FAGE FOUR, I cep em ------ A great man people will pord- «r and over the of Christma gift and neve tEink of H:ioware store. Let us sug wolr a table and pocket cutlery, carvin sets, ed knives, and spoons, sors razors or A pleasure t show. 50¢ Razors, t $2.50. Razors, $1.50 up Sleight, 25c¢ 50e., 65 Skates, $7.50. JiCorbett' S- 50c. t 4 » the bother left R100), Mout Chn without ting list is Kodak At Best's. PUY OVIIVIVIVIIYIIVIY 4 PPOINOARAAMANLALLIDANA Open Plumbing But Tight Joints Mader wu hing Wi WAN AND ARI 10 SAY avid Hall 66 Brock St. "Phone, 335. 0090000000000 0000000¢ YOUR ool DS IRA EXNOU Gad * * * 3 * $ * * 3 * * * * * Bibby's Cab Stand Phone 20l. DAY or NIGHT CHRISTMAS! | Santa Likes To Derive Qur Sled COAL 3s A CENEROUS GIFT A'USEFUL GIFT A BLESSED GIFT CRAWFORD, 'Phone, 8, Foot of Queen Ba. matter the silver plat-| forks | scis- | and shears, | skates. | in cases'! ODAK A a i hi 4 ivevssssreee a | & DAILY BRITISH WHIG, #06-310 King strees, hingston, at $6 per year. ditions at 2.80 and o'clock p.m. WEE KL. Y BRITISH "wh1a, | published in parts.on Monday and day morning at $1 a year. States, charge for 'pasta had added, making price of Daily $3 amd o Weekly $1.50 per year. Attached is one of the best Job Print jug Offices in Canada; rapid, stylish, and cheap work ; The British Whig Publishiog Co:, Lid. EDW,. J. B. PENSE, Managing Director: Ontario 16 vages, yl v Ss Tr TORONTO OFFICE. Suite 19 and 20, Queen City bers, Church St., Toronto, Smallpeice, J. P., representative. ~ Daily Whig. WASHING DIRTY LINEN. the gl 392 0) if there is anything in experi- of it lesson think seriously clice Oxford county 15 a %it0 { the ratepayers to should elect to man- I'he some curious at over whom they age their public business, nel-Review contains re They council presented One ports were county meeting. LE] 0 9 charges under review for They misuse serious implied or the {months grafting, a of means patronage of the cotinly, in the mat- ter of road improvements. mittee could ceding against any one. I'he second report was that of took evidence i A mem connty judge ' who specified cases without result. ber of the council, who was alleged tc have received £30 for his vote Af fluence, denied the charge, and brought {witnesses that cleared him. of alleged disappearance the was and { that | cement, but evidence there might and no blame at Another fin the inventory | tached to anyone was a machinery house, but the county. nature and to no con the private tion with | ne It not deep enough to suit the coun has asked the Department Works to Iyit thé enquiry is not closed and Public for: { point that work thoroughly, and to the end that are council demand, refuse should advertise this It te able to leir up ite own sc 'andals. 1A the thave if it {of Ontario ap a commission will do its the honor good name of gov restored the county muy be and one not nope uliar ernment can county coun il of Oxford he Iplessnes in way. should time government it undertook to correct { blundering © { the county | hecking {disposing | their and the over transactions troubles that ol county and its the Oxford {be equal to purification of its 1 ! i 1 public life, so far as the county 'coun cillors are concerned. CENTRE SHIFTED. the of STORM Ihe imperial election was slogan at beginning "Capture and you have England." hill accepted "the challenge cashire hur invaded {ston and Lancashire with a whoo breeze Mr. of anid talking. a Churchill been cut his hurt by his Chancellor have has ; SOL society friends. They have Leen tion with Lloyd-George assumed He wind is beconunyg the they to And boy, devoted Joseph and i ix the Fhin vain haired mone more anc to radicalism ir which Chamberlain ( juart x of a century ago. I'he l.ondon, shifted to te be storm centre is being which was supposed the and 1t lights 1s polished whose that not' favourable to opposition advocates. Une o Mr and. policy which its Wyndham, who speaker, be loading is a persuasive task taxation special the make at experience and n to-show 0 would bread In whi at dearer support "af This theory follower the servative during African This not raise the price of bread, the now. which by ated the the mport duty levied government Nouth War. duty 4d and reasoned that proposed tax No not increase it The Master elivet from th to a t result is a reply Bakers' the association th that war "tax was aba Jdar- porary expedient, which doned as soon as possible; the trade the such' excuse would was and ing its contimuaance "and not tax hold is 1h levi an the consumer canted an import dity, regular system," =a Bakers' the extraordinary bakers acted on Mr. Wyndham, of the, part of a Mast 1 fron association, mania'r i the who was which 'nst oO sion a men Len then government, eo idents there behind the action, the trade that for the duty the wwsumes that was some prino ple or ina of possible Lig, rendercd be calle bread to and yet for price of to be raised. "There transaction; » . was something t he the reasoning whic induced many bakers to pay the duty themselves, 'instead of-passing it ont to be at | the. consumers, deserves fod { time i forelg pay, as subtle. In any case, the been discovered the The @ So baker not PRY but had the ners foreigners d 1 not the Me. Wyndham, and all who thi | THE WHIG; 76th YEAR| Ske: lisa \the published at have 4 3 hag s- To United to be nine improved presses. + | that he Cham- H. ® Senti- the ) that i a committee which bas had certain imputed and The com-; not tind a basis of pros the ard in- I'here tile showed have been an error | ne- cused of receiving 3500 for his pull on business i between them was shown to be of al the 15 1s would the councils, arise, indge should the Lan- Win- that have set the people close 'associa- ostracize white- gldbied aj the has am the .y ot cae | many fellows have not as vet subtle | not | subtle about desenib certainly THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1909. whole of them into the embarrass- {!ing position hy Mr. Chamberlain--will probably The saphe | bread tax a rest during the balance "of their campaign rn good old London. ee ee eareei n ELLOGY OUT OF PLACE, | The Belgian church extol: the late King Leopold--as a promoter of peace and a founder dent The church cannot ofiset the man's imperfections with the fact was against capital. punish- thai he was not looking for outside and that he made capital out of the Congo. His memory and the record of have been marred domestic His conjugal re- lations were seriously disturbed many and if his daughters on driven f of the Congo indepen- state. ment, trouble, his earlier reign by infelicities. ago, re- years belled against his authority. they had <ome cause for it. They were loyal to a mother whose virtues they venera- v ted to their cost. The Countess Vaughan episodes can- They harmony with: the declaration that not be explained away. are not mn Leopold w as a "glorifier of the faith." He disposed of all the pricels sss things that his daughters of their happy He and refused all overtures towards while he lavished strange reminded home. drove them away, on reconciliation, his upon a wealth and affection | woman. i A king 1 | speetly | did » rectitude | the | fade expected to walk circum Leopold is before his subjects. his people with the his life, praises "of his beneficiaries it Bel- the Congo will a and a plan of life that can please of fulsome not and the sooner away the better will be. {gium and gain by | new ruler {be contemplated without regret. NOTES. > reform- | EDITORIAL | The house of lords must be Led. But how ? 'lhat the question Lord Rosebery is great wants some 'one to stand forth and answer. alleged that Poet Watson is Like Cook,the explorer, disappeared It | demente i is the has and the people [who have Leen disappointed with them ! if they not found. twill not worry are Northeliffe says against Canadiaus He to thee England. Lord are prejudiced in Canada long enough the thought, and any was not Lnd out what ople he is not, in case, a mind read . will show earn CPR. the There is no melon' whose gross The ings for vear of an hundred mil- lions. cut- "ting affords so much' pleasure as that which this company produces at divi- dend time. Montreal scandal commission cost $19,926.53. A lot of spent to find out" how bad its alder- But think of the thou- will saved turning [ The | money were. i sands that the mew he by yut thieves, The Industrial committee of the city do something practical, hold angle council will aud off paper, when it gets of knows how to industrics. It is not v ght kind of bait. JR some one who , | for every one ,| who has the Sugar the scales Parr, the informer on the -the spring. weighed light, millions--will ot pays man who discovered which the robbed the about, fina that an Trust secrt by and nation get the a millon has been inform of share It as his imposed, to be 1 | Johnson, of he three-cent fares, The people turned Tom of for (leveland, out office while was tll contending » | and' this thing has been { The people are now secured. getting the reward of Public life are the | Johnson's 'work. ruined i hijn, and people galne s | It was even the thus. welie Sunday, Donrinion attacked "Henderson, Ottawa Dr. ERE on was both interrupted § | chure h, socinlism,. and and applauded by persons in the con- It socialism thing, it not have been talked, and gregation. could iE | | from the Christian he and such a some prea} hers believe an, is figured that grain can be car- ie through the enlarged Erie canal, lakes, and put in the | ocean steamers in New York, for 3le ¢| per bushel. "The by the | Lawrence canals and Montreal is 3c = Lushgl. But facilities will make the completion of the Canadian upper © cost eg " new route popular and certain, | -- el Her Pleasure. <1 "If the gentlemen {pleasure in Christmas oid pick out a nice at Best's expressed the her they mani- girls have and yet "caught while yet would consult selecting toilet Many wish, or cure set openly now, Pick vours out 1s time. Jon" x | there Ottawa Archbishopric. Dec. ~It s rumoured it | that Mgr. Olivier Mathieu, of Laval 1 | university, is likely to be the new archlashop of Ottawa diocese. Ottawa, x 1' See Our Showing. Oi children's raccoon, muskrat, grey lamb caps. Campbell Kingston's fur 3 and h Bros' store, " ) Limes tore lodge, No. 91, AO LW, meets Ahursday evening at. eight o'- clock" Business, election of officers for 1910. A full attendance requested. li vou want a bright, sparkling glass of ale, try Bajus'. No chemicals used and consequently there are no in- | jurious effects, * wt it id ale {ing "to CITY AND VICINITY. Turkeys." All sizes, nice, fresh and plump, the Golden Lion Grocery. To" Live In Barriefield. en a house at Barriéfield. Mr. is drivel for W. B. Dalton's : ® Persian Lamb Sets. Neck pieces and mulis. nnd vou see the best, ues, nd Gone To North Bay. Martin Sullivai) 5" Moiitmmnl street, has left for North Bay, to také a pos tion as stenographer in the C.P.R. Ls Will Be Back Again. Benjamin Hanlon, letter carrier fell and broke a rib while two weeks ago, expects to return duty at the post office to-morrow. . Christmas Perfumes. . The biggest display of fancy per fumes is to be seen at Best's. range in price. from lde. to $7. fume is always popular at Chustmas aud this: year is no exception. Guilty Of Assassination. A in hand, by man; razor his wife assassinaling not ar enemy, but a corn--what, he needec was Putnam's Corn Extractor: safe, painless and sure. Try man's' --nothing +sells so good. Nelson Shield For Queen's. At the university a presentation of a son shield will be made by the tish and Foreign Sailors' Society. Royal Military College will' be presented at the ceremony. Ladies' Fur-Lined Coats. We make a specialty of the manufac ture of these, and vou have not the .best unless you have seen investigate our values, they are surpassed in the dominion. Campbel Bros'.. the makers of fine furs. evenings until Christmas, Had A Long Journey. The Kingston pdsséngers from York on Tuesday had an hard time. They were informed Watertown that. the train would be ine ape. Vincent in time to the to arrive in Kingston would haye go around by Ogdensburg and cott. This made a great and instead of arriving here at noo: the belated holiday visitors arrive at seven o'clock last evening. catel Pres B. A. Hotel Arrivals. J. M. Luxton, Knoxville, Richard Fitzgerald, Ogdensburg; IF. Godwin, DD. Matherson, Ottawa; MacDonald, Smith's Falls; Hodgins, Picton; W. I'. Pine, A. T. Ortton, Hamilton; Walkerville; B. N. Belair and. wife, Belleville; George Macnaughton, Mrs. Bishop, Miss Bessie Lacey, Miss B. Daniels, Sydenhar Frederick Mal lory and child, Toronto; Ross, (iananoque; Ernest Groble, Catharines; J. E., Hampson, Hamilton W. H. Davy, Addison 'Pegy, O'Brien, Toronto St Found Maney. A sum of momey found at this son that one could call his own, woul Whig carefully you dollars. The kev problem "'Best's ads." save dollars by reading carefully advts. and act upon them. There many people who 'are in doubt, have not taken the tfine to through this goods. You single thing date play means read this paper, in and copy of the cat find many to is w he can save money on any vou buy at this up-to You should see the dis not you buy. By al the suggestions offered it and if they uppeal, droj them. store. whether or see SIR ROBERT PERKS. Denounces Free Church and Its Claims. Loudon, Dec. 22.--During few davs there will be little noth ing doing in the political world. The leisure of the holidays will be devote letter-writing and tome leading lights are already on with the pen. Sir Robert nounces the claims the or de ant Perks, in a detter, Free Chuirch*council its to speak.for. Me dis evan apd points out that the We are standing aloef He thodists trustful. Mr. Hawkins, (lub, expressed every the liberals would be power, He predicts dred. tha te confidence returned a majority pent . Leather 'And Fur Shbes. All sizes i CR whose Jaco tibby's sl a beauty, Mrs. Alva Wi ling Astor, cent divorce from Col. John Aston created a sensation, met only i the United States, but in may become the wife of Loud Curzom hedleston Buy boxed cigars and cased pipes Best's v Bibby s shirts, a beauty, $1 Montreal property owners favor ; of a municipal electric plant. The French wards gave best support to the proposal. See Bibby's dressy $1 shirts Buy collar and cuff boxes at It is estimated that two million do lars will be spent in railway fares by westerners coming east to spend C hrist- mas Buy Best's See Bibby 's dressy 8 The beers of Bajud purest in the market. from the brewery Cranberries, celery See Bibby's new $ olf voted i tk shaving and smoking sets at 1. shirts, brewery are the Order direct Carnovsky's. shirts. . at New York, gling .- See Bibby's nobby $1 shirts. on charges of smug- \k|' See Bibby's special 81 shirts, Buy fountain pens, $1 up, at Best's Robert Purtell and damily have tak- Purtell hardware, See our show- : -Campbell Bros'., the store for greatest fur val of: , who on duty, to They Per was caught it's "Put- April convocation of Queen's Nel- dri- The ter seh ours, un- Open New exceedingly at not boat and any passengers who had to difference Tenn; B. A, James Toronto: James Bergin, Ferguson, Montreal: W, I Mrs. Gay i May James C. George sen- be a pleasure, and yet if you read this the You can these are look fink stock of Christmas jon fine Council next the warpath Protestants and dissenters. in the United Kingdom.- secretary of the Eighgy. but with a decreased majority. of one hui up, at Campbell Bros, re. England, ight Best's HEAVY CHRISTMAS MAILS, | But the Post Office Staff is Equal to the Task, } The post office staff is now up to! the eyes in Christmas mail, which | Postmaster Stewart says is fully | twenty per cent. greatér than last year, when a record was established. Chere is no glut, however. Every- | thing moves smoothly and quickly owing to the good system in vogue, | "though the staff for Christmas week is increased by omly three, who do both rting and carrying. "To- | MNOrrow afd Friday. of course, will | be the avalanche days, when the mail |' will come pouring in. The office | sends out a large amount of mail. On {_ Fuad ay 100 bags full left the joat offic The ancient custom of sending to] he custom house foreign packages | that came phrough the mails is still | in vogue here--a survival .of half a | 'entury ago. The larger post cee | have customs officers on the pre | mises. The Kingston office, however, | is too cramped at Christmas tine, | nd has not the room to permit of | sxamining packages. Next year, | when the new wing to the building is | added, the postmaster: will have a] rgom for a customs officer. Then he foreign packages will be opened > | as sodn as they come in, and there | will not be the present delay of a day n delivery. At present the packages wre sent to the customs house for ex- | amination. There slips are made out ! 1 | and returned to the post office for | i | 1elivery, calling on people to go to he customs house for the packages. t STORE WAS ROBBED. Gained Entrance to IL. w. Murphy's Grotery. Early on Tuesday evening a inlet secured an entrance to the grocery store of L. W. Murphy, corner King and Princess ' street, and made off with $1.25 in coppers, which had | been left in the till, and a couple of | olug® of tobacco. The theft occurred shortly after nine o'clock. Mr. Murphy was in the | store till about that time, and before 9.30 a report was received by the | | police that the place had been enter- ed. It is believed that the thief secured an entrance to the store by breaking ypen the door leading into the hall- way next to the store, fs T Archbishop 'Gauthier Home. Archbishop Gauthier returned home from Ottawa and Smith's Falls. Joseph's church at Ottawa his Grace presided at the ceremony of raising to the priesthood A D. Rheaume, of Cornwall. Rev. Father Halligan, of 'Kingston, was master of ceremonies 1] In St 1 1 A Big Order. Christmas order seventeen Quality was fancy choco- The biggest placed at Best's for packages of Boston lates. Where quality is wanted, chocolates fill the bill. Pick yours out at. Best's now for Christafas morning delivery, f Foss Probably Murdered. 22. Captain Melikofi, ordnance department was fourd dead on the bank of the river Kour, with his head almost severed from his body. The crime attributed to terrorists. Tiflis, commanding the in the Caucasus, Pee. 18 To Rear Fine Buildings. Hamilton, N.Y., Dec. 22, $150,000 has been by 'the trustees of Colgate umiversity i {0 erect a commons and new dor- mitory mn place of the old east col , [lege building and to renovate the old west collage building. Expendi- ture of authorized a Russian Pony Coats. lengths Nee wonderful at Campbell saves You money our 260 lsony and thai » | values Bros'.. the store furs clusive Fur-lined with a x 'asssssasissastesssssesass IT PAYS TO TRADE AT BIBBY'S. The crowds of Ladies' that "throng ae show that they know where to ting thes hs Xmas' Nedloir ch When any one says "Christmas Ties ® Ab finest line of Neckwear that ever graced a Shop Handsome styles, exclusive t wakiats shapes, from Sitks that Looms. : The Greatest SPECIAL, with pridé. We've the ng tore, or. Tog: ery best, patierns. all the populay are the finest 30¢. Tie, ever shown Free. al in your Neckwear, Box with splay neat ol Fapcy and Fowue's found in Men's sone of Great Dent's can be Gloves the world the excellent Gloves $1.00 Gloves sell this best Gloves are I'ry Our Dent's Street Our Dent's at $1.50. Qur rowne s Furlined Gloves We English our produces, that store I'ry Our Try Our Knitted Gloves, Hix loves i $1.00, Mocha Gloves, Try Our Mocha Gloves, lined Monarch Brand, $1.00, Our Mocha Gloves, lined Brand, $1.00 . Try y Our Monarch lined I'ry lined Dept's Wool Gloves, at $2.0 Our Dent's Dogskin with fine Wool, $1. Silk and 0. (hur Monarch at $2.50 Our New Shirts "Are Ready. ry Buckskin Driv. ing Mitts, Glovés 30 Men wards has not general S of "personadity Toggery > been hy excellence Our G Our: Gr lines. HATS. Our Barrington Derbies, at avoid wn i the commonplace in glutient of character. Our success in Men's Shirts The exclusive patternsi fit, high-class finish and hirts is the reason they are' so popular, line, choice patterns, in neat stripes and Rguret™ line, fancy trimmed pleated Shirts. New Shirts. They incline of our £1.00 rat, NIGHT ROBES. Our Special, at 73¢ a DR! SING GOWNS, Seq Yur Special, $7.75 Spe and Christy See English ORCRER 5 HOUSE COATS, [ Low Special $5.00 line, htt Navy and Blatk Beaver TR LSUSEENDERS. Caps, - $1.00, T Sea Our President Suspendors, neat fancy boxes, 50c. See ' Our' Combination Brace, Garver and Armlets and $1.00. 3 $1, Golf shay 50¢. and Corduroy 75 £1 Our bands Our See with ted See $1.00 See Knit. e Driving Caps, Our rep ae. tl SK SWEATER COATS. Our Ribbed Wool in Plain Grey, Whites, at $3.00 Our tinglish Sweater Coats, fancy trimmings, at $3.70, beatity $5.00. $1.50, THE H. D. BIBBY CO, KINGSTON'S ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE. See Coat, and See Sweater Royal, Blue = NOVELTY SETS. Tie and in fancy Brown, fancy boxes, Hose, match, Green in colors, Cirey, lines, 83¢. to Fanssarissssinnanns ® SAAR ATAS ALATA Bibby «special $1 shirts Christmas See In ordering vou: beer. do ¥ Kingston. BEER LLLLS BUTTE LEES and ex- ction of Foreign and Domestio -» to- | Handkerchief, all J Lavender and Pearl | ' ' . i ' It beats part of brewery forget ajus' brewery y [all tonics. Delivered to y | the "city direct from the Bibby 'x now sell travelling bags Ihe cabinet decided to let law take its in the case Stepofi, sentenced 10 be hanged in I | not any the of has course ronto. Buy Boston Best =. I'he odist B.C., See Ihe hocolates for Christinas at the Meth Victona, of mn general conference church will in August next Bibby 5 81 kid coll 'Produ tion of Nov has oft million owing the Cooked ham 30c¢. J. Crawford - Buy Kodak Best' 8. Nee meet 1 gloves Sion nearly a toms, | strike Mh fallen - 10 cvcooked tongue, 1 "aid Brownie cameras at Bibby = neat ¥1 shirts Heniv Zyvbhlev was hanged at Saskatchewan, wife murder Smoked isc ofs, large pounds for at Carnovsky's. Fort for size, twolf}~ 1 ) See Hockey Sticks, Bob Skates, SLEIGHS, 95 Tbe. Star Skaters Suate Starr Skates Veiox, 10c--50c. Regal, Scotia, Ladies Beaver 'and Acme are some of the well known hrands. . "Prices 50c. to $5 00. " OPEN EVENINGS Marshall's, 50c. Pai-. Successor to A. Strachan 10c- 15¢ i Child's Shor els Bibby 's special $1 shirts b 7) 1910 SUMMER SHOES| | SF FORCHRISTMAS GIFTS| for the 'Xmas trade. 'Xmas. I: LADIES TIE OXFORDS--$4 This year we made arrangements with the Manufacturers to ship our sprim They have just arrived They are elegant. LADIES' 2 BUTTON PATENT and $3.50, in Patents, Tans, Gin Metal. goods in time Every lady would like a pair for FORDS--Pump effect--pretty heels, $3.50. LADIES' STREET PUMPS--with strap--all 1910 styles--Tans, Patents, Gun Metal, $4 and $3.50. Also many styles of Pretty Evening Shoes, in strap, and pump effects, low heels, high heels and French heels; $3.50, 83 and $2.50. I'wenty-seven modistes, were indicted {]