PAGE SIX. ------ . -- -- Offered For Public Subscription One Thousand (1,000) 7 Per Cent. Cumulative Preference Shares The Slater Shoe Compay, Limited With a Bonus of 20 Per Cent in Slater Common Shares 'The Slater Shoe Gompany, Limited Authorized Capital Common Stock (authorized and issued) ... 7 per cent, Preferred Stock (authorized) ... 500,000 Preferred Stock (paid up) .... 200,000 One Thousand (1,000) Shares of Slater Cumulative Pre- ferred Stock is now offeredfor Public Subscription with a Bonus of 20 per cent. in Slater Common Shares, which will make the Capital Preferred paid in and subscribed $300,000 ; Capital Common authorized and issuéd $500,- $30, and leaving in the Treasury Préferred Shares $200,- \ DIRECTORS: CHARLES E. SLATER, President and General Mana- ,. ger. WILLIAM STARKE, Vice-President (President of the Starke, Seybold Co , Limited, Montreal). JAMES W. WOODS, President of Woods, Ottawa. ANSON McKIM, Montreal, LT.-COL. ROBERT S8TARKE, of the Starke-Seybold Co., Limited, Montreal. WILLIAM SMITH, gentleman, Montreal. Ww. E. BORLAND, Guardian Insurance Co., Moatraal. J. NELSON McKIM, of A. McKim, Limited, Mon~ treal. . F BROKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENTS, Gault & Ewing, Montreal. BANKERS. The Bank of Ottawa. LBGAL SOLICITORS. Foster, Martin, Mann & McKinnon, Montreal. Ritchie, Ludwig & Ballantyne, Toronto. Limited President of A. McKim, Limited, it will be necessary to sign the subscription list on or before May 15th. Terms, 10 per cent. of sub- scription shall be paid on applica tion, 15 per cent. on allotme nt, and the balance in three equal quarterly payments of Kb per cent. each, 1st July, 1st?October and 1st January next: When the pur chaser pays all cash he will participate in the full current quarterly dividend. The Slater Shoe preferred hes paid per cent. divi- dends continuously and the investment offered is one that can be recommended to conservative investors who desire a safe and sound investment in a well-known Canadian industrial--a manufacturing business which has been before the } ublic for 40 years. / Subscription list ovens to-day at the offices of the following :-- v 3 g THE BANK OF OTTAWA (The Bank ers oi the Company) and all its Branche GAULT & EWING (Brokers), 261 8t. James Street, Montreal THE SLATER SHOE COMPANY, LIMITED, Head Office, 103 Latour © Montreal All SLATER SHOE Application forms may be obtained at any ol the Subseriptions paid in full with in 10 days of entitled to the full quarterly dividend on July lst. FORM OF APPLICATION. In order to share in the bonus been seven STORES and AGENCNZS in Canada. above" offices allotment will be TO THE PRESIDENT THE SLATER SHOE COMPANY, LIMITED, TREAL, QUE. MON I hereby apply and subSeribe JOR... con? ference shares in the above share (with 20 per cenl b aljot to me that number ol sajalier pumbep that may be per cen par value and 1 shares, i » accept allotted to Herewith T hand you $--- share, and 1 agree to pi allotment, and t the first day { wr and place my name on ar of Dated Name Address SHOE POLISH Children delight to use it. Polishing shoes with "2 in 1" is child's play. Shing No more sticky, mussy, hard shining propositions but .an instantaneous hard finish; waterproof and permanent, which softensand preserves theleather : at the same time. No substitute even half as good. 10c. and 25¢. | affair three weeks ago, but el not put Tells Abaut See rather take | for a whale | Re. Bibby's $15 suits for young men are swell as they make them. Buy your oil cloth and linoleum, as we lay it free of charge, at James Reid's. | The man who figures in an explos- | jon begins at the bottom and goes judge an argument by its sound or not J with its content: parrels of ton, Miss A. guest of street, made © P-- THE SPORT REVIEW. Interesting News From: the Var- ious Sporting Fields. John D. Marsh is now favorite the International Marathon ot New | York, Saturday. { It is the policy of the C.A.A.U. that | son, aged amateurs should not act as officials of | Brockville, on professional events. 'a long illness, John D. Marsh, the Canadian Mara- | Agpes Elizaboth Wilsons thoner, is a farmer, nearly forty years | Samuel Wilson, : of age, and is the father of five chil-| See Bibby's display of fine worsteo dren. : {rousens at $3.50 and $4.50, ' Boston Globe: Carrigan will. give "Carnation day." Just, 10 cele the catchers of the American League a brate the opening of the soda foun great battle this year for batting hon-| tain at Gibson's Red Cross drug siore ors, cach customer at the fountain will xc ~ The Alexandria people are going al : ceive a carnation. most as enthusiastic over Incrosse as) ; : { they were over hockey. It is a great} THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG GAN THE WHIG'S JUMBLE - L BE : a Lot of Things in ---- General. Sce Bibby's display of shirts. i IN ESCOTT TOWNSHIP FOR| Four barbers at Kingsbury's. | * THREE MORE YEARS Phone 147 and have your furniture | . repaired at James Reid's. ! eo Bibby's $15 silk-faced black and | Local Option By-Law Quashed-- [gray spring overcoats. i Gananoque Bread Goes Up to The lazy man would Six Cents and 'Milk Comes hali a loaf than work Down to Five Cents. Gananoque, May 7.~The quashing of the local option by-law, passed Janu- ary 4th last, in the township of Front of Bscott, and thereby throwing out the Island View house at Rockport, conducted By R. Service, and also Scnecal's, on Grenadier Island, before | up. . Justice Teetzel, in the high court at Bibby's $1 shirts ave beauties, Toronto, has caused considerable ex-| Beef, iron and wine, 50c. and $1 bot: citement in the temperance camp. An| tles at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. appeal will be made from his lord-| "Phone : ship's decision, as it is claimed the| Never crowding of polling booths was not sound; it may be different from that at any rural elec- {sound at all. ; tion. If the appeal be not sustained, |. The merchant would : have fewer it will mean three years more sale of | poor creditors if all were as prompt liquor at the above megtioned hos-|m paying for meals as they are to ea} telries. them. a 5 The ups and downs of life pave been| "Try maple walnut sundac at "he excellently typified in town this week. | fountain om opening day, at Gibson's | [he price of bread has been five cents | Rod Cross drug store. : a loaf, snd milk six cents a quart. A few young men right here 1b Karly this week bread took a jump up Kingston are at vanance with the to six cents a loaf, when, to balance | belwef that wealth is a style asset. things, milk came down to five cents, Brussels and tapestgies carpet The Young People's Club of Christ squarce, at James Reid's. ; : Church repeated their excellent per Occasionally a man gets angry anc formance of "Ye Olde Tyme Maye Day tries to raise the roof, and is only Sportes," in. the parish' house, last prevented by the mortgage that holds evening, drawing er good house.|it down. WY ening, drawing Sqnth Ped ah or-] Bibby's $15 suits are a combination der with Hugh Wilson & Sons for. a|of beauty, ~durability and eonemy : new road grader. Rev. J. Tallman| As like begets like is it strange that Pitcher, pastor of Grace Methodist {a community _ without ehterpris church, is spending the week in the { should be filled with men and' women province of Quebec, in attendance at of that class 3 $1 shirts the annual meeting of the directors of ry Bibby's great sharia, oh Stanstead College, of which he is the} harles Long, an aged and respec i secretary. v ed resident of I'yendinage, pasty | Nelson Amo, Chatles street, has beer ay on Wednesday, in his soventy .onfined to his home for soveral days] third yeat. | . = Tl aly ill, but has taken a change fry Bibby's special §15 blue suits in for the better. = Mrs. (Dr.) Charley the Harvard style. Saunders, spending a few days with 1 he pint bottle ws Miss Winona Pitcher, at the parson- hats made bastdls. sind re "11 wr x 1 4 rouble and su ring . age, hay returhed to her home in (Ot Repairing and upholstering attended Miss Wilmott, Brock street, has re-| to at James Reid's. Ei turned from) a visit with friends in lce cream, made irom pure cream, Montreal and New York city. Mrs. all pure fruit juices, dispensed at the Shaw and son, Kenneth, of Boston, hunts at Gibson's Red Cross drug are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. XK. |8.0f8 . Crouter." Main street. W. J. Hamill Bibby's $1 shirts are elegant. ! has returned to Montreal. J. Hamp- Lela Cook, youngest daughter Jo Hamilton, was in town this week. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Cook, Roslin, Latimer, Montreal, is the | died on Friday afier a: vary brief ill Miss + M. Wilmott Brock] ness of consumption. Deceased | was ; : | only fourteen years old. Bibby's $15 blue suits are pure wool fabries. "Opening day' om the soda foun fain at Gibson's Red Cross drug store is carnation day. A carnation given | to cach customer at the fountain in| May Sth. Bibby's $1 shirts. are swell. The death of Mrs. William 8S. Rob thirty-four, occurred in Wednesday night, after Her maiden name was daughter of Beri-Beri And Hari-Kari, Styles For Spring HIS is one. Fit-Reform has created a dozen others. Each ote true to good taste. And each garment true to the high standard of Fit-Reform tailoring. This 3 button dogle breasted Sack Suit will = probably be the style leader this spring: We present it most attractively in "elegant Worsteds in the handsomest new shades of Olives and Grays Some as low as $18. 'Others up to $28. 'CRAWFORD & WALSH 24 sporting town. | Philadelphia Record. Sole Agents for Kingston. Sherring's first professional race will} The busy man, who only has time be at Montreal, on May 24th, In thisjto read the headlines of a newspaper, be will' likely hook up with most of | hustled up to a bunch of his friend: the top-notchers./ He will get $1,500, | the other day with, the remark : "Re win or While Sherring has not 'markable case, that. Very seldom you competed in. a race since his return | ever hear of a Chinaman committing from Athens, he always keeps him- | sui ide."" '1 should say it is," sail self in good condition. | one of the, friends. "Pid a Chinamai Hamilton Herald: If the Ottawa | commit suicide ?"* "Yes, indeed; fe rugby players who played professional | low committed beri-beri down at Poin hockey last winter are whitewashed, | Breeze. He was a sailor." "Indeed the line between professional and ama- (I was always under * the .impression teur sport might just as well be eras- | that beri-beri was a disease, and ed. Ryan and Kennedy have very lit-|a method of self-destruction." : tle chance of pulling the wool over jon your life," said the busy one the eves of the Interprovincial board | 'beri-beri is one of the most horribl of governors again. forms of suicide known.' At thi: juncture another in the group remark The men who aye handling Longboat A : 1 in Montreal are having the usual wor- ed: "Don't get beri-beri confused witl Hari-kari is a way to com ries + of people who have tried that hari-kari. game, and, with Shrubb living in his| mid _puicide, "but beri-beri is a tropica disease." ' "Now, there's just wher vou's wrong," said the wise one "Hari-kari is the Japanese word fos suicide, but beri-beri is the Chinese name." It was several hours befor: they finally convinced him ~of his mis take. lose, usual quiet way, there seems to be nothing "to Saturday's race but the Englishman. Longboat is enjoying his week's visit, but it is not the sort of enjoyment that will help him to win a fifteen-mile race, Lacrosse --is--to---be played-in New: foundland. It may at first sight seem a bit peculiar that there should be anything: remarkable about a state- ment of that kind when it is remem- bered that lacrosse has been played for, pile of timber. many years in Great Britain, Ireland, "Seasoning timber with salt, eh--it Australia, and even South Africa, It} sounds like a joke, doesn't it?" I is a fact. however, that so neif at'gaid, "It is often done, though, es home as Newfoundland, Canada's na-| pecially in ship timber. Ships built o | tional summer game has not yet ob- salt-sensoned timber get a better in tained a footing. surance rate, McFarland has drawn down his} "Some rich woods are seasoned in 25.000 forfeit for a forty-five-round|hoiling oil. That's an ancient and fight with Nelson at Colma, on July! epstly process, 5th. Nelson signed. articles for this Pea" new dodge is electrical soasoninl. With strong electric shocks the sap A¥ driven out of the wood and replaced by a solution of borax and resin. The scheme is cheap; not half asigood as salt." ---------------------- Salt Seasoned Timber. Philadelphia Bulletin. A workman was packing salt about up his money, declaring that he was unable to raise it. McFarland has heen accusing Nelson of cowardice ever since, and the "Rattler" recently de- clared that he would not | "Packy" until September, if then. Pro- Jess Said Her Prayers. moter Cofiroth, who signed the men himself, states, however, that Nelson will be in the ying on July 5th, ready One was was day three-year-old Baby Jess visiting her grandmother, who NAME AND DESIGN REGISTERED. A deliciously dainty chocolate confection indescribably inviting and toothsome. Like all of Cowan's specialties, of guperlative excellence. The name "Cowan" stamped on every bud. The Cowan Co. Limited, Toronto. et he very devout. She asked Baby flee if her mother had taught her to a sl Ey | sav her prayers.' : a Disappointing Rooster. | PO a "Yes, ma'am." Little six-vear-old Jack had never! "Who do you pray 5. dear; -and ask seen much of chickens. Last summer] io forgive vour naughty wavs?" he was visiting in a small place where "Sometimes: I pray: to mother's the. family kept a few. One day he|knees and BE Tai to the bed." was out watching them for quite a i : long time, and came in looking very | much disgusted. Stepping up to « ne! s : Pi i Percival came running to his grand of the young men, he said : : ; : "Say, Cousin Ned, your old rooster 2 one day asking for a drink of wa has been coughing and coughing all} rosy Quick, quick, grondma, he the morning, and I was watclfiag him | Sk oy ea drink ol . waist, and he hasn't coughed up an egg yet. | afer he got his drink, he said : i | "The reason " that I was in such a Died At Brooklyn. { hurry, 1 thought I swallowed a worm Andrew Devine, one time secretaly | while eating an apple, and 1 wanted of James G. Blaine, formerly a he drogn it." : porter of the United States House of | 3 : Representatives, and one of the men "Kentucky lawn ¢rass seed," who helped Ottman Mergenthaler to} make Kingston bemtiful Sold porfect the linotype machine, died on|at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. Miesday of apoplexy at his home, in A fool woman is one who cén make Brookivn, N.Y. He was sixty-six | her own living, but marries a man years old and born at Renfrew, Ont. who can't make it for her. to meet the Chicago boxer. Took An Antidote. em ets will only RR \ A Bibby's for the best: $15 brown suits See BibbrS J. crochet: ties, in Canada, el ""est it yourself. Count the number of loayes you bake with a bag of "Beaver" flour. Notice the size cf the loaves, too--and the way the dough stands up in the oven. "Beaver" Flour pound for pound--makes MORE bread and whiter, lighter, tastier bread with the flavor you never forget. It is the original Ontarie Blended Flour and contains the best qualities of both Ontario and Manitoba Wheat Flours. : 'Beaver' Flour saves you money. More Try it. Dealers. write us Jor prices on Feed, Coarse Grains and Cereals, The T.. H. Taylor Co., Limited, Chatham, Ont. 82 Pay a Fair Price And Get The Best The grocer who gives the greatest number of pounds of granulated sugar for a dollar, naturally won't give 'the best Montreal Granulated."' The only way you can be sure of getting the best, is to insist on. having St.Lawrence fe os Granulated Sugar Put vp by the Refinery in 20 pound Cotton Bags The analysis of Prof. Hersey, Government Analyst, shows that *'St. Lawrence Granulated' contains 99--99/100 to 100 per cent of pure cance sugar, with no impurities whatever, The St. Laure apt emission ASE LUERICATING OILS, GREASE, ETC. PROMPT DELIVERY. NOTICE. 3% We have installed a Hobart Electric Coffee Mill, with a Ca city of two pounds per minute. We are to our Fam- Bin proud ahd Enaren offee, 0! an an« teed the best ok i Ae "Phone or send your order, which will receive our best attéhtion. D. COUPER, 'Dealer in Pure Food Groceries. 'Phone, 76a. 341-3 Princess St. - a Storage Batteries, Spark Plugs, Cares, J. TRY OUR DRY BATTERIES. Tumbul Bota, . 0. ? Automobiles To Rent. Terms Reasonable. Always Open. ? W. d. Moore & Son, 'Phones--Garage; 815a, % in Residence; 8158. % HASSISSITIIBISIIISIISIININ 'Absolutely Pure" Ice ream Any flavor. Any hour. 60c per quart. ig 288 Princess St. P rice S, Phone 845. jefe The kind you are looking for is the kind we sell. SCRANTON Coal is good coal and we gir: ani prompt delivery. 'Phone, 33: Booth & Co. FOOT WEST STREET. li COAL! International Portland Cement Adamant Wall Plaster Guelph and Renfrew Lime AT P. Walsh's, Coal and Wood Yard, Barrack St. Don't Fail to See the New WallPapers --A---- D. E. FRASER'S, "Phone 273. 78 William st. Wm. Murray Auctioneer 27 BROCK ST. New Carriages, Cutters, Harness, Sale of Horses every Saturday. ANGROVE'S FOUNDRY Brass and Iron Castings tos Sogar Refining Company Limited, Montreal. ,, J