PAGE FOUR. A \" "HE. BRITISH DAILY WHIG, SATURD. AY, 2 axu ARY 8, 1910. I THE WHIG, 77th YEAR DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 406-310 King streev, kingston, Ontario, at per year, Editions at 2.20 and 4 {o'clock p { 4 { tg Officon WEEKLY 'BRITISH WHIG, 16 pages,' published in parts on Monday and "i hurse es morning' at $1 a year, ao United States, charge for postage to be | added, making price ot Daily $3 and of | Weekiy $1.50 ° per year. . Attached ic one of the best Job Print. in Canada; rapid, stylish, Jad cheap work ; nine improved presses. BEST Variety. LOWEST Prices. CHEAPER 'thas "Cata- * logue" or out-of-town prices. : Agent for "Lann's." _ Prices and Goods guaran. teed or money Aeturded 4 CORBETT S. = Lhe Will hay a six inonths' scholai- ship in either départment of the FRONTENAC BUSINESS COL. LEGE. This very special offer i¥ available only uutil January 10th. We want 100 graduates as. Stenographers and Book. keepers to send to Toronto .n July next. We ean place every one in a good pysition. Come and talk it over, Pr, M. BROWN, Prin. Hard Coal' Clean, Bright, | i | _Good Coal | ¥ S. Anglin& Co. North End Wellington 8t,, 'Phone s 66. 1 2 Now that Christmas is over you will be requiring something in Wines and uors for the New Year, nd you can get the best at RR. LAWLER'S, Golden Lion Block. Agent for McCarthy's Ale, Sanitaris Water. " La s Cab Stand "Phone 201. DAY oor NIGHT; Wah Long's Laundry A; Pirst-class work 'guaranteed. Drop , MWe a card and | will call promptly for ba laundry. 155 WELLINGTON sT, + between Brock and. Clarence Sts. irs Real Estate Agency ESTABLISHED 1582. * Property. Also Insurance Written in best companies. OBO. CLIFF, 9% Clarence St. ql ol oi busi- ¥ oss We Bho enough fo make n- ae ¥ TRI CainIn ou Cw of Sxuellen and count 0 "That mew customers Tw aren leelug tiem what - Berlin our oid castam- r stand. faliness , patrons: © improve our qualit Impouninic Because oe our's Bet Cal Now nd Alvar. CRAWFORD, b Lp Seen b « he | | i | t versy. | {amiss to refer {and harmonious that direction {eidental ties at British Whig Publishiag Co., Lidl EDW. J: B. PENSE, : Managing Director. b ; TORONTO OFFICE. Saite 19 and 20, Queen City bers, 32 Church St. 'Torouto, Bmalipeice, J. Po, fepresentative. Dailo Whig. "FAXING VACANT LAND. Rumour has it that one of the new aldermen will, at anseacly date, | move for a return which will {how much land is owned by ° | churches in this éity, the proportion | in use and the proportion not in use, | tsome' of it not even fenced), and the wd limit of its exemption | from taxation. . It is pot "apparent { what the alderman-elect ean do about it, but one can afford to wait in. pa: {tience and watch for developments | The legislatiry of Ontario, it Cham H E show { | nature must remetnbwred, | which is looking inde bax a commission the Assewsment determine, with Mast Bve years, HM = and Aci and wn over te the what pierces it experionm of the made in § hurel sf al is samp tion hh comaderation, oR and one athe has ot boon mis understood frroposed, ture. It amendhnent will ant of a railical will be to the eflect be nr he very na that chusch. land shall exempt from taxation only 'and necessary for the purpose of the This ~~ will raise a point that, in Kingston bast beet referved. to the court. a comple of times, agoinst the city ite department. cause, with rulings and asscsement The alderman -refirred to--and some times these chaps with new brooms get to work im real earnest--may em- the reform which the i he size ment commission has under considera- | tion. The outcome of it may be that wilk be put to use and some of it may pass out of the ownership of the churches, if taxes are to be levied annually upon it they will svon gepresent its entire ome land ance, for worth, WORRIES OF QUEEN'S Whig has read two articles in THE The the Queen's Quarterly, on "The Situa' Queen's," and "Queen's and her Future," by two of the professors and by the solicitor of the insti- j tion in tution, and it wonders #hat good is to by the contfo- The Quarterly has a wide culation, and, be accomplished cir. therefore, it cannot be to if the issue, © only [Tor the purpose' of émphasizing its un- | timeliness, Prof. Cappon deals with the ques- tion from the standpoint of ohne who | desires the university to be free from the 'church's direction, however light may {be. In only the Arts and Theological departments has the -- any con- . 5 - stitutional status, and the professor's jargument is that the constitution, as be stands, is a 'bar to development, | that it interferes with the proper and efficiont organization . of the college, and that this operates to its manifest disadvantage in many ways. It held that the administration of university would interests is the be improved were Hits consolidated, whereas inow, on provincial and other grounds, | there is a want of unity and a fee} ling ol. isolation, and, as a 'climax, it lis prophesied that "when the few "ac i present existing dis- "moral and constitutional of Queen's will' be com appear the disruption plete." GM Mazdonnell and Pro. in the interest of Queen's and its. wel- {fare the constitution slhignid be leit ox it is, There is a sketéh of the move. ment for separation, Ns origin, its progress, its check, Reference is made to the success of the canvass for en: dowment moneys until application was made for adwission to the Carl negie Pension Fund and the amend, ment ofthe gonstitution sd that this ! could be mage possible. 14 is admit ted that there should be: reconstruc. tion to meet the growing wants of the college, "and these changes are 'ouglined. The chdrch's: relations must remaln; the graduates, the students, | ad the benefactors' should have a Tavger place in the board of ' trustees; the city and the provifice should have a share iu the, government of the in- stitution; the: *dnivdrsit council should bécome "advisory in 4 quality; and 'the Medical 'and Mining Faculties 'should have 'representation on the | senate The financial side of the case is dismissed with the rfflection that | there is no of larger or addi- | tional aid from local government "to Queén's ax & uondamossin foal } seat'ol learning. | Thus the corroit vumber of the | Quartérly 'a magamne devoted to sicence and literature," is largely oc | cupiod: with . a dijeussion of the most | iLiitating "chara a discussion that i caleclated 1 advertize the college and that will ome the- in so far as it is in use | assess. at! ; Dyde. {ake the 'apposite view, the view that MWhere you can buy or soll of its friends exceedingly wnsoinfort. | shle, The soanet; the disturbing cause is settled the better--by the. commiit- tees to which the Sulpject; has been re- ferred. { | THE BRITISH ELECTIONS, "At Swansea, Mr, Lioyd-Georg that the balanee sheet of the budgei for workingwen. took £2;000,000 from tobageo and gave them £15,000,000 in Hi old , age pensions, } unemployment, sick funds, 5 "Eyeryone reads the _ speeches Lloyd-George. He is a mian _ of people, and the 'most brilliant paig year. not insurance against AS labour exchanges and Y of | w the cam- r Englahd has had in many a Chamberlain at hig. best, could enthuse the as Lloyd- George has! done. The Hamilton Spectator notes Ws | significant that the 'betting * in the. British elections. hias been even ! What of that? There was betting in Can- ada, in the last election, that the Borden party, would win, and we all know what happened. The lords referred the budget to the people; but the composition of 7 the second chantber has become so keen | an issue that the leaders of the union- masses hy o ii al Po a say it giust he reformed. The misfits or the unfits must be ¢ hagrined. . In about a week the polling will be- Britain, and the, evidence will downe, S ja gin in w be given of the mind of the people. Lord Cawdor thinks i that an elec- |b v tive second jp womething so~powerful that it would | c overshadow: the commond. There is no terror in intellect, It will and ought to rule {a Some of the East Pancras division of Lon- i th { don to let Joseph Martin--oug. Joe £0 in by acclamation on the round 8 that he would give Mr. el Ww Asquith, a | premier, of measure 1 taked. Mr. gram, sulted more trouble than any the The has pretty mem- ber opposition. man's been correctly ic re IB con- | WY Robinson, now in England, fifty Henley meeting, Toronto Téle- says he Balfour's and that the major ity of them? some of them pronounced | sympathizers, of That ean of the journalisis at SUreess conservative iad the party be accepted as an unbiased opinion. ! Blachford, . the socialist, compulsory military means of using the {th cl one |cl The | T th made | advocates service as unemployed. thousands now idle 'should be good soldiers, under Lord Kitchener. ! The British army &hould Bethe big: | gest and best in the world. of it--~oh, hang the cost. Tax the bread and beer and land a little more. a |B EDITORIAL NOTES. will cost .. about $100,000,000, Rudolph Forgét, MP. be no difficulty money. and | , says: there will | ol about' raising the | w {dl he {p the lords. He says he sees that the people will insint upon a bona fide sec- is. only a Side show. that the Monday, It is hop which meets on the he will remem: | ber Whig's advice, and eleet the render the city the best service, The G.T.P. company. is pushing con JAH struction as fast work would be completed soonet, but yellow labour not desired. We should say not. Public opinion is very emphatic on that point. a ---- American ambassador is 3 w Lit N The has 'com- mitted a grave indiscretion in writing to any one on political matters, and having this letter made use of in a heated 'campaign. Mr. Reed may hear about 'that letter later, should the British government ack for his recall i *i------ More, the dethronibd ice kings very mad because his importance has not Hn recognizéd by the tourt. Juss tice 3s blind to the social status of A any offender. The bank breaker, in the person 'of a president or director, does not fare any better in the criminal eoukt than the burglar. N Y iw Ai The Board of Education will have to ask the legislature to restore in the School act; the ¢lause which permitted urdon, boards to meet on the first Wednesday after the first Ménday, av heretofore. This clause originally was ly put in the law on the petition of the Kingston beard. * ! eed Unfit To Live--Must. Die. The verdiot | rendered a thousand. i times when coms get sore. Do them to death by Putnam's Corn Extrae: | for; it cures painlessly in t hours: Use "Putnam's,' vegetable remedy known. minarremsingbii atin . "Notes From Wensley. Wensley, Jan. 6.--Sehopl has 1s re- opened. F. H. is er. Mr, and Ne: Wiha Ee have i returned to their home in Whitney afc tor the holidays with her | ts, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Drown. N iL ic lars worth of w who thronged Boadway wine. New | imported champagne at four -ist party, Mr. BalioWlr and Lord Lans- rn Jed the business--reason' chanale. Wine agents, teeribly | motored here and 'there to see that |the waste of wine was not abated. in the big Broadwey restaurants one has. advised the unionists | ize. i that lin the minds of the actors, these T9200,000 staircase. lof * {at the gate and the Persian thrusting saw No chamce for the for the throne. ove: 'the | the staircase is a great clock. -- woman's dress "caught \ " Even Lord €urzon has gone back "ow rsa lantern and burned her ond chamber, and Bot a chamber that a mightily like. ler also * {in every hotel and cafe and aldermen to positions where they can | ant over town. 'as possible. The | the a . { Broadway. on this night the very but- {ters olics, * anté--the devout few who. prayed ing, high- thinkis is Pajan, New- all 'wasteful, hoot of tug horns on the street and the pop champagne ak all-over town. wenty-fous lection was taken up. the "emily | noticed that, his father put in a sus 'pender {did Jou pat a HE DRANK A MILLION iW YORKERS POU RED LIBATIONS TO NEW YEAR. { Scenes. of Riot and Nixoehe: Marked e said | Ushering in of 11919 in Gotham's Glittering Resorts--Who Pays For t. New York, Jan. 4--Ope- champagne ines was used to 'baptize ear in New York. Roy I riting in te World, says Never-was New York's New' Year, New York's annual drunk, New Year's piiflion dol and rare the New McCardell, yearly champa rue Sebauch, so careful iy and so expensively staged as it was this New Year's Eve It cos no more for the noisemakers and © blew orns, swung rattles and jangled bells ut of igune, but it cost more, owing to the higher prices in the luxuriés of fe, $o_the ultimate consumer in his nnual performance of thet rite sacrpd to Broadway and always alluded to in hushed tones and awed as "'opening Let it be forever remembered that in - York: City claret is claret, and ort is port and sauterne is sauterne nd sherry is sherry. but "wine" is dollars and more per quart bottle, and it * is gothing else. The heads of the ' wine bac- as stafi officers, tewards of clubs, well known actors nd actresses and men about town ere asked to accept reserved tahles and otels, to bri their well dressed | friends, order every thing on the ecard chamber would produce jand always "'our wihe"--and sign the heck. Rn oil, This served a double purpose in | stacking tables with the. empty bottles {of * lo our brand," labels turned out that Il might see, and to further popular "our house" with. the stéwards "our brand" might be pushed in ie clubs under their supervision, and Actresses nd men about town that they might benefits remember and "call for 'our ~wine"' when they or those 'they ere with bought in future. A great wine importing firm 'owns and controls Broadway's newest, gaud: st and most theatrically luxurious staurant--on2 that harks back. to abylonian spléndors for its 'effects nd decorations. The man-headed and inged lions of Ningvah guard the A monster painting "The Fall of Babylon" --the | Mede sated and sagiing revellers -at- Belshazzar's feast heads this staircase. To the soith of And at he 'stépke of Midnight, wp ol the ock's face stepped a 'young woman ad mostly in a wreath of roses. hen, behold ! She soared up up, to we dome of the festaurant--then slow- tly down, 'down, again over the Jeads of the revelling multitude. The world has no match for this The cost | place, modern times knows of no such celebration as. took plpde. in the roadway Belshazear's palace. At the Plaza masks and gay head- dresses were distributed by the man- agement, and there tht New Year revel Montreal has a subway scheme which | was in the nature of a carnival en mas jue, Caruso sang the New Year in Lut the Plaza. At Martin's other fam 1s singers greeted the new-born year ith golden-throated acclamation--de- amation which barely paused while a fire from a most irvibly, Bro iway must not pause to tye oh New Year's Eve. And so they sang and danced and drank and Gargantua- Drink, more drink ! Drink in the sa- new council, | loons on the Bowery, where the ward peler 'opens wine' and the dike keep- 'erucks a few quarts. ». Drink restaur- the Champagne .on east side, champagne on the west side, { champagne downtown, champagne in arlem and the Bronx. While such are uantities . that _ effervesce * on would have foamed and coursed ith champagne had it been poured into them--doabtless the best place for --iustead of down the throats ew York drunk nd dressed up ! Midnight masse: were. held for Cath- 'watch meetings" for Protest- the ew Year in, as was the old plain-liv- way. But New York ork is cosmopolitan nd New York is mostly roaring drunk nd wasteful of its money on New ear's Eve. Not all were "drunk, not but" the vast, majority ere both, Per aching wll ge andiomp ed pocketbodk attes mn the cool, -of gray' dawn of the morging after New ear' Ss Ve, So the New Year comes in with Fhe | on the river, the blare of of A million hundred foar; =a thousand ee corks a-popping! The New Year is in and Agent reigns--It is the New York idea. What do you think of it 7%, ™~ the Wine Appropriate Gifts, . ew York Herald Collector Loeb, at 'a dinner in New ork, said of a customs criminal : "He was taken aback when we pro- duced our prodf--as much taken aback as 8 'Was shington father who took his Ube buy" to church 688 Sanday morn: A miss telling 2. onary Tabout the ude heathen in the tropics, and after the sermon a missiongry col- The little boy button. 'On the way home he " 'Didn't 1 understand the' y say Shat those mages went naked, father ¥" _e "Yes, my #on," was the reply. 'I'm oid th fa a " "Then, fa shid the boy, ion in the pia ellie P. Thompuon 34 sul going to 'school? J Soaks is 'on the 'sick list. -- re Mine bP sick list. Yi "Miss 8. ova WA of. |. Bas 1 FI. Venue refuses a 3 's 8 preity As. mary Jew, Toe Ta times is going 3 A £0 it OUT! " THE IMPERIAL LIFE. ' An Excellent 'Yeqrls Record--Notatle s Features, Tordtito, January Sth.--The ont: standing features which have charsct rized | tne recent annoal statements of our important Hoshcial mstitutions are the satsfaélory profits they have eariied afd the substantial increase in thelr resourses, sure indications of tueir enjoyment "of public confidence, | and the 'steady mnprovement inl affairs generally throughout the To- m.pion, The preliminary statement for the' vear end.ny 31st, Decemb er, 1909, of The Imperial Life, which has been prepared with commendable prompt- ness, ovidences a year's fecord of un- usual attainments. The new life insurances effected and policies revived Jwere larger. than in any previous year, and. réached - 85 - 165,567. The aggregate of all policies | | in force was $26,507,691. The assets, iY per cént. of 'which are Coiiiposed of first: mortgages, debentures and 'Gov- 303,236, "an increasé in the ~vear ol $749, 342, The reserve for policy holdegs | was increased by $597,494, and' stood | Notwithstanding the large increase in} msufance in force, the death losses for | the year were less than those of the! $125,851. "The cash' received fromi" in- teieal on invesiments amounted to 12,0833 and from profit on sale | $252,946, "which was $51,737 greater | than that received in 1908 and $157, | of the year. The surplus earned in the year was $237,924, being 877,372 ped i ec than in 1908, The accumulnted sur- | reserve 'for policyholders was $627:519, | On, account of 'the favorable rate re- | ceivgld on Western mortgages, the. CBmpang's funds was 6.20 per cent. being an increase of. .17 in the r ate per cent. over that of 1908. These ex-¢ slightly reduced expense rate. , The « It stindard of efficiency whic h| » conduct of The Imperial's entire organization, is Again reflected | in the résults disclosed by the year's operations, District Manager at Kingston, informs | us that the business at his Agency | during the past vear was most satis. very greatly increased business in 1910. A reliable agent will be given a contract to. work in Kingston i ernment. Seeuritie:, amounted to $5, at the close of the year at $4,055, So | previous year and amounted to only |. securities >etc., to ¥12,018, or in all! 095 more than the total death losses | plas over dnd above all liabilities and | averageirate of interest earned on the | cellent results were accomplished at =a and which permeates its | J. B. Cooke, the Company's able factory and that prospects point to a | vicmity. . goo 3 and | LT Brewer's Mills Cheese Factory. Brewer's Mills, Jan. drgwing aw Togs t6 the prikt, and | chopping wood. A number of young | people irom this vicinity attended the | tiattersea tea-meeting last night. Anglin's dairy factory is mak ing bulter for the rest of the season Previous to this the. large quantity of milk brought in from surrounding | parts rendered making cheese 'absg- futely necessary. The "eneral average | for the was R19.56 a ton of | milk, from: April Ist to November | d0th. This is reckoned a very high | average. The price paid for Novem- ber alone was $21.10 : ton. December is expected to correspond and the factory's patrons are warmly con gratulating - their able cheesemaker, John Humphries. A Miss E. McCallum, who came down from Winnipeg (to attend the wedding in Kingston ' of her brother, Dr, Me- Callum, now vis siting her parents here. Oscar Lloyd is hdme on a brief vacation from his Ottawa charge, The popular [young school teacher, Miss Eva Gallygher, again here, Misa Lillian Anglin spent a week with her brother, 'Miss Sutherland and John Todd at Miss Clari Haggerty's. 6.--Farmers are Saturday. season is 8 A Great Sale For the balance of the year. Pre vost, Brock street, has greatly reduc ed prices in the order and ready-made clothing department, . also in gents' furnishings. Stock is well assorted with new goods, so There are, it is estimated, 17,600, 000 persons in the United States who, instead of calling in a physic 'Hin when they. are sick, resort to seme one ' of the ad forms of deuttoss § healing m---- -- - vik Wi ahi Roughens Hands. Wash ¥dishes you musi; but keep your hands smooth, soft and shapely with - Dr. Hamilton's'Uistmeént. This famous «Kin food and "healer makes he¥ skin-- removes " "parched, . dry kles, giver "the hands a dainty, hoa thy * appearance. Not only does Dr. Hamilton's Ointment make ' sick skin well," but it = renders old, rough skin as-'smooth and iresh looking "as vel. You find a hundred uses jor a yelisble _honséhold ointment, like Dr. Hamilton' sy Be. at all dealers | ment tytality, TR BN. sesasssasaine sSavae IT PAYS TO TRADE AT BIBBY'S. rh A Commencing 1910 Our Store Will Close Sat- § urday Evenings at Ten O'clock. ibe } Ove = in carry i ng country, coats for all purposes. buy them this Sale, for the Coat everal seasons to cone. We claim to $10.( $15.0 THE H. D. P | = | | Es rcoat Sale We shall now proceed coats in short order. At the eid of this sale we want very Overcoat out of ojir store. There's no money g Overcoats from one season to thenext. ? 9 & close out our Over- - Every Overcoat Must Go Every Overcoat, we own, Overcoats made for us by the r0es into this sale. est Tailors in the 'Overcoats of elegance and luxury. Over- Come to seé these choice garments and learn how little money it takes to It will pay any man well to buy an Oveycoat at will be good property for We Don't Want Profit, We Want Buyers ¢ SPECIAL! | Blue Suits | Black Suits have the best $10.00 Blue and Black Suits that were ever offered | for this price, Don't miss seeing our New English Wor- sted Suits in Blue and Black, made with new half inch lap seawns. and roomy ; very smart style. Trousers nice | BIBBY CO. i crrssnsncsvassans "suey TRAV VATTE RAVI VVIAN Regarding, Constitutional Changes in Queen's. Special to the Whig. Ottawa, Jan. 7.-The thoriative statement conference concerning Queen's umver sity was handed out: 'A mb-cori- mittee of general assembly comnission and a'commitiee of the of trustees of (uden's university, King ston, Bave just _ held an important conference, here, at which a unammous conclusion = was veached pointing to ceftain constitutional changes ~ in Queen's university and a readjust of its relations to the Preshy- terian church.' The matter is #0 by laid before the assembly commission at Kintatpn during 'conyoeation week in April following au- regarding the board a Extra fige | witch hazel cream, 25 for 10c., at Best's, TO-NI he. | Freedom From Disease. If you are run down start running up towards sbund health, Debility means .a loss of a portion of life it sell, Yataliey moans new lilo, now energy, freedom from disease and the od "to accomplish things. Wade's fron Tonic Pills (laxative), build health, by supplytag the system with rich v Peal hlood. ro ------------------ 'A wise man who wants to make a lasting - impression on'a woman tells her she is. pretty, and lets it go at that. Salon Palmer's ( 'old Oram: chapped: face and hands tubes at Prouse's drug ste we, Princess and Clergy streets Impersobntion occurred in Ridean ward, Ottawa. The pe iotntaes Bre known. Sale |, sale, at Weese sd; for ar Ale cornet auction sale. to night, The Day fer 8 Often Too Late. GHT At Abernathy' Ss Many bargains are offered in Men's, Womén' 8, Boys', Girls' and Children's Bhoes, Slippers, Moccasins Overgaiters and Leggings at | 20 Per foe. Of Tranks, Valises Visit Opp ¢ --- EEE NE Saving of 207% to 30% i rgain Counters a gi & Suit Cases 5