SHAE BAO IAPR, PAI Hr Fy anc "bills day mw ~firence and may even get 20 YEAR 78 -NO, THINGS POINT To Parliament Endors- ing Reciprocity. FOSTER TO RESUME DEBATE ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON, THE Supporters Traces--Sir Amendment Very Few Government Kicking Over the Richard Cartwright's tn Chinese Immigration. Special to the Whig. : Ottawa, Feb. 13.-This was private the house, which resum at three this afternoon Hon, 6G. KE. Foster irks on the reciprocity will probably el business Fomorrow tinues his rem debate and he several From what ean be best authoritios indientions seem to point te the bargain that Messrs Fielding and Paterson have made at Washington being endorsed by the Canadian parliament, but it will net be for several weeks yet, with the possibility of a delay until next ses gion on some technicality, & few of the government are kicking over the races but not enough to affect the mater Wilfrid Laurier has hehind him: and it is well known that when the cabinet endorses a propos tion (which -it has) the liberal members generally endorse it. In the opposi tion R. I. Borden, Hon. George Fos ter and others have already been heard from and the claim that the proposed trade tariff will affect the British pre far as in eon OUeupy hours, jeurned from the wRpporiers not many, ial majority Sir future years to lead to annexation to or absorption by the United States is being magnified. This is not surprising. The op position naturally oppose measures the government suggests, and it cither "up to them" to approve of closer trade relations with Americans or emphasize the importance of closer Britirh connections. The issue is the most widespread commercial one, and the biggest pub lie industrial and trade question be fore the house of commons probably since Sir John Macdonald introduced his national policy. His adherence to British institutions ahd ery of ing to beware of the States is also being dragged into the discussion, and the entire famous manifesto he insued bere just twenty. wears. ago has been introduced and evlarged up- on. . Ju the senate Xir Richard - Cart wright introduced a bill to amend the Chinese immigration net. It gives the government power to make regulations further defining merchants, students and qthers entitled to free admission to Canada. These classes must estab- lish their status to the satisfaction of the comptroller at the point of en- iry. Members of diplomatic corps and consuls will be allowed to bring in their suites and servants and Uhiw ese born in Canada will be allowed to bring in their wives and children. Chinese born in Canada may return free. Where a Chinese merchant who has heen doing business in Canada dies, his son, if over Wwenty-one, may be admitted free 10 enrry on the es tate, warn ---------------- Hopes to Wed Miss Arnold. Atlantic City, NJ, Feb. 13-G. 8B Giriscom, jr, in hak achieve] mach notoriety in conneetion with' "the dis appearances of Miss Dorothy Arnold, of New York, and who dame to this city Baturday, made the interesting announcement that he hopes jo be able to marry Mirs Arnold. He added that he believes the veoung Yadde is alive, but says he absolutely does not Know her present whereabouts. mp ---- = Seveatieth Wedding Day. Ottgwa, Feb. 13. <Eael Grey, Si Wilfrid Laurier, R. lc Borden and others have sent telegrams eongratula ting Mr. and Mre. William: Dunlop, Middle Stewiacks, near Halifax, who have just; codebrated their seventieth wadding anniversary. The couple are ninety six and ninety five years respectively, Has Record Year. Ottawa, Feb. --2As a result of the eut of nineteen per cent. in the rates * for light, heat and power by the civie Sluntric Sha, hove, the Ottawa Elec $i Sambuny. a branch of the Ottawa Ela aud Power company, will board mwelimg early this week decide: whether to meet the reduc Fort William's Ambition. Fort William, Feb. 12.--An attempw] will be made to make the presenta Sir Rickard © rtright's bill SINGPTON, | ONTARIO, MUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1911. ISGUISED AS A MAN. | Woman Fought in War and pe. . mands Pension. Sheridan, Wi Feb Louis applied to a of the distnet an anny pen- + has court SETViLe Dispatches From Near And Distant Places he 8a she 19 active the Glrd Regi { Hlinois dur war, disgs uised as AVS, he was sent a spy into i THE WORLD'S TIDINGS in one of goo ou ' Husson: camps. A she says, is let wounded her while many skirmiches around Vick can deep scar ter Ww her =u NCREASE aN PROF ITS. {GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST POS. SIBLE FORM. St ement of Ric helien and Ontario Navigation Company. Monieeal, Feb. 18 --The aanunl state, Watters That Interest Everybody-- of the Richelieu & Ontario Navi Notes From All Over--Eittle of for the ended | Everybody Easily Read and Re- 1916, shows gross re! membered. coir were 31 437,931, against S128. . 044 Tor the previods year; oper ating Dusasia has 12,500 Square expres, $1,006,588, against SriLuNe, Peat within her borders. fixed Sharges, #5 Sd; agains t $47,060; ik : t Febrs I gr ws for net profit, £363.11 awninst $257 362, week ol a wary was 2=an,000. an increase of SI! Phillips and Michael Me | Mabon killed 4 a Montreal SeI PEPE es SIDES | The British home secretary has sa id PEs odie Hireduced sweeping prison Yeforins, Rev. br. Milligan, Tor says ho will live to see union Wf the o churches. : x &; The question of public sittings of «the imperial conference i dis- + cussion, Rey parted ate meet 1 ze gation company year Decomber Sst, miles oi s first Joseph + SOUNDING THE POWERS. J : ---- & the Rome, Feb. 13 Rumors + prevalent here that Great iritain is quietly sounding the powers on the question of preventing the fortification of the Panama canal by the United States { under South Afriea will preference that » British on man VEPERFE Peat *. u @! ors Hartop, Leder eP IEP SWPP PFTLPNEED has appointed registrar a-- Hor Wellington county. BROWNED. | The outlook for the passage of the te { reaprocity bil in the United States Russian Oficial Found in a Well at' senate is still dark, Teheran, Fie ex river, from Teheran, Persia, Feb. 13 to the late, as to be x depth of of 1 Bogojaviensky, : " i ral f Tuy ban Higgins, chiel of the Albany, general a spahan A > 1 ,» fire department, Saturday seovered we 3 : 2 di re i on tl fo morning, aged sixty-five vears of the Saturdny, i ' ? ' Two mallion. votes were added fo the dal had been drowned, and foul ple ta on « ned, Italian rolls with an extension ob the « Py § I 1 is suspected, though there.is no evi 1§.., chise throurhout Italy. a crime, : Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, malitant suf- fragette, addressed a large gathering in Masser Halt, Toronto. 0 AlL IL AND FINED A bill will be i eed in Ontario legt als sure : to regulate : the develop ment of = aburhs to cittes, The German submarine flotilla will shortly be removed from the Baltic to Wilhemshaven, its base in the future. | {| Over 816,000,000 has been saved to Carvada in four years by the operation of the industrial disputes investiga Eromesa towushap, been of deed CONSUL-GENERAJ Chatham, Out. dredged to The body fourteen feet singe : died; mm a consulate, dence of WOMAN PUNISHED SMUGGLING. Jail Semtence Was for Omly Two! Days--Irisoner a Divorced Wife {tion act of British Army hun {A monster delegation will wait-on Xew York, Feb, ~As an exam de | the Untario, government, on Febraary o women who i no qualms age wg Hah, 3 petition for a railroad into smuggling Judge Martin in the ovini- | Gowga int be . of Ah United States dis: a girl er ute Lau tet ovurt, seotenced Mrs. Roberta GQ, {s0h, Waterville, Unt., spilled a bowl to the Tdmbs from Friday night | of bot soup over herself and was until eight o'clock this morning, and | fatally scalded. : fined her $2,000, The fine was prompt Fone' prisoners on the prison farm, iv paid and Mrs, Hill wag led nc] I Guelph, Ont., are to be released in sobbing hysterieally. She is the | Pecviinition of nianly behaviour in a jaughter of Morris Menges, a well | C.P.R. wreek. known Brooklyn horseman, "and + the! The Canadian Steel Foundries will: ivoreed wife of Captain James Hill, (build a blast furnace in connection of the British army. with the Welland plant, this year, at a Counsel for Mrs. Hill made a strong [cost of 81,250,000. plea for the eourt's mercy but Judge! Nuddhist priests in Ching are urging Martin said that he felt that a jail another Boxer uprising against the for- sentence was necessary as a lesson. jeigners, on the ground that they are "I regret to say,' he added, "that wo- | responsible for the plague men are much more prone to attempt Lord Curzon, of Keddleston, advo- smuggling than are men." cates a reformed House of Lords with Mrs. Hill bad pleaded guilty to! cole vial members drawn from and re smuggling into this country sable presenting both parties in polities sont and other goods valued 6 95-1 Mrs. Muwdoch McQueen, Priceville, 0. Her mother sat near he? daring 'Ont., is od aged 105 years. She the proceedings and sobbed bitterly had been confined to . bed for a year when sentence was pronounced tpast. Up to the end she sang Gmelic Mrs. Hill's name was mentioned as a | hymns. possible vo-respondent when Mrs. Ava | It i= reported that another will of Willing Astor ed Col. John Jacab! {Count Leo Tolstoi has been discover Lator for" divorce, but the papers in lod, and that it prevents the intended the ease were sealed and the name of 4; sposgl of his literary property to his the co-respondent has been kept see widow. ot, i The transport Marmora, carrying jiroo pe and war munitions to the ns where the natives are in Reig is reported lost, with all on board, ue Redd Sea: he late Sir ( halen Galten, scientist x = explorer, bequeathed ail his residu- ary estate to the London University {for the ¢stablishment of-a department encourage the study of wational NEW YORK FOR STARVED IN RAGS. AER WEALTH, WOMA LIVED IN POVERTY. AMID i to searchers Found the Home of a Res |vugeneios. cluse Full of Decaying Bank Notes and Fine Clothes, : Panbary, Coun. Feb. 13. the dwelling of Miss Emma Williams, ! an eccentric and supposedly impover-| po Pah 13.0 The kaiset's rer ished secluee, who. died a few du, ported cold fis really a recurrence of ago near New Milford, has revealed aii 14 cor trouble. The kaiser id said ortune in musty and decaying bank! 10 be vhaling under his wiment, and notes secret in every nook and orf =| he exhibiting. many. of the ecceitris ner of the dwelling. The searchers al- {cities that a few years agoled tothe so found quantities of expeusive cloth-¢ rumor that the ear afiliction had af ing, little of which had been worn. eg oo emperor's brain. Mise Williams had lived alone for | Rr No Advance in Rates, we anty Chicago, Feb. 3. ~The Geand Trunk railway has given definite notice to jhe other eastern roads of its inten: ion to stand pat on the reduced xum- {hr tourist rates, which have een death. {in force the last two years. In % opinion of many eastern passenger Te Fo court a Ey the action effectually puts a Sout . to the plans of some of | roads to advance the rates this year. EE Gives Poor $730,000. Tokio, Feb. 13.~ln a rescript issued, { of : 1 Saturday, the empgror directs alten ong consalment that it wi aetwent | th08 to the , o oo ting RAISERS EAR BAD. Search of | Emperor Eceentric as When Gossip Was Basy. talk that through her hee frugal habits, bat little | the stories that | ATT xCKS NATION'S HE ORS, Teacher on Frial for Belittling Char acter of Washington, yma, Wash, Feb, 13. Mr. Sultér, feschers in t of 3 and the ounty, laced on trial before: the dition, and Miss Eva inty superintendent, on the tacking the reputations of aished in history, Salter fisd candidate for g eau » gained owners Rp od ting one of the ten com and may be more than AUSTRALIA FRARS STRIKE Of Postal Employees--April 10th is the Time Set, Feb. * 13. Nigls In mich dis all branches of the common would not be surprising i ts. of the employes to 20 fter April 10th, operation. For a consider men have been demand ing more J and shorter hours. Jhey state that the conditions in the ser vice have become a reproach to the ad and that it is nan rative remedial action be taken Melbourne, So satisfaction the postal wealth it the threa strike on or ried into able time service in on Were Cur rv fnisgra vtion tha st a without de DEATH OF PRELATE ARC HBISHOP RYAN PASSED AWAY AT PHILADELPHIA. Nearly Elghty Years of Age of the Best Loved amd Dise United He Was | tinguished Prelates in the States. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. Most Rev. Patrick John man Catholic archbishop of phia, died of heart failure at o'elock, Saturday afternoon. With him: at the time were his sis ters, Mrs. Edward Bowen, of this city, and Mrs. McGuire, of Hoston; his nephews, assistant city solicitor, J. Ashton Deverssnix and Dr. Ryan De of Washington; Pre." Ernest Laplace and James M. Anders, Myr. Turner, the Eev. Father Kavanaugh, the archbishop's secretary, the Rev. 13, ~The Ryan, Ro- Philadel- 4:10 John vereaux, THE LATE William Hig dral, and several other his offigial "household. Death followed a series spells, which began suddenly, before noon and continued at Xals, followed by rallies until "clock. Af the end his passing i and peaceful, The arfhbishop was one of the best-beloved and distinguished of the Catholic dignitaries, in this country, He was born in Tipperary, February 20th, 1581. He would have been eighty years old his next birthday. He became a priest in 1553, and was made bishop in 1572, at St.Louis, and archbishop in 13, being given the archdiocese of Philadelphia. a - ARCHBISHOP. RYAN. of the cathe members of , rector of sinking shortly miter. four was Death of Capt. Collier. Picton, Feb, 13.-Capt. James Col Het, for over half a century a" whip builder and mariner, died Friday, af ter a long illness, aged seventy -fouc. Ife was owner of the steamer Reindeer and in the carly days-of the excursion business from Toronto $6 Niagara he chptaived the steamers Picton and Em- press of India. L Healy Will Contest North Louth. Dublin, Feb. 1%--Following the de- the! cision of the court declaring the seat held by Richard Hazelton vacant une der the rorrupt practices act, T. M. Heals, K.(, announced biz intention contesting North Louth division, which, previously 10 the last election, he had represented for eighteen years. Cr a ---- Ottawa's Typhoid Epidemic. Ottawa, Feb. 12. ---Despite the fuet are] that the Ottawa water supply hus been pure as the result of sppl- cation of the hypochlotide treatment, New York, Feb. 1.-Twenty-five club! vere in Sod Sk tes ws he ls day Crain Specialists Say. EXCEPT THROUGH NEGLIGENCE, CRIMINAL | - Sanitary Organizations a Protec tion. . Paris, Feb, 13.--Dr. Burnet, of the faculty of Parise University, who has wade a special study of the bubonic plague, affirms thet the sole means of preventing its spread from Manchuria tw Europe is by i tion, Dr. Elie Metchinikoli, of the Pasteur Institute, is of the same opinion, and, by showing the possibility of success fully isolating the plague, he prompt to re-assure. the Lic, which - has lately the reports from Eastern Asia, with considerable apprehension, He adds that even the frightful mortality in Maneburia is, in fact, safeguard for Europe, for the reason that the plague only when it ceases io upon which to feed diate reach. Dr. head : "The greater deaths from the plague eases to the smaller of the plague. It is from the lattes that the world at large has most to fear. The work of the European phy- sivians who are fighting the plague in Manchuria is more sanitary than me- lical. "In spite of the speedy communica- tion by the Trans-Siberian railway," soncludes Dr. Burnet, "Europe will infected woless it is done through absolutely criminal careless- Jess. The very character of the plague, together with our modern sanitary organizations, protects us." not be PRINCE EDWARD FARMERS Appland the Trade Pact--Big Meet. ing on Saturday. Picton, Feb. ~-- Three hundred re presentative Prince Edward county tarmers applauded the tarifi pact at the annual meeting of the Reform Association in the town hall, Satur- day. Morley Currie, MP, Prince 7 hora De. NM, Clark, MP. of Red Deer, Alta., and a "fall- blown | free trader," were the speakers. Full of facts and arguments that areaigoed the protectionists, br. Clark gave a forceful and able free trade speech. "To get rid of your surplus produce vou mast take the surplus produce of another country. What cis the source of Canada's prosperity * The production of this surplus. vou bringing immigrants Only to produc within ourselves ? surplus; the whole minion to-day is What are the farmers' the interests of procity arrangement market, It is the right of every na tion to bay in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest without bar riers. Protection monopoly. Monopoly brings the highest price in what they want to sell, and creates a restricted market for what people have to seth. | believe if the farmers were canvassed to-day they would show up strong enough to put through the reciprocity arrangement.' Dr. Currie dwelt more particularly on expected eticfits. fro the reei- procity arrangemer the wider | market And inore ey prices, and the development of lishing, with better prices. @ The officers elerted were President, J. Le, Shannon; vice presidents, Mesars | Blakely and A. Loni; secretary, Platt; treasurer, €, i. Allison, "PROTECTION MUST VANISH here for ? for trade wé want a policy of the Do- toward that * end interests Canada. The reei increases your enough Xo. creates cheese Unless Regard is Paid to Conditions as They Are." ; Springheld, Rls, Peb. 13. President Taft sounded the retreat chedules of the Payne Aldrich tarill law. The very existence of the poliey of protection, the president po: hu menaced hy those who persist in op- posing reductions in thay law whieh are based upon the condition of high prices and a i lesseuing the food The rend deliverad his Narmng fo the repablican party, as " rega here, in hws Jour assembly of the Llneis hi She president put emiphasis into his announcement that regard must be paid to conditions as they are, or hn ion must vanish. This portion 0 advance | find material | within its peme- | Burnet says on this | for | from the! EUROPE SATE From Biba Plague, 2 i CANNOT BE INFECTED Frightful Mortality in Manchuria is | a Safeguard for Europe----Moders | i» ie i fd ad + French pub- | le been watching | : Tirta - "| the number of quick | the number of perambulating victims | | was entered hy H, H. i : broke {drew a revolver, ia way i What are | Mr. i i are | | house go nto committee of the : ther | 1¥8 to 126. other | | gard this as a first great victory, | { In the Meantime A | i | f 10 FAST AGAIN. Dr. Tiuner Will Try Righty Abstinence. Los Angeles, Cal, Feb going to try tw show the public the way to settle once all the beef trust and the high of living," said Pr. Henry S ner, Dr. Yanner celebrated his ihirst bidthdav on Tuesday by juing a fast which he will try to for eighty days. The doctor 13-1 eighty begin- too much, "When I pass I will get married," the said the doctor thirty days." Wt ------ She Has Appealed. Toronto, Feb. 13.-Miss Catharine MeCormick, whose action to annu Nurse Robertson's marriage to wealhy relative, Michael Fraser, dismissed by Justice Britton, stonal court RENEWS FALSEHOODS, Paris, Feb. 13--The Liber- ator made its appearance again Saturday. Editor Ed- ward H. Jones gives an eight-column review of the trial of Edward F. Mylus, the Liberator's London agent, for seditious libel He also publishes anonymous letters averving hat a Rowman Catholic pols performed the alleged morganatic mar- riage of King George : Action for False Arrest. Sherbrooke, Que, Feb. 13.-Action members of the Estate company, for 83,000 for the president and Sherbrooke Real jointly and severally false arrest. ly agent of the company, and it was alleged he was short in his accounts and his arrest followed. LOWDANCEHALLROW AND ALLIANCE SECRETARY RAIDERS BEATEN When They Raided the Place--Three Prinking--The i Montreal Policemen Found Episode Reported to Chief, Nontreal, Feb. 13--~John H. Rob erts, Joeal secretary of the Dominion Alliance, and three detectives, were { badly beaten. up ju conducting a raid gn a low dance hall. last night. Found sitting at a table drinking were three city policemen. Mr. Roberts seis ad a number of bottles of liquor and was leaving the place whe the row loose. One of the detectives hat «ot was. taken all were beaten with bottles and clubs. This morning Roberts laid a canplaint Bain: from him and 1 Taranta Days' | taws | Vair 3 hold | aaysi that the average man and woman eats; 100 year ot 'Fasting sentiment is growing, and a person should not stop at the end of her was } has | given potice of an appeal to the divi | 248000047 E4040 Moreney against The plaintiff was former- LAST EDITION WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Feb. 13. 10 am { Upper St. Lawrence ely cold to-day a i am | A merncan | and for | ! cost | Tan- | { THE GRENTEST ENT | OF THE YEAR 1 : - STEACY'S ANNUAL : : REMNANT SALE Sams Odds and Ends | In every section of this Big Store to ! be cleared out at prices regardless of value We are very anxious to clear out these small ends before the arrival of the new goods, and if small prices are df any inducement they ought to go REMNANTS OF SILKS, DRESS GOODS, LININGS, TRIMMINGS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES, : LINENS, SHEETINGS; PILLOW COTTONS, FLANNELS, ; FLANNELETTES, Ete. SALE STARTS WED. 15:h CASH SALES, NO APPROVAL. STEACY'S the place and notified Chief C of the conduct of mesabers of the th { lice force, A First Great Victory Feb. 13.~That { house representatives strongly favor the reciprocity agreement with ada was indicated this afternopn when a motionsof Republican Congressman Mitchell, from Massachusetts, Ww ashington, Can *w hole was carried by of the hill re to eonsider the bill Friends VETO BILL T0 COME ~_ BEFORE BRITISH COMMONS MONDAY NEXT. the Liberals are] Choosing Men for Peerages, so as! to Out Vote the Present House of Lords, po Loudon, Eng., Feb. 13.--In the com mons to-day, Premier Asquith gave his declaration of war by announcing the introduction of the veto bill next Menday. Iu the meantime the liberals are get. ting ready to meet the opposition lords by compiling a list of men who | | would accept peerages immediately, and vote in the House of Lords for the measure, should the conservative peers | prove obstinate. intlicates es that the government This plainly if necessary. THE MINISTER'S REMARKS. Manufacturers Po Ne Not Know hat is Best. Ottawa, Feb. 13. "Our expirience with mepufactarers is that though they are the best judges of their own they jare not necessarily the best dges 9 of what is best for the Xe: Canada, , mot a single house would kill a this . The : packers te with no promise. ol wdisteiet siz' 10 reach differences that the! government's | i intends to | jpas the measure by drastic means | DIED. BR OW N in the Town of aged 13 the | her Igte Btreet ox Rober: sar BARGEN n Cingeton at 12 Putferin 1911, 'Mrs nt, aged 54 years Funert wii take place Wednesda LL § o'viock te "i 8 Cathedral. Friends and a ex are (respectfully ini. | ed to attend, /" Fo ROBERT J. REID, | The Leading Undertaker, hous 577. . 877. MONEY COMES SLOW, $ For that reason I will sell a BW | Roli-top Desk and Bookcase combined for $16 at TURK'S. 'Phone 105 Grosse & Blackwell's POTTED MEATS Chickea. Turkey. Tongue. Deviled Ham, Ham and Tongue Ham and Chicken, Turkey and Tongue { Turkey and Ham: i Anchovy Paste. RBloater Paste. Sardine Paste. Jas. Redden & Co. IMPORTERS OF FINE GROCERIES, Sent 'to Penitentiary. Sherbrooke, Que, Feb, 13-11. WH. Guay, of 8t. Malo, snd A. Pare, oi Seotstown, were gent (0 penifentinyy for five and two years respectively. They were found guilty on two charges j of burglary aod the latter on iwo J harges of theft, von} At Philadelphia, a Tamily seven | were killed by of misgting gas. They (were Herman Berkowite, Mrs. Rose 'Berkowitz, and their five children The tamily was killed by the soeidem al loosening of a rubber gas tube. Mra. Zerelda Samuel, elghtyei- vears of age, mother of Frank and Yemor James, the former bandits, died Sanday afternoon, on a Bt. Louis and San Francisco yailway train. The two-year-old datghter of Jobn Lauson, of Waterville, Junction, =pill od» bowl of hot SOUP Over heraelf 'und was fatally scalded. Low likey slestions will he