< race FOU R. SALIOW SKIN Liver Spois, Pimples, Dark Circies Under the Eyes Fo are all signs of the sytem being clogged. The Biver and Bowels are inactive and the Stomach fs weak from undigested foods and foul gases. FIG PILLS the great fruit remedy, will make yom feel like a new person. : Ww wy, June 27, 1911 es of your Fig r trou les I feel od 10 my own After taking tl Pills for stoma sos and well « work. Sold at all d boxes or maile St. Thomas, Ont. fold and recommen . J. ig Pill Co., 9 Kingston by ded In hy BE. McLLEOD, Dr WOOD FUEL : For a gord Fuel at : low cost try our Hardwood S | | slabs They are sound and diy; in fine burning condition. Prices $2.75 the half cord delivered ---------------- rn ---- S. Anglin & Co. Cor. Bay & Wellington. "Phone 66. ele ele) Consti ation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief--- Permanent Cars: CARTERS LITTLE -- improve the complexion bri TE Pie ore, Senell Uin® mus bew Signature USEFUL THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS. them Read We have all prices a big v and this list Men's and Boys' Suldy. Men's and Boys' Overcoats. Gent's. Furnishings, Underwenr, Sweater Coats, Sox, Hats dod Caps. Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Collars, Ties. Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, ISAAC ZACKS 271 PRINCESS STREET, ariety at TRAPPERS send us your FURS and we will pay you the Highest Prices REVILLON FRERES LIMITED 134-136 MeGILL STREET o MONTREAL, P.0. We will send free to every trap- per who sends us furs, our book ~The Trappers Loyal Com panien". eT PS puadine: Tonos and invigorates nervous systoni, ate pow in old voing, Cures Nero ous Debili Mental and Brin Worry, Wen Hovissions, Spere ne wilh lowe, six regain or malicd in Dg Toronto, oni GREAT saLR Of Stoves and Heaters. Large Stock of New and Sacond- hand Purnia Prices very lo SUGARMAN, 242 Untarie Street. FONG SING Laude has removed to 383 Princess Bree to YMCA. Firsteciass rr Work REusranteed. MEN: REFS & ERR -P Oss Bery ® ANTIQUE FURNITURE : for CHRISTMAS . 1.have a isrge and varied stock suitable for Christmag Gifs, Nothing could be move Prices 1along the That {lat 191.50, DAILY BRITISH WHIG, publis ton, Ontario, at $6 per year, Editio WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 day and Thursday morning at $1 a {peitage had to be added, making p per year. Attached 'is one of the best Job stylish, and cheap work; nine impro Suite Ng and 20 Queen City Ch H. E. Smallpiece, J.P. A THE ND AIL ¥ ed at 306-310 King\Street Kings- s at 2.30 and 4 o'clock p.m. ages, published in parts on Mou- ear. To United States charge for ce of Daily $3 and of Weekly $1. 30 Printing Offices in Conada; rapid, ed presses. THE BRITISH i PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED J. G. Elliott, President. Leman A. Guild, Sec.-Treas. { TORONTO OFFICE: mbers, 32 Church street. Toronto, representative, + No more fight in the lords ! s+ One mighty clash, which resulted in de feat, So! the Insurgnce Bill division." was enough. has been accepted "without a But a new difficulty has arisen, from The to any formg of taxa an unexpected quarter, domestic servants object tion, and thousands of them are pro letters that with meaning. The to be behind the movement, supplying rt testing mn are pregnant mistresses are said and energy It is and one v the money, mental power which the agitation requires, surely an ominous proceeding which must surprise the chancellor of the 'éxchequer. difficulties by toil He Has overcome many his shrewdness. His greatest was . The Board of Education has met the demand of the teachers for iiitreased remuneration bonus This It rewards to those who™ earn them by adopting the system. is discriminatory and judicious. aims at giving reason- ahle by the vice. superior efficiency of their ser There is now in force a schedule which permits of the extent an annual inéreas in stipend of the teacher to the of $25, posed to be dependent upon the merits it committee of management and the and though it is sup of the individual, is so small that the Board of Educatipn have not deeme it expedient to withhold it from the old increases will continue, am one. Under new arrangement the and in ad report of the three dition, upon the there inspec tor, may be SUCCeS8IV DANGER IN Phe report which Dr. Williamson has made to the board of health if in ef fect house that the water taken at the pump five days out of ten is impure, and fit for domestic use only when it has been dosed or treated with chlor ine, ? It is not for thg medical health of- ) He could suggest to He a great it ficer to do more. the city council what it should do. doubt; with can help it, no deal of valuable information when is called for, The truth seems to be that ter in the lake the all the wa: is now contaminated by that towns and cities reason of sewage the lake front, the recommendations of medical is dumpe into it by and sooner or later and sanitary experts will be acted on. This contamination be the stopped. must is one safe course, and The ratgpayers are confused with roge avd LO they Whig does not wonder that the the upon which will pass in the The announcement of the Globe is that will power question municipal elections "{wenty-six municipalities vot upon the question of throwing in their with the Hydro-Electric scheme." Four of them the east are Peter horo, Kingston, Prescott and Lake Gald. - Brockville will hava a ballot upon the question two weeks later. Now it not be assumed in the reference in King ston any tract involved. The academic one. The Touncil was 'giver to understand that under the law governing the 'service of the Hydro Flectrie Commission. - it is necessary that the people, by a public expres sion, shall authorize it before under taking formally - negotiate for power. Ne The power " dipartment, as ft matte of fact, has had correspondence and conferences - with the Hydro-Eleetric commission. It bas been supplied with estimates of the cost of erecting in that con must in issue is Ar fo The C.P.R. made forty raillions dollars last amie it was cnt ting the freight rates and giving thew westernt people the boon they desire. ; : of year. reduced from $4 per month ownership. Hi suggests the boon Ou taro : Manitoba's phone rents have beén} tb This is vnder government THE DOMESTICS AROUSED. - the fraternal societies, and before he succeedsd he had many in pacifying representative men. dif- was prepared conferences The women constitute He because he real with an entirely ferent proposition, them to give votes, general franchise would if a radical element ized that a put in the hands « a power that would + than coun- ter-palance the aristocratic element so ufiragettes. the do- forceful among the He encounters, however, in mestics, a problem so ominous that he non-plus- Mr. re- for the time being be for Lloyd-George seemingly may sed. The mistresses, whom has small gard, may be getting even with him in a unique way, They are fighting him, -as #t were, with hi own ammunition. THE BONUS SYSTEM. ineluding be bonuses of 850 each, and then, the maximum earnings may increased to $750 per annum. The scheme may not be It "guper- a8 to government acceptable to some teachers, involves ior efficiency," and The inspector does not desire to be limited digcipline and - teaching power, in his judgment as to the serwice of any teacher, apd can bé depended upon to pass fairly upon the work of Ihe effect of 'the addition with regard (to bpnus one, or the increment, new scheflule, may not be immwdfately realized. the end of the first Undoubtedly expenditure the will at year not be as large as it would be under the scheme suggested by the teachers, but eventu ally the advantages will be apparent in the of the staff and recognition which it warrants, incredsed efficiency THE WATER. gecure it the legislatures of Canada and the United States ate. must co-oper- I'here may be a filtration plant, but it is remarkable that the new, plant has not caused the bacteria to disappear. 'They in Toronto were found after the water has the filtration beds, and the conclusion was that in the new reservair, passed through filtration was not a guarantee against con- tamination. But the presence of bac- teria was not dangerous. «Dr, sidered. that, at be expected to Williamson's report must be con- It will the go to a department of the act, 1 close year, cannot and before the proposed consolidation of departments can be carried into effect, months may the the transpire. Meanwhile that chlorine is only thing stands between people-and typhoid fever. REFERENCE 0 POWER, transmisseion lines and furnishing in various quarters for The Seymour through President Kerry electric ener ZV thirty years company, , has also sub- mitted caleulations as to what it can deliver power in Kingston, in any re- quired. quantity, and for short : (racts from year to year, or con- or for five There is no lasting lia- bility of any sort incurred in this pro- Pitiom. he 'Property owners Year's day, ten vears. will, New as they ought to do, to the negotiations for power from the Hydro-Electric Comniission. There is nothing bindiflg or committing in tha referendum. As a matter of principle the city eventually should submit the offers 'of the Seymour company and the Hydro-Electric Commission = to the ratepayers, with such a statement of Tacts as will enable them to dis- pose. of the matter intelligently, For this referendum the Whig con- tends, \and it can see no. hope of the question being settled at any othr way, on consent, ' EDITORIAL NOTES. "UE It cost $6,000 to diagnose, through experts, What was the matter with the Ottaws water depariment and i suggest a remedy, The worvises wen who battle with bacteria high o come Fo the board of works has at las decided to make a recommendation i cbnnection with the efigineet's office Mr. McClelland is. the man. Worth, Jaunl, usefulness, act 10 gos " BRITISH w HIG, THE WHIG, SEVENTYEIGHTH YEAR very | ! sell FRIDAY, DECEMBER [HARNED 1 IN° TIME SIR JAMES ADV ISED TO HURRY UP AND ACT. New Ontario Neglected--Hon. Frank Cochrane 'a Failure--Deprecia- tion of Mr, Rowell--He Can Stand It . Toronto Telegram (conservative). Ontario contrasts dhe Temiskaming country at the end of Hoh. Frank Cochrane's provincial ascendancy as the Temiskaming country was at the beginning of Hon, Frank Cochrane's provincial ascendancy. And the contrast does, not raise this province to the heights of Sir James Whitney's admiration dor Mr, Coch- rane as an enlightened and 'progress- ive steward of the possibilities of New Ontario. It is fortunate for Sir James Whit ney that his own bluff hogesty, the progressive policy of Adam Beck and many admidfistrative virtues covered the Ontario goverfment with the of merit. Thus an indignant people had io shoot through the colors ot public ownership and public rights in order to blow holes 'in the imperfec- tions of Whitheigm Ontario' has declared th&t the vir- tues which are to be admPed in the work of ir James Whitney are migh tier- than his faults. Ontario recog waved the truth that the virtues of the N. Rowell leadersifp offered no hope from the iaulis of the Whitney government, Sir James Whitpey's worst .enemies are the flattgrers who interpret the meaning of the eleétion an intimation that Sir James Whitney should "wit at ease in Zion." \ Fven Sir James Whitney will well "to take heed to his ways. James is entitled to cherish his n opfnion = of Hon. Frank Cochrane Put Sir Janus will do well not to make that opinion the law of ns future. If Sir James. Whitney and Hon. H. 'Hearst do not do more flag sad Ww. of eseape as do Sir ow Ww. {to open up the Temiskaming country {in the next four years been the in not than has done in the same direction under auspices of lon. Frank Cochrane the last six and a half years, even dhe merits - of Adam and the hydro-electric policy will save Sir James Whitney from rebuke when next le calls the people of Ontario tothe pol's, Beck CONDEMN MAYOR' Indianapolis Price 'Busting Frozen, Inspector Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 15.--A ecar- load of 'shank potatoes' has been condemned by W. B. Stout; inspector of the board of health, and the may- has been given strict orders not to any of these potatoes. The car lies on the track with a large glaring sign bearing the warning, the city board of "SpPUps." Tabers Says. or now and "Condemned health' The potatoes were condemmed after Hl. R. Atkins, the major domo for the mayor, had taken some of the tubers to the market for sale. Stout found the potatoes to be froz- en. He at once. proceeded to the mar- ket and there condemned the potatoes being sold. Atkins stated that he had gold about fifty bushels of them, but that on reeeiving orders from the board of health he immediately stop- ped the sale. by WOMEN IN WAR. Proposed Law For Compulsory Mill tary Service Dusseldorf, Dee. 15.~The Patriotic Women's League has appointed a com- mittee to promote a law for' compul- sory military service, of German wo men in war and peace times as nurses and helpers 'in the transportation, commissary and uniform' departments of the navy. ---------------- "Week End Chocolates." We have shipment, fresh will sell them on Friday day ogular He. 1b. for bood's drug stoce. large and another factory and 2Be. ved from the just recs Dat ire Ma- Taft "still Hopes. Hope, 15.--J. A. hvdranlic engineer of a delegate the co wm of tae Atlantic Deeperwayvs Associatior held at Washington, and addressed the association the sublect canals, Mr. Calverwell ilver this town, Port well, Was Dec. to nventic on of met President Tait, and the president said to him that the United States would have recipr city with Canaéla yet. Kodaks drug store. Don't boast of vour Pidetieally all you know have read or have Don't forget sale; all fithngs, Sc. Ib. for Never judge by appearance. Sonié times a man's nose 1s naturally red, No man ig expected to shing as a] talker when his wife is present. i He. bittersweets for 20e. Mahood's dru store. The end - of love may be a qusrrel-- or it may be a mother-in-law. i for Christmas, Mahood's knowledge is what you been told. Mahood's chocolate ax BR. SOPER WHITE { : br ! SPECIALISTS I " om. In the lollowing Cissacrs of den: v seele Tivonepsis 4 3 fr utwiiom i t Lost Visality Sign Diseases. Lieaty AMeiziuas nd Blood, Xero toad or Diseases oi or send history tov fren pavice. | i i i their "re 1 | State i mbnt to tvolution ihend the 15. 1911. See Our Nobby $2.00 Hats BIBBYS ONE-PRICE MEN'S AND "7=sgy BOYS' WEAR STORE. See Our Handsome Overcoats, $15.00 In our lines of ments full of "ginger" Overcoats See our New Protector, $10.00. See our nobby Speedway, $15.00. See our elegant Chamberlain, $12.00, $15.00, ¥18.00, swell Senator $15.00. See our Coat, Nobby Shoes for $4.00 and $5.00. Men, New Fa garments that are strictly but tempered with dignity, TANDFOLD w= A Convertible' Coat Suitable for our Winters (PROTECTED BY PATENT) IH and W "IT". » The fabric mier and Suits New ; Fant yy. Ww $15.00. See our Or our Blue £15.00, Cheviot Su £18.00, See Worsted Suit $18.00. our Blue $13.00 and Ser o Tw 818.00, our Scotch $12.50, $15.00, Suit Cases 82.50 to S12, colorihes ore entirely heavy Boys' Ove Two-style our "| = | ie SMART CLOTHES A Word to the Smart Dresser To the man that wants every late kink, a whim of fashion, the word is this: Suits and Overcoats, thie hn we've y sort of WwW, ar Military Reefers, woo knap cloth in $3.50, $4 to $6.50, ats collar and elegant range boys, 8 vear 16, D0, $6.50, $7.50, £5.30, to New Alon Suits years to 16 $6.50, $7.50, for boys, § Vears, 85.50, $10.00, JSRAINCOATS, $7.00 to $13 00, Agents for Fownes and Dent's Gloves for Men BIBBYS vd 78 80-82 PRINCESS. Agents for Penman's Underwear and Sweater Coats Bon Bons ted specially tor our KEEPS EYE ON CUBA. Department Watching Acute Political Situaion, shington, Dec. 15.--Further evi duce that the political pot is boiling with "enough sputtering .m Cuba attract the nitention of the state de I partment here, was seen vestetdy The high tepsion 'due to the UOve ed with the ( Spain during uban with men who aided the an. cause, has engendered Lh kind of a political controversy, officials here believe will neg careful handimg ' = to think hist, of philanthropists had. the money, sweetest story ever told," chotolstes, 31 Wh Mahood's would if "How eas) pou only Ihe Liggett' 8 You vebray store, A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, hat give nw the ve thus Lots of people' ah v phew is Be sure vou get a eap of Henderson's Coflee, carry you through the day. a ---- the to rep lace office holders who sid: _-- Christmas trade. TALITY PRICES AR} TREAT YO! Ql IS RIGHT RIGHT RiGHT OUR OUR WE J. R. HENDERSON Henderson's Christmas Chocolates and Bon Bons. From CADBURY'S of Bournville, England. We have just received our Annual Importation of English Chocolates and All strictly fresh OO 1s of the highest pos - sible (quality, impo Your Morning Cup of Colles. It will "Set you up' and Brock Street great Uterine Toni effectual el wor hte oils on yd pampllet Co. Joronrs, Our. er yw ind | oa Erees re Yo. iwayr i a E,W 1 We inti) the II Of Semndard Grasulated Sugar | das been tried aid found exbellont for preserving snd table use, Price is right ANDREW MACLEAN, Dateris Streets And apt to. cut the man he id sves | himself is jest friend WB ee RAWFORDS & ] oh