: Notice to Strangers in the City : While In our city minutes to call e Oxtonsive and of ANTIQUE take a few and examine the beautiful collection FURNITURE and | OLD FASHIONED ARTICLES, Which we are offering at a low cash price or exchange, , 1 will buy any part your home. Send L. Lesses, Cor. Princess and Chatham Sts, Kingston, Ont, Felon fforferffofofer folio fmfofenlnfuisn, Ignition Dynamos, Storage Batteries, Spark Pings Carburetors, Ete. TRY OUR DRY BATTERIES. ry Tumbufi Electrical Mfo. Co. "Phone, 178, B78 Bagot Bt or all in post card, eelelofodolelelofjelefufofeiefuffeind . David Harum Price's Special Merry Widow Three of Our Best. PRICE' 288 Princess St, Phone 845 Hertel orf ofoefedonfe enforces ii COAL! Telus? ATR The kind you are looking for is the kind we sell, SCRANTON Coal antee 183 Booth & Co., FOOT WEST STREET. Seefeld mfenfofefeforfeonfoont 2.0.8 0 0 OSIRIS peat; endonul 20 nl is good coal and we guar. a prompt delivery, 'Phone, | m1 THE FRONTENAC LOANAND INVESTMENT SOCIETY ESTABLISHED, 1863. President--Sir Richard Cartwright Money issued on City and Farm Pro perties. Municipal and County Deben tures. Mortgages purchased Deposit: received and interest allowed. S. C. McGil], Managing Director 87 Clarence street. Wood's Phosphodine The Gr English Remed; atesthe wha! makes ne) Tones nnd Pus Debilily, Mendal ar pondency, Sexual Wee matorrhea, and Kf Prico $1 per box, six will cure. Sold hy { on recely ei pamphly male Horm. In Toronto. On -- M. P. KEYS Antiseptic Barber Shop Halr Dressing and Shaving Three Chair Quick Service. ronage solicited. DX 2 C$ S 336 King Strect Next to Wade's Drug Store T0 CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS The Perfect Brick & Tie Co., Wash PAISLEY & CHISHOLM, Lessees Are ready to cont for lmmediat: Brick 1) 1 Parlor | | Your pat door Helivery tion--at Plast 60,000 daily inspec Capacity o reasc - Ton OUR ROOSTER BRAND. 10BACCO and Chowing Wi Smokin at pound, i ¢ forty-five Why Maclean tents a pay ei Ontario yhacco. drow When Meats for | | 1 to order We have 'hone, 670 don't i » or Relishes. ose from. 8 Nei steam-power, suppli vd i Tho ood Medicine Co, due do him were ia +) viets satisfactory. Hugh was not to be defeated suceseded great HAS EARNED HIS PLACE i 8IR HUGH GRAHAM HAS HAD TO! FIGHT HARD FOR SUCCESS. | alleged yD. He Started as Office Boy In the News. | paper Business at Fifteen and Rose to be Business Manager In Ten Months--His Private Venture In| Publishing Was a Bitter Struggle, ! but He Won After Herculean] Efforts--His Patriotism. | One of the foremost figures amongst | the Canadian delegates who are at the Imperial I'ress Conference is that] of Bir Hugh Graham. His career] has been one of almost magical suc-| cess. Forty-five years ago, at the' age of | fifteen he left the family roof ut! Huntingdon, Quebec, and set out for! Montreal with no better equipment | than an ordinary school and acad-| smy education and an alert train, to-day he is a millionaire newspaper owner, and bears the distiv tiem of! being the first Cancdian journalist to] knighted. On reaching Montreal, he sought! the office of The Evening Iclegraph | where, under his uncle, he obtainel| the post of office-boy. Only a month later he had become aesistant hook- | keeper; five months later still book | keeper; and within ten months of his| irst appearance in the office he had| risen to the post of business-manager. | After three years at The Telegrau to The Montreal Gaz>! he met Lenigan, a brilliant | very well known in America | The two became great friends, arid] the future Hugh suggosted they should start a paper heir own, Lawugan readily agre:d; ind, in 1869, the two partners, with| s than $100 in tre treasury, launch | 1 The Daily Star 3ut the fight to set the paper on ite feet at the beginning was a tremend. | us one. Before long a disagreement rose between the partners, and, even ually, Lanigan withdrew, leaving Sir ugh with the whole burden of th tjer upon his shoulders, The principal | creditots thereupon | ffered to give the latter, as sole pre { a clean bill of health Hut he declined "I will pay every ce nterest!" he declared And he did it] though not before he had tasted very kind of experience which comes to the man who persist In makinz without straw | be ie went where writer, vhen Sir hat hi nt I owe, vith ricks He had no working capital, he was | 1arassed by lawsuits and writs of at ichment, and he was struggling vali. | intly along under a huge load of debt. | At time, as a matter of fact, h ad less t ninety-three libel suits on his hands, although he lost nly three of them. His credit became low that he| had to buy his coal by the bucketful, ind send the office-boy to fetch it: while the paper was paid for out of the proceeds of the street sales of the lay before. The printing-press One sO was drigen by by a neighbor shaft through, the wall of the premises; but this neighbor one lay announced his intention of cut- ting off the supply unless the arrears paid forthwith. To meet such a demand at the mo ment was impossible, so the shaft was removed, and Graham wired for a treadmill and a horse These duly arrived during the fol owing night, and for several days a big white horse was on the pay-sheet. The a flat machine, capable f printing only one side of a she vas driven by the, horse's efforts on | by means of a press the treads, much in the same way that A prison treadmill is worked by con- But the result was far from The power created was emarkable, chiefly for its irregularity, ind all too often, when the press was stopped'in-order to get relays of white heets, the noble creature would start illoping on the mill! At length a caloric engine was ob- ained; but even this proved inade- uate, for many reasons. Still, Sir| Toiling | arly and late, and encountering diffi- 'ulties only to triumph, over them, hé at length in attracting at to his little paper, pushed it tea uphill, past one competitor {ter till it became the most videly-read journal, not only in the ity of its birth, but throughout the ength and breadth of Canada . But the King does not knight men | nerely they succeed in busi- Graham has done a il more than that 18 _his newspaper had become a force | land, he lavishly used both;"it own in ntio another, hecause Sir Hugh As soon the ind hi abilities the public | | serviog f t ( I an I from 3 visit Tide yi I pan em ' ik NY. Severa wural | | gove \ number | ¢ wrth morning smaller Star office of tquiry Wh or ins he n the famine broke out in India ance, 1t was he who set on foot | ovement to raise 'a relief fund in and, in the result, 100,000 eople contributed to is. The Boer War, too, aroused all hi: atriotic fervor Whilst Canada was standing in ap arent indecision, New Zealand sent roops to aid the Motherland! and one a cablegram, teliing of the colony's action, reached the 'anada, Sir Hugh determined to act at once, with sudden Inspiration, repeat- | hat cablegram every mayor, rnor an prominent official hroughout the Dominion, with the in "Do vou think Canada should ! to ftand aloof, or do as New Zealand has | j-N 5 | lone village. mentholatum , Abby Gibson's wer old at Fresh there, hirts- Satur man v wise AV. , doesn't tl the cl the thinking stage Je Saturday. ay," MeConkey's Sold in| nm's Red Cross v weets, t Gibse of civil and municipal engineeripg in a | connection | charge. also be I'he response was overw helming. | i rams simply poured into the Star es till they were piled up in a we stack. Then they published the lies, filling whole pages of the Sar | 1 "them And within forty »ight the first contingent was being ours issembled for embarkation Alberta's University. The senate of the Alberta Univer- | ity have decided to establish a chair with the provincial uni- Prof. Edwards will be in A faculty of agriculture will established. ersity. Ribby's for snaps in boys' wa h stor | suits Saturday morning. Bihby shirts Saturday. | Many phout the once had oc « Hibby's n because he | } 0 a $2 check. | le 6Y¢ 5 he knows all | at Saturdayy ,. Saturday, morning, "Wild Strawberry Compound,' 25 Gibson's Red Cross drug hone 230. store | formidable than a | and | 18g/0ne { mill | later, | College, is an extraordinary one. { 88 a | his | When he was twenty-one years of age | money to enable him to | beihg | at a halfpenny per pitcher. The water | though, "| Patian, on +J« THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1 Scotland Yard Sleuth Has Had an Exciting Cureer. Detective WAS CONC Inspector Arrow, who raed with ip the arrest of th instigator of the notorious 8. Windell" frauds, now being unfolded in the criminal courts, has effected many a dramatie capture in his time, but perhaps none more so than the famous raid of a gambling | den, kept by an Italian, in a street ofi the Tottenham Court Road a few years ago. Plans for the raid were carefully made. Mr. Arrow was to approach the club with a couple of assistants, manoeuvre for an en- trance, and thus pave the way for a force of constables who were to be in hiding. The detective expected a long wait, but the unexpected hap- pened. Just as the three officers were approaching the club the doors | were suddenly thrown open and an |' undesirable member was. bundled out by the burly propriefér. Seizing this excallent opportunity Mr. Arrow: dashed inside. three were detectives, the proprietor slammed the door, and the inspector and his companions found themsel- ve: trapped in a room with a hun- dred or so of Scotland Yard at his back. He ) seized the cards, the bank, and other evidences of gambling, and coolly informed the men that they were his prisoners. It was not until the in- mates saw the constables pouring into the club by means of a ladder that they realized how thoroughly '| they had been outwitted by the in- trepidity of one man It was chance, pure that was the means of turning In spector Arrow's thoughts in the rection of detective work. and simple the act day, a one his dufies into the of performing thieves broke | schoolhouse and decamped with some clothing. The alarm was raised, and both master and pupils went in pur- | The chase was continued for | suit. several hours, in a ploughed haustion. until the field |, from Armed with culprit fell sheer nothing pair of offender thief until help arrived proved to be an old offender, the young schoolmaster complimented and rewarded by chief of police for the district. was this incident that his career King to Cycle. the It determined Special correspondence of The Stan. | dard from London says: King Edward VII. has been recommended by his medical advisers to resume eyeling after an interval of two years, and the Messrs. Humber, Limited, have mod- ernized one of his old machines for the purpose. The King first rode a Humber tricycle thirfeen years ago, | and during the eleven years which followed several machines embodying the latest improvements were built for | him. It was originally the King's inten- | tion to have a new machine, but as the delivery of a machine of the spe- cial. make which he favors was im possible within the specified time, one | of his old tricycles was sent to Messrs. Humber to be overhauled and | Buck- | refitted, and was returned to ingham Palace. The machine has been ments, so as to avoid all danger of tripping or a fall in mounting and dis- | mounting. One of the features of the machine is the absence of all impedi- | ments; it possesses a direct central drive, and thus it is easy to jump-on or off. World's Greatest Bridge-Builder. Sir William Arrol, who has denouncing .the $50,000 which estimates is spent every te: jseason by spectators at football matches as "a gross waste of money," of the hailed from North of the. Tweed started life in a cotton-mill at eleven vears of age, but the work in did not suit him at all. "I wanted an easier life," smith in Paisley," and it was clang of the anvil and the sight that love of engineering which him to become the bridge-builder. Farm Boy For Professor's Chair. The eareer of Prof. Thomas Rees, who has just been appointed principal of Bala-Bangor Welsh Congregational He tarted to earn-his living®at thirteen farm laborer, and at eighteen was working in a colliery. town, and soon attracted attention by wonderful preaching powers. was found study at Whitland Grammar School From that time his success was me- teoric. Soon he matriculated at the University of London and tock his de- gree. At thirty he was a professor of theology, and at forty years is prin- cipal of one of the leading colleges in ! ® The Very One. A young student, showing the mu- seum at Oxford te a party, produced rusty sword, which he assured them was the identical sword with which Balsam was about to kill his ass. One of the--party observed that he thought Ralsam had sword, but only wished for one "You are right," said the student; "and this is the very sword he wished The Isis \ : Selling Water, @Ad St. Day, Cornwall, can be seen daily the sirange spectacle of water retailed 1a the public streets no is brought in barrels drawn by horses, if the inlsabitants cared the cost of piping, it would to pay for save them a considerable outlay. 4 Johaso in la Island, outlaw .Jikiri Sergt. Robe Artillery, the fight when wounded the no and toroms Moro Q 1 : ; I wore exterminated last Monday, Sale wash suits, 5S0e., at Bibby's banc § ey Y : : Bo of 3s H y died from the effects of wounds, Suspecting that the | evil-looking foreigners. | | Nothing daunted, Mr. Arrow proceed- | ed to the gambling-room for all the | world as though he had all the forees | di- | | ] He b gan | | his life as a schoolmaster, and while ex- | more | brawny | fists. Mr. Arrow kent guard over the | The | was | equipped with all the most 'modern improve- | been | he | Saturday | afternoon in England during the win- | most remarkable self- | made and self-taught men who have | He | the | he explained | "so T went to work for a black- | the | of | the sparks which inspired him with | led | world's greatest | While | working as a collier at Aberdare he at- | | tended .the Ebenezer Chapel in that invites | her for his | thousands | advice is free, 909. 0000000 LITTLE DIGESTERS Will digest your food and cure your indigestion or money refunded. a box at all Druggists or direct from THE COLEMAN MEDICINE CO., TORONTO ONE AFTER 0000000000000 000QRO0O0 EACH MEAL 25c. 000000000 OOO0000C000R00S SUFFERING Cured by Lydia E. Pink- Fox Creek, N.B.-- had paihs in the loins and a weak- ness there, and often after meals would distress me 8 and ness. Lydia I | | | { 13 | | W. F. 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Women's Oxfords. lot, $1. ¥ = Wemen's Brown Oxfords and Gibson Ties, $1.50. Slippers, Special Women's Strap $1.35 and $1.50. w We fords, men's Erown Canvas Ox- (something new), $1. Children's Brown and Black ¥xd Laced Bocts, 50¢., 65c, and $1. Sass aa) ly SO Pr. A.J. REES, 166 Princess St