THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1909. I We do any and all kinds of Printing, Bookbinding or Ruling. Just tele- phone 292 and our representative will call with samples. Note the price. e Print To Please THE BRITISH WHIG | i | N THE LONG AGO THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE AT LISBON RECALLED. That Terrible Day in 1755, When "Lisbon Town Saw the Earth Open and Gulp Her Down." Of all the great seismic disturbances | that have alarmed the world, the his- Bargains That Count If you're the kind of person we thiuk you are, no inducements f price will make up for the lack of quality in the goods. You n't turn a page of the paper without Comming face to face with low prices. The question is : What kind of clothesard how new are they ? No old clothing here. Our stock is all new, and prices such as these speak for themselves : Men's $292 Overcoats for $13.7: 18.00 Overcoats for 11.75 15.00 Overcoats for 10.00 Men's 12.00 Overcoats for 7.7: Men's Men's Others as low as 4.50. Boys' Overcoats, 2.95, 3.45, 4 50 to 6.50. Prices Are Almost One Half the Regular Prices. * We don't want to carry any Overcoats over to next. season, yo. tory of the great earthquake in Lis bon, in 1755, is recalled, by the aw- ful calamity that has recently happen- ed in Italy, to those who have made such appalling events the .study of years. The Lisbon disaster happened on November 1st, of the year men- tioned. All historical events mention that a finer morning never dawned than on that day. The sun was shin- ing; the whole face of the sky was perfectly serene and clear. A letter describing the earthquake, written by an English merchant to a friend in London, gives at great length his experiences on that occasion, and graphically describes some of the scenes. The writér, as he stated, was in his apartment finishing a letter, when the papers and table he was writing on began to tremble. This was followed by a strange, frightful noise, which was the forerunner of the earthquake, While meditating upon the strange occurrence, the merchant wrote, "the house 1 was in shook with such violence that the upper stories imme- diately fell, apd though my apart ment (which was on the first floor) did not then share the same fate, yet everything was thrown out of place in such a manner that it, was with no small difficulty that I kept my feet, and I expected nothing else than te be crushed to death. To add to this terrifying scene, the sky in a moment became so gloomy that I could now distinguish no particular object; it was an Egyptian darkness, indeed ow- ing, no doubt, 'to the prodigious clouds of dust and lime raised from go violent a concussion, and, as some reported, to sulphurous exhalations." When the gloom began to disperse, the merchant who wrote this descrip- tion made his way into the streets, and with a crowd of other people made his way, unhurt, to the large open space in front of St. Paul's church, "which had been thrown down a few minutes before and buried a great part of the congregation, which was generally pretty numerous, this being reckoned one of the most popular par- ishes in Lisbon. Here I stood," he wrote, "for some time considering what I should do, and, then not think- ing myself safe in this situation, I came to the resolution of climbing over the ruins of the west 'end of the church in order to get to the river gide, that T might be removed from the tottering houses in case of a sec- ond shock, "This with some difficulty I accom plished, and- here I found a prodigious | of people and of all ranks | concourse and conditions, among whom I ob- served some of the principal canons of the patriarchal church in their pur- ple robes and rochets, as those all go in the habit of bishops; several priests who had run fxpm the altars in their sacerdotal vestments in the midst °° of their © celebrating mass; ladies hali- dressed, and some without shoes; all these whom their mutual dangers had here assembled as to a place of safety, were on their knees at prayers, every one striking his breast and crying out incessantly, 'Miserecordia men Dios." "In the midst of our devotPons the second shock came on, little less vio- | | | i | | sternation | retreated; | | Roney & Co's 127 Princess Street, Kingston. The Stor. That Sets The Pace. FOO 0000OO0000000 FULL ) «STOVES." We carry in ~tock one of the largest as- sortments of Cooking Stoves, Ranges and Heaters in the city, and invite you to ex- amine b:fore purchasing. See the "Art Garland" and "Art Treasure' Heaters. The "HAPPY HOME" Range has a large ventilated oven, handsomein design, econ- omical in fgel and a perfect baker: 77 PRINCESS ELLIOTT BROS. " im : i rt 0 A00000AATO0Q0L0N 000 CROAT DOOORC0 000 vv WOOO OOOO 00AU DOOD DTOCH IA / | | | | | | | i valuable in { and colds, lent than the first, and completed the | ruin of those buildings which had al- ready been much shattered. The now became universal con- sO that the top of St. Catherine's hill, at onsiderable distance off, whither vast number of people had at the samo hear fall of the * parish church there, whereby many persons were killed on the spot and others mortally wounded. : "You-may judge of the force of this shock when I inform you that I could scarce keep on my knees, but it was attended with some much more dreadful than the former. On a sudden I heard a dreadful outery, "The sea is coming in; we shall be lost!' "Upon this T turned my eyes to- ward the river, which in that place is nearly four miles broad. I could per- ceive it heaving and swelling in a most unaccountable manner, as no wind was stirring. In an instant there appeared at some small distance a large body of water rising, as it were, like a mountain, It camé on, roaring and foaming, and rushed to- ward the shore with such impetuosity that we all ran for our lives as fast Doping a Gold a a likewise Doesn't Cure It, *| proved, the sacrifice of the lives The average cough mixture doesn't cure a cold--it "dopes' it, or, in other words, temporarily holds it down, and bottle after bottle must bo taken before a cure is. effected. Meantime you must suffer, and your poor stomach be burdened by the in- higestion that invariably follows con- tinnal dosing with cough syrups. If your bowels were kept open and the eliminating organs stimulated | your cold would soon disappear. Dr. Hamilton found that his drake and Butternut Pills were colds than any Man- more cough cure. While you sleep at night they iven the kidneys, fiver and thereby carry off the cold all its evil Seffects. > Instead of deadening the stomach likes you h cures Dr. Hamilton's Pills afiprd this organ the greatest assist- ance by giving it tone, strength and healthy action. x One or two pills is sufficient. Take them just before retiring. Next morning you feel like new. The cold is broken up, vour system reoulated and cleansed and no t en- bowels, end lest, I'he use of Dr. Hamilton's Pills for coughs and rheumatic, ills is popular because efficient. Get some to-day, 26c. per box, or five boxes for $1, at all dealers, and refuse a 4 i substitute. the shrieks and cries of "Misere- | | cordia' could be distinctly heard froh | time one could | circumstances | all | Ssosiinans PRINCE RUPERT ep as possible; many were actually swept away, and the rest were above their waists in water at a good distance from the bank. For my own part, 1 had the narrowest escape, and should certainly have been lost had I not grasped a long beam that lay on the ground till the water returned to "its channel, which it did at the same in- stant, with equal rapidity. h "As there now appeared to be at least as much danger from the sea as from the land, I returned to the area of St. Paul's. Here I stood and ob- served the ships tumbling and tossing about as in a violent storm; several large boats were turned keel upward, and all this without any wind. It was at this time that the fine new quay, built of rough marble at immense ex- pense, was entirely swallowed up with all | the people on "it; who had fled there for safety; at the same time a great number of boats and small ves- séls, anchored ' near it, all likewise full of people, who were also there for safety, were all swallowed up as in a whirlpool, and never more appeared." Financier and Bullionist, Dec. 17, 1908. i ae Som Fence Jpper in at Sa 2 i hav onctary Limes of Canada, a. is what a Satton writes. cial correspondent says : f- bled with' Eczema on my hands ferent impressions have been publish | sed many of priced Ointmen ed in the press of Canada and the| without any results. One day a iriend United States regarding Prince Ru- [advised me to try pet, the western terminus of the 2 3' : Grand Trunk Pacific. Too often these Dr. Spark s are from the pens of te hte $ who have spent but from one hour to perhaps a few days in the ecity-to-be. | Prince Rupert will not suffer greatly from exaggerated reports, be they favorable od adverat,. he jace'i so situate phically, $0 many Tatar) TE, that it will become a city its merits alone. It has its disadvantages. No new place is without them. The fact that it has been. knocked by other coast cities, even before it has attained & dignity beyond that of a settlement, is evidence of something substantial can ve no more Few : a ent cure. i" are troubled % or any skin disease, take Mrs. Wm. Bovey's vice, and try Dr. 's Vi te Din t in full ounce boxes for . at @. W. MAHOOD'S and all geveral and 'Drug Stores. Accept no substitute. This vegetable compound is green in a i The writer of the letter asserted that there were four severe shocks, and that 60,000 persons lost their lives. With regard to the buildings it was observed that the most solid in general fell the first. Every parish church, convent, nunnery, palace, and ublic edifice, with a countless num- or of private houses, were either thrown down, or s6 miserably shat- tered that it was rendered dangerous to pass by them. in its future in the commercial anc shipping world. At this time the only owners of real estate in Prince Rupert are the Grand Trunk Pacific and the provin cial government. The Grand Trunk Pacific owns three-fourths of the townsite and the provincial govern ment one-fourth, which they have not yet selected except as regards the water-iront. The water frontage ha: been selected by the Grand Trunk Pacific and the government on ihe same basis--three-fourths to the Grand Trunk Pacific and one-fourth tc the provincial. government. It is generally understood that the govern ment will make its selections, "am that, together with the Grand Trunk Pacific, thoy will be ready to offe: their portions of the townsite to the »ublic for purchase about. May, 1909 fany lots have been already sold in a place named Prince Rupert, bul which is not in the townsite of the Grand Trunk «Pacific at all. Othei lands not on Kaien Island, but' or the mainland, are, held by outsid partiesgi, + There are probably 600 or 700 resi- dents in Prince Rupert, nearly all of whom are squatters. They are wait ing to purchase their property wher the oppcrtunity is given them. Near every line of business is represent ed here. Intending purchasers or visi tors will require to bring with them nothing but money. They may come with a confidence that charges are not exorbitant, The necessaries oi tife can be bought here at a cost little, if any, in excess of Vancouver or Victoria peices. Liquor is not sold here. There is not a licensed hotel in the place. The provincial government, it is understood, do. not intend to. grant a license to sell k- guor until Prince Rupert has « been incorporated. The TONIC TREATMENT. Only Sensible Way to Stomach Troubles. Whon the stomach is feeble the food lies in it undigested, decays and throws off poisonous gases that dis tend the walls of the stomach, and. causes serious interference with other organs; especially with the action of the heart and lungs: These poisonous gases have other ill effects. They are absorbed by the blood and so weaken, and corrupt it as to cause aches in remote parts of the body and the formation of unhealthy tissue every- where. General bodily weakness and loss of weight is the result. Tho ner- bes and the brain are disturbed, and discomforts such as dizziness, hot flashes, sleeplessness, irritability and despondency © originate from this source. Experience shows that these troubles vanish just as soon as the stomach is made strong enough 10 digest the food. In other words it needs a ionic that will rouse it to do the work of changing the. food in- to nourishment. The tonic ought to be one that will agree with the most delicate stomach, and this is cxactly what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Here is a bit of strong proof : Miss Lizzia ; Macdonald, - Harbor-au-" touche, N.S., says: "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me what no other medicine did or apparently could do. For almost three years suffered untold agony from indiges- i I would have the most ing pains in the stomach after eating. I gould not sleep at night and I would rise in the morning fe ing tired and worn out. I lost weight and was almost reduced to a shadow. I was under doctor's ireat- | ment, almost wonstaintly, but with no benefit. One day I read the testimon- ial of a lady who had been cured of dyspepsia by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills | and decided te try them. The first two or three boxes 1 took did not show any apparent relief and 1 began to fear the medicine would not help | me, but as I had bought a hali dozen boxes 1 decided that I would use them up anvway. To my joy, before Cure (Signed) do. Fels-Naptha. government and the Grand Trunk Pacific, jointly, will probably begin = the work of grading and im proving the streets and installing the sewerage system at an early date. A liberal appropriation has been made for these necessaries. Surveying is being actively pushed forward and Christmas time will { doubtless see it finished, Prince Ru- { pert is béing laid out as a model city. The land is rolling in contour, and in the planning of the city advantage | has been taken of every possible beauty spot to show it, when improv- ed, to the best advantage. Rupert should is from boiling and hot dis- white things: Prince in itself has a harbor which ensure a permanent city. It completely land-locked, deep, and has the best of anchorage. | About fourteen or fifteen miles of wa- ter-front are available. On this the Grand Trunk Pacific has built 1,500 feet of wharfage and two large freight warehouses, they were all used 1 began io improve band T got three boxes more. By the iime T finished these 1 was again in the best of health, and had gained twelve pounds in weight. I have not since had a twinge of this terriblo "rouble, and am more grateful than words can say for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me." You ean get Dr. Williams' Pink i Pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxcs | for 82.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi- Brockville, Ont. ---------- Rifles To Fire Bombs. Technical World, Pekin was fortified; the gates. Outside the walls of the city the alleged legions clamored fcr admission, knowing that, within, the members of the foreign legations, for- | tified, in their turn, against the Chinese, were awaiting with breathless anxiety the arrival of the friendly armies. But the gates could not be rushed. Suddenly, three or our soldiers, in the Japanese uniform, warm water. Rub These are resources which will help ! build Prince Rupert city, in addition | to the shipping which should accrue { from the opening up of the northern { portions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, { Alberta and British Columbia. Handling the trade of the Yukon, Prince Rupert will have a décided ad- vantage; being nearly 550 miles near er than Vancouver or Victoria. Then there is the rich but as yet scarcely developed mining industry of Skeena district, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and all the northern portion of. the province, where gold, copper, silver, and lead and coal are in large quin tities. The agricultural and fruit in- dustries of the Bulkley and Nechacco valleys through which the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific will pass are'sn- other asset in addition to lumbering in all its branches. The fisheries, in- cluding the great halibut fishing banks of the Pacific and the salmon canning industries of the Skeena and {eine Co., ing of your work! the Boxers held Anty Drudge's Message. "$To every woman who washes clothes: Tell me your washday troubles. My mission in life is.to do away with washday drudgery. F've helped thousands of women to lighten their work and make life happier, and I'll gladly help you. ANTY DRUDGE, Philadelphia. : Lila a There is only one soap it's wise to use for washing clothes in Winter and that is, Sy Of course you can use others--if you! don't mind hard work, the nauseous steam ' suds, chapped hands and the danger of catching a nasty cold. If you want to avoid these, Fels-Naptha in lukewarm water. No boil- ing. No hard rubbing. Here are directions for washing the use Wet the white clothes in lukewarm water, soap well with Fels-Naptha, let stand for about thirty minutes in luke- lightly, rinse, blue and hang up to dry. Other washing just as easy--colored clothes and flannels and woolens. Your clothes will be cleaner, whiter, sweeter than if boiled till Doomsday. And think of the comfort and lighten- All that's necessary is to get a cake of Fels-Naptha and follow directions on the red and green wrapper. dashed forward to the gates. A show- er of bullets greeted them. They fell. ut their work was done. The hand grenades which had been hurled against the "gates had exploded, bat tering them down. Pekin had fallen Very recently at Faversham, nu land, the representatives of eleven sovernments watched the testing of a new grenade invented by an English- man, Marten Hale. With this wea- pon, as demonstrations satisfactorily of those heroie Japs before Pekin would have been wholly unnecessary. Mr Surgical Aids to the Afflicted Nass and other rivers of the northern coast of British Columbia will make for further development. Our Anpliances Spinal for Spiaal Cur- Curvature 7 0p, vial Paralysis, etc., are the result of half a century's experience in testing and fitting such assist- ants, We know just what apparatus will relieve, or help to cure, each case. > Qur experience also tells us just how to fit tae appliance so that it will be easy comfortableand helpful, The real estate situation is a poser. Undoubtedly there will be money made and lost in real estate in Prince Rupert in the next few years. I* is the writer's opinien that an ef- fort is being made to boom beyond its actual value Prince Rupert real estate at the opening of the town- gite. Undoubtedly real estate "will increase in value for. a time. But unless the resources surrounding the Hi ~ Authors & Cox i py \ NR 135 Church St. Toronto. Est 1860 Since 1860, we have brought happiness to the homes of the afflicted, with our appliances. Loss of arms, feet and legs-- deformed and misshapen limbs and bodies --rupture-- floating kidneys--practically ALL afflic- tions can be hel . and, in many cases, cm y our appa- ratus, Write for free advice. embryo city are developed at an un- usually rapid rate or the Grand Trunk as built much more quickly than at present there will surely be a time of Everio should a teal es- tate boom occur next summer. The I present development of the industries from which Prince Rupert may "to profit will not support a city Hale's grenade may be fired from 4 rifle. These advantages are therefore secured : Power, distance and range, and safety for the user. It is adaptable to the service rifle of the various nations, and is propelled with ordinary cartridges. The fire of the | grenade does not in any way injure i nor does it interfere with firing ball cartridges, nor in the use of the bay- j ouet. It. is capable of scattering { twenty-four rectangular pieces of steel { with jagged edges in all | directions { with great velocity. The: concussion of the explosion would kill or stun | any life within a wide radius. The grenades themselves weigh one pound six ounces, and six or eight may Le carried on a waist belt without in convenience, Horrible Examples. Somerville Journal Sometimes you meet a lovely maid Whose beauty has ho taint, And get a sudden shock because You hear her say, 'I ain't!" though' as -yet the place is | modern sanitation. A hospital | maintained by the Grand Trunk Ta- {cific contractors. Nearly all the cases hope | Chich have been treated resulted from » . Ol | accidents. Snow falls at intervals i any great magnitude until the com: | Ginter, but remains only from a few pletion of the radway. | hours 'to a_day or so. The labor situation seems to be| "po see for one's self before invest- complex. The wages paid by the con- ling in- Prince Rupert is not bad ad- tractors are from $2.25 to 52.50 Per vice. Prince Rupert is destined. ulti-| day for common labor. This is|y,¢ly to compete with Vancouver, thought by some hot to be sufficient | viatoria or Seattle. We are 500 when it is remembered that the goast : has a moist climate, the laborers thus being subjected to much lost time. They pay $5.25 per week for| TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY. as. board, 'work or no work. There are! Frank J. Cheney makes oath that lLe| few Asiaties in Prince Rupert. The | 18 senior partner of the firm of F. J is ! : a ~ | Cheney & Co., doing business in th residents are waking a hard' fight to | Gity ol Toledo, County and State afore keep them out. If the people who} said, and that said firm will pay. the | come wn during the next year are of | Sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS f the same mind the movement 0ay¥ | each ahd eve g : f « i > | not cur b: t use of 's succeed, and Prince Rupért will be y white city. a | Catarrh Cure FRANK CHEN rh Cure. RAN J. ENEY The climate is not all that could 15 miles nearer the Orient. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF he | Chicago's earnest wmotio is "I will I' and not "I won't !" And yet there are Chicago girls Who calmiy say "He don't!' And se it goes. In Boston, where There's culture beyond price, You sometimes hear the quick remark; "Say he don't cut no ice." There éven is'a man from Maine Who loves to chall and quiz, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, ; ) AD. 1886. 4 be desived in some respects, Wet (SEAL) A. W. GLEASON, i weather is the greatést objection, but | Hal's: Catderh © lary Public. re. 18 Tah 3 all's Ca ure is ta nternal. there is no more rain here than {iy, and acts d on the blood other coast cities. On' the whele| mucous surfaces of the system. Send we hear few weather complaints in! testimonials free. Prince Kupert. The climate is health-| o F. J. CHENEY & cos Toledo, O. i way. The present population old by all Bruggists, Be, I And you would be surprised to know ful," anyway. : Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa- He "often says SThey is 1, have had little sicknesy of any kind, * tion, 1 : 3 fis = i without | Lit» 'don't know--"fore or it's this way,' case of Catarrh that can- driven to {dered the baby, but ifor it yet!" On Delivery. Woman's Home companion. Our small boy, Arthur, has long be- lieved that o baby in the family was desirable, since most of his playmates came from hotness provided with this adiunct. In good time his molher told 'him confidently that his oft-ex- pressed wish jor a family baby would probably be gratified. The news was too. good to keep and Arthur was promptly boasting to his nearest chum. "But when you going to have demanded the friend. "Uh, 1 long, Ti guess," an- swered . Arthur. "Hugh," snificd the other, "what's. the use of waiting ? What good's a baby if yon can't have it when you want it. Why dont you get it right away? "Well, you sce, explained Arthur, his wits' end : "We've or- we haven't paid * Peauty gushes out of poetry in | great gobs when you see the author, i lacking ahd Led beet a shave, stowing away corn- and cabbage. : There are people who will take any- | thing, and of nothing more substantial s lying about they are sure to take 1 offense.