e telephone | system was making money. Last year in these telephones an illusory sur- Wise and "Otherwise Men's Fine Shoes, 200 Conty 54.00 I Bibby 's Our Blue Suits $15 Are "real gems: Fabric : pure wool worsted model. The. new Ox- ford, very chic and dressy style. Hand tailored by experts. ; We Specialize in $4.00 & $5.00 Shoes water svatem plus was shown. ' The had a deficit of large proportion. I'he "descrepancies are now accounted | for. The plants were being run weth- out the depreciation fund, and equipment 4 near out ¥S8ue in connection with it | BACESSary before the bond matures. The result is an accumulat- | tng debt, and a debt for the removal WEDNESDAY, APRIL FIRST i which na Proyjsion has heen made. | CASTELL HOPKINS, the Can. | adlun historian, who is ob lug lis fiftieth birthday to- | i i . fay, has probably written more books while the telephone sys- tbost Canada ced Canadians than auy other author Pi . He has now to | PXonrh his credit twenty fon faa = t<hets In six bulky vol-| 5 - » umes of his own, Honesty 4 composition and | de editor | ABE of ange fifty i diggity It i& in- | i %: Eo "> } "Correpting. this miscaleulation"' sads | the Bulletin, "the dificit of the street | railway systém ix shown to he. more 8¢ than %400,000, 4 tem, instead of nu surphis of £30,000, has a deficit of £101 .000, the! ba waterworks system also has a short- ~ : age of $100,000, and only the electrie AN open foe is not ako a etended Published Daily and ir by He NRITIAH WHIG p * 3G BIOtE ..iiviadsiinies. President Director Laid A Guile Managing Fite TON RATES Sun atten) delivered In city ...... paid in adva. teaches light. department \is able to show 'a balance on the right side of the ae "rs , pawned i4 count, . emed I2 there any lesson in all this for the has been Here of over commissioners of Kingston ? is as dangerous to aré five men who were called to office in January last, and who have not yet clearly learned the situation. They 4% a dose of arsenic is to life others Don't lose: your temper teresting to note that it. was the are having an nppraisment made of 1 4 Im late Sir John A 3 Vhat kinds of vho | 2 who} New started 'him off | ana the various funds which : | on his literary | Mostly the Last, Agricultural farming Extensi \ndianapolis 830r at s pro (Semi. Weekly Editon One yéar, by Ball pr One 0 e IB Seine Ea three months pro.rats. the plants; they are having the ae Macdonald den counts examined, and with a view to : ytudent prefensd ve establishing should have been in existence since the Our Pampered Pets, caréer. Mr Hopking was in early life a bank clerk in the employ of the Imperial Bank He took a consider- 1 politics and the dis- Imperial affairs and had be left alone while they | Having met | to put the busi | Sir John tn London, Ont, he took the | liberty of writing to the Premier after: | if he knew of any Soon after Attached is one of the ' best job | . printing offices in Canada. City the situation has TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE HE liptece ceeos... 33 Church Bt. . 8. REPRESENTATIVES New York Office .....,.. Frank R. Northrup, took over the utilities, and before been determined, there is a clamouring for extensions, | and a reduction. and abolition of rates. | able intere { ix Common intelligence suggests that the [-cussion of «sevens TP 'Northrop, Ma SOME CIVIC SURPRISES A nese in oa safe and condition. If the Audit By-Law were to be car It seem to have dawned | wards a ried out, as it was: originally intend. on even the Couneil that the position | opening cd to be, there would be no sueprises [a letter 1 at any time, and in the accounts of editor of ti 1 BBY Cewvic department. him an editorjul aiter a thorough canvass of all the result of Sir Johu's tufluence facts, a budget is passed to it certain moneys are «of apart for specilic purposes: When the appropr ia- tions ara exhausted the auditor should report the facts 'to'the Council. The Finance Commitee has been intercept- ing those Commission ambitions to he a writer t are "doing their hest solvent | Our Brown Suits $15 A pure all-wool English worsted in rich shades of brown, light, dark and medium shades. New Harvard models. does not of the utilities is at all serious, and 18 from the | it joins in the demand for a division Empire offering | | i anot her | | { | Once a vear, Clearly the! Need- | of the "spoils," which is position, have heen name for earnings as they According less to say he accepted und short newsiigp experience the utilities er t journalisy ol y devote himself . ig 4 a : priated its revenues while the equip- [to authokshy Loan will { Overs Ciiogowe, regarded by thise august body I'he Council in past years has not used right. They have appro ment has been neglected, and it be fortunate indeed if reports and passing state here is not that of Edmonton under A WISH. Mine be a cot beside the hill, A beehive's hum shall goothe my ear: A willowy brook, that turns a8 mill, " With many a fal] shall linger near. ments which the Council has not chal lenged, because it did not circumstances. That The Council makes the appropriation It, and it only, should supplement the amount. The is | in adopted and . adhered tp (he the civie irprises will' end. ar SE I Champ Clark is fin open rebellion to the president of 'ie United States. He docs not think that pre- [to be granted ! easier conditions of sidendtin] candidates are scarce. As g | occupation. Are they to be relleved matter of fact they "are not. But the | of Lhe terrorism of the democratic - candidates that can win | spectors ? That is are not to' 'be found at every cross- burning question. | the experience [* similar circumstances. | know the Soriety Brand Clothes Our Oxford Grey Overcoats $15.00 English Cheviots in light, dark & medium shades of grey in the genteel . Chesterfield style. Satin sleeve lin- ings. Bartell Patent pockets. All sizes, EDITORIAL NOTES | should not be | | | ok dear Fido y¢ nd he enjoyed . | England is having locomotives built i Why not a Canada? Our Handsome: Grey Suits $15.00 New Master models, plain shades pin dots and checks. Expert tail oring, soft roll lapels. Two and three button styles. Our $2.00 Hats are Dandies sooney this rule fiermany : vx , whit sooner | and Kingston ? The works should be Daily Thought. . mde able to compete with the shops of The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from ber" clay bullt nest. Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch ? Savs And share my meal, a welcome | "While guest, 2 . {enue last myself what. the y thought of Pres i Germany or any other country, | -------------- | The homesteaders $n the west are | Unexpected Answer. political in- | who is a bit of a 18 up Commonwealth ave. the great and | wondering ountry at large real- lent Wilson's watch Aroun: und my ivied porch shall ful waiting poligy. Suddenly looking Spring up, T was startled '{o" hototd 'the an. Each fragrant flower that few inst the sky in illum , . drinks the dew, 'Unitéd States Tires miltees must save the situation in And Lucy, at her wheel, shall » " v . ' | inture by knowing and presenting all | sing Not Previously "Touched." | 3 In russet gown, and apron blue. | whby--Let's see: do 1 roads, and Champ has had reason to knot this, There school hoy talk at the last meeting of the coundl. 'The chairmen of the com was a good déal of e RT SITUATION IS BRIEF er outlined ited bulbs Phe Toronto Mail's idea 'of the army trouble is peenliar. 1t save that vl the facts in connection with thelr | government, through General Gough, Bent out a statement, respecting army orders, which it recalled. It charges the : with "false pudiating its plighted word." The Whig's understanding is what different, and it departments, \ . -- > The village church among the I 8 Not a cont, my boy. Are a council of Arn memi ors, | trees, gol und paving your tile | later Would Where first 'our marriage vows Orrowhy--No. going aroun oked anybody T.€ government, therefore, | who studied the municipal situation dealing," and with "re 5 were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze And point with taper spire to heaven. and understood it, he better for the city than a council of twenty ore, some- only a few of whom make any at Ruling Out Uncertainty, council is a school in get at the facts hy a careful reading of English liberal which some t --Samuel Rogers. re has tried ole to master the details ? I'h and conservative men are not very apt students Papers. ' This ee certamn army intecpretation of army should not have been questioned. 'The! lift the army out of politigs, Cabinet Council dealt with the ap- | dismiss peal, and its decision was against any | the military could indulge in Who appealed to dragged it into | who are officers desired a specia The conservative alarmists $n Eng -- understanding is in| land are appealing to the people to Nothing Giacefully Thanked, orders, which | (thanking all who h Kingston Events |..." eaves or 25 YEARS AGO. for Rady. Pink: § shows what she enn. and to from the mind the idea = -- « BUILDERS ! Have You Tried wl GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? HY e %0 I. Saves Time. P. WALSH that politi | cal conspiracy. ly, in communicating with the officers the Who of | politics but the moditication of the orders. Col. See- army ? : The Portsmouth philosopher savs a tian likes to be sat on by his sweet heart before marriage, After man riage he doesn't. Many jokes were Hayed on people around - the city "to-day as it was 1. April Fool's Day. report \ game of baseball was played on canal But | Umtarfio Street to-day. at Curragh camp, added a couple very men Gentle Woman, fopt notes without the government's ; now protesting against it? 8 knowledge or a ------ | consent, and we know | the consequences the full fesponsibilii, resignation, The unexpected has since happened, The resignations of the Secretary of War, has. been accepted, and Mr. 'Ag- quith; as Kis successor in Yotfice, - will H and 'not ercating it, in appeal to. his constituency, and the 2 Ge Ate J . spect his Vjob differes from that of . # Hytharnated ynch-Stanto Approval of all that has taken place yok Rpjlon A accepted | The Horak fiars for Sandford Evans, (a former Hy Hamilton and tendered his 1 nilton upon the Georgian Bay de Blactfer |i when he undertakes to there is no ground for the four. Mi. Useful Utensil. When Vapor is Dry. popular misconception is fupposition that aqueous vapor and ice are wet. They are in themselves dry, and become wet' only when they | turn to water. So, dry is aqueous ! unionist | V2bor that dt will diy 'and smoist ob Jects 'that' it comes fin contact with Superheated steam, before it con- Asquith 'in or denses, is a Iry gas." Ice feels wet back to the | ii the temperature of the hand is The truth ie that | suffered to melt it; as ice is dry. | Another misconmeption is that air can be either moist, or dry. It is con- ! densed aqueous vapor in thé air that i! $0 font back to parliament the sooner he. | is moist, and it would be moist if | cause they cannot successfully fight | there was no air. A given quantity | him. jo aqueows vapor confined in a given | i space wilk be wet or dry according to] lie wha comes | | the temperature. At 32 degrees for | ireatness must | instance, it might be partially con- [\ery low stendara | densed and consequently wet, while |)iuski | 70 (legreev; ving to expansion, it! "The ix on the { | would be dr i, 5 Bl World | vane We are not content to know | ther they | 1 | | { Evans is not looking for scandal, A the | 1d makes an Bnglishy ju which re Is good leather in your If « Girls' and Boys' Boots. » Try Our $2.00 and $2.50 verdict will be an approval or dis Ibe report is that {he party will not oppose the re election courageous act, and one | in East Fife of Mr that he may get in political cireles up to the hour, = Fhis ig » that will people. It ix a turn was not looked for. present | invite the support of the dor that Col, Seely's mis- H. JENNINGS, King Street. ------------ READ .THE WHIG WANT ADS = ---- Mm events house the sooner, Gentlaman---Wel Punch : they do not want to oppose him and | take was a seriony one and cost the government a great deal of solicitude. Mr. Asquith's method of correcting it is regarded as a most brilliant one, Mechanical filtratian wins out in «Ottawa. In other words the people will be required to consume the wa- ter of the Ottawa river, scientd fically doped. It won't be pure.! And the plant that treats it will cost 892, 000,000. lose. The unionists are letting him ! 1--A large well built brick dWelling, Pine St. good cel- lar, B. and C. gas, deep 0b canis envncaies $2860 2--Brick dwelling, Albert St. 4 bedrooms, B. and C., sta- ble, deep lot veeees $3200 3--Brick veneer, University Avenue, 5 bed rooms, hot" water furnace, B. and C. el- ectric lights; gas, stable "rencana $3600 4--New brick dwelling, Fron- tenac St. all modern {m- provements ........$4000 Said by Wise Men. » his own idea of always have had a The fair grounds did not: ¢dst the city "818,000, or any such sum Ihe Property, then in good condition,.and [a with buildings, some of it In his mind despotism of custom which was turned i for 317000. The tand | {18 now worth $40,000, or $45,000. It LESSON FROM EDMONTON i becoming more waluable all Ek Thie Bulletin: of Edmonton, an- While. The city eo nnot aliord to sell " mounces that only one of the four it and it does ng; utilities, owned and operated by' the | Pralick's farm. \ work a way, and r ----~ { hotite st VAY, Weataer Notes r : were that things are; wo ask whe Rhodes No Dude | t } Jo 8. Mil Ceeil | Rhodes was not mu Blt of a Hresser;, When premier {he ape. Col destroyed by fires, over'y ito the city are some souls, here and there, whe We trust, some who and whom we know, some on who the ony, Wo usually wore a Mannel sult { Which! badly wanted cleaning, and a | dilap¥ lated slouch hat. His succes. |' hon os Iys. rely, and sor an office, Sir Gordon Spriggs, who Bx in Un MAKES black "Fock coat even fn the weather, once made an efiort "respect - want 'a fair at city, has been paying its that the other three have piled up 'against them a debt of over 2600,000 "for which the pebple are responsible. And 'why the people, when commis. sioners well mavaging the business ? Because the people got what they wanted, and clamoured for more fa- vowrs, assuming that the plants were as 'productive of coin as mints, and failing to realize that there was a fl timit do<the burdens these plants ; conld carry. It was kndwn hat the _ Street railway was going behind; but : tos enforce the wearing of A disturbance which wag in the! «ple? dark clothes 'in the Cape. par- kouth-west states, vesterday, is now { damdent. But Rhodes would net have roving rapddly towards Vae great | 5€ He said in parlinment that if lakes and ain is falling" in Western * he could not help to legislate in com. Untario. The. weather "is cold and fortable clothes he would not help at gettled throughout + {je dominion, | all, and he thought that the mem. anc "thee. are indications of stilli | hors would - agree with him They. older weather in tFe western pro- | did. vinces. J dh me oe Mrs. D. H. Fiddall, Trenton, wife of 'the manager of the Bank of Mon- treal, passed away Tuesday morn- Lharn was de' poy sed by fire, together ing. Death was due to collapse fol- | wit ita. cor pent The fir~ started lowing, child = birth. Deceased was frgm Monti neops combustion. «| about. thirty-five years of age. | \ with a severs ° large etsy ------ John Ww, Vout, Elizabethtown, met OF «when his | I | anos friends tes » of custom is incaleula- and he will of him- as a mar his conception wl B John, : n trade; the »s, the greater additions to is influence; it fuhds; draws and opens a ire and easy way lo wealth, 'honor wid happiness --J. Hawes Men are won, not so much by Being blamed as by being encompassed with love ~Uhanning. = Character is lke are of-it a man pos 8 faculties for mas Characte § Power sitronage and ipport T. J. LOCKHART, Real Estate and - Insurance Clarence and King Sts. Kingston THERE'S Phone 1085 or 1038 iN EVERY LU