Are the two primary reasons for depositing mqaey in The Bank of To- roato. : your spare A Savings Account in this Bank ig safe a: Covernment Bonds, it receives Interest half- Yearly, and the i be added to' or withdrawn at your pleasure. balance can YOUR ACCOUNT IS INVITED BANK OF TORONTO M---------------------------- KINGSTON BRANCH: 107 PRINCESS Gives new life to all kinds of wood ~ work. Thirteen colors. 100 differ- ent uses. ; All the best advertised goods are always to be found at this store at prices to please every purse. LL ods tu All Want to be "Misses." 'Stockholm, Feb, 24.--A large meet- i of the Swedish women voted on the «question whether or not aif wo- men should bear the title of Mrs. \ to the surprise of all concerned Huck reat majority of women voted that all women, whether married or not, should be entitled to call them- selves Ming." 4 Prince tw Tour Rraszil. Berlin, Feb. M.--Prince Adelbert, sor of the kaiser, will sail short x vd a German warship for Bra- , where he will tour the German set- according to the announce: ment to-day. A large paper mill is to be estab- lished at Espanola. Notice to Small Investors well invested will double your money in a short time. S. Thomas, of Thomas & Co., 407 Lumsden Bldg., Toronto, Brokers, is visiting in town, and | would be pleased to meet or 'phone message would reach him at the British American Hotel. No Investment Too Small ¥ tom Tailoring | SIR FREDERICK BORDEN SPEAKS ON FRENCH'S REPORT. | i | The Artillery Will be Recruited ai Increased to Full Strength Necessary Armament plied. Ottawa, Feb. 24.--"We intend to! carry out Sir John French's report! 50 fur as the whole force in Canada is concerned; rhaps not as rapidly | as we would like ly than we have been progressing in' the department in the past seven or eight years. The artillery will be re- cruited and increased to the strength it should have, apd the cavalry and infantry also. The necessary armament will be sq as rapidly as poasible, and divisions wade as the general's report suggested." | I'his announcement was made by! Sir Frederick Borden, minister of | militia add . defence, to the annual' meeting of the Capadian Artillery As-| sociation in the railway committes! rooms of the house, vesterday after-| 'noon. Sir Frederick Borden stated | that the report had been eminently | pleasant reading to him, insofarias the | artillery of Canada was concerned, and | he thought should be very satisfactory to the militia as & whole. Gen. French had not ronsidersdd in his report, and. had not been expected to do so, the, difficulties existing in Canada as re-! gards the forming of * regiments. He, had been expected to report on the force as he found it; as a unit ready to take the field, and he had done so. AN AWFUL ACCIDENT. i -------- : i Governor Macgregor's Windsor, Breeches Ripped by Sword. : Halifax, Feb. 26. A remarkable in | cident occurred, yesterday afternoon, | ax Gov. Macgregor was ahout leaving | the Government House to open the legixiature. In some way he fell on the sword of one of his aides-de-camp. ! The suddén movement to attempt fo avoid an accident or minimize its con! shquenices was so great that weches of his honor's new Windsor | uniform were ripped from knee to thigh. It was only a minute or two of the time for the governor's appear- ance at the legislative hall, but there | had to be delay to give time to effect temporary repairs, and the crowd of | spectators at the legislative chamber had quite a long wait. The governor sustains no personal injury. oH Two or three years ago on a simi- lar occasion the salute from the cita- | del was fired half an hour off sche dule time. i ------------ i Sailings of Contingent. Ottawa, Feb. 24.~The Canadian mili- tary contingent for the coronation will sail from Quebec, on the SS. Empress of Ireland, on June 2nd, and return! by SS. Empress of Britain, from | Liverpool on June 30th. The units will mobilize at Quebed a week before, the date of sailing. } Called to London Church. London, Feb. 20.--Rev. W. R. Me Intosh, of Elora, hiis been called to the pastorate. of the King Street Pres-, byterian church to sue Rev. James Rolling, now of Peterboro, | ! Registered for Training. Melbourne, Australin, Feb. 24.--Oune hundred and twenty-five thousand lads were registered for training, this week, under the new compulsory training law, Men and women are overgrown chil: we DO OOOOOOCOCOOC SOOO OCR O OTIC dren. small-investors. A card ~ ~ for the man who must always have his clothes 3 Our Cusiom Department is perfectly equipped fo ® 'whim of every man who feels that his individual 3 can be expressed only in clothes made to his per- § ul showing in New Spring Woollens. The § |: 3 vane we aR rea ea iy Yer own ows EE "irae "this morning and adjoufned' till REPORTED TO SENATE THE ; BILL TO-DAY. Quite a Surprise at Washington-- Committee Makes No Recommen-| to be Sup: dations--What Will be the Qut-| : > come? Washington, Feb. 24.--The commit. tee on finance of senate to-day wash- od its hands of the Canadian recipro- city bill by reporting same 10 the , but t } id- | senate without recommendation by a |! : 8 J > Bot Jess said | aan | investigate the affairs of the Farmers' | vote of six 10 seven. This was rather a surprising development, but it understood to be necessary to is by that body. It is possible to get bill under discussion in the entire house, where it now will appear just as it left President Tafts hands. The possibility now is that the senate will talk the hill to death owing to the early dissolotion of the present com gress, JEERED AT HAREM SKIRTS. A Riot In Paris--Pope Puts Ban on Paris, Feb. 24.--Riots followed the! appearance of a pumber of women in harem skirts on the strests, to-day. Owing to the jeering of pedestrians at the strange costumes, traffic was stop- ped and hoally a cordon of police charged the mob, inflicting severe in- juries and making several arrests. Word was received here that the pope has placed a ban on the harem skirts, because it abolishes sex dis. { tinctions of wearers. "TIM" HEALY WINS Fleetion in North Division of Louth Annulled. Dublin, Feb. 24. The election con- test in the north division of Louth wus disposed of by the court - at Dundalk, which declaced the election void, and awarded Timothy Healy costs in his prosecution of charges of corrupt and illegal practices, THE CASES ADJOURNED Against Mathew Wilson and W. S. Morden, Toronto, Feb, 24. Charges of con- spiracy against Matthew Wilson, K. C., and W, S. Morden, in cdRnection with the Farmers' bank re heard, un- fixed dates. Pleas of not guilty were entered, BELLEVILLE NOT TO ASK Vor a Reduction of Liquor Licenses This Year. Belleville, Feb. 24.--Temperance peo- ple of this city have decitled not to nsk for a weduetion of liquor licenses, hete, but to institute a local option campaign and submit a by-law at the municipal election next January. PIED UNDER CHLOROFORM. Florence Bird Passed Away in a Dental Chair, Montreal, Feb. 34.---~While under the influence of chloroform, having her teeth extracted, Floremece Bird, aged nineteen, suddenly, and an jives: tigation will be held. First Allan Cup Match. Montreal, Feb. 24. --Things sre do- ing in amateur hockey circles. W. Northey announces thut the dates for the first Allan ~ cup match, between Victorias, of Winnipeg, and Kenoras, have been set for Feb. 27th and March lst. Asked if be expected to ot 'the cup back from St. Michael's ¢ saitl, "Sure." When asked if the trustees would sue if St.° Michael's refused to return the cup he said: "It is too early to discuss anything like that" Frigid Weather in Turkey. Boston, Feb. 24.--Great distress wuroughout the interior of the Turkish empire as u result of unprecedented snow and cold is reported by cable to the American board of foreign missions from the board's treasurer of its Turkish missions, at Constantino- ple. The despatch said that a large number of Jews in the affected terri- tory were starving and needed imme- diate help from Jewish aud Christian sources. Girl Blown to Death, London, Feb. 24.--Mary Bailey, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, met death in an extraordinary mauner during a gale at Beadlond She was Samia i ayground awaiting open in he pe when a whittwind sud denly caught her up, carrying her to a height of thirty feet, from where she fell to the concrete pavement. She was dead when picked up ---------- Must First Get Leave. Toronto, Feb. 24.--Chiel Justice Moss, of the court of appeal, decided, this morming, that the bakers must go ito the supreme court for to appeal to that court from of appeals on This is pre- | | vent the snothering of bill altogether 8 this earth an enormous teave first one corner and then another the court | presented to view. These small workls bread the Miguel oe for icin are not large enough ---------------------- DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 10ff. -- ! fh cnet -REGARL ' Dominion Government Sees No Rea- | mission--No Relief holders, Ottawa, Feb. 24 ---dccording to a reply given in the Commons vester- , day by Hon. Mr. Fielding, 10 a ques- {tion by David a, there will be no royal commission appointed to i i bank, and the government does to relieve. the shareholders double liability. "The government," said Mr. Fielding, "have no to doubt that the exercise of the the proceedings now engaging the at- tention of the courts of justice in Toronto, will lead to a full investiga- tion into the disclosure of all arise later to indicate that the vestigation is insufficient, the tion as to appointing a roval com- miseion can be further eousidered. The government deeply regrets that a number of people, who are not well shie to bear the loss, are likely to suffer from the failure of the bank, | but, in the judgment of the govern ment, it would not he wise to ex- empt them from the provisions of the banking act." i FIERCE ARRAIGNMENT. Montreal, Feb. 24.--A fierce arraignment of the Roman Catholic church and of nationalism in Quebec was made at a meeting of French Protestants here last night. "After a series of vigorous speeches, resolu- tions were passed saying the time had come when extra- ordinary privileges should be withdrawn from Roman Catholics of Quebec and the chureh placed on the same footing as other denomina- tions. Ir IT PEEP PPE SEPP V LN | | NIGHT RIDERS AT WORK. Dynamite a House and Warn To. bacco Men. Owingsville, Ky. - Feb. 24.-One house wrecked by an explosion ol dynamite and notes of warning post- ed on newly-sown tobacco beds con stitute the initial work of night rid- ers following the decision to elimin- ate the 191 erop. 'The house dyna mited was untenanted but had been rented to a farmer who purposed to raise a crop (his season. EMBEZZLED $30,800,000. Charges Agalist Liquidators of Re Hgious Orders, Paris, Feb, 4.-During the pro ceedings in the court of cessation is regard to what court will try Liqui- dator Duez and the three men accused with him, all being with em bezzlement using. the liquidation of the property nging to religious orders, it was stated that the em bezzlements charged inst the ac- cused reached a total of $30,500,000, He Obeyed Orders. Geners! Dubney H. Maury, in = his "Incidents. of General T. J. Jackson," says that when the war between the states broke out Jackson was the pro fessor of mathematics at the military college of the south. He wished strongly to take command of a cadet corps, but the heads of the institu tion were desirous to have him con tinue his teaching. Governor Wise called out the state troops and order ed that a corps of cadets be held ready for immediate service. Jack. son, ther major, reported at once to the guardroom as ready for duty. General Smith said : "Major Jackson you will remain as vou are until further orders." Jackson at that moment was sit ting on a camp stool in the guard 'room with his sabre across his knees. it revielle the next morning he was found in the same position. ] i "Why, major, why are you here?' jerclaimed General Smith. 3 i | | : "Because last night you ordered me to remain where I was," was the reply. i { A Mountain in the Sky. Somewhere, many miles away from mountain [twenty miles high is flying throngh tspace. The mountain is known astro- nomically as the planet Eros. The or ~dinary man has taken it for granted that all the sels are more | or les round in shape. The small planet er, is an except {to this rule. According to the latest astronomigal information, it is a mere mountain in space, "'without form and void," and as il turns upon its axis is {few are over ten or twenty miles to have jent gravity to deaw their struc. ture into metry and remain as into space--mammoth 10s iff) WILLTAKENO ACTION HALLS ING AFFAIRS OF THE FARMERS' BANK. i i son for Appointing a Royal Cow; for Share-: not think it will be wise public policy | x : i B Pron, | unbecoming to university men. Every reason > oa ! timidate on the part of those in ad. wers givin to the Tau , and | thority. Several elected to be Pa g : tors, and J by judge, while some of the cases were theard by a jury. N. MacDonald, {eution was a the affairs of the bank. Should anything i in | ues ! spe 49 \ 'ARTS CONCURSUS HELD ON THURSDAY EVENING, Canadian Chemists Meet in Conven- tion--The Final Results in the Wrestling Contests, It is doubtful if ever in the amals of Queen's courts a more just justice { was meted out than that contained in i the decision handed down Thursday night by Chid Justice Jull, the su- preme dignitary of the Arts Concur sus virtutis et iniguitatis. The six students appearing before the court were arraigned on charges decidedly cousideration was shown the prison- ers, dnd there was no attempt to iu- tried as The prose- conducted by Messrs, y. R. MacKinnon aet- city of egurt crier, and William Garvoek as clerk of the court. The oath upon which the evidence was given was as follows:--"By the hunks of concrete in the Kingston hndlady's pie do fou swear to tell the truth, the whole' truth and wothing but the truth." sisted Chief Justice Jull, Tulley and S led in the ca Among representatives attending the convention of Oanadian chemists to be held in Grant hall, this evening ave Dr. Eugene Haneel, of Ottawa: Nr, MeGitl, of the Inland Revenue depart: ment; Dr. Lash Miller, of Toronto: Mr. Babington, of the department of customs, and a large namber of delo- gates from Toronto, Hamilton other points, . and Thursday afternoon draw counts ia vere decided: Lightweights-Alyea defeated Hughes, after forty-five minutes of strenuous struggle. Middleweight--Raitt wou from Me Laughlin, getting a full in six min ites. Heavyweight--Hamilton was declar- ed winner over Melllqubam. Dr. Etherington refereed. the following the assault ai-arms STRIPPED AND FLOGGED. Fearful Flogging of the Ackou Binat 2 inthe Soudan, Is the black man more stoical merely less sensitive than we "At a fantasia in the Soudan," says Edward Fothergil in "Five Years In the Soudan." "I have mysell seen the part 'that a voung man plays of his own free wilf in order to obtain the title of ackou binat (the brother of the girls.) This ceremony would turn a relormer's hair gray. 42 "The men and the women of a vil lage sit round im a civce, leaving a space in the centre of some six yards in diameter. I describe it as I saw it myself. The strongest man in the vil: lage is then picked out of the crowd, and, armed with a whip of hippopota- wus hide, he and the young man who i# to strive for the title enter the arena, The women beat their drums, and the men clap their hands to the tune. "The candidate for honor is stripped to the waist. He stands with his arms 'olded in the centre of the ring, and the strong man dances up to him to the tune which is being played. He rings the whip round with all the 'ore of which he is possessed and lands it on the bare back of the man in front of him, He dances away; again he advances, and the operation is repeated. This goes on until the number of strokes previously agreed apon have been dealt. In the particu tar ease | saw it was twenmy-five. Hi the man who is being flogged winces, if he so much as moves an evelid as the whip descends, he is disqualified and branded as a coward until such time as he may choose to undergo the operation a second time. "On this particular occasion he went through with it like a Trojan. Indeed, the man who was delivering the blows got tived first, and the last three cuts of the twenty-five were unsteady 'and flickered round the ear and neck of the 'brother.' 1 leave my readers to imagine the state of his back when all was over, but he peared to be as happy as a king, and certainly he was accorded a great ovation by the as sembled crowd of women." ar are ? Not Easy to Swallow. 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