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> +" 1 :Cal SFOOT OF SWELLING ON Better Paint Cannot Be Made THE WILLIAMS Sold At SORBETT'S HARDWARE PAINT. New Store. New Goods. Call and inspect our New Stock of Spring Goods always on display. Remember. You need have no fear in buying goods here, for we have mo old shop worn or shoddy bargains (?) to palm off on you. Evefything clean and up-to-date. Our custo- mers never look like pawn shop advertisements. 1 PER.CENT. OFF TO STUDENTS. ~Armstrong's. 184 Princess Street. STRONG AND VIGOROUS. Every Organ of ths Body Toned up and invigorated by Mr. ¥. W, Moyers, King 84. E., Berlin, Ons, says: "1 suffered for five years Eo, ho Tehe 'Stars Doi one box of Fron Hears and i Pills completely removed all these dis- TY inn say woh Bea of Tue hens Hen SE heart, wars wore oul nerve tissues, or blood. he . eeocoeoyébooo w ANGLIN HAS IT. At The Lumber Yard and See. § STREET. "AS THE DRINK For the sick room and tonic for convalescents, the carborated ; Magi Caledonia Water Is peculiarly adapted. Sold by all best dealers everywhere. Kingston Business Collage, KINGSTON! Dominion Business College, Bronchitis and Lung Troubles, JAPANESE CATARRH CURE the air and and . Hei ng where diveolves ° ) are . - have nok suffer d | 1HE wHiu--o8th YEAR. DAILY BRITISH gubiabed evening at_806 810 Kin , st per year. Bditiess at 5:80 and § 13 yess * Y WHIG, pu every ursday morning st § nl Gahed n Soe ot Ye pid LR and n ; rapid, cheap work: nine improved presses. £0W. J. B. PENSE, PROPRIETOR. 1IIE DAILY WHIG. 'Opiter per Orbem Dicor.' ---- ---- -------------------------- THE SPOILS OF OFFICE. The of public buildings came up for discussion the passing of the public works' estimates in the The conservatives appear to be distressed because they cannot get as many favours as for merly, and the leader of the apposi- tion sputtered and fumed because it was pointed out that constituencies that had been persistently ignored daring the time they were represented by liberals and a tory government would receive justice and at- Sir Hibbert Tupper was an- the liberals should give any belief in the spoils system, Mr, Borden and Mr. Clancy {that pure-minded soul with the fla- vour of Bothwell's oil) were horrified at the thought that the grits would go dispensing the good things of office in forgetfulness of the injustice they so long endured. That is the conservillive idea general ly--~that they should fare well in any case and whatever government ruled. The suggestion is right that public buildings should only be planted where they are required, and accord ing to the well-known necessities of the place. But that was not the sug: gestion which dominated the conser: vative party during the long years in whi h it dispensed the. public .patron. age, and it cannot find fault, reason- ably, il the liberals in four or five years, do ot reach the ideal position of actij without any reference to poligical influence and power. question during COMMONS, reigned tention. noyed that evidence of not on GETTING AT A BASIS, The manner in which corporations-- such as the telephone, telegraph and street railway--should be taxed, and for the plant they own within the municipality, has been pretty well de- fined by the municipal committee of the There were several ideas, in as many bills, the legislature. before committee, Mr. Wardell's plan was to assess cor- porations on eighty per cent. of their gross earnings, plus the value of their plant and buildings. = Under this it wad calculated that the assessment would be three times as large as it is at present. Mr. Foy's bill placed the assessment on the actual value, estimated at the cost of reproducing and replacing the game for the purpose for which it was used, y The attorney-general suggested that Dr. Pyoe's bill, providing for an as- of plant and appliances at the fair valué to the owner for the purposes for which they are used by him, be amended so that the plant of a corporation should be assessed as it would be appraised upon sale to an- other company possessing the same rights, privileces and franchise. This last idea--the amendment pro- posed by Hon. Mr. Gibson--prevailed, and the bill, as redrafted, will be pre- sented and discussed again, Legisla- tion is becoming clearer on the sub- ject all the while, A WAIL FROM QUEBEC. Le Journal, the French paper which was established before the last fo deral election and in order to help Sir Charles Tupper and his party, is still frantically appealing to the race prejudices of the people, The grievance which sessment it ventilated some time ago, amd concurrence in ; Which it professed to find in the speeches: of some conservative leeaders, was that the French were suffering on Sir Wilirid Laurier's account. He was handicapped by his nationality. He was not free to serve his countrymen. | He was concerned, 'all the while, with | compromises and sacrifices in the in tetwst of the English. And that con {dition was sure to continue while Sir Wilirid * retained the premiership. It TME DAILY WHIG, THURSDAY, MARCH e -- tat something new, and something that is breaking its heart. Sir Wilfrid is so He shows his good sende in using in parliament the language that is gen- erally understood, the language which is employed by most of the members, and Le Journal sees in his practice a surrender to the English which its partizan spirit will not tolerate. Sir Willrid is not likely to suffer much in consequence. H. J. Morgan, whose political biographies stamp him as a man of information, points out that all through Canadian history, the French leaders in parliament--Papi- neau, Cartier, Dorion, Sicotte, Tache, Loranger, Cauchon, Laflamme, and others--generally used English. Oc casionally they repeated an idea in French, to emphasize it, and this is Sir Wilfrid Laurier's custom. The complaint that he does not speak of- tener in French is not well founded It is the wail of a discontent, It is a minor matter, however. com- pared with what will follow the an- pouncement that Sir Wilirid, on the occasion of the king's coronation, will be made a peer. The Aftinction will be regarded by Le Journal as an evidence of Sir Willrid's complete capitulation to the English, It will od Canadians, as a tribute to worth, as an acknowledgment of the politi- eal genius and sagacity of the man. His whole public dareer has been marked by the virtues that must be recognized by all who are conscienti- ously disposed. -- TIMELY TOPICS, The red tie is all the rage in the commons nowadays. Is it responsible for the life that some men are put- ting into the debates ? The school rate for non-resident pu- pils has been raised in Toronto to $1.50 per month. It is 50 cents a month in Kingston. Why ? According to Mr. Haverson, the so- licitor, the liquor dealers will be very much alive in the next election and in the referendum. They will be heard from all along the line. -- The Witness, referring to Mr. Whit ney's non-committal attitude on the prohibition question, remarks : 'We can hardly look for a very outspoken promise from a party which, after all that has. pesséd, has yet to consult as to where it stands on the ques tion." That's right. Mr. McGuigan, "manager of Grand Trunk railway under Hays, began his carer as a water boy on the Pennysivania railway. He succeeded because he applied himself to his tasks, and because success al- ways comes to the willing worker. Young: man, take heed to this object Jesson. vice-president ---- Rev. Mr. Crafts, of the Washington bureau of morals, shocked the Tor- onto people, at a late public meeting, by stating that the immoral posters, literature, and theatres in the place were a disgrace to it. The queen city will be losing its good name unless the folks who live in it bestir them- selves. The Manitoba conservatives under Hugh John Macdonald promised to give the people prohibition if they succeeded to power. They reached of- fice, and now they say they will not enforce the law if "the people do not want it. Isn't there a pointer in this for Mr. Whitney ¥ He ought to con sult Hugh John about election me- thods. Mr. Roblin, the premier of Mani toba, says the referendum is quite constitutional, that the Scott act and Dunkin act provided for referen- ces to the people though both mea- sures were upon the statute books. The Manitoba liquor act, though pass- ed, will not be law, says Mr. Rob- lin, until it is passed upon by the people. Ditto the Ontario prohibition measure. Members Who Are |Doubles. Toronto Star. < Another case, not of two Dromios, but pretty near it, is the likeness be- tween the minister of militia and Harty, of Ki . Dr. Borden i tall man, with a clean shaven upper lip and chin, and flowing whiskers, Mr. Harty is not so tall, more florid, but bis arrangement of whiskers is the same, With the exception that his are more of the mutton-chop variety. Otherwise there is a remarkable simi- larity in the appearance of the two lame back does not orking and you can- be regarded by others, the true-heart- ("English that be seldom speaks French. * THE PROHIBITION ACT IS AD- | VANCED A!STEP. Premier Ross Moves the Second Reading--Defends the Measure Against Attacks. Toronto, March 6.--~Hon. G. W. Ross, on rising to move the second reading of his prohibition bill in the legislature, vesterday, declared the bill to have been well received. The government had heard from three par- ties, who were particularly interested in the bill. There was one type oi temperance man who expected that the liquor traffic should be cut right off, but the government expected this class to be disappointed. The liquor men jidn"t want a bill at all. Be tween these two classes there was the middle class, and from this class they received a very cordial reception. The middle class, the press of both par- ties, and the independent newspapers, were well satisfied with the measure. Mr. Ross said be believed that the hill could be enforced after it is pass ed by the public and the people. The premier answered the criticisms briefly that the referendum was not constitational. He quoted J. J. Mac- Laren, K.C., a temperance man, that it was constitutional, and also from a speech of Sir William Meredith deliv- ered some years ago. The strongest authorities, condinued the premier, were against the bare majority of the votes being for the partial prohibition. He declared there woula be no in the basis of the vote, excepting it would be on the votes polled in LHX, instead of at the coming elections. The votes polled in the last elections numbered 456, 976, and one more than the half of this would enact prohibition. He announcea that the vote on the referendum would take place early in November. Mr. Whitney, criticizing the pre- mier's speech, stated that the bill was a bad bill and nwst meet with his op- position, He jwesented as an alterna- tive policy, and one he declared much more likely to be effective in promot ing temperance, a more strict en- forcement of the license law, restric- tion in the number of licenses and the removal of the license department from political infinence. Hon. Mr. Gibson replied with a most telling address, in the course of which he quoted the highest British parliamentary authorities in support of the referendum principle. The ad- dress aroused much enthusiasm on the government benches. The greatest interest was manifested when the premier rose to move the se- cond reading, all the galleries and the floor of the house being crowded with spectators, some of whom came two hours before the house met, and one or two ladies beought their knit- ting to while away the time, The debate will be continued to-day by Mr. Marter, HARPER'S BOY SHINES SHOES Son' of Chicago University's Pres- ident Gets Pocket Money. Chicago, March 5.--"Have your boots blacked by the son of a univer sity president." 4 This is the invitation scores of stu- dents at the - Morgan Park academy took advantage of to-day. Paul Harp- er, second son of the president of the university of Chicago, is the youth whose inherited talent for money get- ting has now branched out into boot blacking. Paul, who is thirteen years old, is a resourceful boy, and also eccentric. He ran short of pocket money and com ceived the idea of setting up a shoe- shining parior. He returned to his chum, the son of Francis W. Parker, a Chicago lawyer. They put their heads together and they set up a shoe shining stand at the end of one of the corridors of Fast hall, one of the boys' dormitories. No sooner had Harper hung his sign out than his fellow students began to flock around hint, each clamoring for the honor of the first shine, and for a steady two hours he and young Parker did an enormous business. The firm. was known as per & Co, polishers of boots and shoes to Mor- gan Park Academy.' They shined 158 pairs of shoes at five cents each. POWERS IN HONDURAS. Alleged Goebel Conspirator Said To Have Fled. Middlesboro, Ky., March 6.--John Powers, under indictment charged with conspiracy in the Goebel murder is said to have fied to Honduras. Powers waa in Harlan 'county, whose authorities failed to give him up. At the time of the arrest of Berry How- ard, Powers, it is said, learned that one of his sapposed friends was on the point of turning him over to the courts. He therefore got his belong ings t ther and accompanied by a Mic ro man, fled into West Vir- ginia, The man left Powers, who worked as a coal miner for a short time in West Virginia. Afterward the fugi- tive went to Pennsylvania, thence to New York, where he took to Honduras under an ass name. He is now in busmess in that eountry. Blew His Head To Pieces. Anni Arbor, Mich., March 6---John Wurster, a young farmer of Leoni township, put the muezle of 'a shot gun in his mouth, pulled both trig- by a riggedup advice, and his was blown to pieces. The reas- on for She tilde was Shat Sw heart re to marry him because he had taken two orphan nephews to raise. ------ - New For Panama Canal. Colon, March 6---According to ad i i here from Paris an Ao: has offered to frances (twice the Amer- the Pasama |? NEGLECTED CHILDREN. Annual Report of J. J. Kelso-- Kingston Unorganized. The minth annual report on the pe- glected and dependant children of Un- tatio, issued by J. J. Kelso, provin ci.l superintendent of such work, is at hand. It contains a very valugble synopsis of the work done in Ontario for the reclaiming of children and the fucing of siitatle bomes for them. During the past ten years a great educational work has been canied on, in which the 1ights and peisleges of chi dren, as future citizens, have been em has ized. There are at present in Ontario thirty children's aid societies engaged under the provisions of the children's protective act in befiiending all class es of neglected, destitute or orphan children. Proper home life and train- ing have been secured to thousands of children, and abuses of various kinds have been largely suppressed. Homes and situations have been found during the past nine years for over, 2,000 children. The children in foster homes are growing up content: edly and are merging into the orvin- ary life of the community. Mumi.i pasicies in all parts of the province are' being saved thousands of dollars annually by prompt action in the case of child-neglect and the speedy trans feren'e of deserted or otherwise de pendant children to good homes in private families. During the year the pumber of chil- dren provided with homes through the societies and the head office at To- ronto amounted to nearly 400. The number entered as new cases was 210, maling a total of 1,508 children who are now being looked after. Of these 1,391 are Protestant and 167 Catho- lic. Forty-one are under three years of age, 45 are between three and six, 78% are between six and ten, and 73 are between ten and fifteen. One hua. dred and seventeen' are boys and 123 are girls, Concerni the Kingston branch Mr, Kelso Soy following to say : "The work of the children's aid so ciety in Kingston s, | regret to say, in a disorganized condition at pre sent. There is a large work wai.ing to be done, but it is impossible to secure an agent who can afford to work for nothing, and the society has fiot been able to raise the necessary funds to employ one. The society under the direction of J, R. Black, made great Progress some vears ago, but on his resignation the society practically went to piedes. Later on, Kev. D. Macallum accepted the posi tion of 'executive officer and did well, but he also resigned, and at the pre- sent time | understand there is no one acting in that capacity. The situation in Kingston fully ilustrates that the success of the work largely depends on the zeal and enthusiasm of one person, as the general com munity wil always endorse and sup- port the right man in a position of this bind. G. M. Macdonpell, K.U,, has worked hard to get the society properly organized, and he has been ably supported by Prof. Dyde and others," In Memoriam. Referring to the death of Mrs, Cur rie, sister of J. 8. R. McCann, of this city, the Delhi Reporter says: It is seldom the people of Delhi engage in a funeral service under circumstances so sad as those surrounding the late Margaret McCann Currie, wife of Rev. F. C. Curie, recent. pastor of the Preshyterian church, but now of Sar nia. Mr. Currie began his minifterial work in Delhi some four year and during the time of his pes here he and his estimable wife many warm and lifelong friends «0 many months ago Mr. Curripnet removed to Sarnia to a large !n¥ more responsible work. Sined® time Mr. and Mrs. Currie havdthe in close touch, by - correspon®'er with their friends in Delhi, and #7 only a week bel her deat several letters came to the villa nouncing her recovery from an of erysipelas, these letters being in ten by Mrs, Currie herself, Whatand der then that such a shock was Wit to our towns-people on Wednosde 83; when the word came that shld, dead. The news cast a gloom the whole village and Wingad where the deceased was so well Way and never have we observed | widespread and profound sorrow such loving sympathy for the b ed husband and children as wahnd pressed by our people last Weds afternoon. p--- Widow Of P. D. Armour, Jr., New York, March 6.--The ma , and and a few intimate friends. the honeymoon is to be spent Mrs. P. D. Armour, sr., at the § Bon Air, Augusta, Ga. - The bride of to-day is noted !'} woman of extraordinary beauty. 7%, fore her marriage to the late | i Armour, jr., she was Miss May{: ter, daughter of John T. Leste millionaire board of trade operat Chicago. She hax two chi Philip D. Armour III and Leste mour, both of whom are prep! for preparatory school. For vears Mr. Valentine was m the interests of the late P. R. Ar and is extensively interested in business. He is credited with pe several millions of dollars. SPRING A Dress Goods ! What Is It To Be ? A suit, a skirt and waist, an afternoon or evening costume or the whole lot. 'Be it what it may we can supply your wants from a bright, fresh, clean stock of fashion's most desirable favorites. We never owned such a comprehensive gathering of choice fabrics in Suitings. Waist Patterns, Costumes, Dress Patterns, Grenadines, Violes, Novelties, etc, To say nothing of the staple things in Serges, Worsted, Homespuns, Cheviots, Lustres, Soliels, Cords, Et/") They're bought to sell right. They're marked at right prices. They're ready to be looked at. We invite inspection and criticism. Pg DRESS - MAKING DEPA RESUMES WORK MARCH 10TH. - STARR & SUTCLIFFE'S, --THE---- KERN BURNER Is made ins sizes, as follows: Neo. 0, 30 Candle Power Neo. 1, 40 " Ne. 2, 80 No. 3, 120 Neo. 4, 140 WE HOLD THE CITY AGENCY for the above Burners and have no sub agents. +» BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. SECURE THE GENUINE AT J. W. OLDFIN'S, 253 KING ST Sinn ENT NA " " Goodness in Cakes Can always be found here--fresh, well-baked, nicely flavored and per- fect in every respect. We have every make and every flavor. o be good for. promptly delivered. OYE'S, King St. | er TC DR J EO CHLO THE ORIGINAL Chlorodyne RIGINAN ah Chiorodyn "7 Chlorodyne ~ Chlorodyne™ From W. Vesalius, Pettigrew, M.[Y"Y pital, London--"1 have no hesitation medicine so efficacious as an Anti +400 sumption, Asthma, Diarrhoea, and o with the result." "Parl 'Rossell coenmnunicated to & Ge despatch from Her Majesty's Council all been yiging fearfully; and that the o OHLORODYNE. ~Sece Lancet, Ist Datis CAUTION-BEWARE CAUTION Vice Chancellor Sir BROWNE was undoubtedly the inves story of the defendant Freeman was say had been sworn to.~See Times, "Sold in bottle of 1s 14d; 2c 9d without the words "In. J. b ment Stamp, Overwhelming Medical SOLE MANUFACTURER- J. T. ry. Lowden, Brg. i PROMPTIDELIVERY. That's one of the features of our selling coal. The other feature is good coals A right quality always We've been fortunate in our buying, and you will get the best. CO. THE RATHBUN Wily : ep as all i Tuble i rain all the by ex (R28) SREY! " FOR|JCOMF{ Try our lemons 4 Woven Wiese, two grades $2.59