The selling of an article at a profitable basis in this the age of keen competition is the con- : stant worry which every business man has to p contend with, The obstacle you have to overcome is not so much the convincing of your prospective pur- chaser as to any difference in price to that of oa your competitor, but to remove any doubt i which may exist in his mind as to the superior- ! ity of your article. In order to do thi it is necessary to produce absolute and positive proof, backed up by statements which will show your article in its true worth, and by pro- ducing sufficient evidence as to the snperiority E i of your goods it is then an easy matter to mar- i : ket it at a profitable basis. There is no line to our mind in which com- petition is as keen as in the sale of Carbon , therefore Quality invariably is the main Re and it is this feature which explains. the secret of the large sale of Ellam's Carbon in Canada to-day. Our price being the same as all ether well known Carbons the superierity of our line gives us a distinct advantage over our competitors. . hp) 75% of the Carbon used in Kingston to-day is Ellam's. Why? and this is ony one of the many cities in Ugnadg where the same con- ditions exist. SOLE DEALERS FOR KINGSTON THE JACKSON PRESS 173 - 175 Wellington St. Printers Bookbinders Stationers and Office Supplies. Phone 485. The National Typewriter Co., Lt. Bs ONLY SIX DAYS, There's 30% Dividends in Coal Oil 1 have been asked 3 Soa to Uivesturs_ for Maunodiste subscription at par, 000.00 worth of capital stock of the Comet Oil Company, Limited. The company is engaged in merchandising coal oil, & commodity which pays a gross profit of fully 100 per The business has been established about seven years, in Which term a trade of over nine thousand steady cuse tomers has been built up. : Without the advantagé of this additional capital, the earnings of the business for the past year were suffic. per cent upon the entire capitalization ONLY SIX DAYS. 3 'SIVA XIS X1INO SISVI DNIHAAI0 Drop post card asking for literature POLICY-HOLDERS' INSURANCE CO. and learn how thor care by jIouN McGURK 1S MOURNED IN !a scoundrel, McGurk was * undoubt- yntlene like Joseph Pulitzer, James "| champagne, provided "Pegleg could pro: NEW YOKK, "the Gorilla of Gotham" -- McGurk, of Suicide hall, is dead. 1 knew McUurk. | was in New York when the mewspapers of that city, figuratively speaking, flung them- selves upon him. They described him as a raveming wolf, a fiend in human form." They cartooned him as a goril- la, feasting hideously upon helpless women. But, according to his own lights, McGurk was not altogether a bad sort. He was am Irishman by birth, from the black county of Tyrone. Un arriving 'in the new world, "like others of his race and class, he drifted to the lower east side, and after many vicis- situdes, accumulated enough money. to open a saloon, to which was subse quently added a dancing annex. Na- turally he opened the place in his own neighborhood; naturally, also, he got the patronage of people living there about. Now, if to conduct a saloon is to be w edly such a man, but he did not look upon his business in that way. Mec a ANNESLEY BURROWES. Gurk argued that he was engaged in a lawful traffic, which the people of the state of New York authorized him to follow, and that, asthe state received a portion of his profits m the form of a tax, or license, the peo- ple were, therefore, his partners. He was of the opinion that if his busi- ness was wicked, the people of the state were his accomplices and abet- tors. But, on the whole, he thought that himself .and his partners were all right, ' wy when the newspapers called him a wild-beast and a "fiend-in-human- form, McGurk was much pained. Had his assailants been men of his own class, he would have settled the mat- ter with his hands, but pitted against k rordon Bennett and Whitelaw Reid-- or their representatives -- all MoGurk it and shed a tear or two; and these things he did. 1 know, because 1 saw ham. The trouble with McGurk was that his place was at 295 Bowery, instead of beng among the bright lights of the Great White Way. fad he been the landlord of Martin's, or Rector's, or the Madison Square Garden Hoof; had his patrons been people like Stan- ford White, Harry Thaw, and Evelyn Nesbitt nobody would have raised a word against him, except perhaps Mr. Comstock, Mr. Parkhurst or Mr. Rockefeller, jr., and their opinions, as everybody knows, do not coumt for much among "real people." McGurk had a different class of patrons. His tables were filled with poor wretches who had no place else Fast river for that matter. But such people have an altogether perverse and wicked longing to stay out of jail, out of the poorhouse and out of the river. #30 they went to McGurk's and Me Gurk welcomed them, and made them feel at home. And the strange Just of it was that he couldn't see where he was wrong. He argued that VPeg- leg Shanahan had just as good a right Wi place. sida, wine. the ruin they he ever brea tches there is sadness on the y for MoGurk-"the iorilla of Gotham had many friends. THE SOUTH POLs. FUND, One Million Dollars Has Already book will to vides such unlimited and alluring op- GORILLA : OF GOTHAM portunities to begin the course, it would be cruel as well unavailing to deprive the victims the right to end their carver in an en- vironment as comfortable and co ial as they are able to Gurk didn't put it in these words, but g "1 didn't mak they are,"' he said. further uptown. are beyond help when they come to my place. But they have as good a right to their beer as others have to their And I pay the people of state of New York for the right to supply it. I never pushed a human be- ing down town folks have done, and I never re fused a helping hand to any of them that wanted to climb." : To be sure McGurk could not push anybody down, because his place was at the bottom. v off place. In the year 1509 six men frequenters of Suicide Hall: killed themselves, and seven more attempted to do so in vain. And the people blamed all of it on McGurk. Upiown the landlords of places where these women may have taken their first wine, went about smugly, enjoy- ing the esteem and best people." down the line, where the victims had paused in their downward career, land- lords smoked fat cigars, and ate juicy steaks, their digestions untroubled by ad helped. to create-- and their reputations untouched by the storm of abuse which fell upon Me. Gurk. ay hill, Moturk was the weight of all the reproach, all the disgrace, which should have been dis tributed to rum-séllers from Harlem to the Battery, and be sickened un- der it, God forgive him! men than Metiurk, who stand . higher places than ever he aspired to. The money he took less, but tainted dollars have not been rer nknown in Been London, Feb. 27.--Sir er said committee the present state of the Scott which now amounted to nearly' $1, 000,000 that was He added that decided how far opt open. 52 Sir Edgar said expenses of compiling and publishing the book would be about DEATH LIST IS SIXTY. Many Killed During Harbor Work at Gijon, Spain, a7 Madrid, Feb. to ex to iail, or the poorhouse. | 27 No doubt they would have been better | sixty ers off in either, or at the bottom of thelothers injured Snamiting the rocks in front of the harbor of Gijon were going on. Frag- ments of the rocks came down on the and spectators, were killed and injured. It's the easiest thing in instruct another things, few of those who began At a The committee is wait: ing to see the : osal before setting a limit. Hi - could do was to feel very badly about br : g Ho add "We are not likely to adopt Lord Curzon's siggestion of a Scott mem. orial hall, owing to the fact that we do not attach great importance to a concrete memorial. that the deeds of Captain Scott his companions and the be the only memorial, and also the best memor- persons were killed and many THE DAILY RRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1913 downward as of Annesley Burrowes Tells of the | (hat is what he meant. Man Who Kept the Lower End Very Primrose I the Kifth avenue toboggah ever got of he. prim Path. on. the as far as 295 Bowery. Something ro Bowery, pened to them before they reached that The following article by Annesley | point--usually something unpleasant. Burrowes, on "McGurk, the Gorilla*of | Only the ones who began furiher down Gotham," appears in the Detroit |the line ever made the acquaintance of Journal: ' McGurk. But those who did--many of John McGurk, loathed and hated |them--did not find Mim unkind. He by millions who never knew him --| was not a bad-looking man, although his face did lend itself a» little to the ends of the cartoonist.) He had pleas ant manners, ;a kindly smile, low-pitched voice which was not with- out a certmin sweetness. with the 'Gorilla of Gotham," one could not help feeling for him, and some pity, for he a wife and family living in a better part of the town, and people said he was good ta them. But Suicide Hall was a In it gathered nightly flotsam and jetsam of the lower East 'I'he bars were down, body was so bad that McGurk thought his place was too good And he could not see that he was wrong. and a Talking a little liking had fearsome the and no- for him or her. e these people what "They got that Most of them the as lots of these up: it was the jumping- WO tronage of "the undred stations "the goat." lle felt . There are worse in was mot. stain- atmosphere than The di say Subscribed. Edgar Spey- the British Antarctic well satisfied with fund, it had not yet heen the funds would be government's pro- Personally, 1 feel and forthcoming necessary + ' he expected that the $50,000. ~It is reported that while operations for and many the world ow to do to his bootleg of beer as Keginald Vanderbilt had to his magnum of duce the price. And McGurk could not sce that it' was any worse for him to wet Shanahan's whistle than it was for Mr. Sherry to irrigate the Tenderloin bunch," MeGurk said, in hin coarse way 'So why do they call me a fiend-in*human form, w Fourteenth street. To any hali- decent mind MoGurk was a warning inst vice. ny street, T lov Child Had oesophagus of the afqresaid Vander- ; PH one devils have just ms ------ rr _poor devils have jus 0 ainted with good a right to be catered to as the hy : gir orn Nh th Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Tar tine exerts over bromehitis, whoop- ng ccugh, croup and colds it is not i i them that any- Nobody was ever ruined is Me-j€asy to ua 't y Gurk's, They were oll ruined before! else is "just a8 good." This they got there. Most of them were|is why the imitators never get very I preity well destroyed before they got |far. In 1982 Mrs. Eugene lier, Ki N.S., wrote as fol lined along Herald and Longacre({was troubled with bronchitis, and the ss, with one of iwo of them on (least cold would aggravate the trou. ¥ifth avenue, not far from . Million-|ble. Xo sig Rat get anything to aires' Row. But in these vice help him, and ' were greatly a was 80 heavily that nobody {larmed. . Hi of Dr. Chase's is- | Syrup of and Turpentine as a treatment for bronchitis we used it. and are glad to state that © it effected a complete cure. If any of children take a vold or 'cough this medicine, and have it to fil bring re has Bronchitis for." Me on slopping during his London visit. his congregation, and brought to bear upon Ptr --my [sther's death," lamented the youth. "By he way, here's the last portrait pain im." He led the visitor to where hung he a ai dieting he She dead philan i im as Jaading erect with his right hand in pocket. "A fine 8 Pinte of work," said the visitor, » "but it's mot true life. i your fa- poe COMMERCIAL NEWS DOMINION STEEL IS PLANNING NEW PLANT IN WEST. Official: Company at Heall of Laks Making An Investigation.-- in. ancial Topics, Fort William, Ont,, Feb. 26.--A, Me- Kenzie, general manager of the Do- minion Coal company, is spending a few days in the city on important business. The. Dominion Coal com- pathy, as is generally known in finan- cial circles, is merged with the Domin- ion Steel company, and Mr. McKen- ties business here has had to do with several big arr, ents in; connec: tion with the estate deal recentl put through on Island No. 1 for J. H. Plunmer, president of the big Cape Breton Steal concern. 1t is believed that the Dominion Steel "Corporation will erect a new steel plant here to supply western trade, and that work on this will ba commenced shortly. . Increased Divide ad. Ottawa, Feb. 26.--Ap increase in the quarterly dividend of from 1} to 2 per cent., making 8 per cent. annually, was declared at the annual meeting of the Ottawa Light, Heat and Power com- yards of bowels clogged up, choked with sour bile and stomach full of foul effete matter well. Waste retained in the stomach. and thirty feet of bowels ferments--de- tays. gases and acids, and those poisons are sucked into the blooa through the very ducts intended to suck in the nutriment. headache, tongue coated, nervous. meals don't digest, and we feel over. "SIRUP OF FS" FOR WOIGESTION, TAGE NNW, BILIOUSNESS AND CONSTIPATION ! BETTER THAN CASTOR OIL, CALOMEL OR CLEANSE YOUR STOMACH, LIVER AND ELS. HARMLESS ©LAXA AND U CATHARTICS TO 30 FEET OF BOW. TIVE FOR MEN, WOMEN HILDREN. Primitive folks did not need laxa- tives. They lived outdoors ate plen- ty of fruit and all of their food was coarse. We modern people are dif- ferent. little fruit, and our food Is too fine-- too rich. We exercise too little. eat 'We simply can't ten liver have our and feel It means that the food and The decay creates poisons Then we have sick become dull bilious miserable all S0 we must make our choice. We must live like primitive folks, else we must take artificial means to move the excess bile and waste matter on and out of the system. The safest, most harmless and ef- fective. stomach, liver and bowel cleanser and regulator for men wo- men and children--Is delicious Syr- up of figs, which doesn't irritate, gripe or weaken. Its effect is the effect of fruits. It is composed en- tirly of luscious figs. senna and aro- matics. Don't think you are drug- ging yourself. Syrup of Figs can be constantly used without harm. Ask your druggist for "Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna," and see on the label that it is prepared by The California Fig Syrup Company, This is the only genuine-"the old reliable. Refuse, with contempt, the so-called Fig Syrup imitations sometimes offered to deceive you pany. Last year 7 per arnt. was paid. The matter of a bonus was leit over for future comsideration, but it was declared likely that an issup of $500, 000 new stock would be mnade in the coming year im order to pay for the new fos plant. The net profits were $298,000, and the gross recpipts $770,- 972. The company has 300 sharehold- ers. The new gas plant whll be com- pleted and in operation in the coming summer, dhs . Decline in Trade Activity, New York, Feb. 26. -- "The London correspondent of the New , York Even- ing Post in his weekly financial cable says: There are undoubtedly numerous indications, both here and in Germany, of some decline in trade. Buch indica- tions are at present chiefly confined to the heavy fall in the rice of metals. Consequently, it is dithicult to - deter- mine whether the movement is due sim- ply to liquidation of an isolated p- -- ulative position or to uinely inishing consumption. 'The consensus of opinion, however, momentarily holds the view that trade activity is receding. If this is so, it is not im- probable that the reaction, combined with other influences, would . occasion, a gradual shifting of investment cap- ital from speculative to Nich-proa securities--which of tself be a highly desirable feature. No Doubt ot Election. Montreal, Feb. 26.--1t was announe- ed by Mr. Carruthers, the new presi- dent of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation company, that any doubt as to the validity of J. P. Steedman's election to the I and O, board had been settled in his favor. Mr. Carruthers further stated - that Mr. Steedman had the support of the Jaglish interests, io wished him to Pellatt in the pe tha western lmes, and the Niagara Navi gution company in particular, their esire being that Mr. Steedman should also remain vice-president of the In. land Lines, limited, a position which he has held since that company was organized, would of Toronto's busiest corners, has ant, a tagless collie dog, named station with the policeman at the 8 i A 18 8 i THE COLLIE AND COP WHRTH This policeman who does "pointy CHARMED LIVES, ! duty," or traffic direction, on ome! recently had as his voluntary assist "Spot," who regularly takes wup hist intersection of the car tracks during! ready to commence of Lions. Bonds of the Barcelona Traction company to the amount of £3,000,000 have been listed on the Toronto Stock Hixchange. J. F. Weston has been appointed general manager of Imperial Life As surance company, Montreal. DEFENDS POSITION. Preached Though Rector Objected, He Said. London, Ont., Feb. 27.--It is strange that a sensation should be caused by an Anglican clergyman ching the gospel of Jesus Christ, in a Presby- terian_ church. It is hard to under stand why there should be any com- motion regarding a matter of such small consequence. Rev. Dr. Symonds of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, who recently preached m a Presbyterian chuech in St. Giles parish, in that section, about which a heated controversy is now taking place, explained the situation in this manner, at the residence of Rev. R. W. Norwood, rector of Mem orial church, at which place he is Dr. Symonds gave a frank and open statement of the wh case, with absolutely no recriminations against any party of the controversy. "Some time ago | was invited to preach in the Presbyterian church in St. Giles parish, and asked Rev, Mr. Flanagan, rector of the parish for rmission. As there was no canonical aw against it, he gave his permission and 1 made the engagement. The fact that 1 was going to preach in this church, 'caused some controversy in is 3 re was refuse to grant me permission. *I'wo days before 1 was to preach, Nr. Wlanagan did withdraw his per mission, but 1 told him that on the strength of his former offer, I had made the eng: t and was going to keep it. 1 did, although Bishop Farthing advised me against it. Hp did not forbid me to preach." Not True to Life. ; The son of a man who had been a great philanthropist welcomed a vis: itor to his office. The talk turned on the career of the father of the To Block the Grand Trunk Prescott Bill. Toronto, Feb. 27.--Sympathy, but little encouragement, was given the town of Brockville by the private bills committee of the legislature when the town, through its member, tempted to block approval of the bill covering the agreement between town of Prescott and the Grand Trunk for the removal of the railway shops from Brockville to Prescott. A E. Donovan presented the at- the me- orial of the Brockville Board of the busiest hours of the day, and With remarkable agility dodges the Financial Notes. cars. Nobody knows who owns tLe dog, or who feeds him. He bus) The plant of the new Ontario Na- become quiet a 4andmark, tional Buick sompenys limited, af pe---- Ee ---------------------- Cookaville, seventeen miles from To- y a . + , BROCKVILLE FAILED, lature had a right to intecfers, Me. ronto, will be completed and Donovan thought that the sections that declared against one municipal ity taking industries away from an other might furnish that ground, but the chairman did not see eye to eye with him "We sympathize with you," he re marked, "but I don't that we can help you." 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