PAGE FOUR. _-- : THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1912. FOR Heating Curling Irons Only a few 19¢ each to clear. off at CORBETT'S 2994990000009000000040 vee = > ry ~ White Oak and Doug- las Fir Timbers, now on stick at our yards for prompt delivery. S. Anglin & Co. Cor. Bay & Wellington. "Phone 66. sdiidicisviiinidbiiisibvivioeboni Toes oU ESSE ESSE EEINT COWAN'S « PERFECTION COCOA Is rich in food value and easy to digest. It is just Cocoa, pure Cocoa, ground from the choicest Cocoa beans. : Smart Looking Men " That'can be said of the men Who send their clothes here to be dyed or cleaned. @ keep them in taflor-like trim all the Alme. , . 3 R. PARKER & 00, 88 Princess anton de Van's Female Pills hen regulator Hover {als These Li or sale at Mahood's Drug Store. WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG, 16 ay and Thursday morning at $1 a ostage bad to be added, making p er year. The death of the Duke of Fife is a serious event in the history of the in- dividual and the nation. His was a fateful mission, and one undertaken in the name of the king. A cathedral bad been eredléd.in Khartoum in me- mory of General Gordon, one of the grandest men who has served his country, aud in route to Egypt, to re present the government and the king, the duke suffered, with his wife and wreck at sea. were saved, but the duke appears to have contracted a cold which, a week ago, at Wadi-Halfa, developed into pleurisy. At the age of sixty-three The manager of the Winnipeg elec- tric plant--the one owned by the city not by Mackenzie & Mann--has resign- ed because he is not free to carry out his plans. Mr. Rogsman is an American of capacity and experience, who was engaged at $6,000 a year to "manage" the great works in which the municipality has put between $3, 000,000. and $4,000,000, The council could not direet _the business, at once so large and .com- plicated, it. They sensibly locked about and found in Mr. Rossman a man who seemed to be the one they wanted. Hp began well. He was up against the difficulty of dealing with a corpora- tion which had for many years a monopoly of the service and was bound to hold it if possible. The cut- ting of rates followed until the charge per kilo-watt dropped from ten cents to three cents. It cannot go much lower unless the city and the company proposed to supply light gratuitously. It was at this juncture that the -- Sir Max Aithen's collosal power scheme is not likely to materialize without the greatest difficulty. In the spring of 1910 there was a scheme by which it was proposed to dam the St. Lawrence river at the Long Sault rapids, at Cornwall, by connecting several islands and using the currents of the river for power purposes. It was caloulated that 600,000 horse-pow- er could be generafed, and only one sixth of the power would be develop- ed on Canadian soil. The Long Sault Development company, which was largely composed of American capital: ists, was baulked in ite plans by the Conservation Commission. This cothmission filed its objections with the International Waterways Commission, and the strong argu- ments in support of its protests were those : That the Canadian market can- not absorb the half of the proposed development, and if it were exported vested rights' would be ereated, and they could not be withdrawn later; that a new channel for navigation would be beset with very grave dan- gers; that if the dam were built at proceed with the deepening of the St. Lawrence, and. the all-Canadian route from Lake Superior wapld become a dream of the past. The new scheme is vaster, but not secuted for a violation of the anti the M Tr a selling else et Tin This or stoves ane "| 242 Owtnrio Sireet, | FONG BING ae progdt 33 4 oan secutors, and they mean business. Success to them. taken to inspect the banks and keep a check upon their business. . When it Ovtaw daughters, who accompanied him, ship: All the members of the royal group. Nor could the controllers do the Long Sault it would be difficuly to to the ocean tile Exchange--are being pro- The British government has 'under comes to serving the people, not the great corporations, the govérmment of -- So the Quebec bolters went back to or the commons, still sulking pages, published in parts on Mon- year. To United States charge for rice of Daily $3 and of Weekly $1.50 Attached is ofie of the best Job Printing Offices in Canada; rapid, tylish, and cheap work; nine improved presses. THE BRITISH WNIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED th J. G. Eliott, President. Leman A. Guild, Sec Treas. a] ' TORONTO OFFICE: Suite 19 and 20 Queen City Chambers, 32 Church Street, Toronto. H. B. Smaliplece, J.P,, representative. * A AN EARLDOM VACANT. his career is closed, alter a life well spent and as usefully as his oppor- tunities permitted. The duke was a man of wealth and education, the sixth in succession of his name, and dedicated to the public service. He began his public career as the liberal member for Moray and Nairn, and served in that capacity for five years before becoming a member of the lords. He married the eldest daughter of the late hing Edward Vii, in 1887, and was very devoted to his family. He will be very much missed in England, and will be remembered for his philanthropy, his high character and great persons! wealth, THE MAN AND MANAGER. ------ controllers hag the employees of the plant placed under their supervision. This meant that Mr. Rossman was manager who did not manage. the countrollers were free to accept or reject as they saw fit. He immediately resigned, Here is a repetition of Ed- ties at $10,000 a year, and he hardly entered upon his work until he came into collision gested. It put its judgment against his, He did not resign. He undertook to fight the council. In any case his usefulness was gone. The councils are learning all the while and one thing they are learning is that he is a rare one who can manage the utilities profitably and well. The rare one is available oceca- sionally, but he wiu not stand any nonsense. He understands his work, ang he will not submit to any inter ference. And he is right. CAPITAL AND NERVE. better. The Whig has scanned {he map or sketch of the proposed aboli- tion of the Soulanges canal, (the lat- est and best of the series), the eree- tion of a great embankment around the head of Grande Island, a conerete wall across the Cedars, and the diver: sion of the river from its present course to a new one, so that it would empty into the Ottawa river in place of Lake St. Francis. By this "stupen- dous scheme," (it is well named), the Coteau, Cedars, Split Rock and Cas- cade rapids would disappear. The present bed of the river would be dry, and all that is picturesque and excit- ing in the descent of the rapids by boat, would cease to be. A great na- tural resource, and one which should be forever in the control of the peo- ple, would have passed into the posses- sion of a commercial company, whosg aim Is to produce 1,000,000 horse power, at a cost of $1,000,000, The new project is being financed by conservatives, and thoy may as- sume that they can sueceed with the Borden party .in power. The premier put himself on record as emphatically against the Long Sault scheme. He cannot change his attitude and opin on now, though he is having a great example in this respect in the Mont- real Star. It has somersaulted. Why not Mr. Borden ? EDITORIAL NOTES. T---- nna The butter boosters at New York-- cifie railway--at any price--and the Mercantile Exchange~is being pro so that the government and control the freight rates of the north-west. Borden is sure to shelve. Judge Mabe, of the railway com- mission, has been in Hamilton re gulating the council and the Grand Trunk railway company. The coun- cil did a foolish thing in giving tne company - the use of a street, and the company did the foolish thing of tey- ing to own it. Judge Mabee adjust od the difficulty in a hwy. Flere is "a crysagainst the publie THE WHIG, SEVENTYNINTH YEAR | DAILY BRITISH WHIG, published at 306-310 King Street, Kings- ton, Ontario, at $6 per year. Editions at 2.30 and 4 p.m. HELPED ROOSEVELT MADE POSSIBLE OF JAPANESE SETTLEMENT QUESTION. Visited the White House---Interesi- ing Chapter of Hitherto Unwritten History Furnished by New York Financial Paper. A chapter of history hitherto un- written is furnished by the Wall Street Journal in the course of an isterest- ing article on services rendered to the United States by Hoo. M. L. Macken- zie King. *"It has not been known,' savs the Journal, "except to a few of the inti- mate Jriends of Col. Theodore Roose: veit, and to a few of the leading members of the late Canadian govern ment, as well as of the government of Great . Britain how important was the part played by Mackenzie King in bringing about - such satisfactory un- derstanding between the United States and Great Britain as served greatly to eliminate the apprehension that at some time in the near future we should be involved mn serious difficul- ties with Japan.' After describing the manner in which the former president sought oral, written, and printed advice on the Question of settling the intricate prob- lem, which had been caused by the exclusion ' of the Japanese children from the public schools of Cahfornia, the financial paper relates that at a dinner given to some of those who had assisted him, Mr. Roosevelt was lasked if he had discussed his difficul- ties with Mackenzie King. After learn- ing what Mr. King had.done at Van- couver, President Wloosevelt sent an invitation to the young Canadian to visit him at Washington. Mr. ning accepted, and spent several days at the capital, although the public had i | | monton's experience. The far western ahout two weeks. city employed a manager ofits utili- {London several months. In that time] had he had many conferences with the Brit- i may regulate' Here is an idea that Mr, est link. in the head to 3 series. of inland oceans. with engineering y government has only to say how it no knowledge of his arrival or depar- ture, < "He had several prolonged confer- ences with the president," says the % | Wall Street Journal. Ho | became simply an expert whose advice King promised to go to London "As a result of these conferences Mr. as soon as possible, so that he might confer with the British government. He was able to arrange his affairs in Canada so as to start for London in He remained in ish governgent, or at least with cabinet officer to the whose department with the council. | this matter would properly come. He it only wanted him to do as it sug- was almost the personal and confi- dential representative of President Roosevelt, "Upon his return to Canada Mr, King was convinced that the result of these conferences would be satisfactory to Canada, and the United States. He had put before the British government some of the suggestions or opinions of President Roosevelt, and he had, furthermore, been able to persuadé the British government that if there were any peril due to emigration across the Pacific from the Orient, it was a peril equally shared by the United States and Canada. For these reasons the determination of the British govern ment was made to insist, when the time fixed for the expiration of the treaty of alliance between Japan and England should come, that there be sich modifications of the treaty as would make it impossible for Japan to summon Great Britain to the aid of Japan in case Japan were involved in war with the United States. "The proposition, as made, was this: That in case either of the contracting parties to the new treaty of alliance between Japan and Great Britain should become involved in war with a nation with which the other contract- ing party had entered into treaty ob- ligations for maintaining peace, then the alliance between England and Ja- pan would be inoperative, so far as that nation was concerned. "While it is not definitely known vet, it is regarded as very probable that President Roosevelt looked upon the first treaty of alliance between Ja- pan and England by which either could summon the other to its aid in case of war with another nation, as containing the possibilities of serious menace to the United States in case friction with Japan developed into downright rupture." Outlook in the East, Hamilton Spectator. Work on the Welland canal is not necessarily comnected with plans for the improvement of the dt. Lawrence waterway. For many years to conte, the eastern terminus of the mammoth fake vessels must be either Kingston or Prescott, whence transportation to Montreal will proceed by barges as at present. The length of the chan nel that would need to be deepened in the St. lawrence, the fact that such work in the Laurentian forma: tion would mean expensive rock cut- ting, and the necessity that would arise for the construction of a whole system of enlarged canals, locks, ete., to get around the rapids, would seem to place anything better than the t mode of transiipment in the r distant. future. It necessary, let the St. Lawrence alone for a while, and strengthen what, is now the weak- a most valuable chain. An expanded Welland canal will lengthen steamship navigation from the foot of our great the facilities, Dominion will be realized. Colds Cause Headache. Laxative Bromo Quinine, the world wide cold and remedy, removes caule. Call for full name. Look for signature E. W. Grove, 25c. --_ Senator Woods Favored. Ottawa, Jan. 31 The lieutenant- Bibby's for Men's Rudb- bers and Overshoes. BIBBYS™ MEN'S We bave solid comfort for you. Shoe with and heel. See our Felt rubber sole AND BOYS' DEPT, STORK. ¥ For Men Suits, Overcoats and six days' time, ALopro MIrIOML Made to Measure Clothes by Canada's, Best Tailors. 500 SAMPLES TO CHOOSE FROM We are sole agents in Kingston for Semi-Ready, High Grade Tailoring, Trousers mace to your special arder in from four to Fabrics and Colorings entirely new, and the cut of the new garments is artistic and different. Agents for Fowne's and Dent's Gloves for Men Agents for Penman's Underwear and Sweater Coats BIBBYS 78 80-82 PRINCESS. Important to Bald People. Prof. Dorenwend, of Toronto, will be at the Hotel Randolph Monday, l'eb. who on 5th, invites ladics and gentlemen to call and inspect his samples. For ladies he has the latest creations in. switches, . transforma tions, waves-fronts, ete. While his patent toupees for gentlemen are worn and. endorsed by medical nen. Private demonstration gladly given free, Remember the date. Monday, Teb. 5th, ~ Throughout Southern Alberta' thresh: ing was resumed this week. This is the first time in the history of the province That it has been possible or necessary to thresh in the winter. Hali of the crop is yet to be threshed. The cook's best friend--' King's Qual- ity" flour. J The Pencsylvania Steel company has received an order for 33.000 tons of steel rails from the Pennsylvania rail road, King's Quality flour" js what the grocer rs most. Deposits of First National bank. Chi- cago, have crossed $125,000,000, the highest in the benk's history, and an increase of $13,000,000 since the last December 5th. SOPER WHITE A J Mississippi Budget. Mississippi, Jan. 29. Quite a pumbes of the young people from here attend. ed the wedding reception of Mr. and Mrs. John Barr, of Centreville, on Wednesday, 24th. Mr. and Mrs. Barr left on Saturday to take up residence in South's Falls, Quite & number from here attended chureh at Suow Road on Sunday Vis itors : Martin McPhee, at Japies Han nah's; Mrs. John Morro, of Bathurst, at WA. GCedde's; Mrs I. Gilbert and son, Maurice, at Allan's; Mrs. Rufus Bartran and Miss Laura Hannah, of Haileybury, at A, Bart raw"s; Miss Katie Ferguson, of Flphin, at Doopald McDougall's; Daniel Me Kinngn, of Pilot Mound, at his fath- er's, Hogh McKinnon, January evening Wu Rox The government is Anxious that the session shall not drag too lomg and would like to see the house wind up some time in Maveh, For fine pastry cooking "King's Quality" flour never kad an equal | LIST YOUR PROPERTIES NOW For Sale or to Rent. Sales Negotiated ° Rents Collected Fire Insurance - Conveyancing and Real Estate 's E. Blake Thompson, OVER NORTHERN CROWN BANK MARKET SQUARE. "Phone 156. EE ia A a but subdued. They have a promise, apparently, that the decapitation gf the Montreal Harbor C iss will take place when mot so man people are looking, : The Telegram is now pe for the ownership 'of the Grand Trunk Pa H Ll g 3 # : school educati iN y rernorship the province of New a Pr , Brooklyn. fou ih Nea Jo and Brumewick will' shortly become vacant Al | . MADY by expiration of the term of office of fads, not enough of good sound jhe t incumbent. Senator teaching. And 'the gad is missing, dosish Woods? appointment is being and with it the manners, the docil: advocated by his friends. ite. the. reupelt of the phpils. Tims| Seven Years for Holdup Man. fot: 8 Winnipeg, Ham, Jan 3 --Seven : : years in Stony Mountain penitentiary' was the term ing on Hans - protest against the P leon relaxation of iamigration Pa for the admission of LY, "Selling Out TINE AFIRE proposed