PAGE EIGHI. Tae 5 | HE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 109. pcs mop Now on, Come in. and Compare It. Costs you nothing to LOOK. John McKay STORES--107 Princess St., 151 Brock { The Standard of Silver Excellence It costs more at first, but is the kind that does not wear out. Flatware Bon-Bon Dishes Sugar & Cream Sets Bad $ ¢ Butter Dishes 4 In designs and weights to § suit everyone. i A AP AP AANA < 4 i 3 4 $< 4 4 - Spangenberg's. PER PEER eV PEERY Make Your Own Marmalade. 2 dozen Oranges, 25c. ......... « 765¢c. Sugar ..50 15 $1.25. Makes 34 bottles Marmalade, At B00. . ...rcrmrrrseinsiasiinis nian $6. SAVINGS STERLING SLICER, ONLY $150. SEE OUR WINDOW. W. A. Mitchell. Wood's The Great English Semedy. Tones and invigoratesthe whol ph. nervous system, makes new lood in eld Veins, Cures Nero STERLING DEBT THE PROM | OWES TO THE UNITED EM- PIRE LOYALISTS. Education in the Early Days Was Largely Due to These New | Arrivals. | J. George Hodgins, M.A. LL.D, | historiographer of the education de- | partrent of Ontario, is the author of | an extremely , interesting monograph {on the debt the province owgs to the {1 . E. Loyalists in the mattér of edu- | cation, which is published as an ap- pendix to the report of the minister of education. , After pointing out that the early British colonials established no less than nine universities and colleges, in- | eluding Harvard and Yale, before the | American revolution, Dr. Hodgins | sketches in concise and masterly form | the rise and progress of education in Ontario from the day when the set- tlers on the Bay of Quinte prayed Lord Dorchester to establish a "semin- ary of learning" at Frontenac (King- nj. Some of the early official announce ments in this conpection make very {curious reading at the present day. For instance, a notice in the York Ga- zette in 1796 stated that "as schools were now in operation, ignorance | would be no longer tolerated!' | University men, thinking of the |v equipment which the teaching of i | science now demands, will smile as | | JAMES ROSS President of the Dominion Coa yany oe -------- | . a -------------------- | thay read, "'In the same year (1806), | atthe suggestion of Rev. Dr. Strach «an, an act was passed granting £400 for the purchase of apparatus for il- lustrating the principles of national philosophy, which were to be placed in the hands of a person employed in the instruction of youth." The foundation of lpper Canada College in 1829 by Sir John Colborne is noted at lengih. tegarding the grammer schools of the early days, he quotes the report for 1874 of the chief superintendent of education, which states that the one at Mingston is the oldest, having been established in 1792, Cornwall in 1806, Brockville in 1818, Niagara in 1828 and St. Cath- arines also in 1828, The pioneer teachers of the country are sympathetically dealt with. The text of a notice issued by Dr. William Warren Baldwin, father of Hon. Robert Baldwin, in December, 1802, is sufficiently curious to be quo- ted at length. | "Understanding that some of the gentlemen of this town have expressed much anxiety for the establishment of a classical school Dr. Baldwin leave to inform them and the public that he intends, on Monday, the third of January next, to open a school, in begs Sed ous Debility, Mental and Brain Worry, Des pondenay, Sexual Weakness, Fopiswiona, Sper hava, and Effects of Abuse or Frcesses wer box, Hatori One will please, six ru sl cur. Sold by all ists or mailed in on eoulpt of pelcs. New pamphled ted. Yhe Medicine Co. nto. Omi | terly. Windsor: Toro! Military Tournament In May. A military tourmhment will be given at the Montreal Avena by the officers and men of the Montreal Garrison May 25th and 29th next, lines of the very successful which a conple of years ago. Preparaticnig tor the .g ment are already under wa ® has been decided that exhibitions le given by gentlemen cadet the Royal Military College of ston with other features A musical ride and other equestrian feats will be piven by the Royal Canadian Dra St. Johns, with exhib tent pegging, ete Royal Horse Artillivy of King also take part in the with several of ther on the exhibition along was given ourna- will from goons from tions of Canadian ston, will tournament, light guns. The ---- "Seidlita hoxes, Store. powders," put up in tin at Gibson's Red Cross Drug SE -------- -- -- : : : : plied by each boy on the opening it | King- | which he will instruct twdlve boys in reading, writing, the elassies and arithmetic. "Ihe terms are, for each boy, eight (ne puinea extra as entrance cord of wood to be sup. ol fee, and one the school." A fact that may not be generally known in the history of Rev. br Strachan (afterwards first Bishop of loronto) is that on coming to this he compelled through of cirenmstances to engage as a tutor in the family of Hon. Richard Cartwright, one of the gentlemen whe at the lieutemari-governor's sugges | tion, had induced Strachan to come out to Upper Canada to establish a | university. | The early estimate as to the stan- | dard of qualification for the teaching profession does not appear to have always been a very high one. A peti- tion to the legislature in 1546 reads 'Your memorialists do not hope provide qualified , teachers any | other means in the present ecircum- | stances of the country. than by | curing, as heretofore, the services | country was stwess to by se of those whose personal disabilities, from age, render this miode of obtaining a SVL VT LLB BTVVVRSSS FT VVVVVELVLVVVLVVAVVEVNY OUR TAILORING OUR LARGE BUSINESS DID NOT COME TO US BY ACCIDENT. it is the result of factory work. Choice Woollens prices. LIVI SEV LVVV VBR TTB CRITONS : : : : : : : a after season, perfect, Spring Fabrics You can find here the best assortment of and TEST US FOR YOUR SPRING ORDER NGSTON"S turning out, season artistic, "and satis- most satisfactory ~~ | ' : : : ; : i TRV TVRVRATVLRVATVRTCNL i ' guineas per annum, to be paid quar-| ito War' livelihood : the ouly one suited to! their decaying energies, or by ex- ploying such of the newly-arrived emi- jgrants as are qualified common {school teachers, vear by year, as they [come amongst us." | The monograph closes with an teresting pen picture of the old {school house of long age | ON SUSPENDED SENTENCE. in log { The - Case of Thomas Page atthe Police Court. Thomas Page, arrested on a charge of stealing brass from the Locomo- tive Works, was allowed to go on suspended sentence at the police court this moiping. "1 have given your case a good deal of consideration as to ' what your punishment should be," said Magistrate Favell. "It is your first appearance here and so far as I know it is the first step you have taken in the wrong direction. As far as 1 ean find your reputation is not bad, and nothing can be pointed out to show that you have a criminal ten dency. Added to this is my own be- lief,' aud 1 believe in my own mind, that you were not actually in the Locomotive Works." Continuing, the magistrate also saitl: 'Believing that you were not at the works 1 have decided to act with more leniency. 1 will give you an oppottunity which 1 hope will serve yod a life time--an op ortunity {o re-consider your course oi action, with the hope that you will not again enter on such a course. I will, therefore, suspend sentence and trust that it will be appreciated by you and that you will yoursell make a re- solve that it-will be the last time] voit will ever appear here, or in. any | other place, on a similar charge. lam doing this on one condition, and that is that® you accept the position which has been offered you by a gen- tleman from the country, who is will- |e to employ you." Page leit the eourtsroom with the | gentlemen from the country, who will { give him employment. A first appearance drunk. was dis | charged. He has been "on the water wagon" for four months, he said, but when ill bad taken liguor and it | scomed to go to his head. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Of Kingston Township Flourishing State. The oflicers of the Kingston | ship Agricultural society are justly {proud of the progress made during past years and look forwaed with 'confidence to the future. i The prize list has been largely in- | creased and notwithstanding this the surplus has grown year after yee { The association has over $400 in the bank to its credit, and this, with the government and other grants, will {enable the directors to open the gates next September with about 560 on hand. No doubt considerable \ipcrcases will be made in the pre- {mium list for 1909. \ Th» society has been ceveful in its | selection of directors and a 'man must earn the honor of being presi- dent. Last year R. J. Bushe), Esq., was, president and his long experience {and well-known energy and gemiality fitted him admirably for the posi- tion. This year the society is again fortunate in its selection of Mr. Fow- ler, of Glenburnie. The secretary- treasurer for several years has heen Dr. Edwards, M.P.P. 'No one per- son has done #0 much to make the i township of Kingston show a success RK wm! as E. K. Purdy, whose management of the races has given general satistac tion_to the public and saved the so ciety hundreds of dollars. The officers for 1909 are: M. Fow. lex, president; Fred. Gates, first vice (vesident; F. Knight, second pres'dent; J. W., Edwards, M.D., sec vetary-treasurer; John Riley and C. F. Adair, auditors; F. Trudell, E. K. Purdy, W. Shannon, A. Day, W. E. Toplifie, A. E. Weller, .J. L. F. Sproule, H. J. Simpson and K. Spconer, directors, is in a Town- vice- | | { To-Night. "Queen Zenora." "Queen Zenora" will be presented by {150 people at the Grand to-night, | Tuesday and Wednesday nights. This | pretty musical comedy should receive { the hearty support of the citizens, for { Mr. Telgmann and his company have | been working every afternoon and | evening for the past three weeks to {make a good showing on behalf of the aldermen, "Queen Zenora" and her ladies, fairies and elves, and judging from the final rehearsal, last: week, success is assured. There aré many | beautiful songs and choruses, drills, | dances, ete. The health officer's song, | "The Good Old Fashioned Way," is {sure to make a hit. There will also {be songs by Norma Hughes, Irene { Hoag, W. Mack, and the choruses "Of and "Build a Tank," will be { alone worth the price of admission. i | Concert At Sydenham. The Salvation Army band paid a {visit to Sydenham, and gave a fine {concert ine Wesley hall, in the evening. Mr. Reid, principal of the high school, presided. The attendance was rather small, but the chairman guaranteed that there would be a) bumper house the next time the band visited the village. Sydenham appreciated good { music, but owing to othér mgage- ments of the week could not turn out {to this concert. | | | Hard On Railways. | Today's storm was hard on the {rrilways, and ricarly all the trains [were lato as a result. The morning train over the Kingston & Pembroke {railway was over an hour late; good | time was made, considering the condi- | tion of the road. The slect storm of Sunday night was very severe all inlong the line. | | To Speak Here. | Thomas Dilyger th. Weston, Ont., and | [Frank Reeves, Humber Bay, Ont. | have been secured to address the! | Vogetable Growers' Association meet- | {ing at the city council chamber, on} { Wednesday evening. They are both| i practical men, and there should be a | ocd attendance to welcome them. -------- | Hard To Keep On Track. | Some Kingstonians who drove over to Cape Vinont, N.Y., Sunday alter noon, had a most difficult task to {keep on the route. The blinding snow storm was one of the worst ex iperionced this year, » | VICTIMS SAID { report. from one of the board's officials together 270 fatalitics | village team in a friendly game. The CROSSING ACCIDENTS... m= a T HAVE Toronto. BEEN CARELESS IN CASES. Re Commiagon For the Tats Six Years--Fatalities Number Two Hundred and Seventy. Ottawa, Feb. 15.--In connection with the investigation now in progress un- der the railway commission with re gard to the most feasible means to} adopt for the protection of level rail- way, Susi in Canada, atisties have preparcd showing the num- - a ber and character of fatal accidents at ne va theeo crossings during the past five [ESRC Slhat for to steal and voars. Since the board was created in| eroy 1 am that they might 1903 records have been kept as to all | yoce life and that might have it railway fatalities in the dominion, and |; ope abunaantly." they words of the in nearly every case there is on file a great T said the speaker, bring vividly before us the reality of the two great forces that are in the world-- evil and good. The devil is the great at level cross- | deceiver of men. It is his delight to ings. But the striking fact in connec: |instil false hopes into the hearts and tion with an analysis of the various | minds of men. He is a robber of mat's fatalities is that nearly ninety-five per | peace and happiness. And his work as cent. of them have been due to the stated in the text is to steal and to carelessness or recklessness of the vie | kill and destroy. The mission of Jesus tims rather than to the faci that the | Christ is to destroy the works of the crossings were unprotected. dm Prince | devil. He comes to man with the of Edward Island therd has not been a |fer of pardon and with the gift of single level crossing iatality in five | eternal life. He takes away mo good years, and ow the Intercolonial rail- | thing, no pure enjoyment. He (the way there have heen only thirteen in speaker), could personally testify to thai period. the deep, full joy Christ had brought -------------------- into his own life and that he haa lacked no good thing since, as a lad he found the Saviour and gave him- self to Him. Mr. Sileox closed with an darnest appeal for immediate personal dealing with the Son of God, on the part of all who as yet had not be lieved the gospel of his grace, ma. APPEAL FOR A BLIND MAN. Wants a Stors-House Purchased For James Craig. Kingston, . Feb. 15.--(To: the Edi- tor) : Our old limestone city has one poor blind man, the loss of whose eye- sight was caused by following his usu- al employment, and every one who knows his circumstances i {James Craig to be deserving of pub- lic sympathy and support. Some kind friends of his interested themselves in his behalf and purchased the waggon he now uses, and secured from the council the privilege of doing business 'on our street corner. All credit is due | the gentlomen who did so much in Mr. Craig's behalf, and no person could be "more grateful to them. than Mr. Craig himself; in fact I know of no person who is more grateful In appreciation of any favor. . This waggon has been in use for Movements Of The People---What | some time, and Jaany of His friends They Are Saying And Doing. | fee it is not Suita or the purpose, Charles Harvey went to Renfrew, jad would Hie 0 oe provided to-day. 3 he d 3 "Jack" Powell will referee the jun- {used in large cities for win Men. > ior game at the rink this evening. ronto has _severa and ge nian Kenneth Grimshaw, William street, twill remembes in partion of hing she returned, to-day, after a. business trip | used by the late pe. ndre Ee in the west. your paper is ever ready to make an W. F. Nickle, M.P.P., left, at noon, appeal for help for any deserving man to-day, for 'Toronto, for the opening and to explain what a deserving man of the legislature. Mr. Craig ro and hia sirewmpiAn: Prof. Cappon has returned from To- YOU would do a re SEFV} a onto, where he hes been lecturing at, POOY blind man ow lp: Secure Be the Normal College. jper house to do Risiiiate in, ane you Miss Bessie O'Neil, returned to Gan- | will also bring the fact home to many 8 : '. g sé might patronize him for anoque, on Saturday, alter a week's {She hat we me things he may sell visit with friends in the city. some t . Prof. Shortt has been secured 3 would like to suggest thas ab: peak at an early date before scriptions be forgasded to U8, if > uri \ sa treasurer, who, 1° » Peterburg Canadian Club, C. Pinson | P® 100 happy to assist, and then as neault are eandidates for a vacant soon as there is money eno, on ; y : | { three, to be seat in the Prescott town council. | asd, Biss te er. aad ry ! 1 > nos: is amed A yor, Ms. ; 8 oe. Bojson, Ringston, 18] roceed with the work of purchase. visiting Mrs. Bidwell Way, Asylum {¥ & tnd . i for ww weeks: hope there will be no knocking in con park, Hamilton, for a few weeks. pe x Lect a8 Kk. A. Cameron leit for New York to nection with so laudable a i jec Tr aviend the motor boat show, in the helping r blind Iman, ne the TE ipwenegl of skis Sterling Engito. com will have a vision of prosperity in I args Clonahan: Main street, "has place of oi dE starvation-- returned home after spending the past PITY THE BLIND. week with Miss Elizabeth Felstead, | ------ Albany, N.Y. i ' = Great Play At The Bijou. Miss Loretto Deroche, "who as | x sapere' s iminortal tragedy, been the guest of Mrs. P. Daley, Wel- Shakespeates.,, or 'The oy. lington street, has returned to her | of Brutus," is the topliner at the home in Cornwall. : | Bijou theatre to-day and to-morrow. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Nickle and | phe pictures will he accompanied bv Miss Aileen Folger, left, to-day, for , running description by the popular Toronto, to attend the opening of the | lecturer, R. Tatton Jones, who hes Ontario legislature. [heen specially engaged for this oc Michael O'Connell was found dead | easion only, and who will make clear undir an overturned cutter near Jas- {the significance of every action in per and .a doctor found that he was | this great romantic and historical suffocated in the snow. production. The play gives a vivid Brig.-Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Al- {idea of the power and magnificence of dershot, Eng., will be in the city on |ancient Rome twenty ceniuries ago, Tuesday and in the cvenings he will | and is full of the most exciting in be oatertained by the batiery officers. ' cidents. The plot of this play is The engagement is announced in based on the desire of Julius Caesar Port WArthar of Miss Grace Living- | to make Himseli king of Rome. stone, third daughter of the late conspiracy is formec against Judge Livingstone, Simeoe, to Ar- | which the high-minded Brutus is thur W. Jackson, Port Arthur. duced to join, The conspirators re Cn Friday Rev. Norman McLeod was | solve to assassinate Caesar in the called upon to unite in marriage senate chamber, A prophet warns James F. McPhall and Miss Carrie | him of his danger. Caesars wife fi. Pearce, both of Alexandria. Bay. | dreatas of his coring death, and 'The groom is a grandson of the late Henry McPhall, Brockville. Daniel Bryant, a teamster, on Division street; passed away at | fears. > senate, the genered hospital early on Monday where he is set upon by the con- morning. The deceased was in his | spirators and killed. At the funeral fifty-second year, He had been ailing Brutus justifies his action but Mark lor some time. The funeral services| Antony inflames the people against will be held on Tuesday morning at | Brutus, who is driven from Rome. He ten o'clock. : and Cassis go to Asia Minor and ; tn fe an army. Sear 8 mebhew, Oc- Attracting The Crowds. | savius, JuPsues bl i as orf. sg The Princess Theatre has secured an a "ghost of Cnesar hf to extra good vaudeville turn for this piius and warns him of death. The week, put on by Douglas & Douglas, battle of Philippi follows. Cassius of New York. Five excellent picture | od Brutus are defeated and commit films are shown, as well as an illus- | suicide. * This play, in addition to its trated song. The singer at the Prin-lierits as a drama, has a deep his- cess has a sweet voice, and pleases the | iorical interest, 'and should be seem crowds immensely. On Saturday the Ly all. There are also two comedies, house was packed at nearly all the| <The Actor and the Baby Cerriage,"' performances. Manager Lipman island "The Professor's Love Tonic." certainly: leaving nothing undome that 'Will West sings. would please his patrons. God. At ; service Me. | Sileax x, 10. "Tho thie giving particulars as to the accidents. During that period there have been al- J. HH. PLUNMER, President of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company. PERSONAL MENTION. to | the 4 him, in- enter, that day. 'The conspirators at her residing hear her warnikg and ough Caesar goes to t City Council This Evening. The city council this axening have before it the question of liquor license reduction, which wil be brought in by s recommendation of the finance committee that mo.action be taken upon the petition presented by the Moral and Social Reform league. There gre several other im. portant matters io come up. Po Play At Lansdowne. will The local hardware store hockey team will leave at seven o'clock, to- night, for Lansdowne, to meet the team will line up : Moore, goal; Lem- mon, point; Horsey, cover; Chisholm, centre; Crawford, rover; Stratiord, left wing; McRae, right wing: Charles Simpson , will accompany .the team. After the game the boys will be treated to an oyster supper. es Room For Spring Importations, Prevost, Brock street, is having a great clearing sale in, to-order and ready-made clothing and ts' {furnishings See the window display. ------------------ 'Fresh Beef, Iron and Wine son's Red Cross Drug Store at Gil Sermons By Rev. E. D. Silcox, of at both services day, {pied Canadian The following special offering will be placed on sale at 9 o'clock and con. day or as long as the lot lasts. 137 Black Sateen Underskirts Made with an 11 inch flounce and fin- ished with a Black - Embroidered Sa- teen Frill, also with dust flounce. 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