PAGE FOUR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1909. 040000000060000000000 BAILY ase whic e010 ang Street, K Ontari at ye er year itions at 2°30 and 4 OER BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages, published | arts on Monday and Thurs | dav morning" at $1 4 year. 22 tnited States, charge for postage bas be | ing price of Dally $3 fo ef | Weekly $1.70 per year. is one of the best Job Print | Canada ; rapid, stylish, and cheap work ; nine improved presses. The British Whig Publishing Co., L£'d EDW; = B. PENSE, anaging Director. TORONTO OFFICE. Buite 19 and 20, Queen City Shag | bers, 82 Church St. Tonto, H. Smallpeice, Representa! cl Haile Wiig. POWER PLANT FINANCES The blished at 3 : x surplis of the power and gas deficit if a depreciation of $5,000 were charged against revenue, as it was in- Others to select from up to 75c. CORBETT'S | available V00000000006000000000¢ | that CLEARANCE Boats, Rubbers, Boys' and Men's "iis and Overcoat. goods are | Was voted upon by the people. | matter then { Whig. Tt cited the experience of { English was discussed the plants, under public owner- | ship, and pointed out what experience | suggested, that should be made annually namely, a deduction from the re- It would be Nor the accidents or mishaps { ceipts Nol a certain sum. 8 : | ; are indidental to power plants. Where this depreciation fund did not | SALE =" gencies, and was no money for | little lasting not emer- works"' than probably less than ten a "fire at | any time, more | minutes and would involve loss not the | seconds, a | could {out of t The | moring 1 {a plan conveniently be made current revenue, Kingston power department 15 hese all new and Wo wish to clear our out before stock-taking, room for our new Hpring Rubbers, sizes to 11 7c Rubbers, up-to- present and to Stock. Sale a the experience of other places stock make Mer Price ~it is even making a departure the | people and practically agreed upon, ns It of it 6 which was discussed with 24 sizes to 8.¢ Sale | the fyles of this paper will show. 104 ire hd not be the 5 Blzey Price Rubbers, ) 10¢ isaac Zack's 271 Princess street 1 Hale may long until folly {is made apparent, One thing Whig supported the by-law of 335000 [it had laid before gt statéments show- the be is very certafu--hefore the ing: how business was to financed; the was one which was enlarged upon and Its is 'enough favourably commended. absence the guestionings of the gravest irom accounts now to arouse im- port. Southern Yellow Pine and British Columbia Dou- glas Fir. Large timbers on hand, sawn to your order on shortest notice. TO DUTY. the A CALL verdict coroner's jury at of Dufferin, with regard to the murders of George E. Stewart, tself to all Fhe task assigned to The of Shelburne, « County and a luaatie, will commend the government tally unbalanced persons, and eommit hem to refuges or homes where they will be peaceably and safely employed. 8. ANGLIN & CO., Cor. There is more lunacy in the country one who has looked into the it case--some than any Bay and Wellington Sts. subject can imagine. Some of is hereditary--as in Stewart's is the result of mental strain, it outcome of marriages later of it trial and some of is the which and adversity, GROWING IN POPULATRITY. unfortunate the state will sooner or Zhe More Herpi © It vmore it it liked People Know Newbrc's de t'i» Better They 1 seek to prevent Like Life and it - should the paternal sacred, all an is guarded thoughtful st : becomes known the bet ny One bottle sells and those two sell four. Newbro's Herpicide is what we are talking about. It ¢leans the scalp of all dan druli, and des a lit tle germ or parasite, prevents the re As a hdd dressing, i wo ¥ a 18 two, uw government i I'he contract may be ex- pensive--we know from the public re- the are--but cords what burdens lie to be assumed courageously and duti- fully. for the fright Stewart. He { petent. present pub- troying the cause, it institutions will have of dandruli. delightful, it ought to be every toilet table. It stops falling hair, and prevents baldness. It should Ie used preventive to prote turn it There is of to- be mentally 18 foun no excusy work this ' man incom- bad him- was known He brother oceasionally the sq as o i must have been pretty t the vp from dandrufi druggists. for sample to The Detroit, Mich. Two W. Mahood, new imva- Sold by 10 in Herpicide ote a constituted the go to bed on the whim had self microbe a Send wl guardian of to | a special case, tamp ) and had not dared Sizes that last might in which maniac and 31. G special agent wos at large. If You Want to Buy, Rent or Sell REAL ESTAT I make a specialty of same. Drop a card or call on me. No trouble to show property. Insur- ance at lowest rates. Money to: loan. GEO. CLIFF, Real Estate valuatior, ete., 85 Clarence street. The The the confinement of all wRo lesson is obvious. state must urge how a criminal disposition, while ér- The call of the jury in demand for | ratic in mind. | this case is a { the local action by government, REVISION ALL ROUND. The of militia very said to the his is minister be rcuch annoved over criti- de- that Sir cism that has centered upon it That is dis pleased Init that he will all strongest partment, and rumour has he may resign his office Frederick | be | leave at Borden may taken for granted, the probable. government is not He the it, and is therefore not at at is not member of [+11 likely to provoke a crisis which | would react upon himself. { The liberal press is justified in re Hflecting public opinion and in saying militia department trenchment, staff, | that the can | [stand beginning with the 1 that { the militia headruarters' The pity is Judge Cassels did not go through department he bas as { through the marine, and expressed | re . {himself just as freely and as candidly Civil the nse, The report of "the Service of 1908 com- mission 18 only official it Same Price Coal as the Other Too --- BUT DIFFERENT ! ditervn CLE ANLINESS COAT That rene PROMPTN ESS DELIVERY Fhat d QUALITY in and the department | fn so far as- i 1 supedly condemns extravagance of the militia in no gentk orn manger. The was OF . ; \ district pavmgsters the of disapproved; the and be the causé of so i the system diffe the OUR 2 in is wan f sym- 0% ant of sym between officers to pathy men it 'in the OUR COAL rence Of was 'said many desertions from permanent foree; . : A he' high salaries paid to. the officers of of to the . CRAW FORD with the 'Thone, Foot of Queen St. the expenditure should CREE Dc coverned by the growth of popula: { mon Yers other branches the { 1 d corvice was alleg: be salsiacuon 9, pubiiv sary THE WHIG, 76th YEAR| i plants is $3,500, but there would be a | tended to be when the $85,000 by-law | The | by the ! five | which ! up | from | depreciation feature | | | | i Perey serionsly-minded people. | is a heavy one--to search out all men- + 4)i.4 of any call of tl of ! be | measures which a | tion in place of the growth ok rev- additicn to the high pay "the favoured men of service in. Can- draw for themselves enue; in | ada' pensions and their families; and the increase in| S. M. CONGER W WAS OWNER the cost a little over four years| OF THE GAZETTE was from $3,500,000 to %6,500,000, or | enough to startle the people and have | And a Clever Watoi.Ons of Oldest { their demand for economy. Newspaper Men in Province-- The feature that is causing the most -W. R. Wright Was. a Well- trouble is the discrimination, in pay Known Canner. of the militia staff. The| 'Picton, Feb. 11.--Death claimed Wo salaries are higher and the hours of | of Picton's most prominent men at an service shorter, ment are demandnpg a revision . { the whole service, land if the departments hauling the | in { i and labour, of | { person of 8. M. Conger and Wright. The late Mr. Con was other | taken ill the latter part of Just week over- with heart trouble, andvhad been un- the conscious' for three days previous to [his death. He was one of the oldest | newspaper editors of the province, and | had bec the editor aod part owner {of the Gazette since 1856. He was a {clever writer 'and refused an offer' to {become the managing editor of - the | dail and Empire. was a native of the county, having ben born sev- enty-three years ago, at Hallowell Mills, near the old White Methodist | chapel that this year celebrates centennial. He is survived by daughter, Mrs. J. W. Allison, ton. bon. Conger, Chicago, and M. Conger, Camden East, °.J. Conger, swho owned the Gazette R. are to get an militia, not civil service commission, cannot I pect to be overlooked. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Toronto News--the paper which | | was designed. to be a | priotory--slandering the premier. next ? under ©X- model of pro-| What | { ! ! : i Before there can be a greater sale of ! one | 4 | electricity there has to be a lower rate. Pie- small' consumers the | For large amd | tariff is still too high. i his brother, also survives. his Cw, R, Wright was one of the best 'become | nown cenners of the province, - being one of the pioneers of an industry | that during the past tem years has assumed rewarkable proportions. The first factory was built in Prince Ed- ward, in i882 by Wellington Boul- | ter. The next year Mr. Wright went into his employ and four years later became interested in the A. C. Milla factory, which was then started. From {'comparativaly poor circumstances he succeeded until he became exceedingly well-to-do. This May he would celebrated the fiftieth anniversary his marriage with Amelia Kinney. He was. seventy:three years old. Mr. Wright four years ago lost his sight. | {and though he visited New York, { hingston and Toronto experts | |he| never regained that precious gift to! mavkind. He enjoyed vigorous health for his years, and was about town on Monday till stricken with paraly-! : at noon. Death came in , | than forty-¢ight hours. He is {vived by his widow, two sons, R. town; Jack, of Chicago, and five daughters, Mrs. H. W. Carson, Mrs. H. B. Tully, Miss Emma, town; Mrs. {. w Harrison, Brandon, Man., and ' G. Harper, Woodstock. Chuck Bros., who were the owners | lei the canning: plant that was burn- | | ed, at Port Miliord, last fall, have! come to town to reside, and bought | out the implement -business. of Thi- | bault & Hudgin. Mr. Thibault. who | | was last year's deputy-reeve, will tra ivel for the Deering Harvesting com- | pany, and Mr. Hud®in will travel for piano firm. Ww. | with | i | After vommitting the murder of Blyth is | partially sane." | wife, said to have * The plea of insanity him. turn of the rarifi screw makes | did not save | Every { for the impoverishment of the consum ing classes. Ii some interests were less the marketed at a lower protected goods they sell would be rate. Li the allegation of a defedted ecan- didate at {ed Dallot-box | on. Somehow lot have { 10 be believ- of still going ofthe Hal- acknowledged. Grangeville is stuffing 1s the sanctity is not universally i So the government is to recoup the { senders of money letters to the extent | of $25 in i ways have any case. This should al been the case. A registered | © \ : : sis i i letter was never insurod against loss. hs In the west a bridge party is sug in the interest of a dhureh's Next one may expect to hear of the | gested fund. bridge parties in church, after | evening service. The attendance would be pereeptinty larger. The Ottawa Free Press is disturbed lest the with some Japanese may take umbrage of the jingo talk of Sir Toronto World it as an evidence that the Lake. The ac- | pts in- i spector-general wants to hurry his re- ja ' | moval from Canada. { i England want old age Homicidal Mania. Toronto Star | George Stewart, who killed two! "5% | men and wounded four, while running | this | amuck in Dufferin, Grey, is undoubt- in | edly insane. But for his victims and | | their friends the case is just as bad | vs if he had been sane. In fact- the danger from a lunatic is greater than from a sane man of murderous in- i | stinets, because for the former the | law and the gallows have no terrors. the | Stewart, we are told, had shown s of insanity for several years. rapid tele- | hy, then, was he not confined, so as | not to be a source of danger to the! | community ? Perhaps because of the | | delusion that there is such a thing as a harmless lunatic. All persons of un sound mind are dangerous; for no one can predict what form the insanity will take or at what moment it may become homicidal. The other {cent murders in Ontario were the { work of epilepties, who, also in ordin- | ary circumstances, were classed as | harmless. Evidently a reform is re last vear wero quired in our method of dealing with : insane, the to | a -------------- Question Of Th¥*Pig l'oronto Globe 'he greatest rot the possibility of a German in- to vas sion, but how the seven milion divi- | people . who have not enough to eat {may be fed. One party thinks it | { may io sulved by waking food dear- hey hope 'that contemporan- | cous I work will become more plenti- ful. The government now in power dissents from this view, One thing is {certain : The millions who have not fenough to eat will be likely to feel Ottawa Citizen | that they could not be any worse The government has spent 3 8795 000 | off that they are now, even the in me King bx autiful the capital. Here's | Gaul were at their gates. where we all say : "Let Laurier finish | his work." The people « | pensions and a navy as strong two powers, and increase of $100,000,000 Where the Some the after means an the coming taxation. iv money | from ? ol long | stockings will Took thinner the tax collector. the name I] The is ol HOW graphy over a telephone wire without | Telepost i system of automatic simultaneous conversations, | 1,000 words a minute, them at the delivery end. | that the tele raph operator may, in'a little while, be locking up a new occupation. | disturbing | at a speed of receiving This means old-time Evidently the cotton industry is not suffering when the profits of the Mon- | treal Cotton | £251,666, company the amount profit and loss, $10,211. "The . and insurance, policy in the of extent. of $100,000, have been provided for." carried Marck this, depreciation, and in! | k - | | addition ; usual including the question in England is Vey ¥ = i fire to secure eveny mm force the dends, SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Finish It. if 4 The Check Is There. { Ottawa Free Press. : | The attack of W. F. Maclean and | the other oppenents of the sanetion, of about $35,000,000 of | the government to the increase of tax exemptions. And the city is still 250,000,000 in the capital stock of the holding' out more such "inducements" | Canadian Pacific Railway company to coax industries thither. | {would seem to bo completely answer- --- {ed by the terms of the order<in-council Technical Advice. {approving the issue, because that or- Peterboro Examiner. der expressly provides that the issue The public man who would consist- | of the new stock shall not be exempt ently pose as a flagelator of the poli: | from the Operations of the railway tical sins of his opponents should re- board. This a ge move. from a vitreous environment | (loos things the interests of of a domiciliary character. | public, -- A Great Experiment. Toronto Globe. A man Who married fifty women has |g been given an indeterminate sentence | in Chicago. It will be dificult to tell} while he 1s in jail if be is cured of hi marrying propensity: --- Reviving A Statue. Herald. " Edgar us Piling Up The Agony. Hami'ton Times. Toronto has is in the Time To Draw The Line. { Toronto Telegram. rtv barrooms in Toronto. Temperance sentiment does not {peal to Hon. W. J. Hanua to refuse a as twenty<four-howr © per day, seven-day | per week, liquor franchise to the lat- ! ost applicant for "club privileges.' If "club privileges' ' can he multiplied | | with the effect of permitting the sale Dewdney, whose name | of liquor at all hours of the day and most had begun to associate | yicht, Sundays and week: days, the with Lord, Selkirk's, 'talks of coming | multiplic ation "of these privileges must back to 're-enter politics in Canada. | | increase drinking faster than drinking The anti-Borden tion would hardly | can be dee ay by the closing of har go as far as to adopt him, however. | Montreal Hou. of rooms, --- \ The United States government is; The Lanadian Pacific railway nrn- trying to collect huge penalties from | ings for the first week in February the sugar trust, blleging fraudulent | chow an increase of £328 000 over the weighing at the custom house. corresponding week of last year. ® RATE PICTONANS ARE DEAD, Members of parlia-| carly hour yesterday morning, in the | its | F.| | vive to the church in proportion be | side of { the less the church that is doing these | | mgnner { much | system; burned cut government which ! Temperance sentiment voted to close | | ap- | AMONG commissions ; Comprises Ten Women, i There are ten women among: the | fifty commissioners that the govern- { ment of Mexico has sent out for the {purpose of studying the best methods of education in the different countries. Miss Juana Palacios, the head of a {normal school for girls at Pueblo, is = [now in Boston investigating the best [ays of teaching arithmetic. Miss | Castaneda, inspector of kindergartens' | for the City of Mexico, is Sudyin the kindergarten system in N ok Jes Bertha vou Cn a ork: Mexican, is in Chicago investigati elementary education. y To ig imen who have been sent to France are making a study of technical schools. Mrs. 'Laura Mendez de Cuenca, who is now in Germany investigating {German methods of teaching, is a wo- man of distinction in her own coun- | try, both as a writer of travels and a poet. She was one of the three dele- untes sent by Mexico to the recent in- ternational congress for normal educa- tion in London. | i TT -- 5 ee ey "ROM PARIS Gown, DAILY HINT Blue 8 Chuich And Socialism. Montreal Witness The idea that the to side with the wealthy is the very :ommonest and cheapest of slanders. | f the wealthy do their duty they will | } to] means, or more than in propor tion. As a fact .they do not give their | fair proportion. When wealth endows the church it certainly ig not to bribe | it, but for the benefit of the poor. As! for the 'church conducting social ex periments, that is a matter pru lence. If reforms are carried out the church by those who are} agreed with Yegard to them, it is none | church is bribed their of on | things. Free citizens have generally] revolted against the church when, as an organization, it has undertaken in any way to guide mundane affairs. New Washing Machine Hlossburg - Advertiser. Jay Wallace, engineer, and Edward Viltse, fireman, on the Morris Run | Hill engine, have invented and con- | tracted an up-to-date washing ma- chine. The tub is filled with sailed | clothing, and then connected up with 1 the steam pipe of a locomotive #mi in three minutes the clothes are thoroughly «'¢ansed. Connection is then made with the eold water pipe | and the same length of time suffice to rinse the clothes and they are | ready for the Kune. Forty suits of { jumpers and overalls. belonging to ratlroad men were washed in this in a very few minutes, which great "let-up" in the weekly in number of families. "WAS an washing a What May Yet Happen. Belleville Intelligencer The Montreal Gazette of admirer of the that why, perhaps; such sentiments as the fol- "No than fifteen muni- y Ontario made ofiers of a a Kingston piano factory the other dav. In! order o retain the industry hingéton "was compelled to grant the concern thonus of 210000. 1f this sort thing is Rept up manufacturers be able their plants, "= for the will have to edrry it id cure themselves from loss moval. That is about out Stop Falling Hair. It is easier to keep the han bave then to restore it when one | fost. The use of Dr. Dawsou's Hair Restorer will always enable you to {stop 'the falling out of hair and to | | quicken its growth. Restores gra. hair to its natural color. In het- tles 50¢. cach at Wade's drug store. never was bonus it ex- an 18 presses lowing less cipalities | honus to will municipalities order to what it at." 3 ou | Woolly. From Bohemian "1 that suit against to Kutter, bor. "Yes," replied Kutter, "and the un ion probably thought I should be an- noyed. If it had only. investigated would have learned and my family think a union suits." the vou," the employer of sop has union "scab great deal of | Every spirit makes its house; hut | afterwards the house confinés the spir- it, so vou would better build weli. The Mintage of Wisdom is tg know that rest is rust, and that Real Life lies: in Lote, Laughter and Work. ress: Red of | to dispense' with insurance op | sn | brought! wemarked Tomilstn { it} that both myself | We're not going to beat around the bush a bit. We're going to come right out boldly and' say that we've the best School Suits on earth. We Want You to See Our Great 35. 00 and $6.50 Suits. These Suits we've never seen equalled for the price. Good Fabrics, Strong Tailoring, lots of style. Special for $2.50 TO-MORROW we place cn sale 50 Boys' Norfolk and Three- Sizes 8 years to 14 years. Piece Suits, s Kingston's Cash a BOLD L80080AAMAS The H. D. Bibby Co. nd One Price Clothing House. SHIITES IIIS ESI9999909990 4 | | | PBT VVLVRVTLTT RTL LVVLVLRARVVDY Ripe Tomatoes Ripe Bananas Seedless Lemons Bitter Oranges 30 Cents Per Dozen. Tease we BP VVVLBLLBLBLBRN TLE S ' : : ' : : : ' : : : : : : A.J.REES, 166 Princess St Phone 58. BE a Something New. A Clearing Sale of Hardware. lavestigate, i It will pay you to STRACHAN"S _ MADE IN CANADA GILLETT'S ava 1 SOLD IN PACKAGES AND CANS Same Price as the poor Adulterated Kinds E. W. GILLETT CO, LTD. Toronto, Ont. through re | works | oO N is assured, we are pre- {parad to fill all orders for | Ice Cream at 60c Per .Quart No change in quality. ' IPrice's, 28 mma Sasdenach Animosity. | utes Witness. A litt Jad at at a, recent cert said to his father: "Father, why does the piper k on the move all the time he plays ? "1 can't say," the father Béotch con- ) } Hing the range with. a hick. * | | { i | ment + A DOLLAR Looks as big as a waggon wheel us at this timé of the yoar. Do Not Wait Till Spring to Make Your Selections. re, lower now greate All kinds ot Household Goods {and sol Try me Jor a square dea! L. Lesses. Cor. Princess and Chatham Sts, King ston, Ont. to Pricey and pur assort- fhonght. 'World's Famous Milk | Chocolates. { W that a supply of Ice 288 Princess St. cop | 'unless it is to prevent anv one get- All Prices TOBLER'S, from 5¢. to 20Ge. per pkg. a ILLER'S, from Jc. to 20c, per Miers, from Bec. to 40c. per pkg. JSBSTLE" 8, from be. to 15e. [oh ow: '8, from bc. to 20e, FRY'S, from Be. to 20c. COWAN'S, from De. to tlk, 50e. Ib. T. Peters & Co., 184 Princess street, "Phone, 640, per per pl r pkg. jc. per pkg. M. P, KEYS Antiseptic Saree Shop Hair Dressing Shaving Parlor. Three Chair, oe Service. our pat- robage So. 336 King Street Next door to Wade's Drug Store. Scientific Obseryation. London Advertiser. "Does the baby talk yet?" a friend of the family. "No," replied the baby's disgusted little brother, "the baby doesn ped tw talk." "Doesn't need to talk ?"' "No. All 'the baby thas to. do is lo yell, and it gets everything. asked