stlccess--the of the New YX ork season.' The Munsey Magazine. The Wagenhals & Kemper fo. Play o Botan RMR Eat IN FULL, New 'York. 6 Months in 50c., 25e., $1, §1.50. iBLNCO, TX * ¥ - 14TH. Sushma} "Co. Pre Tei BUNCO IN "ARIZONA By LILLIAN _ MOUTIMER, with FUGENIE BESSERER J. TOUS UNGERER and the original company, including Band cf Sioux Indians, Troupe of Arizona Cowboys, Craver's Bucking Broncos. Watch for Street Parade. fet 15.26.38-50 pat THURSDAY, JAN. J. L. VERONEER Nothing Higher. Prices Seats on sale Tuesday. SATURDAY, JAN. 16TH. Matinee at 2.80. Ewening 8.15. HARRY GIRARD Predents The Dginty Oriental "Opera, "SAN TOY" Bupparted hy the Original Cast. Agnes Cain Brown, pSam. Collins, Violet Colby, | Harey Girard, Laura Christopher, | Hallan Mostyn, Saber Dorsell, » {Will Pringle. Chorus of 40, Mostly Uirls. Prices, i bvenine Heats on sale Thursday. BLIOU MONDAY AND TUESDAY. "GUERILLA AND THE GIRL" A Drama Of The Civil War. SYNOPSIS -- the Rattle--G60d-Bys Good-Bye--The Guerrillas' March-- Girl's Peril--The Faithful Negro-- to Arms--Boot and Saddle--The Guerrilla's Ambush--A "Baitlé on Horse- \ Brave 4irk-The tel with Sabres--d ust ATTRACTION II. Derby." Thrilling picture made vorid's greatest race colrse. ATTRACTION 3. Tea ath.! A Comedy gh from the saddest ATTRACTION IV. the Illustrated Song love Me As 1 Love by Will West. WONDERLAND on heart to KRweet- iw Time ! ! "Winning the at the 'Jealousy which face. draws Another Series is, You, and hit "i is nn You sung "THE RAGGED HERO." \ Story Beautifully Hustrated in 9 Acts The Pride of the Stables--2. Ted s a Friend--3, A Villain Repulsed-- Morgan Starts For a Ride--35. Outwitted--6. Miss Morgan teturns--7. The Ploi--8." Burning the Stables--9, Ted a Hero, 'A STAGE STRUCK DAUGH- TER." A Melodrama. "RENUNCIATION." A Maiden has to choose hetween Fisherman and an Artist nen cis Renounced Song--"'I WANT Smith. CHILDREN a and the Fisher- you," Clare sung by ONE CENT TO-MORROW, TEA MEETING AND CONCERT Sunbury Town Hall, JAN. 14th. nder' Auspices of Ladies' Aid, of Pres- bytérian Church. p---- TE ---------------- ---- RELIEVED OF LOAN. Lake. Superior Corporation Have New Capital. ronto, Jan. 11.--President War- the Lake Superior Corpora- admitted, to-day, the correct- s of the report that the Ontario vovernment fo be relieved of the remaining £1,000,000 of the $2,000,000 provincial loan made by the Ross government and several times renewed | then. He Fleming, of Edinburgh and Londan, is coming into the Seo cor- oration with a large amount of cap- ital, but beyond confirining these statements, he declined to comment upon the new control of the poration, to is Robert 4 Making ¥mprovements. Rendrew Mereury, Ihe K. & P. railway Trew Calabogie between Ren- has undergone cons t season, . which assist in raising the road to. popular favor. The track has been bat sted, sags filled and an avergge Lift of five inches given over this portion.' In addition -to the new stone bridge at ; i side _ wings » abutments at Clay will materially Lawyer Is Fined. Kenora, Ont., Jan. .11.--The dase of N. F. Hagel, K.C. charged with ob-| structing a police officer during a case which he was defending .in court, was concluded after five i Two witnesses Were heard, and, Hagel not appearing, Magistrates Vereker and Belyea imposed a fine of $5 and costs, or seven days. Destroyed By Fire, Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 11. =Sikky feet of 'dockage, in the Blackwell) canal, between the Washburn-Crosby Hill and the: Frontier elevator; was destroyed by fire this morning. The fide, for a fime, was spectacular.' It is supposed to have heen caused by a spark from a passing tug. Civil Service Examinations. The following passed the preliminary examinations at Kingston : oP, Anglin, Katie Brown, F. J. Bale; Wil- bur Sherry, George B. Seooit, Ernest R. Swettenham. Glass and cement are both used as a substitute for wooden poles' where the latter are attacked by insects or climate. 'Good strong horehound candy? ™ in twisted sticks. Soldat: Gitison's: Red Cross Deng Store. We rebind old books at prices, British Whig office, closest Brutal Bandit | After 5c THEATRE 8¢| also admitted that Soo cor- | { Jmproverfent dusting the af _ conerete adjournments. | CONDENSED ED ADVERTISING First insertion lc. & word. Bach con tive insertion ord. imum ) Hrd iy as MEN WANTED LEA rr de. ED ro Ryser Bien wn C TE orsowTuNY 3 Io Re Wile Soler. osber: Rl or work Bra loge, Toronto. v . ror re 5 WANTED FEMALE, A 108 CLEANING me 8 Sellars ars, COOK, AT ONCE. Hight. Hotel, Brock street 0, HE A rk. s apy, done: ¥. 3 Srl. ASHES our: on i DEPLY QUEBN' 8 "Lytle, * ee canter, A SLE SFNTLEMEN | IPO) GRT THEM overcoats made now, 'alse - or turned, and made Hie our ewn ¢ ma 0 apie date suits. Frits and workmansh guaranteed to please. Thomas Gallo- way, Tailor, 181 Broek St. next te Hibby's Livery. LOST, LF TAD 8 WANDBACG, CONTAINING A 82 bill, 2 ones and small change, . on Saturday evening, or Princess . or Bagot Sfs. Rewurs for return to 14 John street o ARCHITECTS. ARTHUR ELIAS, office and residence, Ave. SITUATIONS WANTED. DONC A EXPERIENCED. OLD country, cooks, nse les |. maids "and a ey af tal ds, cotch gen- erals. Arriving Jan. 12th. Apply The Guild, 71 ond St., Mon- treal. Telephone Uptown, 2.261. TEACHERS WANTED. QUALIFIED TEACHE aR 'won BOCHOO 3 Section No. Township of Elgevir, County of Yet ig x "Nibers salary and qualification Dion, Elzevir P.O. Ont. T SITUATION VACANT. MEN MAKE months tardy Stock. C Fr Fy treal. 181 University MONEY DURIN by selling our Guaranteed a3 theta Grown Nursery in your district. The Bll wo. Limited, Mon- WINTER HENRY ete, 'Phone, Pp; SMITH ARCHITECT, 845. POWER & SONS, ARCHITECTS, MER MONEY AND BUSINESS. LIVERPOOL, LONDON AND , GLOBE Fire Insurance Compan: Avaliable assets $61,187,215.5 In "addition to which the policyholders have for security the uplimited Hability of all the stockholders. Far and city property insured at lowest possible rates... Before renewing old or giving new business get rates from Strange £4 Wellington streets. "Phone, 212. second store, streets. Phone, floor over Malood's Dru corner Princess. and Bago Entrance on Bagot street, GOS. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. ARCHITECT. Anchor Building, Market Square. want's Bank Building, corner Brock WAL. NEWLANDS, ARCHITECT, SrricE SET OF with ark an 128 RE 109 Re TEA ed Bain LY JOHN King street ROOM MN ONER ADE'S, «0 KING wa 8, ing hot an heating. Apply MeGatin, a Broek Stren + "ROSELARN' = AT JNANDROME street, at nominal renta) for oe winter, Arply RN. McCann, 51 Brock street. CENTRALLY 1OCATED OFFICES, front and rear rooms, at 245 Ki street, over J. PP. Forrest's Furnishing store, Apply to Forrest. ¥ PERSONALS. HAIR, warts, withou MOI "ete. gear. "rventy ye, B = ence. Tr ér . Nose, Throat" 'And Skin Specialist, 268 Baget street. rar 8, ently, ry" MARRIAGE LICENSES, TO TELL div idend YOu paying a real, cominer mining investment. C. A; Aaron, 1,606 Cleveland, O. Co 8 KIRKPATRIC K, Marriage Licenses, telephone, 0568 ; | 38 Frontenac ISSUER OF 42 Clurehve St, evening, residence, street. Write ay. Williamson Bidg., HERBERT C. "TRENEER, ATOM. I am Siared ton a to accept. pupils dn Piano Tuition, most ifaproved. method used ; also open fdr all classical cons ! cort work. Apply either hy letter or {person for terms to. No. 1 Stanley { Terrace, Quebec street, Kingston, Ont. The be SWEDISH MASSAGE. | Mrs. Cecilia Herod recommended by the leading physicians of Kingston. Head, Face and Neck Massage a specialty. Ap- ply 538 Clergy, street, or Y.W.C.A. Build- ing. § | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The AAAAIAAAIRK RSRASIOICHS Preachers Criticized For Meddling. Kingston, Jan. 11.--(To tho Edit- or) : Recently we have heard cgnsider- abla talk and also "had a letter 'or two from clergymen, through your columns re the increasing of taxes providing thore 18 a decrease in the number of licensed hotels in this éty. Strang as iv may seem, there are no com- plaints this year, nor were thoare any two: years ago, aboutsthe number of licensed stores in this city. | Now, in my humhle opinion, such an important matter as increasing taXes | should be dealt with by those who are directly interested, viz, the people who pay taxes. lt comes with rather bad grace from a clergyman, one who never has and most likely never will pay, any taxes, not «ven the ordinary poll tax, which our government levies on every young man when he arrives at voting age. 1 repeat tho preacher, whom {the government not sider a man, no say this' matter. I have known only two preachers who insisted ' on theirs and their churches taxes being paid, and I may add there were never any empty pews when their sermons were boing de livered. I hope ing SHOE hs A A We Want You to See Them SHH oes = 4 The prices in our windows will bring forth a chorus of admiration from all. We are clearing out several lines of fine shoes at than wholesale cost. less Every pair a bargain. spection invited. In- Shoe Store Cor. Princess and Wellington ? streets. does should have con- in HHH HAH Boils and Pimples vow will pardon me for writ: about tho clergy as they ~ are jusually exempt from - everything, and like anyone else who does not pay this way, are always bButling in when they should have the least to say. They should attend tht theatre on y¥ evening, and Witne s8 A per- formanco of the play, "Paid -In Full.' Thowe are grand wordsg and might anit them. 1 believe the mangger M the opera house and also manager of tho show would exempt them and pare them in--~TAXES PAID JIN "UU a few bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters. ARRESTED FOR LARCENY. | Former President of Big Shoe i Company. | + Chicago, Jan. -11.--Frederick Rich- ardson, formerly president of the J. Richardson Shoe company, of Elmira, N.Y., was arrested here on a fugitive warrant charging him with the larceny. of $750 from the Chemung Canal Trust company, of Elmira. While $750 is "the sum mentioned in the warrant, Police Chief Cassidy, of Elmira, said $250,000 is involved in.the case. ACKACKACK % The Jas. Johnston } Aro caused entirely by the blood being in an impure condition, and the quickest and | simplest way to get rid of them is to take This purely vegetable remedy has cured thousands of cases of these painful and unsightly troubles during the past thirty Mr. 8. J. Weir, River- ov v he 3 is u FINANCE AND INSURANCE. GENERAL PYSURANGE = OFFICE. T. J. Boon, Agent, O 159 Welling- il ton St. Reliable sented, ta COAL var HEATS st thing in the Coal line. The kind that throws out a strong heat. _ SWIFT'S. s AEA nd Land Regulations. . ; ANY PERSON WHO IS THE SOLE head of a lamily, or any male over 18 yoars old, "may hopwstead a quarters section (140 acres, more or less) of available Dominion land in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta. The applicant must appear in person at the Dominion nds Agency or Sub-Agency the district. Entry by proxy may be made a any agency ou certain conditions, by ather, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending howmestesder. DUTIES --Six months' residence wpon and - cultivation of the land in each of three years. A . homesteader ma within nine miles of his homeste on & farm of at least 80 acres solely owned and occupied by him or by his father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sigter, In certain districts a homesteader in good standilg may pre-empl a quarters section along-side his homestead. Price $3.00 per acre. Duties. --Must reside six months in each of six years from date of hompstead entry (including the time required to earn: homestead patent) and cultivate fift- acres extra, A homesteader who has exhausted his homestead right and cannot obtain a 'pre-emi; tion may take a purchased homestead in certain districts. Price $3.00 per acre. Purchased homesteads may be acquired on any available lands on either odd or even numbered Sections South of township 43, East of the Cals cary 'and Edmonton Railway and the West line of range 26, and West of the third Meridian and the Sault Railway line. Duties ~Must reside six months in sach of three years, cultivaté fifty acres andl erect » house worth $300, YNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH- WEST MINING REGULATIONS COAL.--Coal mining 'rights may leased for twenty-one years at an annua: rental of $1.00 an acre. Not more thal 2,560 acres can be leased to Age appli cant. Royalty, five tedts per QUARTZ.--A person Re von of age and over having made a discov may locaté a claim 1,500 feet by 1.7 fect. Fee, $5.00. At least $100 must be expended on the claim or paid to the Mining Ri han $500 op. Tied ith th a as De xs Somplie Ld e clam may be purchased at $1.00 an scre. PLACER MINI G CLALYS: generally, 100 feet square. Entry fee, $5.00. DREDGING --~Twe lasses of five miles sach of a river may bel is to applicant for a term of $10 a mile per annum. cent after the output ex $10. i W. W. CORY, Poputy of the Minister of the Interior. N.B.--Unauthorized publication of advertisement will not be paid for. NEW MACHINE SHOP A call is invited for ale kinds of gen eral manufacturing and maching repair ing, sewing machines, guns PRonographs, , razors, edged dies ; braze ing, model and pattern making: Best of attention given all w irs ma be before leavi shop. Wao for Squandered A Fortune. Elmira, Jan. '11--After having squandered the fortune left' him bod {his father, Jackson Richardion, somé | years ago Frederick Richardson 'be- came involved in financial difficulties which led, on January lst; 1907, to his personal bankruptcy and thas. of the shoe manufacturing firm of J. Richardson & Co., of which he was president. ¥ The liabilities were $385,- 000, with assets not more than $1004 000 » . The bankruptey proceedings broth | out the fact that Richardson | ed accommodation at hanks on the representation that his afiaird were in first-class. condition." 'The government of Austria makes special inducements to. farmers E- will reclaim waste lands and make use of them, Lr For sale by all dealers. An old wl is 'as ich afraid of a baby as a spinster is of a mouse. The T. Milburn a Co., Limited, Torento, Ont. guaranised. Work outside cite promptly attended tn Charges moderate, J. W. HUNTER, Machinist, treal St. WLER Pr ) Orders taken at Stmmons.. Vanluven's Parcel Delivery: Lo Wm, Murray Auctioneer 27 BROCK ST. New Carriages, Cutters, Harness ete., for sale. ' > Sale of Hotses every Saturday. | ards, I ow wm or, . and A. We print and'eugtave visi At hie cards, 'ete., Britigh of i is said that the annual bird: slaughter for plumes. and other decor- ations 1s 200000000. 5 a i et wee Wa sHompuiie repre- © Synopsis of Canadian Northwest ovaiey, 23 bob *®