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Cor Wellington and Bay Sts, 000000000000 0000008000 Feb'y Sale of Carpets, Curtains ~® » » * . * . * B0000000000000000000000 00000000 ¢40 - : «+ merrilyon This Buffett, Solid Oak, .regular $23. February price, $17.00. $65.00 Sideboard for $49.00. £30.00 Buffett for $24.00. hea, Curtains, etc, all redue- ea. Repair and Upholstering Work re- dueed. N See large adyt T.F. Harrison Co. HERS IIIICIBISISIIION : "STAY |i KINGSTON' 5 We would rather you would E. Stay, but if you are boimd to go > &. & we will buy all or any part of your Household Effects that you may want to sell---or If you are starting housekeeping we can fit you out to perfection, 88 we carry a full line of Stoves, Furniture, Carpets, Otieloth, ete, st very low DFices Also, we have the grandest lot of ANTIQUE FURNITURE in this part of Canada, Drop a postal L. LESSES, A Cor Priteess and Chniham Sta. Cook's Cotton Root Compound. id safe a Roathly dnp ro. i 'oT roe Ps o & oat ory IP tio > D> of price. | It says : ¢ prophet, Thured --#t $18 year: "¢ Onived Beaten charge f0F PostagS had to be making: price of Daily §3 and of Weekly $1.5 per, year, - Attached n ohe of the best Job Print- Offices In Canaay: Tapia, stylish, work; ¢ Improv resses. Pi Ceo., Lid, TORONTQ OFFICE. Suite 19 and 20 Queen City 2 Church St, Toronto, H. Smalipeice, JP, representative. Baile Wing. WHAT I8 IN BIGHT. In picturesque language the Vancou- yer Province tells of coming events. With electrical energy deliver. ed at his door by Niagara power, the life of an Ontario farmer will be one | sweet dream, The grindstone will re {volve om its own aXis without manual stimulation, and the hum of the tread. leas sewing machine will be heard as | the woodless range cooks the evening {meal, The lawn mower will make its | morning rounds unassisied, while the {farmer sits in the eopning tower of his {barn manipulating the switchboard {that marks the passing of the hired man. WAS SIR JOHN LOYAL ? | Some of our conservative friends pro- fess to be greatly alarmed lest the adoption of the proposed reciprocity agreement should lead to the annexa: tion of CUgnada to the United States and the disruption of the British em- pire, remarks the Woodstock Sentinel: Review. The strange thing is that dur Cham- ing all the time the conservatives were in power at Ottawa no conservative ever made the discovery that reciproc ity meant anpexation. The so-called fa national policy was designed to bring @ "bout either a reciprocity of trade or a reciprocity of tariff, and Sir John A. Maedonald boasted, to the last that he and his party had dome more than ® anyone else in their endeavor to bring about reciprocity of trade. Was Sir Jolin A. Macdonald a disguised rebel seeking in an underhand way to bring ® ghout 'the aunexation of Canada and the disruption of the British empire * And if he was, whit was the matter with the eyes of the loyal conserva. tives of the country that they faile to see under the mask? How is it that reciprocity appears dangerou: and disloyal only when it is the work of a liberal government 2 IT IS A GREAT RELIEF. Pastor Russell ' takes the pains to send round to the press a circular giv- ing all the assurance that he never said the world is coming to an enc in 115. An enthusiastic street evan gelist is credited with starting the re port which Pastor Russell denies. That good man declares that the world will always stand, for it says i Ecclesiastes, "the carth abideth for ever." With this comfort lodged in the sou without alarm Pastot Russell's admitted forecast of the re turn of lsrael to Palestine, as a na tion, in that same fateful 1915. It ¢ lovely to note how the wise preache gravely rebukes the street man whil he, himself, solemnly figures out the years from the fall of Jerusalem i B.C. 606, and says .that 1915 bring the "toll of years up to 2520, thougl he neglects to disclose the significanc of that total But in 1915, Pastor Russell being there will be great trouble: on the ushering in of the new dispen- sation, the reign of righteousness which is to last 1,000 years. The street preacher misunderstood the fact: and confounded that trouble in get- ting the millenium started With such & tremendous event as the burning up of all the world, even including Tam many Hall, ng doubt. We fear that Kaiser William, of Prus- sia and Germany, has more than Pas- tor Russell of the knowledge that en: ables one to speak with confidence shout things to come to pass in Pal- estine and the Euphrates valley in the next few years, says the Buffalo, N.Y. Times. It seems: safer to predict Ger- man interference to stop the erection of a pew nation in that part of the world than to imagine neglect of in- we may view E.| idopt business methods in all THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1911. whose competency there can be no question. The offices of collector and treasurer should not be occupied by men who are favourites with the ¢ouneil, of who will perform the tasks assigned te them for the lowest-avail-- able sum. They should go men who are competent for the service and give the assurance, on thoir re cord, that they will meet every gnirement satisfactory. - And the county councils should they do. . Frontenac has a board of au dit. It passes upon the accounts which comes before it, and satisfies it- self, as far as possible, that these accounts sre ebrrect. At the same time it would appreciate such a ven- ture as the audit department of the city exacts. Kingston has an audit } y-law which was adopted some years ugo, when a permanent auditor was appointed. The by-law provides, that every item of expenditure should be properly authorized. Wherever possi ble competition is required. Tenders are invited and whill one is accepted, usuadly the lowest, it is referred to the auditor for his guidance in the checking of accounts. The order book sopen to the auditor at all times, nd so sre the minute books of the ommittees, and po account" can be sassed, under this andit by-law, which as not been contracted by council or ommittee, This means that no official ean 'er goods or supplies, or assume any iability in the name of the munici- ality. This means that everything hat is wanted for public use, must e requisitioned for in a certain way, nd that only when the requisition hae een approved by the council or com- or aittee can it be acted upon. Of course here are exceptions, but they can be amed or auficipated and so provided yr. Now if such a system works oll in the city it should work well 1 the county. that the ounty council has as members some eal good business men is it not re iarkable that they have not urged a ourse in county business methods chich would represent a better audit f accounts. And seeing EDITORIAL NOTES. According to the courts' judgment a iickle cannot get a-niekle's worth of read under the Nickle act. If we can trade with the Americans othe tune of $200,000,000 worth of oods yearly, as we now do, without 'anger of annexation, cannot we wke it $300,000,000 without danger' The Victoria Colonist, strongly 'onservative, declines to lend itself to lisloyalty ery with which Messrs. Por len and company have endeavored to lrown the real issues raised by the 'eciprocity agreement. Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard, is o be regarded as aging when he get. o advising that every family consist i eight children, five to survive. Since « has but one of his own his argu: nent may he taken for a dream on is part. No practical interest in Great Brit in is menaced, Mr. Fielding explain d in the Ottawa House of Commons hat the articles mentioned in the .greement are not generally dealt 'ia etween Canada and Great Britain. mperial preference is not endangered. College professors gre generally rais- ng scares about the exhaustion of | oal, oils, timber and other natural Fitoducts. They figure out a time chen 'an increased population will tarve to death. Nut here is a cheer al and welcome prophet, Dr. Jacob {. Hollander, professor of economics v Johns Hopking University in lalimore, who predicts that a day All come when * poverty will be as shsolete as slavery, Threw Cream Away. She was a city bride who had never before taken a hand in housekeeping, and knew but little about things in he kitchen. A few mornings ago she got after the milkman. "What's the matter with your milk ¥* she said, with great vehem- ence. "1 don't know," he replied. "What do Fou find w with it 7" "Well," she , 'every morning it is covered with a nasty yellow scum." "And what do you do with the! » A I skim it off, of course, and throw it in the gurbage can." --Far- mers' Guide. g Few men are inclined to let well alone they soe some to the } enough wi thing better within reach.' = S000 I0000000000000000 0 * The Man To the French-Canadians, of Otta- wa, who are raising a racket because Bishop Fallon is gomg to attend at the enthronement of Archbishop Gau- thier, the Lampman would commend the parting words of his grace to the people of St. Mary's cathedral, on Tuesday evening--"Love ye one anoth- er." Because Bishop" Fallon takes a stand against French schools in On- tario, is mo reason why the Fremch- Canadian leaders in Ottawa should not do honor to Archbishop Gauthier when he is enthroned, next week. The Lampman - thinks" their threatened ac- tion is childish. Let them honor their new archbishop, and afterwards fight the other prelate. The Lampman un- derstands that the Fredch-Canadiand are everywhere being organized for a fight for French schools in Ontario. What is Frontenac's high constable doing about the#® sockey riot at Glen- burnie, on Saturday last, the Lamp- man would like to knew. The names »f the guilty parties are knawn, and they should be given a lesson. Town- ship hockey will not prosper with a lot of rowdydollowers. The Lampman advises the hockey league to swear in a few constables to attend its matches in the future, and have no more bjood- shed in the dear old "glen. There will be fun, indeed, the Lamp- man thinks, if Mayor Graham starts in to wake up the police force. His worship has rubbed up against the aolice before, but lost, as he had to my a fine for violating a by-law, but there are others who were in the same sox. However, if the mayor, who is now a police commissioner, could urge the lers to gather in a few of the rowdies about whom complaints are sontinually made, he would be doing 1 public service, The Lampman wishes o say that the police of . this town ire doing good work, notwithstanding riticisms. H they were instructed, they would, doubtless, do move. His wes are probably not as good as hose of "Civis' " who gives the peel- ws a raking-over, for he does not see my brass buttons on the coats of the 'bobbies." It must have been a fire man that "Civis" mistook for a po- liceman. The Lampman gets disgusted with hat small section of people who are orever erying about being burdened ith taxes. The kickers, he finds, are senerally the people who can well af- 'ord to pay. The poor man is not veard crying out about high taxes. He ays his tithes like a man and says thing. The poor man. Js never seen efore the court of revision begging to rave his assessment reduced. Not om 'our-life, says the Lampman. It's the dlow who should not be there who aises the lamentation. --~THE TOWN WATCHMAN. ---------- PURCHASING LOGS. Carleton Place Heavy Buyings. sariton Place Canadian. - During the past winter W. A. Nic ols has purchased logs quite exten- ivel h, hemlock, basswood and sine. From the Dalhousie farmers he secured 10,000, all placed by them on the Mississippi, to come to the mills sere by the old-fashioned method of v drive. The cash left up there was more than £7,000, From the farmers around home he picked up 4,000. Adam Dunlop alone cofitributing 1, 100. There was a monster pine on Mr. John Hands' farm in' Drummond, which for half a century defied alike he gold of the lumberman and the sales from heaven. Tt fell the other jay into the lap of Mr. Nichols. It was, truly, a giant--9 feet in com- mercial length, and 40 jnches at the stump. It produced five logs fourteen feet long, one log sixteen feet long, and one thirteen. This noble pine, towering high above the surrounding orest, could be seen for many miles. ind was a landmark, its rmoval like the fall of a piece of cherished scenery out of the landscape. Mr, Nichols saw-mill here puts about 100 logs a day into lumber. How He Made a Sale. Washington Pest. ----*1 am travelling through the sountry for the express parpose of mving our good women folks" said the agent, as he drove into the yard f one of our farmers. "1 have here 4 soap that sure." » "You couldn't make my wife see no pleasure in washin' no matter what she used," said the larmer. "Then I. have a cleaner here for pots, pans and kettles that reduces the work to a minimum." "'She wouldn't look at it," said the farmer. : "Here is a tablet which, dropped into a churn of cream, will bring the butter in no time; something entirely new. "She doesn't mind churnin' a bit ; likes to, she says." - , here is a. chenscal for killing A little of this sprinkled be ables On Walch.§ $000000900000000000000 makes washing a plea- i ! i { 5 Specialists in diseases of Skin, Blood, Neérves, Bladder and Special Ail- ments of men. One visit advisable ; if impossible, d history for free opinion and adv Hee Question blank and book on diseaes men free. Consultation free. Medicine in tablet forms. Hours : 10 am. to 1 p.m, and 2 to 6 p.m. Sundays, 10 am. to 1 pam, » DRS. SOPER & WHITE , 25 Toronto Street, Toromte, Ont. S. J. WILSON, Member Dominion Exchange, Ltd. "Right of Way" will soon declare their quarterly * dividend; at present price it yields 53 per cent. | CORRESPONDENCE INVITED 14 King St. East. "Phone Main 4228, Toronto, Ont. W- P. O'BRIEN, ! 57 St. Francois Xavier St, MONTREAL, Membe MONTREAL STOCK EXGHANGE | Long Distance Telephone Main 6936 ! CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. DAUB OF PRINTER FIRST HISTORY'S DAWN SAW USE OF" INK. | Harvard Professor Declares He Has Found Ancient Traces of Writing Fluid Made of Lampblack. New York, Feb. 18.---~Contrary to previous belief among antiquarians { word comes from Palestine that the { use of ink appears to have antedated papyrus or any of the ancient substi- tutes for paper. | George A: Reisner, assistant pro- fessor of Egyptology at Harvard, brought back with Lim this week, af. ter an absence of six years, news that | last sumunr while excavating in Sa: " maria, once the capital of the north- ern kingdom of Israel, he found on the floor of one of the palace cham bers potsherds on whieh were mess ages relating to the payment of taxes written with a reed pen in an ink made of pure carbon oc. iE FAMINE CONDITIONS AWFUL. At Least $2,000,000 is Required for Adequate Relief Work. Washington, Feb. 15.--At least $2, 000,000 will be required for the ade- quate relief of the famine sufferers of China, according to the cable dis- patches received by the state depart- ment from American Minister Cal- houn, at Peking. This is considered a conservative estimate. In reply to an enquiry from the | American National Red Cross Society as to whether or not money remit: tances were needed immediately the American consul at Shanghai has cabled the secretary of state _ that further contributions are needed at once and are warranted be the horrify- ing conditions, The Anhui i representatives to the Chinese National Assembly have ex- pressed their gratitude to Minister Calhoun for American assistance. The local Chinese officials. and mis- sionaries, the minister adds, are co operating in rendering aid. The south- ern section of the Tientsin-Hankow railway, which traverses the famine district, is conveving foodstuffs to the | stricken people. As relief works the Chinese govern- ' ment has begun dredging portions of canals, building roadways and con- structing branch railways. These are regarded as sensible measures which will result in reducing the probabili- ties of brigandage. A Trifle Exclusive. Boston Herald Frederick Townsend Martin, New York's "arbiter elegantiarum," be | lieves that society should include peo- ple of gening no less than people of high birth, "High birth alone makes & very poor sort of society," said Mr. Martin | at a dinner at Delmonico's. "Such a society, relying on exclusiveness alone, becomes more and more stupid, more and more haughty. Fibally H---renches the attitude exemplified in the case of | the starving rovalist countess, living { jn an attic in the Faubourg St. Ger- main, who, on being asked to meet a famous poet, answered : : * 'No, thank vou. [| make it a rule never to be introduced to people I don't know.'" Saving on Small Income. Saving on a small income is a prob- Jem at its best. In connection with this form of economy, the thing to fay greatest sivess on js to save in the little things, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Hf you have any pet little luxury, unnecessary to your welfare, deny voursell of it, especially if it re gy some petty, foolish habit that costs you a nickel a day, and you maste this habit, by elimination, you will save thirty-five venis a weeky-or =» little more than $18.20 a year. quires a regular Saily expedite, however slight. If you are a slave to} [ea] Ag en 3 BBY'S Suit: HH FE EHHFAEHF AA KAIF AH ¥ HAH HAHAH H¥ HAHA > g < <> belo of ( whic and the the ple tion out and 7 T fF = if Goblets Treasured by OW goblets and These drinking glasses usually referred to as ""Lucks," ago, runs the tale, Cuthbert's well, and though apparently in 4 | Fle fi \ ; Shirt 50 Doz. Tooke and Crescent for... .. Ji .. \l new patterns, coat style, ete. Sizes, 14 to 18. 4 Brand, $1.00 and $1.25 Softs Shirts HAH HH C Sale 00¢ C Shirt Sale Doz. 14 to 16 1-2, be. Regular 7 Shirt Negligee Shirts, very dainty styles and patterns. qualities for Sizes, C Sale for Boys Same patterns as the Men's. to 13 1-2. Regular * 50c, qualities for and All new colorings Sizes, 11 1-2 Tbe Our New Suits and Spring "New Arrivals Overcoats are ready. Smart } dressers who want chic and snappy Suits and Top Coats can find their ideal garments here SUITS, Hand-Tailored Garments. $15, $18, $20, The Big Store III HII LUCK IN GLASSES, English Families. London Tit-Bits, Hidden away in the strong rooms nging to a certain ancient family ireat Britain ave various historic drinking vessels around h cling stories of much beauty romance. now and = ave most interesting of'them all known as the "Luck of Edenhall." Apart from the charming story con nected with the "Luck of Edenhall," glass in itself is a beautiful exam: known as '""Saracenic," belonging to the early part of the fifteenth cen- tury arabesque designs white and red, and that has grown around it renders probably the most famdus glass in the country. =~ 'The glass belongs to the house of Musgrave, and the prosperity of the race depends upon the preserva. all over with yellow, - blue, the superstition in drinking . It is enamelled in ancient of the goblet. Many centuries the butler went one night to draw water from St. was astounded no way fright y discovering a company of i lawn, h for some time then went to the well, where he a cup belonging to the fairies they had evidently. forgotten. butler immediately grasped "the and when asked to give it up brought forth the queen iries who begged him to re cup, and, on the butler ining, she uttered these om- glass. tilet - ¥ 3 E P QD TOP COATS, $10, $12, $15, $18. CHASER FEHR The H.D. Bibby Co With Little Prices ACARI RR ture showing the king presenting the goblet which he holds in his left hand fwo fingers of the right hand are raised in benediction as he pro nounces the blessings on the ancient family so long as the vessel 'remains unbroken Then there is the "Luck of Burrell Green," which is, however, not a glass at all, but a brass charger of the sixteenth century, one and a quar ter feet in diameter The essential puality of a lack is supposed to be fragility, and so it would be a rath: er difficult matter for the Burrell Green charger to "fall and break * But the tradition is nothing if not reasonable, and so it is not surprising that she has "made allowances" v mseriinng upon the brass vessel following couplet : H this dish be sold \or gi'en, Farewell the luck of Burrell Green "Tid Bits ------------ The Wedding-Ring Finger, Pittsburg Leader Ihe wedding ring was not always the plain cirelet of gold nowadays as sociated with its name. In ancient days it was richly set with gems and by the i & vein runs direct from jyom to worn on the first finger of the right hand. The Christian era brought about the wearing of the wedding-ring on ihe third finger, and the popular supersti tion about Ue "ring finger" says that it to the heart. The real reason is probably a religious one. The priest who per formed the marrigpe rite used to put the ring first on the thumb, saving, "Iu the name of the Father," on the first finger he said, "And of the Son" on the second, "And of the Holy Ghost." When the "Amen" was resched with the third finger tha ning was put on to stay. "Buy Relerine," ut Gibson's A pretty wedding took place at the rewidence of She bride's father, Oliver Crouse, . North Fredericksburgh, on Februasy 15th, when his: daughter, Annie, Toronto, was united in the {holy wedlomk to) Herhert German, of "| Northport. > We do not sek vou to believe in our thirty day shorthand. We know many things fall "short of what is claimed for them We know ade. are not always reliable. But we do ask * enrefully,