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a |™E whie -- ssTH YEAR BRITISH WHIG, I ¢t Stands every test you can give it. In the pail, under the brush and on the noise, 8. W. P. proves (ts superi- ority as a paint for painting build- ings, inside and outside. If you wart the best and most economical paint on your house use The SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT. SOLD BY CORSE 11'S DAKDWAKE. Victoria Day. A B1G ASSORTMENT OF FIREWORKS, ROCKETS, ROMAN CANDE 8S, CRACKERS, ETC, mii AP en A. J. REES', Princess Street. 'Phone 38, The New Incandescent Light THE YOTTO LAMP RIVALS THE SUN. BRECK & HALLIDAY, SOLE AGENTS. -On May 28th the season re-opens at CALEDONIA SPRINGS. [Hotels and Baths will be in full oper- ation. Guide 'books on application to the com- cunt YOURSELF | An pba Cone Orhan ATT "Very Clea oo UTIL te oe Legit HEHE lies: Wee: HHH WE. wo ITI ol seh ; Wo kn, 278 Kino DAILY noch i published at _306-310 Rio Yleust, at #0 and 4 od yous. o WEEKLY BRITISH WIIG, 12 pages, puitished ovary Thursday morning at $1 a is ome of the best Job Printisg chenp "Rliached stylish and in Cansde; rapid, ry ive improved presses. EDW. J. B. PENSE, PROPRIETOR. {HE DAILY WHIG. Opiter per Ortem Dicar:' A REASON FADES AWAY. A conservative in the city, one who has views which he liker 10 exchange with friends occasionally, offered what he thought was a most convincing reason why the Ross government should not he sustained. It was that for many which he did not state--the provincial and federal governments shoul! not be of the same politics. "Did you nbt support the party in 180d, when Mr, Meredith led it?" he was asked, "Most assuredly." "ff Mr. Meredith hind succeeded there would have been a conservative gov: ernment in Ontario. "Yes," "At the same time the federal gov- ernment was conservative, Wouldn't that have been the realization of what you disapprove 1" He saw the point. It should have altered the situation, but it did pot. The man of thought went on~ hie way murmuring the while, "It isn't'a good thing to have a liberal govern ment in Ottawa and in Toronto." Yet that is what, there is going to be 'beyond a doubt, PeASONR--- A VERY CANDID OPINION. It is in order to print what thinks about his party and it is the essence of a letter which Henry Smith, ex-M.P., has addressed to the Chatham News-Letter. He says "I sat in the house of commons with George W. Ross, present premier when he represented West a con servative of Ontario, Middlesex in that house, and 1 re- cognized in hind a man of marvelous ability and indefatigable industry Having knowledge of his manifold ac- complishments, and an absolute con vietion of his honesty of purpose, am I to restrain these convictions to ac commodaie them' to general political necessities or possibilities ?" Mr. Smith goes on to discuss what obligations a party man owes to his party, and adds: "Up to January 2nd, 1896, an active, energetic, uncompromising worker in the liberal-conservative ranks, and I apprehend 1 put in as many hours out of the twenty-four and expended as much hard cash for the benefit of the party as any other ordinary citizen of the province. The bolt of the seven ministers on that date, absolved him so far at least as to permit him to express his honest admiration of an able public man sch as he believes Mr. Ross to be. He can say more "if it is neces: ary, I was MR. NORTHRUP'S FANCIES Mr. Northrupy who was so glib of tongue at the public meeting on Thursday last, was not quite correct in his figuring. He said that 'it average of ten cents a year for each child's book," in the city of Toronto. According to the public school in in 1900, the cost per pupil on the basis of aver attendance, omitting only cost on an spector, for text hooks, age. monthly kindergarten pupils, was 848. The oost, in Toronto, in 1900, on the basis of enrolment, omitting kin dergurten pupils; was Tie. And this as a result of acting un der the law passed by the Ontario government, while Mr. Ross was min- ister of education, buying the books "at wholesale prices, and assessing the people for them. "Now," said Mr. Northrup, 'there are M3000 children in Ontario; in at tendance at the schools, "I¢ is a sample matter of arithme tie fo ealondate how it would 'work in the frovince. #48 would only cost $21,000 to sup: ply all the shool children in the pro vince with bocks each year." What would be the procedure ? Mr. Northrup did not say. The board of education in Toront enters in its budget the amount ne commary to buy the books required by the schools. Can the government undertake | to huy the hooks; puper, slates, pens and pencils, and assess each village, town, tity and county for the same ? Wouldn't there be a proper row if Mr. Ross proposed such a thing? Does My. Whitney comtemplate it 1s he willing that the government usurp the functions of the school boards not be reflecting | ment, be too much appreciated. Yioaders. Mr. AGAINST THE FRUITMEN. The work of the agriculbural depart under Hon, Mr. Dryden, cannot A fruit grower calls the Whig's at tention to one great benefit that he received ax a result of Mr. Dryden's faboury In 1899, he said, the agricultural department soft out men all over Ontario with spraying outfits, at given centres they exhibited appliances, showing how certain chemical solutions would, when sprayed upon ihe trees, effectually kill the insects that destroying them. '1 remember," and their were said the fruit man, "when from sevemiy five to ninety per eent of ope kind of apples lost by the inroads of these insects I saw the spraying machine, saw how it was operated. till, from , practical man, Pow to mix the solution, pheation was so deadly. "What was the result ?* In the next season | saved aghout ninety per cent. of my apples, und of the species which 1 valued the most." That the education was accepted gt its true worth by others is marked by the fact that last year 5 dozen or more of the fruitmen in the Niagara district purchased the appliances and adopted the expedients that were so saving to their fruit. "It is hard to say," remarked the " what the saving to the province must be, but presuming that the spraying experiments left gs good an impression elsewhere as here, it is not too much to calculate that last year the province was a million dollars the better of Mr. Dryden's work." Turning to the house for 1599 we find that Mr. Cas negie, of ths opposition, seconded by Mr. Little, that the agri cultural departments bhixdget be re ferred back to the with instructions to reduce the grants it embraced. The $2,500 for instructions in spraying he specially dhjected to. Mr. Whitney aned Mr. Gallagher vot ed against the experiments, and they farmers' interest. was and 1 Better I learned whose ap- fruit man. journals of the moved committee were in the GALLAGHER VS. MABEE. Mr. Gallagher has heen telling the people of the county some real news about Mr. Mabee. The man who wrote the conservative hand-book, and who bad occasion to leave the men who hired him, has been referred to as "a Tammany black leg," and "'a maligner of Mr. McKinley." This Mr. Mabee, according to Mr. Gallagher, "offered to write a pam- phlet for Mr. Whitney, against Mr. Rose, and Mr. Whitney repudiated him." What are the facts? Mr. Mahee is. a conservative, and hails from South Norfolk, where his friends live and where they always voted the conservative ticket. In September, 1900, from some point in the United States, he mailed a copy of "McKinley in the Witness Box," a campaign publication which he had is sued in the American election. He suggested that something like this be issued in Ontario. Col, Tisdale, M.P., opposed the idea, and when, in January, 1901, Mabee re turned to Canada steps were taken to give it effect. In the February follow ing be had an interview with Mr Whitney, who liked his American pam phlet, and turned him over to Dr. Pyne and Mr, Foy for their considera Later it was decided by the literature committée to publish the book, and Mr. Whitney and his as sociales undertook to supply the ma terial for it. Later still the same com mitjee approved of the matter as it had been submitted in proofs. These proofs Mr. Whitney read. During all this time Mr. Mabee was drawing pay from the. conservative party, through the Mail, and Dr. Nes- itt. Mr. Mabee went out on a tour, and for the purpose of selling the pamphlet to the party leaders. He found great disatisfaction with the Whitney, and eventually had to abandon bis mission. While a conservative, and while in sympathy with the party, Mr. Mabee said he was in the publication busi- ness for what he could make out of it. and so he proposed to issue a new hook with Whitney as the subject of oviticism. Instead of Ross it wes "Whitney in the Witness Box." For this he swears, in an affidavit. that he was encouraged by several conservatives. He went to Smith, the liberal organizer. and made his propo tion. SLIPPING A C06. Mr. Lyon, a local publisher in Guelph, has been doing some figuring on the book question, and heBas as- tonished himself. He cannot cover all the books that hut the profit on some of the readers and drawing books he estimates at $118,980 a vear, or about two and a Quarter millions in twenty years, * When Mr. Lyon reeled off at a western meeting lately he was asked if any publisher who desired it who would accept the government's terms and prices-- and are used in the schools, conditions as to could not cut into the business share in its margaics ? And he What becomes of the which he and others are ing ? What is the sense of picturing a monopoly which does not exist ? Mr. Lyon, who is not an authority books answered ves. scandal, then, manufactur on printing, claims that the A royal commission of experts said they cheap, the materials being taken <nto account. Dr. Beattie Nesbitt says a child's books can be had at 10c. a year in Toronto, and that all the chil- dren in the province can be supplied, at present publishers' prices, for $21, 000. What becomes of $118,000 ? Isn't there a screw loose somewhere? Hasn't on this question, slipped a cog ? are too dear. were reasonably that profit of some one, A SPEECH AND A STORY. The grouna on which Mr. Gallagher is preferred hy some of his friends which is being urged as in his favour--is that practice, to the ground the strong one he is able, after some speak longer than his opponent, It is not a matter of and the report of that meeting indicates that Mr importance what one savs Inverary Gallagher can talk a good deal and not say very much, long grow weary. The boast that Mr long-winded was made in the presence of a liberal speaker in the county a and he treated it -but a matter of how one can stand and not Gallagher is night or two ago, as a joke. There man, he heard a lot of crodking pond. The made him feel that this pond was lit- erally alive with frogs. He remember. ed that legs were a delicacy, and so he decided to make 5 haul. He visited New York, found the of fice of a firm who traded in frogs' and asked what the purchasing price was in ton or car lots. The man He said he had been such large said, who in a certain was a noise on some occasions frogs' legs, was astonished, buying stock, but not in quantities. However, being that the supply unlimited, he made a quotation which was accepted. passed, and then the curious visitor reappeared. He unfold ed a piece of brown paper, and two pairs of assured was Some time from revealed "These," you its recesses legs. the goods 1 saw frogs' sania he, "are about some time ago." "But," said the clerk, "1 thought you said vou could supply them by the ton." "So I did, I thought by the noise that there were frogs énough to fill 4 train, said he, to the two pairs, so 1 did. pointing "that's and," significantly all I found." The point of the story was seen aud appreciated, Mr. Gallagher had talked for an hour and more, as a re sult there were only a couple of "pin and points" to remember gnd carry away. Voice is mot speech. That fact is hecoming very apparent at some con servative meetings, EDITORIAL NOTES. The Ross government feels the swing of victory. Mr. Whitney says he has nothing to offer but * good intentions." It i= said that a particularly warm locali ty is paved with the same material. Has any minister in Ontario been dismissed from office for corruption ? "That happened at Ottawa and while a conservative government, was in pow- er. . The * pulp lord deals," which Mr. Whitney tells about, belong to the category of "deals and steals" that have made Mr. Geo. Marter, M.P.P., feel so .very tired. : The Shaw reference to the corpora: tions andl ministers was evidently founded on the Spectator's slander of Hon. Mr. Dryden. And he will do well not to repeat it. The talk of some people about cor ruption --with the record before him of what the conservative party has been guilty 'of--is enowgh' to give a bad taste in the mouth. Mr. Odell, who kas been the gover nor of New York state, may Jook for re-election. H he does be Jets go a fin ancial position which is at his dispos- al and worth $190,000 a year. ---- . Nhe Mail has bovn moved to say that the outlook of the party in On thesd figures | P80 and he THE DAILY W HIG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21 Ea nits Nbitney has not cme word of censure. He condones their offences, while de- nouncing the offknces of his op ponefits. : ---- The premier of Australia, like the premier of Canada, is going to the colonial conference at London act as the éircumstances warrant. The wisdom of Sir Willrid is becoming more and more apparent. free to Mr. Whitney says he is give the pine on the New Ontario to the settlers honileed cost would get pine worth How is that for 4 deal ? willing to land in free. The lot fone acres) would $7,000 The conservative campaigners have had a great deal pulpwood concessions. went Lo Sturgeon to say about the But when they Falls, the site of one of these concessions, they dumb, How is that ? What were they afraid of ? were Dr. Beattie Nesbitt is considerable of a lawyer, and he is all right in his profession. When he gets into the book business, however, and tells how books should be printed and sold he gets over his head. He's making the 'book sellers 'laugh. Several prominent who have acted as erown prose yfors, and men who have had business with the government and Mr. Clergue, are re ferrell to by the Mail as at the erib. And there gre a lot of people who want to get there, lawyers, The local 'book men thought it hold of the school board when it undertook to supply the 'school children their books, at cost, having bought them wholesale. Why do they think of the idea that the government should go into the Popular, buying and selling business? isn't it? -- libel has Hamilton Spectator be it charged that Hon. Mr. Dry den, as president of the Reliance loan of fraud. The A suit for been begrn against the cause company, was guilty case may have the desired effect of changing: the political atmosphere and putting an end to certain scandals The people of the county are being told by tory speakers that the San ford Macdonald surplus was $3,000, 000, After deducting the Liabilities it was exactly 81 326333 ---which is a long way shory of three millions. But it's as near as the average enpnserva tive gets to the facts in election times. dann CURING CLOVER HAY. Live Stock Commissioner Hod- son's Opinion. In a recent article I called attention to the desirability of cutting hay at a comparatively early stage of maturity. In this connection it may be of in terest to have some notes from that well known farmer and institute speak er, Henry Glendenning, of Manilla, Ont., in regard to his experience with a new plan of curing clover hay. Mr Glendennjng says that he prefees to cut clover hay when it is in full bloom, or when the blossom contains the greatest amount of honey. Cut in the morning after the dew is off, that which is cut in the forenoon may be raked up immediately alter the noon hour, and put in cocks. The mower should not be run later than four o'clock p.m., and all put into cocks beford the dew falls. This hay should be put-into the barn next day, and well tramped into the mows, This plan can be continued from day to day until all is stored in the barns things must be borne in mind in cu ing hay by this method : First--Do not eut the grass until dry in the morning. Second--Do not. allow the bay to lie exposed to dew or rain. Third--Ii any hay should get wet with ram, Jet it stand in the cocks, until thoroughly dry before taking to the barn. Last season Mr. some seventy-five to eighty tons of hay in this way, and reports that it came out of the mows in the finest condi tion he ever saw. when put into the barn, and the leaves and blossoms were all attached tg the stalks. It appearad to have dried out without much heating, as all of the alsike blossoms were pink, and © the red clover blossoms were from a pink to a light amber color. If any great heat had developed inthe mow the blossoms would undoubtedly have been of a dark brown color. No signs of mould were visible and the hay was very free from dust. No salt, lime or other preservative was used. Two of the mows in which the hay | was stored are 22x25 feet, with an average depth of thirty feet of hay. These mows are tight floored with doible inch boards over basement stables. Another mow 24x36 feet, with a depth of about twenty four feet, and the floor on the ground. The outsides of all the mows are of inch boards without battens, with cracks between the boards averaging about three cights of an inch. just such as are usually found in the ordi nary barn, The sides of the mows next the drive floor were open. The hay which consisted of red clover, al sike and a little timothy, was equally pood in all parte of the mows. Mr a says that bé knows of three other farmers, who have follow- ad this system for sev years with equal swoecss, and it would seem well worthy of rial by our farmers gen fresh cut Among the advantages of this wo of curing clover are: (1) The saving of time between cutting and #orive in the barn: (2) the fact that | Three | i Lucia to enquire on the ground over night, | ; | the cathedral at St J | there Glendenning put up | ! eateh a Vessel for St Te 240 ad 260 3 Will see a big crowd in town. We're offering a great many up a bit for the holiday. You'll want to fix special lines for this week. You can make money by doing your shopping here Several lines of HOSIERY AND GLOVES clearing at about HALF PRICE. We're Clearing Out Our Trimmed Millinery and Pattern Hats. $15 and $20 for $10; $8to $12 for $6. Others it $2 50, $2 75, $3, $3.50 and $4. Tailor-Made Suits, $3 for $5 ; $12 for $7.50. Spring Jackets, Dress Skirts and Capes at almost HALF PRICE. Special for Thursday! 20 boxes White, Creme and Black 45 inch CHIF- FONS. Regular soc. yard. Thursday 25¢. Yd. STARR & a eh 1S and 120 Princess Street, Kingaton, Ont, $ ASIOSUIT. 3 We mean that the man who wants to pay $10 for a Suit shall have the biggest Ten Dollars wor th he ever had. We know that it may result in lots more. we offer. of men buying these Suits who intended to pay But that doesn't deter us when we can increase the Qur $10 Suits have always equalled the $12 trade values any- where else. $13.50 or $15 would be nearer their comparative worth. There's no more style in any gar ment than you'll find in But it's the value in the m that makes them remarkable at BIBBY COY., Suits. the price. Take a look ! THE H. D. these CLOTHIERS and HABERDASHERS. KING EDWARD = Works from 7 p 12p. m --- Our babbit works, dav a ht in kinds of bearings, Metall mierin er eulew, Star , m. until The Canada Metal Co,, Toronto. William St, ----_-- DIDN'T LOOT, HE SAYS. British Officer Took Relics for Safe Keeping. Fort De France, Martinique, Mav 21.A correspondent went to ~t. into 'a story that a had looted relics from Pierre. The "of ficor said that he took the relien for safe keeping on aceount of the looters he met at St. Pierre the day he wap After his return to Fort de France, he had an opportunity te Lucia, and he had no time to turn officer British her. He went hy | the relics over to the authorities here, It was ae green as | | consul at Castries for transmission to but he deposited them with the French their gightful owners. The Frengh con { sul confirmed this statement Typos Choose Officers. Indianapolis, Ind, May 21 Re ports received at the headguarters of the International typographical umion indicate a heavy vote throughout the country to-day for the annual election of officers of the organization Though there are fewer aspirants than in the two preceding eledtions the in | tepest is more intense because of the | spirited contests for several of the offices. For president, Jams M. Fynch, the incnnibent, has no opposi tion, nor is John W. Bramwood op- posed for secretary treasurer, For frst vice-president the race lies between Charles E. Hawkes, of Chicago, and John W. Hays. of Minneapolis, and while Hawkes has been indorsed by the greater number of unions, Hays has been the selection of more of the Jar, unions aml the result promises to close, as it was two years ago, when the twa were opposing can fi dates, and Hawkes won by a ssall majority. For thind view president the candidates are T. J. Conary, of New York, and Jammer J Mulcahy. of Bt. Jou and for fourth viee president, ohn F. &ullivan, of Boston, is the only aspirant. Weds Celebrated Athlete. «Selmar, N.J., May 21.-The marviage here. to-day of Miss Clan. Sek Gilman, daughter of a well known Philadelphia artist, and Dr. Alvin Kranglein, the former well and champion long dis tance Funnier. = The two first met when competing in a relay Fad ot at ® Philadelphia three vears . Migs Gilman was then on student : and Keanslen was atsend: | i i K Keeping Up 1he Home 2 Working For Yoursell ? Arie you herping vous . rier A sane an Basy own fust ay ensy to pay We have she projerties, ¢ that satisfy, snd are ax orach ed D. A CAVS, 346 KING STREET. STORES TO-LET THE HANDSOME STORES ON PRINCESS Street, one lately coeupied by Unlow & Co. and the ome now iu possession of Dwyer Bros, clothiers. Avolv st latier - THE LAST SPIKE Will be Driven Next Week, Van Horne New York, May 21 An wengers per Ward line terey from Havana was Van Horne, who said he jast spike in the Banta (lar Santiago railroad would next week. He also said have ie official celeliratio "hing 1 dow't bel thing, Pat 1 believe the be auspicious and an am for Cuba. We are has ein of branch lines as feeders Elections, A genetel lative Ke: ; ---------------- North-West Territory Regina, SW.T., May 21 elaction for the morthwest is in progress to hand indicate ther in the nr of the wvers slong the (rows i y affect the result in pre Hnultain's constitueny Mae it ie believed be will be a. ale Wmjority.