FACE POUR. |THE WHIG, 76th YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at Shingles! the 306-310 King street, Kingston, Ontario, at $6 per year. Editions at 2.30 and 4 {o'clock p.m. w ERLY BRITISH WHIG, 18 pages- ed in parts on Mouday and Thurs- | day morning at $1 a year. To United | States, charge for postage bs Las to be | added, making price of y 83 snd of Weekly $1.50 per year. | Attached is one of the best Job Print- old img Offices in Canada; rapid, stylish, is 3 fond cheap work ; nine improv: presses. The British Whig Publishing Co., Lid. EDW; J. B. PENSE, Managing Director; TORONTO OFFICE. Buite 19 and 20, Queen COity Oham- | bers, 82 Ohurch 8t., Toronto, H. E. | Bmalipeica, J. P., representative. Dailv Wibig. VIRTUELF ADVERTISING. A writer in"a Buffalo paper has the s. Angling : Foot heen of in the impor- ring upbn importance enlarg the one in he of this loyalty Wellington St. - "§ | buying desires The to home goods city which lives, produe- be tance deleted foedelod COAL! 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They can get just as did 15 the want They that "If you "let times at home what they well and just ay cheaply. | not know it, perhaps, and uar- one, the merchants Franklin, sound talk. to-day," said "and | saw they were all was surprised. | would it be fault of do business' That's in a house, the Whig, things, and says known | '1 was friend of Jovelist a the got n Kingston, 1 had time And did ago, the as been looking for them some them. she could have find told me could of the home as b and not lady house well at she done in Toronto." I'he Buffalo the that listed mau's idea is that plan should be adopud: to his the can get citizen, being loval own should of another ii he The however, the in buy he wants as Jufialo is for city, refuse to pro- ductaons at well and and ihe the as To mer | homa what reasonably ronto plan, lant to take I'rade, has, and it. Head to advertise what he eal 4 . pleasure in showing Office, 208 Ellicott Bquare, fricnds, can be cultivated and We have direct wires cou- r offices Buffalo Buflulo, N.Y necti I ou expedients, chief the and by a combination of printing the which are the use of the common courtesy. of (jrand Union Hotel Opp. Grand Central Station, New York City Rooms, $1.00 a Day AND UPWARD Bagssge to and from Station free. Bend 20 stamp for N.Y. Oity Guide Book and Map and of press newspapers, race COLLAPSE OF GOVERNMENT The Star aty Montreal Nor the regards the council of as state of collapse in a find board in to much comfort of does it sO control, their failed - ; ea of a faith to which some people I'he it worth pin has signally do Whatever the le gislators ------------------------------ council duty aldermen are clive AL IN ATION SENT FREE ON A en NVE ICATH s ¢ as they are failures is a be elect tas adminis strators, and it ques- much of of the would the | tion whether there jan from | improvement people in another form. QFE - MONTREAL TORONTO he | our OTTAWA WINNIPEG, WASHINGTON. 080 | | 1... | weight 10 CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS | non has beer uncovering nile to the disgust and dismay peo- The Perfect Brick & Tile Oo., Wash. 1 Ey burn, Ont. ie ere io PAISLEY & CHISHOLM, Lessees |" £2 Are ready to contract for immediate | 'T"NeN delivery. Brick that will stand inspec- tion at reasonable rates. Oapacity of plant 60.000 daily. to the an- contemporary is not giving of the which is its commission Judge C work due was a suspicion that cor existed the municipal gov that every department,/and that it influen ced : of the poration for the taken the in graftang ruled in nearly general business cor- But revelations the no one lpoked that one coneludes, Wa Border, all same price, FRASER'S, 78 William St committed BIBBY'S CAB STAND. | ness . Phone 20l. for | daily DAY or NIGHT FOR SALE = Nos. 44 46 William| o Street, Brick, part modern, |, at a snap for few days. Will in part Ihe German idea ministration of the Montreal one contemplates this dreadful have Surely, in of place these there Paper Ceiling "and Side Wall, at | presence exposures, Yegeneration, will elections and of next that will he and the supphed | he tion repentence evidence them be in the the administra- will be men who fit- hope of the -- business people's to controllers, chosen because of their office, he for their men who will be paid will have the which service, men who work they as the sessions and to thought and But they give the Judgment will be chosen aldermen are now chosen, and of the exhibited in the attempt -of the andacity average alderman is the board the objectionable of of than to force through coun works contracts that that are and mean a waste that the any and public = So con the board not be better works the business is to commit houses payment. Apply to GEO. CLIF F, street take small : the eivie to permanent officials, and in pro- realizes how Montreal's posal with sadness as he of all ? What can awakened the Star faulty hive been BatHed be larence some directions be public oflicials, in done the which What to is done without of assurance. conscience gives very little AERIAL Petawawa PHILOSOPHY. acrinl experience Messrs, Me have' been more taking" to machines certainly is iluminating Curdy and Baldwin than considerate n the ground their an and th ng soldiers by their experi- The however, ment an unusual diversion thing cannot understand, should the On t the break ghts side fh the military men to 15 why they lay for initial of the Dart, their Silver awaking show thom at from only sheep an acropdane can mishehave C most : he men unexpected tim vounge men compli thir adventure, a « » Iw ol on two their love ot harac of al {aerial engineers, and (2) thar optims- tic spirit They had, too. what is their busi abound- thei Were very CRAWFORD, ail tn earlier OSS, an to fly nspring., in ability The fhoht Then auch dif [with Fhone, 9, Foot of Queen St. the earth wit and rose fiom how heuity, ihey were # THE DAILY irs WHIG. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1909. andl speed with which the the carth, others the soared over case and they had, experienced Wrights they mis- have The machines before what a difficalty several SO many in alighting. smashad condd effect 5 landing without hep." French aerial artist, after crossing the English could not land without acecidbnt. The great channel, Mo Baldwin must, therefore, their little following Curdy and be excused for mishap. The consolation the acei- is that the not a serious matioe ihe machine is The the engine, dent loss of experiment and the inier- was designed {lo test rsuing the the aes it workeal beautifully. P enquiry along the safi ence is that had og broken his leg on his head the lidhtly esteemed so long as the engine The of the fession is so candid and charming. line -iadists has arm or damage would have been escaped. philosophy pro EDITORIAL Dart earth, NOTES. had a strange af- that The Silver finity for the considering it was an airship, was proposed that Speaker Can- It non and Vice-President Sherman would ride to the capitol in a £12,000 auto, and the United States senate said they could walk heretofore, paper says step has ever been taken Secure of the Mayes The Public Accounts committee was at the disposal of the conservative party at the last Why did they as Jingo by ~ that to A conservative proof aflidavit. session of parliament. use it? not The holidays. ; should have The and aldermen think they Of course they should. boys generally are having a frolic why the who consti I'here compulsory about their service. like, should' not the boys nothing They tute council. is can go fishing when they The Trunk railway have a ( Grand will not the Rivers-Wilson directors they not probable 'anadian board. So says president, Sir Charles Reason--the Canadian might be extravagant So might, though it Hence the long-range management will continue The council the phorically high rollers of the Montreal city are playing their last card be- fore people take their lives, I'he which meta majority call for WS00,000, a third the lowest speaking: have passed contracts an éxpenditpre of $l of which might be saved if tenders were accepted. ix made by the Prine Complaint Rupert Optimist--it's a suitable that name the far "the Trunk P fast west divisions of acific are being The You the Grand built ire not enongh. contractors don't s that losing money. ay Here's a change in tune really worth noting. pa- Franc » 1s A contemporary thetically, "Is growing that mg on enguires, squite PTCS 0G like socialistic Spain and of the protest atheistic bottom revolt, work the €1gn war the against for of state public for the purpose making a revolution It against a church 7" looks that certainly way. Here's Montreal. another brutal parent, in She strapped her thirteen- to left him hanging by the hands until a po- lice The cure is simple. be the equal time, vear-old son the rafters and in and cut him down. The sami officer went woman should for father, party. hung up in way an length of and the too, for being a cepsenting The tariff heavter United duty States puts a wood Good of the pulp business of Canada the on pulp Eventually, with the aid tarifi tinkerers the will be improved, and by aid, too, pf American capital. Canadians mean while ean keep cool the the will have the papermakers' afford to They have main thing, wood, and they mon- ey. SN KILLS HERSELF AND CHILD. Husband Failed to Pay Tempor- ary Alimony. Aug. 5.--Matrimonial trou- Mrs. Emma Michél to kill her children, Meta, fifteen vears old, and Gustav, twelve vears old, and her self, with illuminating gas. The two children. weve found dead in bed with every cas jet in the house open, Mrs, Michel was found svated in kitchen, with one oud a rubber ras flowing, in her mouth. Mrs. left "letter giving the reasons har act, Mrs, Michel and her hus hand, Louis, had wen separated for three months and she had started suit Pending her her but is Chicaco bles caused and the of was Mic! hel dead, through which also tube, a a decision alimony, said. a divoree. was to pay it for hushand he failed to do so, Post. 5.--First Lieut Lieutenant Grant Assumes Washington, Aug. Ulysses 8S "Grant, Third Corps Engineers, grandson of President Grant, has reported at the war depart mont and formally assumed his new duties as superintendent of the war and navy buildings Lieut. 'Grant aide President Roosevelt to similar duty winter in. ec duties. His Root ol state, ly served s and fie with forme: an to may President tion with is a daughter of Senator be assign "aft this ninee orhe wile no BOY BADLY INJURED or ON HEAD BY BY IRON BAR OF SWING Ee At Lake Ontario Park--Stanley Sharpe, Barrie Street the] Vietim--Still Lies Unconscious. | Stanley Sharpe, the seventeen-year- old son of Major Sharpe, 252 Barric street, was the victim of a severe acs cident at Lake Ontario Park, on Wed- nesday evening, and now lies in a serious condition at his home. The young man and three chums, Roy Pat- terson,. Howard Toland and Joseph Me Kee, went out to the park early in the evening. To put in the time before the show the young men amused them- selves on a swing. When the accident happened, Toland and Patterson were on the swing and Sharpe and McKee were swinging them, Fhe swings at the park are not rope, out iron, and the two long bars are astened to a«eross-beam between two trees, The swing was going quite high, when, without the slightest warning, one of the big bars parted at the top and came crashing down, striking Sharpe on the top of the head. His companions were bewildered for 1 moment to see their chum lying on the ground, the blood streaming over his face, but quickly rallied and car- vied him to thé pavilion. The boy was unconscious, and had a terrible gash in his head, J. E. Jones hastily brought his waggon and removed the injured lad to Rockwood hospital for. treatment, Upon examination it was found that he received a gash about two inches long on the top of the head, requiring three stitches to close, and also other bruises. He was kept at the hospital until 'about midnight, when he was taken home in a hack. He spent a very restless night and was still un 'onscious this morning. He in a condition, but hopes are held his recovery, is serious out for The injured lad is employed assistant operator in C.P.R. telegr; company, and was one oi the most popular boys in the office. His chums all feel very. sorry over his accident. (Continued on page 8.) as TRIED TO DROWN HERSELF. 7 Minnie Cassidy (razed By "Pain, Jumps Into River Alexandria Bhy, N.Y., Aug. 5 --Min- nie Cageidy, about thirty-five years old, who has been employed this sum mer at the Crossman House, attempt- ed to drown herself opposite this place She left the Crossman, Tuesday night, and went to the St. Lawrence hotel, saying her teeth were troubling her and she was undble to work. She spent a sleepless night. walking about the hotel and, Wednesday, went to dentist and secured something to lieve the pain. In the afternoon she went to the Cornwall dock and threw her hat the - ground and jumped mio the water. She went down and when she came up Henry Dodge jumped into the water, swam out and rescued her. He had a hard struggle with the woman, but managed to get her to the shore. She was taken to the St. Lawrence hotel, where Police Justice Charles Benson took charge of her. He telephoned her people at Préscott, Ont. on once MAY GO DRY. South Carolina to Vote on State- Wide Prohibition. S.C Awe. H--Routh Tuesday will added state-wide prohibition embraces almost! How to be the to | Columbia, Carolina next the fold of which now south-casicrn states be Vo territory, all of the ever, prohibition in this slate is {emporary, the voters in twenty-one counties that are hold local option elec on day, August 17th, deelare for ent prohibition. According to unless wet Tues- porman- taons all dispensaries must close two before election and remain closed until the result the election is known. Attorney-Gene- ral Lyon has delivered 'an opinion that the "result would not be known" until officially declared by the state board of canvassers, which means that the country grog shops will be clogd least a month. law, weeks of for at Gifts "For Roosevelt. Nairobi, British East Afweca, 3.--Theodore Roosevelt and his Kermit, were thé guests of honor a public banquet given in Nairobi to night. Frederick J, Jackson, gover- of British East Afiica, was chair- | and 175 persons sat down at the table. Captain Sanderson, the clerk, of Nairobi, read an address welcome to the former president of the United States, and afterward him the address, which was mn a section of elephant tusk silver and with a silver chain. The American rewdent of the pro tectorate presented Mr. Roosevelt with box made of the hoof rhinoceros, swver-mounted: the f a rhinoceros, also mounted ver, and buffalo head. Aug. | 'son, | at nor man, town | of handed | enclosed | mounted | mn of a skull | sil- a tobacco in a Charity Gift Of $500,000. London, Aug. 5.--~In memory of hi Alfred George, who died on August 2nd, 1908, Erncst Frederick Schiff, London, has $500,000 to | found the Schiff Home of Recovery for patients from London hespitals. brother; given Czar's -Grant To Charity Petersburg, Nicholas hes mad a annually for the support of the Rus Immigrants' Home in New York, was founded by Archbishop] St sian which (Platto. Bibby's 50s. leather belts Falcum Powder days." Buy Tal cum Powders + at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store See See Bibhy's swell shirts President F the University } of Toronto, will sail from England for Canada on August 20th, alconer, « | Kingston, accompanied .by Miss Lettie day of steamer rom | soft | chair | fort | timo becamao | in several wavs by | until | | pate { Woman { of horror as he {the old woman's form, ja pale and perturbed face out of window. small DOWN IN GANANOQUE, 5 The Third of the Dinghy Rafe Series. Gananoque, Aug. 5.--At -An- drew"s manse, at seven o'clock last evening, Miss Lena Morton, daughter of Mr. "and Mrs. Henry Morton, King street, was united in marriage to G. Jefirey, by Rev. Henry Gracey, pastor of St. Andrew's church. The steamer America brought in a large excursion about nine o'clock lust evening from Thousand Islands Park and Clayton, giving about an hour in town. The third of a series of six races for fourteen-foot dinghies was held under the auspices of the Gananoque Yacht Club, yesterday aftetnoon. The course was triangular, three times round, making the distance about ten miles. Six dinghies started, of which five finished as follows : Johnny G., U. C, Skinner; Horace Main, A. Watson: J H. L. Crittenden; Peg- gy Brady, Clyde Gillies; Chum, R. B, Britton; Saucy Ann, R. Adams, did not finish. Score by points to date: Johnny G., 8; Horace Mame, BK; Chum, 6; Peggy Brady, 6; Cuss, 4; Saucy Ann, After the race the ladies of the Gananoque Yacht Club entertesned at tea. The coal schooner Briton into Gananoque river yesterday a cargo for the Toronto Bok & Forging Co, The coal schooner Hor- ace Taber is un'ergoing repairs at the Rathbun wharf. St. Andrew's Sabbath school nic, to have been held at Garden Is land, yesterday afternoon, has been postponed. The Garnock baseball team went down to Thousand Island Park yesterday afternoon for a game with the Park nine. Rev. J. T. Pitcher, church; spending the past month in Washington state, returned home yes- terday. Miss Winona Pitcher, Syden ham street, spending the past month with her sister at Rothesay, N.B.,| returned home yesterday. Miss Bra- | nifi, Winnipeg, is visiting friends 1 | town. Miss Lulu Beerman, King | street, spending the past two weeks | { | St. Blue Suits "It's a Blue Suit for Mine." This is the thought of many a man when con- sidering what to buy for a Summer Suit, : It's a wise conclusion, too. No fabric gives better return fe#"The mbney expended, No fabric is more dressy and none more com- fortable. " We aim high in selection of cloths, linings and trimmings. ! Get the best possible tailoring. We sell suifs that make us friends. Blue Suit Prices The lowest rung in the price ladder is $10. The greatest strength lies in lines at $12.50, + $15 and $18. At these prices we know from observation and information given us by those who have examined suits in other houses that we can give you posi- i tively superior results in tailoring, appearance, home. Mrs. C. I Wied Meet Lois | Style and quality. E. Hurd, Mrs. Herbert Moore and | -See our $15 Botany Blue Suits. {The H. D. Bibby Co. to-day in the Limestone City. Kingston's Only One Price Clothing House. pulled with phe- pastor of Grace sons, ing Melcombe Matters. Melcombe, Aug. .4.--Misses and Jean Johnston have returned | Nettie | to | Landon. Miss Julia Ralph is visit ing frionds at Alexandwa Bay. In- spegtor Cheetham," Gananoque, visited | thé/ cheese factory recently and found siniieininivinlnleinleleinleleiueiujniefuls duedeiednledel evgrything satisfactory, Mrs, JJ Mpillin, of Rome, N.Y., was a visitor wh John Bolger's last week. A num ber from here attended the funeral of Blain Cross, of Lansdowne, on Sun | Mrs. P. O'Hara and children, | Watertown, N.Y., are visiting at | John' Donevan's. Roslyn Heaslip has | returned home from visiting friends in Chesterville. Peter McClean has | improved the of the cheese | factory by a coat of paint. "John | Donovan has been in Ottawa for. the | past two weeks. Mrs. B. Elliott, Wa teftown," N.Y., is visiting her father, James McDonald's. appearance Shrewd Jelly Fish Stop Steamer. Boston, Mass., Aug. 5.--That an ocean steamship could be campletely | crippled, brought to a standktill and! finally compelled to anchor until the engine room force could overcome the | cefficulty seems impossible, but such was the experience of the British Indramayo on the passage] New York. Jellyfish | \ Reed Ladies' Stamped Price $4.00 Oxfords, in NOW viene Boston to were the cause While going Queen Quality and E. P. Tans, Black and Patent Colt. Ladies $1.50 White Cenvas Dxfords, also a line of Black Dongola Ox- fords, Blucher Cut, Patent Tip, worth $1.50 BOTH MARKED ........99%c. All Our $3.00 Patent Leather, Tan and Vici Kid Oxfords, NOW $4.25. Chances For Men Blacks through Vineyard | Sound the engines finally began to| act strangely and the chief engineer | reported the matter to Captain | Thirkell. Investigation Showed that | it impossible to get water into | the condensers. | The engineers was found the oH lindler | packed with a substance resembling | soap, but which was the hogies | tof thousands of jelly fish and $3.76. Colt in } of Men's Oxfords, Tans, 5.00 Shoes. NOW The Best American make Patents. All this season's All Our Men's $4.00 Oxfords go in this big sale. and Calf, in all the new snappy, smart effects. NOW Tans, Patent The Chair Of Torture. The most prominent building in the | ancient city of Nuremburg is' the | castle. One of its ig towers was for ture, the thor served ps a. prison. The castle also contained a museum of horrors until it was pr wen ole | J. H. SUTHERLAND & BRO., Talbot, in 2d po ESeSEIOn th : The Home of Good Shoe Making. | relics now One of these was ithe Font of torture. It was very heavily made and studded over the seat and at the elbows with blunt topped spikes the victim was tightly | bound, in a short time to manifest itself unbearable. the Our Windows show the big money making opportunity for wearers, Come in and examine the goods. used {or lie Acadian Sponge itser Swat G.B. Chocolates. or Per Lb. A.J.REES, 166 Princess St i Phone 58. | sjefueferfonfolorfrforfofunfuiofafuirdu] rfjufoforisd sfafunfuin} dufuiafalofuielejainjfofafeifof To i and began discom and in During its | torture was increased means of wedges | the legs applied to the began to bleed. continuance being passed between being thoy and SCrows thumbs Nouveau Riche. last month with said a Chicagoan. and Mrs. - Noovo Reash, he "bought a fine sixty horse power li {mousane. Their chauffeur taking them lout for trial spin, ran over an old Noovo Reash uttered a ery fell the car jolt and he thrust | the I Col- | "Mr wil, "1 took Hayt," tra oVer "But his wife hastily pulled him back. a 'Don't look so rattled,' . : $0000000000000000000009040400000444040900004 monished him, in a low, stern Bo youn want everybody to think this i gue feat automobile vide ? 3 WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR BABBITT METALS ' WRITE FOR PRICES. : The Canada Metal Co., Ltd., Toronto, Can, 0000000000600 00000600860000000000000000000 ---- - - she ad Voie bricks" sold Red in Cross | "Neilson's ice cream Kingston only at Drug Store. See Bibby's dressy 21 shirts The public's knowledge cof many i theatrical 'star to patent medi cine" advertisements Go to Frank Cooke if you want porch curtains or the material. Philanthropy usually gets in its best work in the limehght. See Bibby's new 50e. A little is man Gibson's is due Ee -- -- - - | tell them where the monoy was, they gaged and tied her 4o a chair, where she was found in the morning. The robber failed to get anything valuable. Two men bave bégn arrest: od who answer the robber; descrip- Kg oar tion. TT Plucky Operator. Kensington, Pa., Aug. 5.~Miss Ha Clifiord, aged twenty-four, night | operator' at Bradburn, a lonely Peun- |sylvania railway station, was held up a by two robbirs, demanding the com- When she refused to | ew hound, belts. apt to make success dizzy. pany's money. "Is Good Tea Re d Ro S e Te: an cfd every padksge.