PACE FOUR THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, S ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1909. $000000000066066600000 | T ® Would there 3 : : {CORBETT'S D0090000000060000000000 | clcuscd men MADE IN CANADA GIC MA POWDER Makes Your EXPENSES Light Makes Your BISCUITS Light Makes Your CAKES Light Makes Your BUNS Light Makes Your LABOR Light THE WHIG, 76th YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, i, 806-310 King street, King at 3 per Jour. Editions at 350 arle; wiry BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages published in parts on Monday and Thurs- day morning at $1 a year." lo United States. charge for postage has to be ed, making Price 3 of Dally $3 and of idea, $1.50 per year Attac is one of the best Job Print. ng ; rapid, stylish, Curling i go in and cheap work ; dda 'improved presses. | The British Whig Publishing Co., Lt'd EDW, J. B. PENSE, Managing Director. { tn | | TORONTO OFFICE. ite 19 and 20, Queen City Cham- 83 Church St., Toronto, H. E. ice, tive. § "Daily Wibia. AN INCREASE OF DIVORCE. The senate is having so many ap- | plications for divoree that the ques- | tion is being forced upon parliament { whether it would not be better, after | all, to have a divorce court? Ouly | the rich can at present secure an an- { nulment of the marrigge contract, be- cause it costs from 8500 to £1,000 to { meet the expense of the senate. There must be many cases where the {freedom . of the contracting parties { would make for 'their Bu | bers, 8 290. ¢ Others to select from | up to 75c. abiding happi- more divorces ? would, and then the and women would: be legally, as many of | them do now illegally. Still more, court { | ness, be {able to wemarry a divorce secured in the would be founded on = such analysis of the evidence as the vener- | able senators cannot possibly make, { The juedge, Who is experienced is the |only one who can rightly divide the [ truth from the error and reach a { sult that will stand 'In ation," re- public serutiny. years of the canfeder- says the Toronto World, "the { applications did not more each session, and the total | number granted from 1867 down till | 1883 was twenty-six. that | number the early average | than one But the records the inereas- | show of more recent years has been considerably Between 1888 aud 1900, a period ORDER FROM YOUR of the selected Bible readings 'plated an the public schools. ihe law permits' note 'and comment, the Board of Education wiser plan of which are takes using approved by the Interna- tional Bible association or by the In- ternational Sunday School tion. But occasionally some cunderstood to advocate the Bible as it is without omissions. Yes? Well, the Bible is a reflection of conditions as they have existed in the world and as they exist to-day, and there are some pas- sages which cannot be understood by children, or even by adults, without explanation. So, lacking this expla- nation the readings had better be se- one is reading any ected. agree The The churches did practically upon the so-called Ross Bible. Archbishop of Toronto, representing the Roman Catholics, joined with the Protestant prelates in ap- proving of the scripture readings, and yet the viesous . partizan spirit which prevailed caused such a tumult that the work had to be suppressed. It may be {hat a more amiable . spirit now exists, but it is only necessary for the politicians to get busy in der to discredit the best work of the Lest men in issue or a worthy cause. EDITORIAL NOTES. About fifteen millions of dollars is alleged to be the net financial result of the Steel-Coal companies' law and appeal cases. But it all out the and consumers eventually. will steel come of coal The big issue in Manitoba just now is compulsory education. the Roblin government, The liberals stand as It is being crowded on unwillingly. unit for it. a Th: school board of Hamilton is advised by the press to pull with the city council so that the greatest eco- nomy may be practiced. The city not in a position this year financial experiments. is for any 1h of of divor- and this | the number thiety-five, GROCER. twelve years, | ee granted if BU cessful, was are | { ession, all the applications the number will be twenty- E.W.GILLETT CO.,LTD. Toronto, Ont. four." These, too, may be but a per- centage of what there would be were money and inconvenience not to bar | |e | | | | 1 . | legislation which so many deserving or distressing warrant. cases pet. GOOD CHANCE FOR REFORM. The conservatives of 'West Kent met in convention some days ago' and de ded, some that they had wot a monopoly 'of political that . in the last federal elec: was a gross abuse of the after meditation, Southern Yellow Pine and British Columbia Dou- glas Fir, Large timbers on hand, sawn to your order on sho: test notice. ion there franchise, and by the one side as much y the other. 1a But the thoronghly and henceforth "they will their the are clean, | | | |b If it repented of their conservatives have, seems, s0 act "XM, of the will be unseat ns, redeem characters. Pike, 'we {a to said Mr mvention, president Fee g we [i position to | who wins over our head in an impregnable any member | through corruptions. We will be in a 5. ANGLIN & CO. josition to favour a protest and fight Bay and Wellington S Wo that Cor Sts. through. are not 'able to come 1 I {1 | before von in way, now." I'his {that does honour to the mau and the he Best of all, the hatham been vindicated | is a noble confession, and one BIBBY'S CAB STAND i. Phone 201. n ad ocension to call 'down the party, DAY or NIGHT |= bs' the of the = fi wise of corrupt practices, Wah Long's Xaugdry Removed Clarence 8t 155 Welling | the between Brock and Olarence | denounced, laundry in the city. Goods some hot-heads, but and delivarad, | party represents. Planet convention has Our contemporary 1 could not pro- { election member-elect while it reeking with odours of the It repudiated by Fy mm 78 8t to huns way and proba- s bl called for {the convention endorsed its conten if You Want to Buy, Rent or Sell REAL ESTATE| I make a specialty of samo, | Drop a card or call on me. No | trouble to show property. Insur-| ance at lowest rates. Money. to ("hep loan. { cannot be far away. GEO. CLIFF, ; Real Estate valuatior, etec., 95 Clarence street. happy. real | tions and it should be There is evidence of { when leaders of the party publicly pro- that no crookedness reform they want in elect and will not stand for it. {Tf the day ever comes when the po- litical parties will go out of the buy- would so many laim ions, of votes as they for the shambles the millenium ing Ma ROSS BIBLE AGAIN. News, ~ commenting num ber 'of public is scripture Toronto | the large i schools in which there ins 3,151 out of a total of 5,797 | in this province, and regarding it | as an evidence of the recognition of re- once remarkable The upon at | { ligion which as at | and satisfactory, i "It is no credit to Christians Christian religion that Protes- Roman Catholics cannot nite on some form of scripture read- for the The funde | mentals of the two branches of the and it is.a pity mutual toleration member of the not have to be derived Bible. reading of selected remarks : and he ie tauts and gchools, church are identical, for lack and forbearance every generation should undoubted benefit with | that of risang Same Price Coal as the Other Fellow - -- BUT DIFFERENT ! he orn {the the rom familiarity . The daily scriptugg serves to in Of of salient featyresrof holy The verses Assayes im- pres upon the child mind. ss the s writ may fixed much just| now, but they: will return life as spifptual inspiration, signify in youthful | | | 1" | memory| { A inZafter { moral sign-posts gna character ton- of Han. peculiar tha willy fo Koss, mterest, CRAWFORD, Hpwed , Foot of Queen St. attempt tionn: { a YlLone, 9 Mr. while he was. ast- W.-T. R. Preston writes another chapter on the North Atlantic Emi- gration bonus case, and establishes the absolute innocence of afl the All right. there. No parties Let the mat/ letters, in the deal ter rest more 1 dease, The the heinous when the president "sins of be of the New York theatrical managers admits that there are five shows that should One of them is the Wilde,' stage" mast be closed, Han- of ipeakable dramg of Oscar unclean memory, it Certain officials of the partment, preferred; all? which marine de against 'whom charges were have been released. 1s that What about the prosecutions were to follow Judge Cassels' Punishment the idea; but justice. report. is not main So (Canada the to is to pargiwipate iu imperial general staff, 'which has with the defence of the empire. How much will this add to the cost of the militia department ? It a Pertinent question to those who think the limit has reached. "co is now been Pellatt, Light company, says that power cannot be delivered by the Hydro-Electrie le than do- 220 off-in his Pel Sir Henry Toronto Electric commission , for The cost, to the consumer, - will 58 $48 per annum. hivered be is it? more. Somebody Who away figures is Yeck latt ? or The of millions expenditure of it, ment, is inevitable, more money, in railway The finest and by reputation But that does not justify the division of old than 'market constant outlays. a new issue of bonds among the stockholders ' less value, SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Political House-Cleaning. Toronto Globe. The process of housecleaning is go- ing on vigorously at Ottawa. The broom will be freely wiclded wherever its services are required. at And Yet You Kick. Toronto Globe. The city's percentage of over 000 for January shows that the strect railway is paying well, or at least the passengers are doing so. £30, Judge Mabee, Please Read. Calgury Herald. : weteen cents a mile is the passen- rate on the White Pas railway, and in winter they 'charge $200 a ton for freight. Looks like a good place the railway commission to gunning ger tor go Parties Consolidating, Montreal Herald. The Kingston Standard wants party convention for the purpose ratifving a list of conservalive doe- trines it enumerates. Horrible to re- Jate, everyone on the list reads like a liberal doctrine. What are we coming to in this country ? S a of Evil Of The Club. Belleville Ontario. No wonder that curtain people Toronto voted for the reduction bd liquor licenses when 'clubs' are be- ing incorporated at which liquor. can Leo' procured on any day of the week-- Sunday not excepted--and at hour. & ! in any Sterling orange slicers, for sale or i to vent, 2We. a day, at Gilbert's r of the reading. of the scripture without and an Kingston the the readings associa president of the | improve- | road | equipment can only maintain its | = -- CACPRCROY suialE wim iu xlalulely - CEORCECRORORORR ORD The be a housecleaning in the town fire de- partment. Aveording to 8, says, it looks as though the "'barna-| cles" were to be cleared away, and he thinks the Mepnttment, can stand an overhauling. There's been too much friction ' there for some years, he de- claves, and he wonders that the chief hasn't used his powers the way other chiefs would do. Be They tell me," the Lampman said, "that some men in the department are not on speaking terms. This uld be investigated. fi there is friction like that in the ranks, there should be some dismissals. And if it's true that some firemen don't obey the chief's orders, the sooner a change occurs the better. We want a good, live . fire depariment, whose members are on good terms with each other, as our policemen are, and where there is thorough discipline." The Lampman is in favor of asking the whole bri- sadé to resign, and re-engaging only those who are deemed fit. There should be no trouble-makers in the de- partment, he says. > we "I'm glad to see," said the Lawmp- many 'that some smart people have failed in their endeavor to unseat Dr. Richardson from our school board. It's a ease of sour grapes, pure and sim- ple. However, my old friend, Judge Pri " who ga a very keen judge, and see behind ae certainly handed what this rude age calls a lemon to the complainants. 1 don't regard Messrs. White and Rimes as the com- plainants. They were merely figure heads, but' had the courage to sign their names to an affidavit. Those who engineered' the job kept away in the backggound.' The -LaMpman went on to say that Jr. Richardson was too valuable a man to be lost to the Board of Edu- cation. He's one of the best trustees who ever sat at the board, and if he had been unseated, the town council would simply 'have re-appointed him. "There was no ground for any ac- tion being taken to disqualify the doc- tor," said 'the Lampman, "for those behind the attempt were told plainly that he received no money for vac- cinating 'schoal children. There would have been mote ground for action against another member of the Board of Education, whose firm, last fall, merely for. convenience, and on being urged, furnished a few dollars' worth of goods to a school. That was plain: lv illegal, but what would have been the use of unseating that member ? | suppose, the Queen's professor, who r. €mmingham says engaged him to bring the action, will have to pay out of his 'own pocket thé legal fees for his attempt to put Dr. Richardson into the retirement the people placed himself on January 4th last. --THE TOWN WATCHMAN. CURIOUS REASON FOUND. Fish Disturb Water So That It Will Not Freeze. Ini_gpite of a temperatave of ten de grees. below zero, which formed ice ysoven inches © in thickness on the lllinois river at this point, the artifi- cial lake in Glen Oak park, one and a ball - acres in area, has not frozm over. Usually . this lake .is the most popular skating resort in the city, and a curious reason has been found-why it is not frozen over. Eight + years ago ihe park board purchased several "hundred goldfish, of a variety which grow to a consider ible size, These fish. have multiplied | with astonishing rapidity; until it is stimated by Seerctary B. F. Cart wright, of the park board, that 100, 000- now swarm the lake. Some: of these fish -have attained a gize of two pounds. In their efiorts to get air when tirst skim of Sec appears these vise to the surigee and the waler kept constuntly disturbed. of thon eair the fish is Thousands be seen from the shores if the lake, swimming in schools and 'milling in -civeles the sur- of the water. bp---- Incresnse In Use Of Snuff. And speaking of enuff, i% is invari- thly surprising to the layman delving in tobacco to find that the consump- | ion of spuff, mstead of dying out, is popularly; supposed, j creasing. A half century there were only a few hundred thousand | pounds of snuff produced in thie ooun- | try. To-day * spufi is being manufae- tured amd consumed in the United States at the rate of about 23,500 000 pounds a yesr, and is increasing at the Tate of 1,000,000 pounds per an- nem. The American Tobacco com- pany, commonly known as the iobac- eo trust, has played an important role in the development of tha tobacco industry: James Buchanan Duke, who heads the company, started thirty vears ago with a little tobacco shop down in North Carolina, which he operated in company with his father and mother. To-day his powerful cor- poration has lute monopoly oi the snuff indusiry, controls the ¥plug tobacco trade, has ninety pet cent. of { the smoking tobacco and digarette | business, and is cutting a swath in | the manufacture of cigars. all over face as is rapidly in- ago )S 'Tyrian Purple. cientific American. The ancient yr { {8 | ar purple was ob { tained from mollusks of the genera' | Musex and Purpura. The ary of dye ling with this color was. completely {lost in the middle ages and the sub- jet' was not investigated until the cighteenth century. It has been prov- ed that the color is produced by | the action of light on a colorless soc¥etion of special glands ~ possessed by the | mollusks. It 'is probable that the {action of the eazias also contribuivs j1 to the result." Chemical investigations {have indicated the presence of indigo | blue in the dve. Friedlander has {made a new s{udy of the famous dye | and concludes that it 15 closely related to indigo, but i= not identical with jeither indigo blue or thio-indigo. en cai -- | We don't sell gold dollars for 6Hity | contg, but wy have the biggest bar- gains in homes and building lots you will find anywhere in the eity. Me- | Cann. a. . n notes that there is to; | tearing di "TWAS ONLY A TRICK. Humane Officer Was Out After a Performer. Horace Goldin, in Standard Magazine. 1 think one of the most amusing cx- perienees 1 evervhad in my hile was fon an occasion when I was performing fia trick at the Palace theatre in Lon. { don, which consisted apparently of a hive duck into three parts, "| puts ting them into a basin, and turn- ing them in a moment into three live ducks, Of course, I never thought for {a moment that anyone would really i believe that 1 phi. 4 did wer up a tive duek, but to my surprise an ofli- eer representing the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Avimals call- ed on me one evening and informed we that higsocicty intended to prose tite me unless 1 instantly i what be called my brutal and cruel performance of tearing a live duck to pieces, "My dear sir," 1 replied, ° cer. tainly shall not stop ins that trick until wy audiences are tired of it, but don't vou understand that it is a trick, or an illusion, and that | do not do anything s6 horribly eruel as to tear up a live duck, though T may appear to do so?' 1 offered to show the officer how the trick was done if ho liked, but he took my word and want away, satisticd that my trick was Bot performed at the expense of the duck's feelings. 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Kansas City Times Melisa Houston, the Indign wife of General 'Houston, first president of Texas, after toe Texaus' rebelled azainst Mexico and set up a repub- fic, is reported by a correspondent to be in daugge of actual starvation through the desertion of her tribes wen. - This woman is, according to the hest authority, 114 years old, and 'she is blind and partially ' para- lyzeedl. It has long been the cus. tom of the Comanches, Kiowas . and other blanket Indian tribes to - aban- don their old men and old women to their fate and permit them te die by slow degrees. This old woman lives in' her tepee on the banks of | the Washwa River, three miles from the agency. Her nearest neighbor is a white family, about a mile distant, \s the white settlers know it would offend the members of her tribe should they - render assistance they refyain from doing so. General Houston Jiv- ed among the Cherokee tribe when he was quite young, but later went to the southwest and cast his lot with the Kiowas: Then he met and mar- ried Melisa, it is said, when she was the belle of the tribe. HOW RENT WAS PAID. ¢: the Famous Painter, Warm Heart. Gilohe the nerous and some day Corot, Loudon Coret, lad a g vit. Corot owners of Paris. One tailor--came (to could not pay « "What: can 1 do for vou?' (Corot. ~ "'l- canfiot interceda with my sister, because I'm good terms with her." As a matter of fact tist was regarded as a his family. "However," thowshtiul to pay the rent, famous French painter, heart and a whimsical his sister were joint house property in one of the temants-- Corot and said his rent. asked for you not on the great Ularlure" ar- by added, after "here's the only donft let any one know I have given it you," The tawor, after that, used to turn periodically when his rent due and obtain the money from rot. "1 appear to be artist remarked "but 1 am not, it hack from of the rent. he pause, a money to re- wis Co- very generous," the on one occasion, because T get half of my sister as my © share bo | | premacy, the distance between it | thing, whilo its docks and wharves are Had | 1 | that fortitude which so characterize a ng' Brown Beavers, Black SITING sospsssasssvussessene} Something New, Three-quarter lengths, Long Coats, College Ulsters, cote. A Clearing Sale of Hardware. investigate. It will pay you to STRACHAN'S GREATEST IN WORLD. |Fortify the System London Has Held Record For Two | Against Colds, &e. Hundred Years. By using od. years Londo has Bowvnil or Johnston's Fluid Beef been the greatest port in the world, The tonnage entered there in 1907 wos We have a Fg suppl, 20c., 35¢., 65¢c and $1.00 11,166,367 tons, and 8,598 979 tous were cleared, a total of 19,759,346 FRESH OYSTERS D. COUPER, tons. Liverpool entered and cleared in 'Phone, 841-3 I'rincess Huy all sizes, 16,665,308 tons. Tho trade of the port reaches the vast sum of $2,430 000,000, New York's total in 1907 was $1,709,164 42 int while London maintains its su- and ite foreign rivals is diminishing. Even among English ports a more progres iivo policy has been followed Liverpool, Southampton, and month, Liverpool has recently spent $25,000,000 on her facilities; Ply- mouth, 812,500,000, and Southampton, 210,000,000. London's rivals on the cAntinent have also Been active. Ham- burg has recently spent $73,000,000 on improvements and contemplate spend- ing $6,250,000 more, whilo Antwerp proposes to spend $35,000,000 on docks and $22,500,000 on: a canal. London in recent years has spent almost no 76. of DEATH SENTENCE EQUAL Me Fly-| Measure That Caused Dr. Guillotin to Favor Machine. Westminster Gazette, The titular author of the guilloting --an appliance recently again dragged into the light of day--hus suffered a ate by no means uncommon, Regard- od with horror, Dr. Joseph--Ignace Guillotin was in reality a philanthro- pist deserving the highest respeot. Born at Saintes in Poitou in 1738; of hard working, austere, middle class stock, and educated at the Jesuit Col: lege © of Bordeaux, he began life as a professor under the same roof. Deters mining later to study medicine he bril: liantly passed the necessary examin tion in Paris, for a time practicing at Reime, afterward with his wife re- turning to the capital. By Paris, in- deed, he was named "deputy of the Tiers Etat on the outbreak of the Re- volution, his first measures in the Assembléa Constituante being hygion- ic. Ho forthwith brought about the better ventilation and cleanliness of the building and when cold weather set in the installation of heating ap- paratus. The doctor did not stop hers. Hor- ror-stricken at the slow tortures of the death penalty inflicted upon the non-privileged classes, decapitation being allowed only in the case of the noblesse, on December 1st, 1879, he proposed the absolute equality of pun- ishments. The motion was adopted, and breaking on the wheel and similar atrocities became things of the past. But the worthy Poitevin doctor did' not 'invent the machine fastened to his name and four years later put to such fearful use. deteriorating. A royal commission was appointed in 1900 and it report vd more than six years ago! and still no improvement has been begun. The Balfour government pressed a bill for improvement, but it failed of paes- nge. News Of Wellington. Wellington, Feb. 11.--Mrs. Martin Pottingill, who for years has been sui- fering from a complication of diseases, departed this life on Tuesday 'nfter- noon last. M Pettingill was of a loveable Christian character, and bore up under her afflictions with Christian, She leaves a husband and one daughter, Mrs. John Stinson, td mourn her Joss. The funeral took place from her late residence on Thursday at two o'clock. Rev. Mr Houck officiated. Interment was at Wellington cemetery. A. N. Sherman of Athens was in Wellington on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. George Rose, of Athol, drove up to Welling- ton on Wednesday. A. A. Morden, who shipped his drove oi thgroughbred *'Oh, You Coward." Woman's Life Miss Millie vaudeville actress, tof an iocideut whivt h occurred she was touring in In the playing Holland some time company in which she there was a well-known lion-tamer who has a termagant of wife and at every rehearsal the ill-as- sorted couple were quarrelling bitter- ly. The Hon-tamer had just finished his performance, and was bowi ing him- sell "off the stage amid the plaudits of the audience, when his wife made a grab at him and began to belabor bim soundly, The peor fellow stood it as long a8 he could, then suddenly he broke from her grasp, and flving toward the cage of "his fiercest lion, he opened the door and popped in. For some time the virago stood and taunted him in a vain endeavor to induce him to come out, but the lon- tamer was nat to he moved. At last, after she had exhausted every possible epithet, she put her face close to the bars and hissed out : "Oh, you cow- ard !"" ago Was a cs esc ser Discontent is inertia on a strike. Hylton, the well-know niand so on, averaging told a good gtory | Herbert McDonald accompanied "when | Ayrshire cattle to Toronto, for sale received good sound prices for them. cow - brought $100, another $70, good big prices. him. Miss Blanche Bongard, Black River, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs, Claude Smith, last week, The gospel workers held their service in the old town het, on Sunday last. The Wellington Laundry run by Charles Marks, 1s in operation. A. N. Shots, of Athens, was for a couple of da a gukst at Hotel Williams. Miss Xen McDonald and ladg friend, both of Albert Col- lege, Belleville, spent Sunday at Miss McDonald's home, Wellington. (Dr.) Harry Post and baby, three months have been in arrived home last week. Miss Powers, Picton, was the guest of Mrs. Harry Cleminson, last w Miss Ethel vis- ited friends in Wi this 'week. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth De Mille went to Toronto, this de Hotel We wan in Mr, 1 In after years--he quietly practiced his profession till 1814--the very step he had taken for humanity's sake haumrtea him like a nightmare. Isn't This Romantic ? Two foes loved by four corns for five vears; and sentenced to die by five ap- plicationsgof Putnam's Corn Extraec- tor. If you want to cure corns "Put- nam's" is the only thing--try this painless remedy. i One All Skates At Cost. Automobile ' skates a specialty. Stiachan's. The man who is self-sustaining is inthe matter of food at least inde: y ace was a t at the