A DURABLE 4 FLOOR VARNISH Made by The Sherwii= Wiliiams Co.01s tough and elastic.. Doesn't scratch or mar readily under foot wear. Can .be walked on next day after. application. Has a lasting lustre, Easy We sell it. Corbeft's Hardware Be Good To Yourself Save vour money by trading here. Our Suits, Overcoats, Hats and Gents' Furnishings are the best quality and the lowest price. You save good money everytime you deal here. Come in and see for yourself, Don't forget our Boots and Shoes. , selection. Prices low tonish you. Isaac Zack's 271 Princess street. big line of A splendid enough to Native Cedar, : Southern Cypress, White Oak Sawed to any thickness or hape desired. S. Anglin&Co Wellington St. Nor th. THE WHIG, 76th YEAR| DAILY BRITISH G, publ 0A Bn atin. Teton Oneacin: ate rer year, Eotiions at 2:30 a oy % | WEERLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 ges published parts on Monday and Tis. day morning at $1 a ypar. 'To States, charge for posta; Las Wis ad ri $2 snd vl r a of the best Job Print- Canada ; rapid, stylish, and cheap work ; nine improved presses. The British Whig Publishing ng Co. Lud. ow. J. 'B. RL Director. : TORONTO 01 OFFICE, Suite 19 and 20, City Tha bers, 82 Church 8t., Toronto, E Smalipeice, J. P., representative. ' - . Daily Wibig. HUNGERING FOR BLOOD. The Montreal Gazette minimizes the effects of the errors in the commis: sion's report upon the New Brunswick Central railway. It does make a dif- however, a very serious one, an account be $430,000 or whether it be $500,000, or and such were the relations of some of the figures in the previous report in question, It does make a whether these errors ference, whether $43,000, £50,000, difference are frankly acknowledged or whether they are extracted from a partizan premier reluctantly, in answer to an enquiry in the legislature. It does make a difference whether a further enquiry about the manner in which a certain statement is made up is met by _ the reply that the process of verifying it would be slow and tedious and such as ceuld not be undertaken for the The fact that errors. have been found, that they have been ad- mitted, that others may be found on examination, and that the whole con- clusion of the commissioners may be resting upon a miscalculation or mis conception, and so be "false and mis- is ground sufficient for The eagerness {of the opposition in Ottawa to wreck {any man's reputation upon |est pretence of wrong-doing of the regrettable features of political life, present, | leading, | revision of the report. » a the -mer- is one THEORY VS. | The World 1 | school - which PRACTICE. to the technical is intended to refers it build lin Toronto, and asks if the students | who will graduate from it will have a {real and practical educations | *"Fha World is hearing a good deal," | remarks our contemporary, 'about | the students now turned out and has { heard employers say their training is [not practical and does not fit them = take their places in drafting rooms and ~ workshops in connection" with various trades and industries." How can student-graduates of any college take their places in the shops or industries and perform: the tasks of practical hands, with only a theo- Elephant Mixed. Paints These Paints are the best preservatives for wood, iron 'and stone. They dry a hard glossy surface and can be w applied by anyone. FOR SALE BY STRACHAN Se BIBBY'S CAB STAKD Phone, 20l. DAY or NIGH -Youw-Want-to-Buy, Rent or Sell REAL ESTATE| of same. me lio ty. Insur= Money to a specialty card or call to show prope: lowest rates. 1 make rop a rouble atice 1¢ I on ac als. GEO. CLIFF, IYeal Estate valuatior, 05 Clarence street ete, at Nou can Do all dealers sell coal at the same prices ? Most all. L handle th ty coal Noy grades differ @ give at wéight We hope so. Some do--some don't. Do their: coal all dealers deliver promptly They may intend to but-- Judge Us By A Saniple Order Crawford 'Phone, 9. Foot of Queen St, ! _ | prescribed a student's The thing fis im- there any retical training ? and if feature | of Queen's College management' that [commends itself to the people it 1s | the effort that the science department {is making to give the students a prac- possible, is | tieal education during the academic re- | cess. are. establishments that have and that de- | | p | There course, from as an advanced take the young men one partment to another, apprentice would surely be taken, and to the end that his theories may find Fscop yo for practical exprpssion. | Granted that the college class work lis the right sort, that the professors are learned, zealous as they they and clearness are as and' capable of imparting what with readmess {that they niaks them to date, as research that .the students work with their the future know revise their. lectures and ang discovery goes ong have a chance to heads as well as hands, = | ¢f Queen's should be very promising. But its faculties must be ac tive alert, a ~ prog Tessive. RECIPROCITY. Canadian North- ANADA AND | D. D. Mann, of the jern railway, who seldom makes {public statements, and is called 'The has an interesting arti- any {Silent Man," {cle in this week's Saturday Evening | LP ost "Canada and Reciprocity," | {aud his views are worthy of consid: on |eratione | generation ago the Canada asked United States for reciprocity Fimilar | {to that which obtained from 18564 to 1866. To- day, Canada is being but came. She is a willing friend, wer courted. no suitor. Proceeding, Mr. Mann says that the difference between the reciprocity times | 1851-66 and to-day is a whole na- Canada of tion differences. has ar the of rived, not in lation of wepublic or empire, but nited dower. old | + than you by the To discuss the possibil- in the right of her-own wt no more revert\ to the Canadian idea of reciprocity can replace te locomotive stage coach. ity of 'the absorption of Canada by the United States is utterly to " for- sake practical politics. You must rea- lize that Canada »s a nation so much | that she | bigger than any tarifi wall, can afford to be, as she is, undisturb- ed by it, : "I cannot, Mr. Mann, "'think of any I manufacturing advantage that at the moment," would | sacrificed bv There are some éonditions | be {coal tarifi. surrounding the mechanical. production of coal in Nova Scotia which would, 1] 2 He points out that a short | Eight times the negative ABs guise of a poor re | | think, adjust themselves by the open- 3 {ing of the New: England market. 1 ot | have reason to know that the Pénnsyl- not object would lose vania coal interests would {to the change, What they {in Boston they would gain 'in Mon- be | trenl and Ontario. For, let this be i observed--the present tax on United States coal hits the constmer back of | Lakes Ontario and Erie, even though { he possibly buy other than | Pennsylvania coal. Undoubtedly -the {duty restricts consumption. Remove {it and consumption would increase. "On the other side of the continent similar conditions prgvail. There is | unlimited coa! in British Columbia | and Alberta, and very little--and that | of poor quality--in the Pacific States. cannot A duty on Oanadian coal is a tax up- | lon industry in thé states, without any compensating advantage to either side of the line." Mr. Mann points out that€closely bound up with the coal problem is the Iron ore is on the Canadian free list. Every other form of imported iron pays duty. The Uni- ted States taxes iron, whether in ore, pigs, or manufactured product. If, as Mr. Carnegie contends, the "steel in- "dustry in the United States can flour: ish without the tariff on manufactured articles, it can surely prosper without nearby iron situation. a tax on Canadian ores, "It seems to me," Mr. "that with the measures which hope to see widely introduced there is no need to be Mann says, we with- out delay, alarmed gt the Canadian pulpwood si Let the duty on lumber re- gnain as it is, gn both sides of the line. Let the United States admit pulp wood and pulp free--I do think the industry suffer," tuation. not Canadian would EDITORIAL NOTES. There should be a proofreader's cers tificate attached to each affidavit or report made by the opposition in New Brunswick. ar- the wn If tha weather man would only range to keep the wind out of north and north-cast days, we would be able {0 boast that for about "spring was really here. reports thai an increased wheat The west acreage is being placed under and a this | Given good growing weather harvesting season, for favorable means prosperity the country. People who cheerily declared some days ago that their furnaces were out and cleaned up for the spring have relit them. Thoy still lingered in their homes. found * winter Kingston has a case similar to that in Hamilton, where an old-time official of the Ontario government cannot get a gratuity he is entitled to. His ser vices the state warrants better treatment than he is getting. io that the aim of education should be to develop The Sudbury Star believes and a detestation of Mili tarism is the curse of modern civiliza a hatred of 'war everything connected with war. tion; war is hell, and our boys should be taught to look upon them as such The Port Arthur board of trade has gathered from its masterly inactivity that the Whitney government doe not propose to discharge its duty o protecting the men who are building a new railway through =~ tho northern portion of that province. It now call upon thé foderal parliament for royal commission. suddenly through the fo the sale land: Wealth has French River eome Indians of the valuable timber on their noar Lake Nipissing. For the Ojibways sternly many year: the chicf of re pulsed the advance of the lumbermen his son has viclded to their solici and it that gether the band will ultimately be en bu tations; is stated alto poi] rhs. abba ob the. opposition. oi the Grand Trunk Pacific loan is on | pur with their attitude on the _ori | bill. | they did not agree with the policy ol {he They wanied the "road. built | the government. They now want {loan to ba given but they don't _agres offered. The loan | with the security This is ¢ | paltry objection. is teed by the old Grand Trunk compan, for guaran and the surplus of this company | several years past would have beer sufficient to have paid the interest o | the loan several times over. Tho west ern men arc all-in favor of helping out | the road which will find traffic fron | the opening day. i -------------------- And Lake Superior summer trip - i$ "fresh water sea 1c thes new Lake Huron A nagnificent joyed by taking this voyage, from Sarnia,, Ontario, | Fort William, Ontario, through" great inland - seas. This year steamers have been added = to the Northern Navigation company's fleet, {and fe finest and fastest vessels "or the Great Lakes will fly the hous | flag of this popular: company. Th | steamers run in connection with the { Grand Trunk railway system, and al | particulai's, rates and descriptive hi | terature can be had for the asking by | applying to J. Quinlan, D.P.A, G.T | R., Montreal. en Ii wishes were wing few of us | would walk. S very i > SARAN KOTEN ON Way TO COURT WITH. HER CHILD New York, April 20.~Suralf Koten the young woman who killed Dr. Martin V. Auspitz in this city last summer and recently pleaded guilty to manslaughter when brought to trial, was, to-day, through the decision of Supreme Court Judge Blanchard, spared the infliction of a prison penalty. When the woman, with babe in rms, was brought before the justice, he an- nounced that he would suspend senterre and place Mig Koten in custody of the council of Jewish women. This society, the justice said, would find her a suitable home, where she could change her name and rear her child in ignorance of A ie primes crime its mother had committed. { OUR LUMBER SUPPLY ENOUGH TO ) MAINTAIN PRE | SENT CONSUMPTICN. ------------------ CONFEDERATE GENERAL | Who Sacked City is to Be Its Guest. t | Louisville, Ky., April 22--One of the | strangest peace dramas hinging on the { Civil War will be played at St. Albans, | Vt, July sth, when General Bennett Exportation Would Soon Clean it |B. Jou of the Kentucky division, { Confederate veterans, wi eC --H Points | nitec y Up H R. Campbell & oo | the, guest of that city on the occasion Out the Necessity of a Careful | of fhe tercentenary of the discovery of Stocktaking. { Lake Champlain. =~ During the Civil War General Young, then a lieutenant, Ottawa, April 22--Canada need ha . no fear for her timber supply if the he | ir gash present rate of domestic consumptio es ol edn op dre il io British and of export is. maintained, but Rr i fe resence was - insisted is every prospect that in the next few § 30) 1 is. presence Was insisted upon es e 5 a ym Eire and by Governor Prouty and the citizens ye rs oe ¢ « th of St. Albans, the United States will be so heavy that the timber supply of Canada will | threatened, Thi§ statement was made Ww ts 0 of to the commons committee on forests, atertown, April 22--Charged with waterways, and waterpowers by H. R | having caused sixteen-year-old May C ampbell, head of the Dominion for | Lashley t to enter a disorderly house in estry. bureau. The United States ! Carthage, Pet er Dashna was arraigned made a mbst careful estimate of the before Justice | Scripture in supreme timber resources there and his depart- jour He secured an adjournment, | Dashna To Be Examined. ment was organizing an inquiry of a Attorney George Van Natnee being as- similar nature. There was a wide- counsel.. In dgo7 Peter spread interest in the timber resources who was jointly indicted with of Canada. The British admiralty had Dashna, was sentenced to two years mn recently inquired of him why their | Auburn Prison. About the time the supply "of timber from Canada had been indictment was found Dashna disap growing poorer in quality, higher in peared. A few days ago he was ar- price and less in volume. Mr. Cafp rested Clayton. bell said there was need for a reform in lumbering operations in many places, | present methods involved signed Lashley, as m Beresford Denies Letter, London, April 22.~All the London waste in stumps and tops.of trees. apers published d statement to the i effect that a letter from Admiral Lord ne area in British abi an y imination had made after a{ Charles Beresford was read at a meet- 11 ! the Navy League at Bourne- jumberman had gone over it and it had seen found that there had been waste in which the writer of $0,012 a mile and of this the govern ment had been the loser in dues to th amount of $205 a mi'e grep. ex- 18 been knew the real truth | condition of the a panic. Admiral denied had penned this | "li the country regarding the navy there would Later in the day 'emphatically that sentence. present be he VISITOR FROM AUSTRALIA 1 ne Senator McColl Entertained By| Relatives -at Cobourg. ! Cobourg, Ont, April 22--Senator James H. McColl of the Common- | ( wealth parliament of Australia, spent | bany, clectrocuted by live -wires he week end here with his cousin, J While engaged in painting the, power B. McColl, M.P,; leaving, yesterday, or use of \t! Huds River Electric the ferry for a trip to American pon Watervliet. © In moving Father Me Coll. 'rector of Peterboro long the. wall he came -athedral, is usin of the sen- ith a wire. He fell into a or wires and the body was 1 'welver thousand volt frame Is Electrocuted. April 22--=Cornelius F wanaugh, aged twenty-three, of Al Painter I'roy, N.Y. was ts at ac aiso nvited Turley, Tre latives who cguld To so to McColl af her home at + included J. B. McColl / Northumberland ; oro'; Jud Sharpe, Michi- hasaberland gaug n and Dr Mrs. A. McDonnell, Belleville; McIneh, Belle all the re meet Senator {inner Rev. A. M. Quick Resigns. , Ont, April 22--Rev. A" Methodist d from the Fat] Sharpe and Hon. yi-Mr ter} Mrs f ns. Between him and Callahan, f the district is the Seeing the moon over either 'shoulder may aot influence your luck to any extent, but, whether or not you buy your. Clothes here will have an influence on your appearance to a large extent. 2 : Just size up the Men wearing our $12.50, $15 and $18 y $15 Black and Gray Silk-Faced Overcoats and Our Nobby $2 Hats. i Aren't they swell looking fellows ? The best dressers you'll You'll find that they all jingle a little money in their pockets, too, for they escaped the exorbitant charges of the exclusive Tailor. Our New Shirts are beauties, $1, $1. 25 and $1.50. See Our Fowne's English Gloves, in Tans, $1. See Our Fownes" Suede Gloves, $1.50. New Collars, 2 for 25e¢. The H. D. Bibby Kingston's Cash and One Price Clothing House : : : : : : : : | £ £ : | | | ] cecscstststsssesesses yr VBL VRVTLLVLLRRVTBRBSN "SPRING FEVER" The need of a spring medicine seems to be 'universal. This is due to the fact that during the, winter..the blood becomes im- pure on account of the hearty food-eaten. This causes that tired, weary, all-gone, don't-care-to-work feeling, which is so prevalent at this time of year. - BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS Uses It Ewery Spring. Mr. H. Langley, 'Tamil ton, Ont., writes: "I have used Burdock Blood Bitters as a spring tomi¢, and 1 find it the best thing I can take. It builds me right up and I use it every spring, It is excellent for the blood." That Tired Feeling. Mr, F. H. Leard, Saska- toon, Sask.," writes : "1 have used Burdock Blood Bitters. as a blood builder and think it an excellent remedy. . Every one should | take it in the spring to cure that tired feeling that comes to so many at this time of year. "Spring Medicine." A. McGuire P. H. Law n, 1 Miss M Kenna, Woodstock Verntlyea, Sidney, and othcls. THEY WERE FOUND OUT. By Free Spending Stolen Money. April money, and of 1 Betrayed Pl 22. --She large ladelphia, rolls of 350 for a shave for two glasses youths last of the police that been implicated Rhoda Lovell, "Gypsy Queer she lay sick in her ten near the cit custody pen re The old g evrey The boys, awrence, stil; with ing the in an automobile to f the suspects, wi found $3.010 ~} he giving al jeer the boys in the " the eightv-year who lost $10,000 wi "SA might e poli WAS BADLY BURNED. | scious From Shock By | 'ork. ! : Lightning. | N.Y., April | fisited this 1 and. the Phi t Cry staldale | lightning and burned to | nso polic r anot her boy Uncon at who 1s sai he less | torm i f* George truck by we Mayhe miserable' sons ! hers so plenti were no ful. miserable fat | says | considerable | a readjustment of the | i Can candy be any THE PATTERSON CANDY CO., Sold by EDWARDS. & JENKIN, 274 Princess St. DE a i MM LL a l.was badly burned about the chest and | PATTERSON'S candy is EXTRA FINE./ . Purity is not enough--PATTERSON'S purity means pure ingredients of the HIGHEST GRADE---choicest chocolate, rarest fruit flavors, not chemical substitutes. tence it's inimitable goodness--hence its wholesomeness, too good for you ? Buy a box of extra fine PATTERSON'S | MATTER OF GOOD TASTE." TORONTO. CA RR SAE, ¥ t rere ' pe the ground, Wy Dar ee a | husband's assistance and Seated him tw C : C ? y burned sleighs, etc, which were also burned. | out of the barn. She was badly burr {| Mr. Phillips was in the barn and wa made unconscious by the lightning. He i the, about the head and arms, There was an insurance of $250 on barn. arms, his clothing having caught fire. | . : Mrs. Phillips, who was in the house, |- He is a wise fool whe knows saw the barn on fire and rushed to her | ough, to keep it to himself. | ens oh | a. NT Is Good: Tea If you use it -yotr know it is good. Will you, tell your friends? .