EIGHT. JOHN McKAY, THE FUR HOUSE 149-155 Brock St., Kingston 5 TERRIBLE S10 OF DISTRESS COMES SILVER COUNTRY. FROM | The Postmaster-General is Laid Up At His House--Sir Charles Fita- patrick to Represent Canada, Ottawa, Dec. 20 ~Ratifications of the Franco-Canadian trealy are being ex- changed and it was announced, to- '| day, that it would come into effect on Febraary lst, a month later than in- tended. The hearing of "the Nowloundliing fisheries' case' at The Hague has been postponed until April 4th at the in- stance of the United States. Sir ( haxls Fitzpatrick will represent Can- aaa. Positions as in the officers new EAI APPLES IN PROFUSION. NORTHERN SI') RARE FE UNIVERSAL ; Bread Maker MALES BREAD IN 3 MINUTES, i It takes 30 minutes in the old way. 20 or Very simple in construction! A child can operate it, : APPLES. Ax easily cleaned as a pail, Ha : BALDWIN APPLES, =» Ne this GREENING chine to mix and knead bread fectly in 3 minutes, Only $1.50 MICHELL HARDWARE 85 Princess St., gumrantee simple ma- i APPLES. pers TALMAN SWEET MacINTOSH RED BELLFLOWER APPLES, APPLES, APPLES. SNOW APPLES. o APPLES. W. H. Carnovsky, On the Brock and Aso PINE Corflex Wellingtén Sts, Kingston, Ont, | ARR RR ERR es Sometimes a man's wisdom is du to the possession of gu clever wife No Bachelor's Buttons ore required for Pen-Angle Underws ED Buttons are sewed on to stay, which wilt 1 a aboontothe sing 1c" - Best for all mem. man---and. the PEN GLE bers of the T hcusewife too, family, We are »gents for these celebrated goods, and guarantee every garment sold. . Vests, fr Drawers, Combinations garment guaranteed by dealer and maker. For Men, Women, Girls, Boys Prices lower than usual. SPECIAL PRIGES. NOTICE THESE = , Cotton Spools, Bc each. Linen Spools, 10c each. Silk Spools, 4c each, Silk Twist, 2¢ each. : Bechive Yarn (4 ply), all colors, 8¢ skein. Shetland Floss (large skein), 4c Berlin Wools, shy in. Percale Lining, : for Cambrie, all RE Bc vary. D. & A, Corsets, 20%, off. ? Crompton's Goraline Corsets 20 ofl. Dent's and Perrin's Lined Gloves, 20% Flannelotte Blankets, best quality Ibex, 10/1 for 80c; 111 for $1.10; I for $1.30. Silk Filosclle, all colors, 4c skein. each, 13¢ vad. off. Commencing Jan y. 1st This store will close at 5 o'clock, excepts ing' Saturdays. Anderson Bros' Mid-Week Sale Starts To-morrow (Thursday )* Morn: ing. Special Prices, 1.000 hs. Choice Steer and Heifer Beet, received to-day, will be put in| ~ BG roasts of from 5 to 10 Ibs, each at 8c, je anadian navy ale evidently popul?, 1 12%¢ per Ib, {the department. of marine having al- 10¢, and 1232c per Ib, ready more than J00 applications. {Many are from men who have served All Raoiling and Stewing Pieces at in the British nayy, but it is probable Gc per 1h. [that younger men will be' sought. According tJ returns réceived at the itrade and commerce department there {passed through Canadian ports, 30, T1964.307 bushels of 'Canadian wheat, Best Sirloin Steaks, 12%¢ per 1b, | nd throngh American ports 19.611, 216 bushels - during the past season Up to Deeember 11th, the total car [inspection was 65,483 containing 75, { 104,680 bushels. (our | Following an operation for the ve moval of a growth from the back of Lis neck, the postmaster-general, Hon Rodolphe Lemieux, is laid up 7at his (home. It is not expected thht he will {be able to resume his duties until next This sale will only last for one day week. | ( Thursday Xe ad- | A\ terrible story | i SIR cH RLES FITZPATRICK. 3 hs, good Steak, 25¢, 3 ths, Home-made Sausage, 25¢. . 100 Ihs, own make) at and get order. Pork Sausage 15¢ ih. Be of with Pure per sure a lh these your of distress from has been brought so be sure and take ohik i the silver cou of this opportunity. | silver. country lout by miners | Temiskaming on ihe last boat. | hoard were. three small children, vantage 'Phone your orders early; or call if nam- possible. 'a Montreal orphanage' by a Quebec in a shack a settlement called Anderson Bros., :.. ' {of work, the Princess and Division Sts { the grandmother in a dying condition. There was no food it the place near Cor. 'Phone 458. This aft®rnoon invoitigated a your Bread, No com- New fourtgen years we Good for Pastry or plaints. For the last bave been handling it. A. MACLEAN, Fon. the United States has been {Capt. J. E, | parties, for $700, Ontario Arctic, ion, Pi is directly and NEEDS NEW ENGINE. THE CITY FIRE fisheries officials, ---- Lox to United States parties, The Street Extension By-laws Should | give them the first. chance to buy Receive Sanction--Leading ( titi- | Berhier is out of the city and the min zens Favor All Three By-laws. ister of marine could not be scen. {deputy minister, There are the | ratepavers ang it IS he desirable that all three should be carried. First, thet is a by-law -to raise $5,500 for th: purchase of a new fire engine. The fire department must have thi in It is fute necessity, Ai if the to fail to carry, the engine have to be ut ont of the general | know revenue of the veut Hel wis paid for uit debentures, | oon which extend over ten years At the | with time, Chief Armstrong re- gi. that the department hasn't one Hor good engine. The ( hatham IS | foures are and failed to! recent tests. Hence qualified ratepayer for the engi es Every mer i | The Baby Swallowed a Nickle, that and | property | This is the title of x comedy, they | will amuse every parent and all whe proteetion | know children. It is on at The Bijou Fe Phen thre ave two } | today and to-morrow, with ; Fpurehuse' of: tant for «ually funny one. 'He marr] F00e is to raise by debentures | 35,0660 holo family the land in front | 14 drama, or the purchase of " op - 2 noe, or wo so" that Sydenham | 2 of the Hotel Dien, Th includ | VC RCONBS y , treet extended and graded be- | 11 8 hus nti tweens Johnston and Brock the to raise 8,000 to purcnise lots .to extend Upper William street! from Division to Aberdeen streets and have William street vun clear through to Univeraty Avenur. Both thesa by-laws meet with the approval | of leading citizens and the Board of Trade, aml the 13 adiocated by the City. Enginder. kx knows fhat Kingston 1: expanding, and that every provision , showid be made to add to the ul property by making along thorougl- fares easy. The extension of William stréet. will be an immense benefit tof Rideau ward particularly, andl to other wards as well. - Hence this by- law should receive strong support. tenced to The 'lower wards are interested iy the |tiary Sydenham street extension, and that! Buy by-law should alee be carried. Ii: it | Best's is- not, then the Sydenham lape,| F. P leading from Brock to Johnston | wtreet, will be closed to traffic, as the owners do mot wish to assume lia- | assume hie: newsduties as peneral man- bility for accidents on the roadway, 'aget of the Cwitadian Cement corpora- which the city cannot undenfake to tion. 'repair without assuming: re- | Electors of Victoria ward sponsibility for aceidoents. Bailey: he can give the city's All three by-laws shoald 'be carcied. [his undivided attention. To vote for thém is to vote in the It doesn't take a man long to be interests and for the process of The | come used to making a fool of "him city. : ! self. TM. Pp "Bov Reidlitz Powders" "Gripp and Cold Tablets." Buy this Red (ross Drag Stove. at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store, Jone however, by-laws before Monday, three next had never heard of any sale to New | York city partes. Capt. Bernier, (in the far north, lox, at, or near, Melville Island {died on _ the back and the other has been placed in the zoological gar dens at Montmorency Falls, ix all the deputy minister's departmen the musk ov question announced, definitely, this after that Frederick the Renfrew hockey team. team is now complete, and leaves for Renfrew to-night. pot given out, Tavlor, will be the highest paid hockey [player on the continent. He signed a | contract to-day. Ww ay an abso by-law was | Que. would | about city next A ensior by is present ports really getting out of shape, how good form in the duty of every is to vote Ye purch said, a on the by-law fire to vote ise of a chant 18 going the rest of the houldd do likewise, if way, owners want to against fue for the direet extensions have ade uate v-laws "In the Hour of some can be streets | other This picture should be seen. Blanche Whittier, in iHustrate 50 Electors of Victoria ward: Bailey; his undivided attention. At Cincinnati, 0; Mrs attempted to burn ther eight childrén. . The lives of tots were saved by neighbors: Lipp suddenly became 'insane. oY ihlain once; for 10¢, tor stealing William Hill, » bellfon, N.8_, Mary purchase eryone, . the Mrs vaiue : eat 200088 Best sixteen doMars fron lumbermsan at Camp a sgquaw has been two years in the peniten sen your New Jones, Dominion Iron and Steel company, left Sydney, N.S. for Montreal tc some who came down Luke On {ed Lamarche, who were being taken to government surveyor, who found them The father had gone in search mother was insaue and and the hut was also devoid of a floor or door. The family was in a half frozen TRY BEA VER FLOUR: starved condition when found. correspondent York despatch Price is moderate. | which says that the ouly musk ox in | sold by Bernier to New York city and has been placed | the zoological gardén there. This WIE 1B 1 9 looks very doubtful, as Bernier, commanded the government steamer |° and is in employ of the domin- responsible to the ma- and 'it is thought would hardly sell such a musk at least who The doubted the authenticity of the despatch and said when captured two musk One This Taylor will play This Tav. ile it is which another the There ie also a power- Venge- Brothers of Corsica." magnificent | castles and vast prisons and there is 'a thrilling escape and a leap for lie. Hear songs, Vote'for | he can give the city's interests Lipp. | to death four of l, lub recently received this unique com calve will cure at Year's chocolates at general manager of the has : Vote for interests at Gibson's In tin boxes, THERE ARE OVER ™O0 mov. SAND ILL IN MONTREAL. "Real Winter is Now Being Experi- enced. » Montreal, Dei. 20. --Thirtyrone new. atthe nge the total number of cases in yr ands suburbs up to 2,200, "The ital accommodation in the city is hg a. 1 periencing its first ontreal is now ex its taste of real winter weather, a of weeks behind the usual time. The thermometer dropped to zero last night, and all the day has been: hov- I hin & lex points of that . There is an unusually small quantity of smow for a adime of year, and a pait of the population; Which depends largely for an income¢ | on a: plentiful supply to remove from the streets, is suffering in consequence. | INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. Newsy Paragraphs Picked Up By Re- porters On Their Rounds. Patterson's cough tablets 5c, Best's. . Wil iam' Swaine, at piano tuner. Orders received at MeAuley's. Phone 778, "Chamois vests' keep cout the cold. Buy them at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store. H. Redmond, formerly motorman on the street railway, loft the company's {employ a few days ago. { Take the old reliable Best's Short | Stop for that cough. 1t always cures | and costs but 15¢. Miss Jennie Guild, professional nurse, was called to Fernley, Onl. te take charge of a case. H. Cubningham, piano tuner Chickering's. Leave ordérs at Auley"s bookstore. Clark Reilly, McGill, Montreal, re- turned, to-day, after visiting Mrs; W. Beall, William street. «Electors of -Victoria, ward : Vote for Bailey; he can give the city's interests his undiv ided attention. : The company that = will present "Graustark'" at the Grand, this even- ing, arrived, at noon, from the west. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wilson and children, of Kingston, are visiting his [ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Wil son, Picton. "For that cold on the chest,"" Pinol Cough Syrup cures. at once. Sold in Kingston. at Gibson's Red Cross Drug Store. Dr. Henry Hunter returned: to New York, to-day, aiter spending Christ mas with his parents, Col. and Mrs. George Hunter, Uollingwood street. Do your gift buying at Best's, wholesale prices. Rev. J. T. Urquhart and wife left, to-day, for their home in Ottawa, al ter spending Christmas with the lat ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hl Cook, Alfred street. "Pinol Cough Syrup" cures couglis and colds. Sold in Kingston at Gib- son's Red Cross Drug Store. There was a very short session oi the police court, this morning. A drunk was discharged, and another case, in which a citizen is charged with a breach of the by- -lay, was ad- journed for a day. - New Year's gifts al hal price Best's. Dr. brother, from Me- at ' at William Dr. H. Thompson Beresiord Thompson, will return to New York on Thursday after spending Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mes. J. D. Thomp- | son, Colborne street. i "Dyspepsia Tablets." Buy them at] | | ! and: his | | { resident complained yesterday, that he had | He had been ont with | of men, but did not know | whether he had been robbed or whether he had lost the timepiece on his travels. | A King street to the police, lost his watch. a number Influencing Public Opinion. The moment the budget was thrown | out by the lords, brewers and dis | tillers reduced prives, and made every | dhinking-shop © a centre for agitation against the party which wanted © to} 10b a poor man of his beer. "I the radicals get in again your dink will | go up." 'I'he liberal papers are full | of storice, tco, of great comservative land owners dismissing game-Keepers and laboters, farm hari's and flunk ¢ys, on the plea tha they cannot keep them iy conseque ¢ of the bud i ge', and of dismissed employees told | that they will be takén on again if} MMthe conservatives are returned to | power. And it is not only gfme keepers and flunkevs that are havhy this kind of talk handed out to them. Every conservative manufacturer who y { has occasion to re his stl takes \ [care to lay the biame on the bud: get. Every tory wall-poster compares the six:penny loaf of liberalism with the four and a hali-penny leaf of the previous administration, and forgets to meution that bread has risen a good deal more in Paris and Berlin than in England; forgets to mention that gree trade has no more to. do with the rise .in the price of bread than it'has to do with the melti ol the snowcap in Mars. rhyme t | For The House Committed, | Ne w York Herald. The house committee of a New York plaint : "I have the honor to inform vou that I Junched at the chub, . this afternoon and had as my guests Three gentlemen, all well-known gourmets {Among other things an omelet was 1 served. It 'contained only three flies As an old member of the ¢lub, jealous of its reputation, 1 naturally found this very embarrassing, as, in order to make an equitable division of the omelet, it was either to divide a fly--a nice bit of carving, as you must concede--or forego a fi seli. 1 beg to suggest that in oe fu. y | ture, when an persons, it' four flies, NeCessnry omelet is served four Lould be sither with (x) or (b) no flies at all." In the race for wealth the average man looms up amony those who also ran. Men are seldom so hopelessly deaf . | that they cannot hear money talk. |] Hot air is one of the many things it is hettef to wive than to reevive. The satisfactory vough and cold sibson's Red Cross Drug Store. Nn | i i y ie | 'Warm Underwe: "The steady and increasing demand' for comfortable, gasy-fittin nt od Underwear for winter has pt our Undeewear Department busy. WOMEN'S NATURAL WOOL VESTS AND DRAWERS, at 49¢ each, are the best for the price we have ever shown. We have them alsoin White Unshrinkable at same price, WOMEN'S NATURAL ok VESTS AND DRAWERS, 75¢, 99¢, $1.25. Also in White Unghrinkable makes. COMBINATION SUITS FOR WOMEN, $1.49, 1.99, 2.25 and up. WOMEN'S BLACK WOOL TIGHTS, 99¢, oy . * Children's Warm Underwear For Girls and Boys of all sizes, in a great variety of makes. Men's Fine Natural Wool Underwear Shirts and Drawers, 75¢, 99¢ each. Shirts and Drawers, $1.25, 1.49 each. Other makes at 50c. This Week The Balance of Our Stock of L.adies' and Children's Winter Coats At Greatly Reduced Prices Come early. ¥iven if not pre- pared to buy you may select «any you wish and bave it placed aside until required. Children's Overstockings In Black or Red. Children's Mitts, Toques, Sashes, Children's Clouds. Babies' White Wool Leggings, Mitts and Veils. 7 yo idler roll Butterick Patterns for January Now Ready foures are sold #t Bedt's, PV Those 0il Tan Moccasins for Boys| ARE JUST THE THING, Waterproof Cold Proof Cheap as Boots and better to wear. We _ have so: ie ones; = «