XY : Valuables You avoid all rik of loss of your Titles, Insurances, Bonds and other important papers, and of jewellery, and other valuables when you deposit them in a BANK OF TORONTO SAFETY, DEPOSIT BOX. Here they will be safe from fire, burglary or other loss, and can be readily referred to or obtained at any time. Your inspection of them is invited., AN The | ANK or TORON I hw E Vi ° P f t 2 1 | Is y our vision rerrect : There is little or no excuse nowadays for going around" with - poor vision, Our optician is daily giving satisfaction to the people of 'Kingston and County of Frontenac. Our optical department is full uipped with all the newest sclentific instruments for the ex- a -of your eyes, and our grinding plant turns out the finest lenses procurahle. R. J. RODGER, "Where the Clock 1s on the Walk." wv 347 KING STREET. Why NotConsult Our Camera Expert, when you want. any information along that line, his services are always at your disposal. > Poultry We are open for livé Fowl and Chickens, No shipment too large for good quality up to Thursday, 24th; also for dressed' Chicken, Fowl and Turkeys. We have Box Cameras from $1.00 to $4.00; Folding Autographie Brownies, from $6.00 fo $12.00; d : Autographle Kodaks range in price Bring thm along and tou from $0,00 to $25.00, You always are sure on y: hivhos get satisfactfon when your films are | Pe Site to ge t the highest developed and printed here. price ever paid for good Hoag's Drug Store Anderson Bros. 'Phone 458. Cor. Princess and Division, Coal The kind yom are looking for Ww W Backus . . . Hospital is the kind we sell, A Private General Hospital, with well | Scranton Coal |:iwse media sire a busca: 1 oe trical departments, offers a three years' : graded aourse to young women desiring Is good Coal and we guarantee prompt delivery, ~ & nurse's training. BOOTH & CO, rite at 'once for Foot of West St. formatioy. 1000 Lbs. Choice Creamery Butter 32 Per Lb. GORDON'S GROCERY, 149 Montreal 8t. Phone 88 Watts-Florist Daffodils and Eyacinths 170 Wellington street, Phone 1763, circular of in- 1 * "KATHLEEN A. DOWD, R.N, Superintendent of Nurses, Norwich, Conn, iin, / (I Rll PO ' CHOICE GROCERIES, TEAS & COFFEES, COOKED AND SMOKED MEATS. {| ORDERS TAKEN: FOR COAL AND WOOD le | -J08. AHEARN, JR. 279% MONTREAL STREET Phone 8066, Footwear This is the time to have your feet warm and com- fortable. MEN'S FELT BOOTS ............$2.00 and $2.50 MEN'S OVERSHOES ..... $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 MEN'S MOCCASINS .............$1.50 and $2.00 Readers nf the; Wiig. graduate of Queen's, has been elact- fa the C1 a Meni 4 iid ~--What the Offer to the ig Hazeling Cream at Gibson's. D. A. Black is president of the Frontenac Club, J. M. Farrell is Chairman' of the House Committee, H. Cunningham, piano tuner, 21 street. Leave orders at McAul- ey's Book Store, $1.00 bottles cod liver ofl emul- slon 50c at Gibson's. Ci a Brock Street Methodist Church n| on was asked for $300 on Sifidey. and $330.23 was laid on the p 'Dr. James McKenty, Winnipeg, a ed president of the Manitoba Medi- cal Association. Mentholatum cures Sold at Gibscn's. : The meeting of the Board of Works has been postponed unti] Fri- day afternoon. Contracts for the year's supplies will then be awarded. Cod liver ofl emulsion, 50¢ bottles 26¢, at Gibson's. Brockvilfe ladies have sent $60.50 for furnishings to the Richardson Convalescent Home. The balance of of the $100 needed will be forward- 'ed later. 'Mentholatum Sold at Gibson's. 3 Alds. Peters and Hughes, City Clerk' Sands and City Engineer Mec- Clelland leave to-night for Tefon- to to attend the Ontario Good Roads' Association vonyention, Buy face creams at Gibson's. Monday morning the thermometer went to sixteen below zero. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the thermom- eter at Best's drug store showed eight degrees below zero. Mentholatum cures frost Sold at Gibson's. Thawing of pipes was responsible for a fire at the home of James Mec- Mahon, 111 York street, on Monday morning. The damage was esti- mated at $560, covered by insurance. Buy face creams at Gibson's. Peter McCoy bought the property of the estate of the late Mrs. Eliza- beth Blakley, at the foot of Beverley street, for $726. It was sold by aue- tion by William Murray on Saturday. Buy face creams at Gibson's. Mrs. Dunlop, Rideau street, ae- knowledges the return of a mink skin advertised in the Whig as lost. The unknown lady who found the lost article left it at Mrs. Dunlop's home; At St. Mary's Cathedral on Tues- day last, the marriage took place of Miss Edna McMahon to William Francis Mallen, both of this city. Rev, Father Halligan performed the ceremony. Mentholatum Sold at Gibson's. frost "ites. cures frost bites. bites. cures frost bites. Robert Robinson, seventy-six years | IN "STILL WATERS," And Other Photo Plays. Prices: Mat. Evening, 10¢f ye Seat 106 ives Be ext ud MATINEE WEDNESDAY AT 2.80. ~ THE MOST | COMEDY OF THE DAY uy 2 RENELIGIN PRICES: MAT. 25¢, 50¢, 75c¢, $1, a few seats $1.60 JUDY ER EVG. 25¢, 50c, 75¢, $1, $1.50 Seats Now on Sale. Strand Theatre Mon., Tues. and Wed., Metro Star Films Present "WILLIAM FAVERSHAM," The Celebrated Stage Star, in "ONE MILIZION DOLLARS," In 5 Complete Parts, from the novel, "One Million Francs," by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Playwright and Novelest;also other good photo-plays Matinee, Evening, 10c Stop Where You Are! old, founder of the Robinson Fur- nace Company, Chicago, passed away at Oak Park, on Saturday last. He was born. in Kingston, Ontario, March, 15th, 1840, . Buy cold creams at Gibson's. The 47th Regiment has x drum mujor's staff, at one time the prop- erty of the Royal Canadian Rifles. A citizen suggests that as the 146th Battalion is now the Frontenac regi. ment for overseas service, this staff be presented to Col. C. A. Low' unit. ~Buy face creams at Gibson's. | Before the enquiry at Ottawa W. B, Dalton, Kingston, said he sold Colt's revolvers to the regiment-at Barriefield at $15 each but this did not include the duty. This explan- ation satisfied the Auditor-General who had complained about the sale, Mentholatum cures frost bites. Sold at Gibson's, The sale of home-made cookery held in the Golden Lion block on Saturday by the Y.W.C.A. was a de- cided success. A great deal of cred- it is due to Mrs. BR. M. Chase, Mrs. F. Welch and Mrs] H, Breck, who had charge. The sm. of $50 was realiz- ed, Neighbors Passed Away. Port Milford, Feb. 19.--Death Kas again visited this community and re- moved two of our highly esteemed neighbors, Mrs, Albert Head suc. cumbed to that dreaded disease, pneumonia, after an illness' of two reeks duration., Her funeral was held in South Bay church last Fri- day, Mrs. Albert Minaker, ill for the last year, passed to her reward on Sunday. Her funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon, Both families have the heartfelt sympathy of the community. Campbellford Officer 111, Cobourg, Feb. 21.--Word has been received that Lieut.-Colville of Campbellford, who underwent an op- eration for appendicitis shortly be- fore enlisting, is now in a hospital in England, where he is receiving treat- ment for a severe strain received while in the trenches in France. Left For Hudson Bay. ' Arnprior, Feb. 19.--A number of men left Arnprior last week for Hudson Bay to again begin work in getting out timber and other matér- ial for the new Government dock now under copstruction there; they expect to be ahsent until next fall, WOMEN'S OVERSHOES ........$2.00 and $2.50 WOMEN'S FELT BOOTS ........$150 and $2.00 WOMEN'S MOCCASINS ..................$195 CHILDREN'S MOCCASINS .........65¢ to $1.00 & Bro. THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES. DID YOU KNOW? The Second Carload of "EGG-0" Baking Powder, Since November First Mas Are rived, and is Unloaded Follow That Impulse--=Go to the "Phone, and Order a Can of Egg-0 from Your Grocer. DO IT NOW?! School of Navigation ! Open daily, 10 am. to 5 pam., in Mining Laboratory with Capt. Wm, Steves as instruetor. MARGUERITE CLARK | 11. 2: Building at the University, | AS MoeGowan Co. ER. APPLY GEO. A. NIGHT FIREMAN. ish 'American Hotel APPLY BRIT. MESSAGE © BOY. APPLY Chown's Drug Store. CHAMBERMAID WANTED AT ONCE. Apply Hotel Royal A AT AT CED DINING ONCE----EXPERIEN! room girl." Apply Prince George Hotel RE TR EE GIRLS WANTED FOR THE MARKING room." Apply Imperial Steam Launh- dry. S-------------- GIRLS WANTED room. Apply Polson & Co. tp---------------- OR THE WORK- is8 McCallum, N. C. A SEXTON FOR ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, Married man preferred Apply r-- IMPERIAL OXFORD RANGE, ALSO A t Union square plano. Apply ne street. ' 98 RISEN RAR s beams Ane mode: ly boat. uire of Sunson -- olty, IPA V LA, NO. 6, AND N pa par monin. | Bo Lge td... 121 t. ------ CHEST MA IY, BUNCH OF KEYY, on King street. Apply 79 Quebec St. | GOLD RING, on Clarence St, near the Post Office, Owner may have same by apply'ng at the Whig office; FLAT, NARROW DOOR YX. with aluminum chain attached. it's waiting at the Whig offide for the coming of {1s owner. N PAIR . OF LEATHER DRIV. ING MITFERS,s vneranay have same by calling" at 116 Johnson street. Tr ; safe I f. Lake, FOUND ARTIOLES ADVER- TISED FREE. Anyone finding anything and wishing to reach the owner may do so by reporting the facts to The British Whig. The adver- tisement will be Printed in this column free of charge. necess st ompany, King- LARGE Seok OF NEW AND SEC. ond-hand furniture, stoves, clothe ing, boots, suit cases, tools, ete. It you have anything to sell, card. 1 will call. 8. Shapiro, to A. J. Shannon, 153 Frontenac street. -------------------------------- Senet BOY FOR GENRRAL OFFICE a. with knowledge of typewriting! and shorthand. Apply Geo. Rob- ertson & Son, Ltd. AN INTELLIGENT PERSON MAY earn $100 . monthly corresponding for newspapers; no canvassin Send for pax fculars. cate, 3,96 nakport, CUSTOMERS T0 BRING THEIR RI. cycles to be cleaned and stored for spring. We have also a large number of hockey sticks and picks for sdlp at reasonable prices. : George Muller, 378 King street, WANTED GENERAL PURCHASE, ONE OR TWO NEW 'milch "cows. Wpply to Box 221, Whig office WANTED BY gentleman, with board, preferred YOUNG BUSINESS comfortable room, with private family Box 21, Whig office. a HORSES WANTED «-- J, A. JENKINS will be at the Whitney Hotel, King- ston, Friday and Saturday, the 18th and 19th, for. the purpose of buying heavy horses. DENTAL DR. A: E. KNAPP, BA. closed until Mareh 18 ARKS AND SPARKS, DE 1569 Trellington street; Leonard Walsh, D.DS, LDS, sistant. Phone $46. rete. hD,S. OFFICE Na J. as- PATENTS. BABCOCK & SONS, Patents, aoade Marks, Design h Baths. 1877, Form. er tent ner. er % Book, "Patent of Pa 3 + 99 St. James St, Mont- Branches: Ottawa, Washiagton. UPHOLSTERING. WwW. J. GAVINE, LTROLSTERING, RE- pairing an carpet work and mattress renovating. Drop a card or call 216 Bagot street. > ' LEGAL B. CUNNINGHAM, and solicitor.. Law ence St, Kingston. LI REGISTRY OFFICE. tte es THE KINGSTON DAY NURSERY HAS opened a registry office for the pur- | office, 70 Clar. NO ADVANCE TN PRICE 2 for 25 Cents Equalled by few Excelled > none FENWICK, HENDRY & CO. POLITICAL PATRONAGE DISAPPROVED AND SEVERELY DENOUNCED BY FOSTER. All the Troubles of the Governments Due To It---A Suggested Agree- © ment Against It--Words of Wis. dom and Power. In the Commons on Thursday last Sir George Foster lifted his voice against political patronage and job- bery. His speech (taken from the Star), in. two points will have a great influgnce on the land. He said: eration onwards, useful nor expedient. It has heen] done under all Governments, it prob- ably is being done under, this Gav- ernment. My opinion is that until a different method is pursued, in re- spect to our expenditure upon public Works, in.their authorization, we shall be bound to those troubles and open to those abuses. My v is that every application for a' public work should go before a competent board of engineers and business men and" should be reported upon by 'them, for the infermstion of the Govern- ment, and tha®isvery application. will have to show Ybme. cause of neces sity, of public nefit, or of future usefulness, bef it should be pass- ed and put into the estimates. I do not helieve we will ever get down to a proper system of husbanding the resources o- our country or of con fining ourselvess to useful and neces- sary public Works tit we get some which were neither i. ! pose of Supplying maids and Char- womern. 'Terms 50c for supplying a maid and 10c for a charwoman. For particulars apply The Matron. Phone 1115. To. Girls And Women. GIRLS AND WOMEN REQUIRING SIT. uations as maids or charwomen, ete, are invited to register free of charge at the Kingston Day Nur- sery, corner Barrie and Ordnance streets, 3 | | NOTICE TO - In the matter of the Estate of Sarah Ellen Fraser, Inte of the City of Kingston, Seamstress, 2 Natice Is hereby given pursuant to the provisions of the Trustee Act, that all persons having claims against the above estate are required to file the same, duly verified, with the undersign- ed, on or before the 20th Ma 1916, after which date sald estate will be distributed among the partiés entitled. T. J. sated this 17th "day of February, 916, cannot point to a single ipstance where political patronage ever help- ed the status of the voter, ever help- ed the status of the civil service, ever helped the status of public adminis- trators, no matter what function they performed in the economy of our administration; never helped a mémber' 6f Parliament; in reality, disintegration which breaks up overnments. { "I could wish that now, in "There are expenditures now, ther v have been expenditures from Conte 0" helned 2 Soverument ju rot, the contest and struggle and self-sacri- fice, we should speak trom the heart out, and make an agreement in this country, of both parties, that here- after patronage should not be applied for political purposes in the con- struction of our public works. "I presume - upon 'my grey beard and thirty-four years in this House, to say if there is sny laxity of pub- lic virtue In this country, If there is any canker of political corruption in this country to-day, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred you can it to the bal party leful effects of political and x tory of th course of 7 eyening. A number from bere at- | March Ist to State price and age.| ees BARRISTER Soe OREDITORS.| i GNEY, Solfcitor for Executor. |: white Heat and light of this great! special trace | )osed. j£ Princess street. Phone 1237. + ep co eter etme, BLACK AND WHITE BOSTON TER- rier bitch, last Wednesday night. Anyone found harborihg same af- ter this notice will be prosecuted. Kindly return to Strand Theatre. A LARG! | TO LET. ------------------------------------------------------------ OFFICES IN CLARENCE ST. CHAM. bers. a APRY to Cunningham & Mudie, 78 Clarence street. ------ vere ta A ® ROOMED BRICK HOUSE; . convenienCes, hot water heating: large garden. Apply to D. A. Mac- Kay, 459 Princess street, etree fn. STORAGE FOR FURNITURE, CLEAN, dry, aity rooms; your own lock & key. Frost's City Stotage, 209 Queen. street. Phone 626b, SEVEN ROOMED FURNISHED house, modern. 'Close to Queen's University. Possession middle arch. Rent moderate. 15 Division street. STO OF NEW AND A Furniture," oda dressers, Iron beds, etc. e Also buy all kinds of new and Second. 'hand furniture. J. Thompson, $33 Princess street, phone 1600, THAT DESIRABLE STONE RESI- dence, No. 16 Sydenham 8t., cor. Sydenham and est Atreets (es- tate of late D, Stewart Robertson). Fully modern in all respects id i in excellent Al condition. . Hi d 8. Folger, 44 € HOUSES FOR SALE AT ALL PRI from $1,200 to $8,000. Some - Salns. HOUSES TO RE! unfurnished. FARMS FOR SALE, and prices. FIRE, LIFE AND A ance; money man, 67 Cla NT, FURNISHED AND VARIOUS sizEs 3 8 ig +a CCIDE to loan. GQ. » siient of Apply to eee ett ee NEW SEVEN ROOMED HOUSE, WITH rencs barns and half acre of ground, on west end of 'AMred street, at $19 per month. Apply J. D. Boyd, 106 Pine street, Kingston. -------------------- HOUSE--NREWLY FURNISHED AND newly decorated; all hardwood floors; hot water heating; 'eoms plete in every respect, includin linen, silver, 'etc. Apply to 18 'William street. . FINANCIAL FRON AC LOA . mont Soclaty; TO) debastures: mortgages leposits re ceived and ne rent al lowed. 87 Clasence street, = ------------------------------------------ THAT COMMODIOUS BRICK RESI. dence, 136 King street West. block from City Park: all modern conveniences. Possession May 1st. Apply to Howard 8. Folger, 44 Clar- ence street. ERPOOL, LONDON AND GLOBE Fire Insurance Company, Available assets' $61,187,215. In addition to which « the policyholders security the unlimited .li city property, Hav ilty of insured at lowest possible rates, Before renewing old or giving new business ge: rates from Strange & Strange, Agents. Phone 325, A BUSIN~SS NOTICES. AWNINGS, VERANDAH OURTAIN tents, eahyas, shifts for 2uihoa motors, folding boat seats, tackle, etc. rank W, Cooke, % ANNOUNCE Clarence street WM. BGAN WISHES TO that be has purchased the tailor shop formerly run by Thos. Gallo- way, and will do all kinds of re- pair and pressing. Also make > Auits from your own cloth. orkmans¥ip guaranteed. bE} Brock street. DANCING. MISS HUDON, AUTHO ak Nora oh to 1 Beira modern 'ences a a, altz, dren W Glide, ete. 39 nion Phone 120. ARCHZTECT I s-------------------- WM. NEWLANDS & SON, ARCHI. tects, ete. Offices, 258 Bagot St Phone 608. POWER & SON, ARCHITIOTS, MER- Ghants Bank Building, corner roc. and Wellington streets DRESSMAKING. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN dressmaking, cutting by measure, designing, trimming, etc.;. three dollars, including system. Madame Elder, New York Dresamaking Parlors, 253 Princess street, corner Sydenham, PERSONAL COMFORTABLE HOME FOR LADIRS before and 4 i ad oMine ment; strictly private. ludte nurse. Good doctor in attendance. App! 169 Cowan Ave., Toronto, ASTROLOGER; LEY ME READ YOUR character. Satisfaction guaran teed. Your money back if not sat- isfled. Send Mirth date, 10c. Bon- aire, Box 15, Atlantic City, N. J. HAIR, MO Ww, and a » nee, . . Lake, Eys, Ear, Nos Sk 7 Bagot sired. in Speciatiat, MEDICAL DYCE, M ©. L. MEDI. ra! oo RAT Gener- HAR S58! Sune Fftendent 1 08) . Surgery a Veh gery an residen ce n---- 3 YV ington street Phone BUSINESS CHANORS. ANYONE ANYWHERE CA 'ART > order tusiness yi no a mall : canvassing; your own boss. Send for free booklet: tells how. Heacock, 2,969 Lockport, N.Y. Sold jin $1.00. . lots when taken with coal order. James Swift & Co FOURTEEN MInmERS [4 fe i As A Result Of Special Services At Sunbury, Battersea, Feb. 19.--The sacra- ment of the Lord's Supper was ob- served in the Methodist Church last Sunday mor .. The Quarterly | Official Board met ia the church on | Monday affernoon. °~ Miss Curzon | returned home from Ida Hill on Monday, after spending two weeks | with her sister, Mrs. Rickard, who! was ill with pleurisy. Rev. A. W.! Stewart had a reception and sacra- | - . Bimal service 18 Suvburs on Sa | tenia the concert' in Sunbury last y rpoon. urteen new m- | week. bers were received ds a result of the! On Wednesday morning Mrs. Wil- Which: have just liam Sutherland was Sheen out of Miss EMzabeth Anglin is | the cutter while driving to visit | ? visiting friends .in y . Ambrose , Kingston | RECEIVED w of the many Bargains offered at the UNIQUE GROCERY:' Good lack iF Sweet Diseouts.. 21, Teen, Sed. Maple Pawar yo Ih or, Mrs, | daughter i James Clark is still, quite fil. and broke her arm. She is Mies Minbhie Anglin, as wall as ean be expected. Mills, Is' visiti & number here ) brother, W and Senses at faverary on' og! 'armers are making good + the snow these days drawl this | into the village snd d the sawmill. Mrs. | entertained 5 er of e | this week to oe leaves | : reside in the west. Sati a 4