y ¥ --e Statistics From 43 Life Ashby the Tailor 76 Brock St. Phone 1518 CanWe? We have set out to sell one thousand fountain pens in a week. If we sell as mény per day as Saturdgy we will. 25 CENTS Is all we ask for a dollar guar- anteed Fountain Pen. Ome to a customer: Paas' Easter Egg Dyes 5c Pkg. At Bests * The Satisfactory Drug Store Sunday hours, 1.30 to 5; 6.30 to 9. > . thi tn 0 Visible" bi "© and "far" lenses genuine "in- e "near" are one solid Tw EASTER SUNDA WILL SOON BE HERE. We are ready to meet your wants in the line of classy haberdashery, such as The new Soft Hats in blue, gréen, brown and oa ranging in price, 2 50, $3.00, £4.00 NG The new shirts with soft collars and French cuffs to mateh, prices $1.00 to $2.50 It will be a treat to come in and inspect our ster neckwear, rang- | ing in prices from 50¢ l to $1.50, in which are } some very exclusive patterns. | {Somerville and he -- |SPINSTERS 11VE LONGER THAN WOMEN WHO MARRY Insurance ( 'ompanies Show This, but Leave Cause in Doubt, : New York, April 7.-- lives longer than the m man, a The, spinster arcied wo the woman who holds an endowment insurance policy lives. longer than: the woman who takes out a straight, life policy. These facts, substantiated by Statistics gathered wach yeur by experts in the employ- ment of forty-three insurance eom- pames, werg brought out by. Arthur Hunter, an actuary, in an address before the Life Laderwriters!, Asgo- cation. Mr. Hunter also said the business Woman lives longer - than the married - man, hut - he did not at- tempt to explain why, except to de- clare that figures Proved his state. ment to be a fact. Nor did he ex- plain why the unmarried woman sur- vives the matron.' He did tell, Row- ever, why the woman who takes out an endowment policy Tives longer than the woman who has to die to win, 1 "The etidowment woman just up her spirit and de ermination to Rvs unt] her policy matures," he said. "The other woman sighs and says : 'Oh, what's the use.' Mr. Hunter said there were more fatal accidents in this country' than elsewhere because of the, American "Ull take a chances" spirit. "The mortality rate among' 'engi- neers' and firemen is eight times that of men in other callings," he said, "and among policemen ahout forty per cent. higher With policemen it is on the Ta gots CATCHER WALTER SNELL The Brown University man, secured by the Teronto International Lag Ue team, from the g Boston Americans. Suell fs sure of © his place as second catcher for Toronto MAN CARRIED HALF A TON Put M,000 Pounds .on Shoulder and Walked Away Catharines, Ont., April 7.--Rev. + A. Graham, London, preaching at | Welland Avenus Misthodist church, | Sreahing of strong men, said "When 1 was pastor at St. Mary's, | we had aman there so strong ot that he could do almost anything. This story is told of him which is true; Une time feed in his locality got very scarce, | and he went to a neighboring farmer and asked him how much Be would charge him for all the hay he could carry away with a rope he had. _ 'Oh, two dollars," said the farmer. "He ecarrietk away half a ton, and hay was twenty doflars a ton. gt pins * DOUBLE BEREAVEMENT Doctor's Father Dead Also Father of His Wite, London, April 7.--Dr. Norman Al exander and his wife, of this city 'were each bereaved Sunday night, the former by the unexpected death of his father, Thomas Alexander, ag- ed sixty-eight, collector of inland revenue for the Windsor district, and Mrs. Alexander by the death of her father, George A. Somerville, Toronto, formerly of London. Mr. Alexander died from paralysis. Mr. were . lifelong Mr, Somerville was one of |" friends. § n financial men in Qn the best know tario. ' ------ Insulting Women off Streets Compluint was mada the Whig, on Tuesdiy morning, dt young men loitering ony the streels and in ing sulting women. 3 : "Young ladies cannot walk out K Mlreets Jot Friness street to Emily, i t being insu men, said oer | ys "Citizen," who writes a letter to ithe Whig, complaining about the mat- er, asks if this 'nuisance can be stop- ped. % I ---------------- woman . play mislay everything i she never loses that, orever where sho oan put hers cabinet. grand pin no lv. new, for $275, 204 Princess street. "Phong: 1584, > 4 OPENING UP AFRICA, Cape-To-Chito Railway is Bringing Terra dncognita To Light. Sevgral fictors muke a referénce to thé Capé to Cairo project parti cularly appropriate at the moment, says H. J. Shepstone in The. London Graphic. There is, first, the enor- mouse advance made during the lust few Leys, and, in the second place, the nt anfiouncement that the Belgian Government has ceded to Bri- taln a strip of land in the Congo, thus making it possible for the railway to traverse British territory throughout its entire length of 6,944 miles, that being the distance from Cape Towh to- Cairo, or 7,074 miles if we include the journey to the sea at Aléxandria. We get an idea of the rapidity with Which the central regions of Africa fré being opened up to commerce and civilization by means of the railway when it is statéd that northward the track has been laid to within a short distance of * Bukama, right in the heart of the Congo, though at prebent passengers can travel only as far as Elizabethville, also in the Congo, some 2,321 miles north of Cape Town. Train service is expected, however, to be established with Bu- kama, on the Congo river, early this spring. Then from Cairo the rafls have been pushed southwasd to Kos- tl, on the Nile, some 1,370 miles from Cairo, right in the heart of the Sou- dan, though it may be added that there is a gap of 208 miles between Wady Halfa and Assuan, where steamers ply regularly, nd Severdl short lines now nearing completion will materially assist the engineers in linking up this great lranscontinental railway, notably . be- tween Congolo and Kindu, 217 nifles in length, now completed, and the shorter line of seventy-seven miles from Ponthierville to Stanleyville, wher> one crosses the Equator, which should be completed this spring. These lines have been constructed he cause of the impossibility of using the Congo river between these points for transport purpeses--em-account of the rapids. On the other sections of the river, as well as on the Nile and also upon the Albert Nyanza Lake, Steamers are to be placed to rud fn conjunction with the railway, which means that we have some 700 miles of rails to lay to establish a through communication. Within two years at the most it should be possible to travel all the way from Cape Town to Cairo by train and boat. Although the Cape-to-Cairo Rail- way will now be British throughout, ew HOCKEY GAME AT ROCKWOOD ' MONDAY NIGHT Portsmouth Defeated Bankers by 10 to § -- Soccer Match on Friday-- City.?Baseball League Meeting on 15th. On Monday evefing the Portsmouth seniors defeated the Bankers ina hockey game at the Rockwood rink by a score of ten to eight. The game was very interesting from the: start. At half time the score stood five to three for Portsmouth. : The" ice was in perfect condition at this late stage, The teams : Portsmouth--Goal, McDougal; de fence, McGuire and McCammon; rov- er, Forsythe: centre, K. Kennedy; wings, M. Kennedy and Dennison. Dankers--Godl, ~ Hoopes: fence, Bongard and Fdgar; rover, Assels- tine; centre, Brideng wings, Fslord and Hiscock. City Haseball League Stanley Trotter, president. of ithe city baseball league, has called a meeting of the executive for Wednes- day evening, April 15th. If the teams expect' to have a roccndi season 't is up to the management of the chibs to get busy. at once. Any teams that intend entering the series should have representatives at this meeting. Soccer Match on Friday The fist soccer match of this sea- son will be played on Good Friday afternoon, at Queen's lower campus, between a picked team of players from the championship Shipyard aggrega+ tien of last season and the C.1.(. team, against another picked team from the two garrison teagns of last year. W. (i. Ferguson is anxious get an aggregation picked out of the several teams to be able to play off for' the Ontario championship next fall. He is can produce just as good players gs cither Toronto or Montreal, for at several matches he Witnessed between these latter teams their playing did not impress him any more than that of the local boys. The game on Friday is to get the players to top-noich pitcit again be to lection will be taken at it for charit- able purposes, and the proceeds divid- ed equally between the general hospi- tal and the Hotel Die it must not be forgotten that its ob- ject is purely' commercial. Starting, as it does, from the east end of the Mediterranean, it will never be dble to compete against the direct gea- | route from England to the Cape in| point of speed. But, like a gigantic | backbone, it will carry the nerves of commercial life along the continent, | promote local traffic, and, by means | of feeder lines to the oceans on east | and west, furnish outlets for the | great future trade of Africa's wealth- f lest regions--the central section, } -------- Boiled In the Sea. . The steamer Makambo, which has arrived at Sydney, Australia, reports that the whole face 'of Ambryn Is- land, New Hebrides, Southern Pacific, Bas beeni mitered as the result of the roleanic eruption there in January. The. site of the mission hospital is AoW fathcms beneath the sea, while there are two miles of hilly county where there was previously sea. Dur-: fng the eruption thos ses. was boiling | and turtles and fish rose to the sur- face cooked. Dr. Bowie, the princifal missionary on Ambryn Island, says one by one the mountains burst into flames, un- til ten volcanoes were emitting mol- | ten lava. There was no panic among the natives, who numbered 2,500, in the threatened districts, but over 100 | people perished. Some natives were drawn into the streams. of lava and others were blown away in the boats in which they had: taken refuge and were drowned or boiled in the sea. ------ Dream Came True. One recorded instance of a dream { that came true, which was authenti- cated by the dreamer relating it at once to a number of persons, was that concerning the assassination of Spen- | cer Perceval in 1812. Mr. J. Wil liams, living at Redruth, in Cornwail, England} on May 3, 1812, eight days befdre the occurrence, dreamt three times in|the same night that he saw A Mr. Pgerceval shot in the lobby of the House of Commons by a man ia a brown coat. "The impression made was so deep that he consulted his brother and other people as to the propriety of communicating with Per- ceval, but they dissuaded him. After the event he went up to the House of Commons and pointed out the exact spot whete Bellingham stood when he fired. -- London Daily Chronicle. ---------------- Why India Imports Buckets. The European element in India makes a specially large use of fm- ported buckets and pails, For in.- stance, "tfiere are very few houses in India, except in Bombay and Calcutta, equipped with forced water supply and pipes and faucets for turning on Water (at least above the first floor). This means that all the water for one's bath must first' be poured into galvanized iron buckets or pails and brought into the bathroom by ser- vants or coolles and then poured into the bathtub. ---- Spoiled By the Cook. Cardinal Manning, the famous English churchman, was gaunt of face. The great ecclesiastic's appear- ance was so ascetic that he seemed {3 biave been almost starved. Onée in Liverpool he visited a convent, and the' cook knelt to him for a blessing, which she got. ; : "May the Lotd preserve your emi- nence," said she, and then, looking at. his thin face, she added, "and, oh, may heaven forgive your cook!"e Loudon Spectator, ¥ x . --------i Canada has established a forest duéts laboratory in i Nith with McGill University at Montreal, on the lines of the Unit { valley, od . States institution of the same sort at the University of Wisconsin, # s THE WHIG'S JUMBLE A Lot of Short Items.Run in gether, "Faster sweets" at Gibson «. Motorcvdle amd vide car; see classi fied advt. } the deeper a man id fn debt the lous he cares for. expenses Gin Pills at Gibson's. \ woman seldom accepts band's exguses at par. "High class sweets fof Easter." Gib- son Ss. Recklessness an never go together White Rose flour pure and whole some. | . If you intend to do a thing do it and don't talk so much. ** "Phone 230 for drug wants." Gil son Ss. Misery hardly cares the ¢ook's day off. William Swaine, piano tuner. Orders received at McAuley's. 'Phone 564. The buzzing of a mosquito is more annoying 'than the rattle of thunder. Send in reorders from the D. Weese photo' negatives before tudio closes. The chip on the shoulder mean a huge bluff, not a fight. Cunningham, piano tuner, 21 hing street. Leave orders at Mo- Auley's book store. Debt is one of the crosses we should all try to avoid shouldering. Buy Gin Pills at Gibson's. Some men lew to the line closely that they spoil the timber Choice roses, caranations, orchids, sweet peas, violets. Johnson Florist, King street. . Our inclinations bring to us one or the other, happiness or misery. "Easter sweets' at Gibson's. Usually the possession of money rf presents frugality and old age, "'Sarsaparilla for the blood." To- her hu d genuine bravery for company on the § S0 Gib s0n's Fhe woman with beef trust ankles might at least omit the noisy hosiery. ** "Phoue 230 for drug wants." Gil- son's. : Having to buy anything interferes with the spiritual pleasure of shop- ping. Buy Gin Pills at Gibson's. Ladies' up-to-date dressmaking. Terms moderate. Miss A. Keys, J] Princess street. Among othei rights some men give up when they get married is the right to think for themselvesy "McUonkey's Easter sweets." son's, The average man's idea of being un selfish is to let some other fellow have Mmething he doesn't want. 4 'MeConkey's Easter sweets, son's. It is not what iz on the Hill of fare but what enters the "ctomach that takes strength or causes indigestion. "len cream bricks," Gibson's, will to use them on throw the man not Galy Gib- The skates that who Ruows how Smooth ice will skilled iu skating. "MeConkey's Easter sweets." Ou S. No man is a "hero to his valet. Neither is the valet heroic to his em- ployer, so the account is eveoly bal anend. 2 Buy Gin Pills at Gibson's. One trouble about judging th ture by the past les in no ohjret looks the same from two di. ions. : iter gifts of McConkey's sweets for sending out of the city, carefully Hacked at Gibsons Red Cross Drug ore. » t no matter what the new spring millinery may | Uike, it's & ir nit willknot look like anmy- thing else. 4 $ Gib- e fu- confident that Kingston | fore the season proper opens. A col A] may | Aelp a man. "thiat] ob gi -- Pra 2 | WAGES IN SOUTH AF ICA, . Labor Conditions Complicated 8B; Presence of the Blacks. South Africa, once agaid the storm centre of the labor world, 18 pe ally faced with theé\problem of Keep- Ing its 170,000 colored workers fn order. The white miners naturally dislike the native laborers, because thelr presence ténds to keép down the rate of wages. $ For some time jt has been an un- | derstood thing betieen masters and | men in fhe Transvaal that natives Should fof compete with whites in | octupations that demand skilled Iab- or. . No black was theréfor- allowed to betomte am engineer, carpenter, | stonemason, or bricklayer. Gradually | the door is being opened, and the | Transvaal whites feel that they will | shortly be foree to work on- the same | footing as the mative, just as fellow- whites in the Cape Province already do. At present in the Transvaal a white | miner réceives about.$5 per day of | cight hours, whilst the native gota | less than $5 per week, and is made to | work more hours. No colored man | is allowed to hold a blasting certifi- | cate, although many of them could do the work as effic'ently as oe white masters. ¢ ~ It is generally thought that black | , workers can be obtained easily, but this is not correct. The native "boy's disinclination for hard work is here- ditary and impregnable. He would much rather leave all labor to his women-folk. | | If only he will work hard he can | retire after a few vears wi Sogush ' money to become a power ift hi owt | district, but he usually Succumbs- to | the temptation of tee much liquor. | It Is a punishable offonce to supply | natives with strong' drink, owing tg the atrocious erimes they commit whilst under its influence, vet un- | scrupulous traders take the risk and sell at high rates a dreadful concoe- tion of whisky and sulphate of cop- per that immediately inflames the brain of anybody who drinks it. One drop spilt on wood leaves an indelible stain, 80 you can imagine its effect on the human stomach! People engaging in this leit trar- | fic are fined as much as $375 when | caught, while some have received two | years' imprisonment and 'no option, | | The native agitator is a growing | force in South Africa. Often he is a | man educated at Oxford or Cam- | bridge, and holding a degree. Hav- ing been received in Britain on equal | | terms, he returns to his own country | to find the color bar raised against | him. Too cultured to consort with his own race, yet looked down upon | by the white people, he is an outcast | with no political rights, nd so he ) commences agitating. The idea of equality between white and black rouses the indignation of | every South African, whéther British or Dutch, to boiling point. Two years [oe a Mr. Wolmarans, member of t | the South African Parliament, was | { prosecuted for throwing an educated | native out of a railway carriage, but, | | nevertheless his action had the up| | port of the entire Boer population. ------------------ Cannot Get Servants. { Many complaints as to the extra. ordinary scarcity of domestic ser- vants in New Zealand are to be found in the evidence taken before the Royal Dominiofl8 Commission in that Dominion which has Just been pub- lished as a bluebook. In one case 27s. 6d. (nearly $7) a week and "all found" was offered, and the only re. rly proceeded from a git] who wanted "to come as a lady help and to have her meals with the family." With the young women of New Zealand domestic service was stated not to be popular. The suggestion was put for- ward that educated English women might emigrate, as there are many who would be willing to "take Jadies| to do their whole housework if they | | could get three or four of them," one | reason being that women in New Zea- | land are lonely and want compan- | ions. Attempts to import domestic | servants have not been an entire sue- cess. It appears that the servants hecame "'uppish" on the voyage, and | demanded exorbitant wages on land- ing. | | A Metaphor With a History. To "know a hawk from a hern 1 sifaw" is a metaphor with a curious | history. It is a comparison drawn | from falconry, "'Hernshaw" is a cor- ruption of "heronshaw," or young heron, a bird which was a common | prey of the falcons. To know a hawk | from a hernshaw is therefore to be able to distinguish the falcon from its prey. A further colloquial cor- ruption crept into the phrase, "to know a hawk from a handsaw," a form used by Hamlet in one place. Possibly the distinction between a hawk and a hérnshaw was found not to be strong enough for the purposes of the proverb.--Manchester Guar. dian. ------ Wouldn't Do. It Again. A strange wager was won not long ago by a Hull, England, busi- ness man, living at Hornsea. He was having an overcoat fitted in a talloring establishmont when the proprietor offered him the coat com- plete if he would wear it to Hornsea with only one sleeve and liberally lined 'with chalk and stitéhes. To the taillor's surprie the offer was accepted. The wearer was the ob- fect of much attention traveling home. He won the wager, but said afterwards that he would not repeat the proceeding for 40 coats. Zz "~~ Housing & Spook. Three houses for a ghost were re- cently built at Rangoon, Burmah, In- Hilla Phe were four-stofied ones made of paper and cardboard. They were built in the course of a night to serve as a resting-place for { { rpétu- { at Newburgh. TRA Se TN Fre dd Ease rly winds, cold to ednesday, with local snow- on i falls Our Tw Millinery is Truly Parisian aN Ul UA SN 'BUT STI V CAUSE PARIS! They a in Styleand Quality ACY PRICES WOULD A REVOLUTION IN re so ridiculously small priced for hats; precisely like the original 1 nodels as shown by the fashionable modistes of the Rue de la Paix and Rué Royale of Paris, Stunning Styles--a wide variety --and prevail! extremely modest * prices The oman wi Easter Sai early as possible. FREE! TO To every child accom we are going to give a littl min Bunny,' requirement for herself, or daughter, fail to come to Steacy's to-morrow 10 has an t or Coat should or as ' MORROW! anied by a 'grown-up,' » Easter gift of a ¢ Benja- or a little chicken. STEACY' The BUSIEST Store in Town: BOVS mm i, 11! SEE OUR FLASHLIGHTS AT 50c. EACH. er -- yt a ---- A -------------- Phone 441. Home 1376. GET ONE WHILE THEY LAST. Experts in Lighting Stores, Factories and Homes. 'H. W. NEWMAN Electric Co. 79 Princess Street. WIDOW OF MILLIONAIRE Mrs. Vickers, of Fort Known in Kingston The marriage of Miss Margaret® Finn, daughter of John Fion, for- metly of the village of Newburgh, to Arthur Vickers, of Fort William, the millionaire real estate dealer, who suicided by shooting himself in his home early Monday morning, took place during the month of Jan. uary. Miss Finn was well known in Kingston... She attended the school After ha graduation from high school she took a position as rims apher in the office of Mr. Vickers in Fort Wilkam. Her em- ployer became much infatiated with her and they, were married. They had only" retupned from their = wedding trip a few weeks. ago. Miss Winn was only about twenty- two years of age. Her husband was nineteen. years her senior. 5 John Finn, father of Mrs. "Vickers, who is a carpenter, was in King- William, n 3 Wood's 3 The G English Tones aod invigorates t Bi old. Tome." Drea: Nervous in ol ring, res Nervous Debitity ons a, fr Brain h a dency, Loss ly tion Heart, #1 enor)' $1 per box, six for 85, One - -leqse, six will cute. Pold by all druggists or mr lig THAN o ji ree gl LN TAEDICINE CO. 1630NT0, ONT, (Fememy War edy. whol Plone 1267 - Opposite Y.M.C.A. ston about two weeks ago. For some time he had been worlding in Fort William bat had retdined to King- ston for a vigit. Short and Leng of It Apropos of the Edwin Drood mock murder trial recently conducted. by London litterateurs; George Ade sald: "1 know a rg A ihe way} Wid led Edwin . Rtas 220s sailed Fd asked the club feeder, "does your friend call his dog by so .strange a name as Edwin on Dr cause," Mr. Ade replied, "its tail ig cut off shot." Hd mused a woment, added and then - Arnold Bennett." ; Send Easter sweets by parcel post the soul of a Chinaman. ------------ In Men's Jobs, England has 347 women carmen and wagoners, The opinion of, the man of woman who "knows it all" is just about ad valuable as the hole in a doughnut. If the world owes every mam a liv- from: Gibson's. 5 Convince a man what he is wrong and you have made an Shey | ing, the millionaires must be preferred creditors, id Fb REDMOND & ALDERDICE, Mason Contractors and Builders. Estimates. cheerfully ven on all work... "My friend has another dog called i Frame house, $1500 cash; $1550 easy terms. Same house and three lots. Price $1500. Four city lots, $500 and ap.