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le RROW t 9 Qclock, Stylish COATS "hird Off. by of the season, as all new. y just yet, choose a d aside until requir- 30 Vinter Coats ood values at 50, 4.75, 5.75 up. :D OFF. S oung jiey . s' Coats 10.00 Third Off. ~~ : er : Wool Slippers XMAS E APPRECIATED. 3 to 7, $1.50. 3 to 7, 1.25. to 11, $1.50 and 1.75. lors, 6 to 11, $2.00, § Shoe Store. ¥ Wo 0 ep A YEAR 74--NO. 2885, Drugs and Patent Medicine Again---Preston Gets $3,000 and Expenses---Staples Rhymster. From Our Own Correspondent. Ottawa, Dee. 10.--After . questions were over in the House of Commons, vesterday, the debate on the address was continued, but little new was propounded by the speakers. Sir Wilirid Laurier told the house, in answer to a question by Mr. Fos- ter, that nothing was being done by the government in respect to the All- Red line project. A company had heen formed and was seeking subsidies, HON. FRANK OLIVER« but up to the present time no official action had been taken on the matter by the government. F. D. Monk had a series of ques- tions along the same lines. He wanted to know if any person was ab pre- sent in England empowered to treat with the goverpgnent in .conmeetion with the red-line, alo, whether the DAILY MEMORANDA. Furs For "Xmas Gifts at Campbell Bros', Wonderland Theatre, afternoon and evening. St. Luke's Church Sale and Tea this evening. City Property Committee, 4 p.m, Wednesday. This day in history :--Battle of Mag-| ersiontein, 1899. Don't forget Concert and Social Bethel Church, Thursday, Dec. 12th, Tickets, 15¢. A select programme. Bijou Theatre--Mme. Fanny Melba sings "Swest Bird"-- 'The Apotheosis of a Trawp" in Motion Pictures. At The Princess--How Brown Saw ghe Ball Game, Reproducing a Portion of One of the National League Games Played at Philadelphia, also 'The Bor- rowing Evil." Sdng, 'When You Know You Are Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget. WHIG TELEPHONES. 243--Business Office. 4 Editorial Rooms. 202--Jobbing Department. Legal Forms, all kinds, at Whig. The Daily Whig is always on sale at Gibson's Drug Store, Market Square-- Open till late each evening. FULL GRYSTAL GLASSWARE We carry a large variety of these goods, in TUMBLERS, WINES, ETC. They are the very finest. Nothing better for a holiday gift. A pleasure to show them to you. Robertson Bros. Their names guarantee the quality. Rowntree's & Cadbury's Celebrated Chocolates Words canot express, adequate- ly, the real daintiness and down- right prettiness of this season's boxes. Come in and see them while the assortment #8 complete. Your good judgment will do the est. : Jas, Redden & Co, Importers of Fine Groceries. P.S.--Tom Smith's Christmas Stockings, in all sizes, 5c. to $1.75 each. Miss Stella M. Blethen, stenographer to the late George. Francis Porter. a mil ionaire, is heiress to $100,000, left her by her employer. Livingston's for dressing gowns, NO OFFICIAL ACTION On an All-Red Line Has Been Taken Yet by Government. | { | { | { { missioner of {aid him in stamping out the disease. PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From All Over The World. " Seven men have been drowned in the English channel in a collision off Folkestone, Three St.' Pierre fishing vessels, with crews numbering 120, have been given up as lost. . The kaiser has completed his rest cure, and has arrived. in London for a few days of sightsecing. Edith Little, sixteen-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. Little, a merchant of Fort River, Man., was choked to death while eating an apple. A townsite is being surveved at the junction of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway with the Grand Trunk Pacific. If present plans are carried out it will be known as Cochrane. Sir Robert Hart, Bill May Be Up + gl CROSS Canadian goyernment had caused es- timates of the probable cost'to be 9 made or called for tenders. To all the director-gen- now ready to proce partment, is the West river, with the policing of » ~ y , 1 . TY yr whic questions the premier answered and so do away with the piracy which "No." has been rampant there for the past Mr. Templeman told Mr. Bergeron | fifty years. that he had under consideration the advisability of reintroducing, this ses- sion, his bill of last session concern- ing drugs and patent medicines. Uol. Worthington wus informed by Sir Frederick Borden, that negotia- tions in general, in connection. with consistency in the seven trunks brought the purchase of guns, armanient and [5 ¢6 this country last Saturday by munitions of war, are always carried {Miss Florence Todd, a member of an on through the high commissioner, | 14 New Orleans family, on the French SHY AT THE MIXTURE. Can't Reconcile Wedding and Funeral Gowns, So Seized Lot. New York, Dec. 10.--A feminine in- . off « directiv'{ and the war office. and never directly |liner La Provence, has occasioned the | with British firms. $10,000 worth of gowns seizure of his appointment as trade commission- wo- er, in the far east, W. T. R. Preston had been paid at the rate of $3,000 per annum, and expenses. The latter, |, jor the foreign resident law, so far, had amounted to $2,702. while avowedly a native of Louisiana, Mr. Kennedy, New Westminster, in- | 0 has lived abroad for five years, troduced » bill to amend-the railway | chile sho studied music with Jean de act, so as to provide that in the fu- | Reszke in Paris. Her father is part ture railways will be responsible for | owner of the St. Charles hotel, in New all property destroyed by fires caused | Orleans, and her family is of the most by sparks from engines. The act, at |axclusive in that city. She was entitled the comfort of a wealthy young man. i Miss Todd brought in her baggage ; for, present, specifies certain things for | under the law to bring over all that which railways may be forced to pay, | was needed for her personal use. including crops, barng, and their con-| (Customs officials are not as a rule tents. imaginative and the male mind's ap W. D. Staples, Maddonald, made a | preciation of the nécessities of the humorous speech on the address, In| feminine toilet is apt to be somewhat which he quoted some electioneering vague, But when a mourning gown ditties, in which the mame of Mr. land a complete wedding trousseau Greenway figured. One of them had a [which included. all the rainbow colors chorus which ended rather funnily "Tory tricks no more shall fool us, be part of the We've the better way." trunks, somebody suggested tnat His speech, however, was hardly of | bly the : the serious order, $ ing" admitted by Uncle Sam had been The debate, yesterday, on the ad- exceeded. . dress, was taken part in by Messrs. | Miss Todd is represented by a well Armstrong, Hughes, of Prince Edward | known law firm, but no attempt was Island, and George Smith. There | made to prevent the seizure. seems to be a plan on the part of the | conservatives to prolong the debate | unduly. Nothing new has been put forward since the leaders finished. possi- Silk lined gloves in grey and brown, in neat box. 81.50. Jenkins'. | Livingston's for gloves. IT THREATENS TO ACT The Smallpox Must be Quickly Stampe Out. 10.--Declaring counties, where the most careless me- thods exist, he and put the Albany, N.Y., Dec. that unless the health authorities and says, s health government of those localities blic' gener Norther Nev : pu slic © generally . in Northern eW | under military rule. He states that York take immediate steps to stop | ince early summer there has existed the spread of small-pox, which has lin those counties a large number of been prevailing since last June, the {cases of small-pox in 'a mild form, state will take a hand. State Com- [and because of the fact that it Health Eugene H. Por- {mild the public and heaith officers ter, of Albany, has issued an appeal |and physicians have been careless, to the common sense of the public to Commissioner Porter that the foundation is being laid for an epidemic in a malignant form and the situation demands that a remedy be methods imme- is 80 asserts Commissioner Porter declares that should his appeal fail he will apply to Governor Hughes for militia to be | applied to the faulty sent into Jefferson, Oneida and Lewis j diately. HOG KHASIASIAIIIIASAIASIK GRANDMOTHER'S ACT. visit to their grandmother, ett HK * 3 % MINES RE-OPEN. # | Put Children Asleep With Gas * * and Drowns Them. * Goldfield, Nov., Dec. 10. = Somerville, Mass., Dec. 10.--An- * --The mines of Goldfield, ~ nouncing that she killed her two ¥ it has been decided, will be grandchildren, Mrs. Emery Huntley, #8 re-opened on Thursday * walked into a police station and gave ¥ next. The wage scale is * herself up. The bodies of the children, ¥ to be reduced. No mem- ¥ Raymond Shome, six years old, and ¥ bers of the western federa- | Caroline Huntley, four years old, were ¥ tion of mines will receive ¥|f,,.q shortly afterward zt Mrs. Hunt- ¥ employment. Meanwhile | j.'s home. The children had been put #¥ men to the number of 500 ¥| to sleep by illuminating gas and |% will be brought here to #1! {hon placed in a bath tub and drown- {% take the place of the #| od It is thought that the woman ¥ strikers. ¥| was insane. The children were on a ¥ % If sick headache is misery what Sesks Divorce. are Carter's Little Liver Pills if they Chicago, Dec. 10.--Harry P. White- v. manager of credit department of | yged them speak frankly of their a local bank. is suing for divorce. {oo rth- They are small and easy to Seven vears ago, she obtained a | take, : rr divorce from her husband in South | puemet's perfumes at Chown's Drug Dakota, the charge being non-Sup- | gygre. port. and then married another man. Mr. Whitely declared that he never received notification of the divorce until last winter. On the witness stand Whitely said they were mar- tied in Belleville, Ont., in May, 1802, In the spring of 1598 his wife went to visit her parents in South Dakota, and did not return to him. DINIZULU S Buy Hubby An Umbrella. We have the kind he will like, steel frames, steel rod, bulb runner, stirling silver and gold-plated caps, $1, 81.50, 9 $2.50, 83, $4. See our self-open- ' ers, with wood and horn handles, at; London, Dee. 10.--Dinizalu, the 81. Campbell Bros.', the store that's | zulu king, who is accused of foment- gieaiest. in value giving, the natives, with ling trouble among the result that murders and outrages frequent Mrs. Ada Back, widow of Policeman Andrew Back, whu was killed 'on the have become more and more y surrendered to the Natal "LL" road in New York, two years of late, has : to ago, has been awarded $15,000 as the authorities, without offering resis- outcome of her snit for £50,000 dam-jtance or rendering necessary the as- isistance of the troops which were held ages. . aun Pure olive oil at Chown's Drug |ready fo aid the civil power. Store, . While the trouble, in Natal, seems eral of Chinese customs, with his de- i Mr. Oliver told Mr. Foster that since:| 4 other personal effects necessary to | hat brides delight in were found to| contents of Miss Todd's | will positively cure it? People who have | An Outbreak in Orange River Colony Has Occurred. * MORE MONEY FOR CARL. Von Cremers Says He Has herited $460,000. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 10. Charles H. Von. Cremers, who came here last January from Montreal, Canada, and has since been employed as a clerk in ithe hosiery department of a hig East End store at a weckly wage of $i1, threw up his job last night, and to- imorrow will meet a German lawyer, iwho is arriving here from Bonn with papers representing $160,000 for Von Cremers. When Von Cremers received his pay last night he spent the en- tire $11 treating the other clerks in {the store, "I'll touch that lawyer the !minute I lay eyes ou him," he de | clared, In- MADE A SUCCESS In Depicting the Darkey Before the War. Thomas Nelson Page, the creator of "Marse Chan" and "Colonel Carter" | is a Virginian who has made a mark- | ed success in depicting the darkey of | the Old Dominion of before the war, and the chivalrous gentleman who fought for the cause of confederavy. Born on the Oakland plantation in Hanover county, Virginia, on April 23rd, "1853, Mr. Page was only a lad | when the civil war ended and the fav- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1907. {a considerable time, and had obtained | license, he was "half ---- WAS A SCOUNDREL Mythical. Millions. Make a Swindler Ric h. Vad ; Plausible Tales of Legacies Impose On the Credulity of Many Victims---To Prison He Goes. London, Dec. 10.--A romantic story jof were 81 blood or |cOws, 3.350 hens, 49.990 pigeons, 2, 1580 ducks, aud numerous suites of : ; { furniture. Nellis, in further documents England, with large house properties, |stated that he was heir to Sir Henry was told at Middlesboro, yesterday, | Nellis, and letters are alleged to have when Charles mundsen Nellis, twen- {been signed by Lord Carnavon, Lord ty-seven years of age, was sent to 'Allendale, the king's secretary, and prison for twelve months on four [other important personages. charges of false pretences, | Nellis had also been courting a Miss Chief Constable Riches said that the | Lavinia Rayner, to whom, according prisoner lived upon acquaintances for [to an alieged $125 special marriage { married,"" the on {other part of the ceremony having to horses, 24 milking of mythical millions and several oth fortunes in estates in America and a large sum of money from them the pretense that a Liverpool aunt ! bo performed at Leeds. On that day, had left him $70,000. He had drawn at 2:80, he willed her huge sums of up numerous documents, purporting money, and the parents of the young to be wills, by which he said he in- woman had consented to the mar- herited a fortune of $50,000,000 in | riage. America, estate at Southampton, and | In passing sentence, the chairman of house properties in Leeds. {the bench described Nellis as an un- : a goal Among other inheritances he spoke | mitigated scoundrel. STODDART IS DEAD, Y.M. C. A. IS WORKING HARD, Famous Player of 'Bonnie Brier Bush." Dee. 10.--James Henry Secures Contributions Despite Fin- ancial Depression. Chicago, Dec. 10.--The New York, largest sin. 7 7 * | a ' = / Thomas Nelson Page. | orite characters of his pen began to slowly die out. He attended Washing- ton and Lee University and later gra- | duated from the law department of | | the University of Virginia. He prac. "reasonable amount of cloth-| tised law in Richmond from 1855 until | Liver i 1893, He has written many stories among his most famous being "Marse | Chan," "In Old Virginia" and "Red | { Rock," ; GIRL"S LIPS SAVED HIM. | Took Snake Poison From Hand of | New York, Dee. 10.--Owing his life | to Miss Mary Day Lee, a curator's as- | sistant, who extracted the poison from | the bite of a gila monster in his right hand, Frank Gillian, an attendant in the Children's Museum, Brooklyn, has returned td the museum to learn that {the reptile which sent him to the hos | pital for six weeks is dying. It is {unable to stand the cold of a north {ern winter. Miss Day risked her life | | by the prompt and nervy action in | {saving that of Gillian, Had she have {had a break of any kind in the mem brane of the mouth she would have {absorbed the poison and died in | agony. | | vatario Must Pav | | Ottawa, Dee. 10 [ivered hy Justice Judgment was de- | Burbidge, at, the] | conclusion of the argument of counse 1 lon the | have the court the dominion to | define the principles | that should govern in holding Ontario | | responsible for expenditures made by | | the dominion in opening up the dis | puted territory. The judgment means | that Ontario will have to pay over to | tthe dominion government the sum of KNS,000. The province will also be | | responsible, in perpetuity, for $2.75 | out of the 85 paid to each Indian an nually, as well as for $1,500 annually, | towards nets and ammunition for the | Indians. The lands affected amounted | | to 56,000 acres, of which 30,000 acres | tie in what i= now Ontario and 21,000 | | acres in Keewatin, { -- i motion of "Free Swallows." Sir Joh Power & Sous, "Three Swallows" Irish Whiskey, Famous for over a century, Of highest standard of purity, Distillers to His Majesty the King. Mcdel Exams. | The examinations for the pupils of | the model school opened at the city | | hall on Tuesday morning. "There are forty candidates and the exams will | continue for three days. Inspectors Kidd and Spankie are in charge. rere { Dr. Campbell has removed his office | to 150 Clergy street, opposite Queen Street church, on December 9th, Men's sweater conts, $84.50. Jenkins'. URRENDERS to becoming better, owing to Chief { Dinizulu's surtender, an anexpectel outbreak has occurred in the Orange River Colony. Five hundred natives, who were ' working at orapoed the V diamond mine, revolted, and complete- ly wrecked the plant. They then marched toward Kroonstadt, where only twenty police are stationed. Res ,inforcements are hastening to the town. The situation, there, is regard Attendant, | 'The Young Farmer Said It Was His Brockyille, Omg., Dec. 10.--Some- ; cate. The young man was placed in thing of a sensation was caused here | the cells, where he admitted that the by the arrest of B. Mott, a well- | coat in question was brought to his known farmer, who made a social call | home by an ungle, Samuel Mott, who at the police station on the officer in| was at his father's house visiting. charge for the purpose of inviting the Chief Bourke went to Lyn and ar- official to a party at his residence | rested Samuel Mott, who alleges that near Lyn, | The official noticed that | the coat was given, to him by its own- the young man wore a fur-lined over- | er. The authorities at Napanee were cont which answered the description | notified ang last night Chief Rankin of ome stolen in Napanee, and which | came here amd retuned with the the police here had been asked to lo- | uncle ACTIVITY OF BANDS. i K = Russia Warns Bulgaria of a Men- 2 FAVORS SUFFRAGE. poe ate to Peace, . # London, Dec. 10.--The un St. Petersburg, Dec. 10.-- The gov- | ne guffragettes are in high ernment again has instructed the Rus- #% feather because the Prim- 3 ian minister at Sofia to call the at- % rose League, an organiza- tention of the Julgarian Foy erament # tion composed of the most # lo the growing activity of Bulgarian % conservative and correct of # hands m Macedonia, which it® consid- | J : ers a serioug menace to the preserva- HH women, has . passed a # tion of peace. ' » strong resolution in favor #* According to reports received from #¥ of suffrage. The Women's # consular agents, the casualties in 're- | # Liberal Federation has done od cent engagements aggregate more than # the same thing. The suf- ¥ 100 killed and wounded, about cvenly | # fragettes say it is useless ldivided © between Christians and |¥ to condemn their methods | Mohammedans. {¥ when they are really crain- # Pressure will be applied at Sofia si- | % ing adherents daily. x 'ed a9 serious, - Stoddart, the actor, died, yesterday, | ole gift ever made to a Young Men's at his home on tui Road, Seawa-| Christian Association in the North- ren, N.J. He was eighty years old. | West is that of $50,000, made by Col. Mr. Stoddart had not been on theip P, Jenkins, to endow the educa- stage since April, 1905, when he was department of the Spokane, stricken with paralysis at Galt, Ont., The gift was an- tional Wash., Association. while playing "The Bonnie Brier | nounced, last week, at tha opening of Bush.' After an absence of seven |g new building worth $200,000. No weeks, in Galt, he was able to return | conditions were named by the donor, to Seawaren. We died of the effects of a second stroke of paralysis, but the directors have decided that the educational department will be known as the Jenkins Institute. Will be found an excellent remedy Alfred G, Vanderbilt has offered to for sick headache. Carter's Little [erect a £100,000 building in memory Pills Thousands of letters |of his father, at Newport, RI. Sena- from people who have used them | tor H. G. Davis offers $25,000 to en- dow the West Virginia State Y.M.C.A, committee if $75,000 more is secured, from 25ec. prove this fact. Try them. The Paris Martin announces the en- gagement of the well-known actress, Mme, Lebargy, and Clande Casimir- Periety won of thy late president. Abdomnial supports at Chown's Drug Store. Perfumes, nicely hoxed, up. at Chown's Drug Store: Beautiful box given free with every Be. tie. Jenkins, a WORE, STOLEN COAT Uncle's. S---- multaneously by Austria, fears being |e a 3 entertained that these bands of insur- | KASEI gents are the forerunners of a general | -------- * insurrectionary otthreak in the | Shot The Robbers. spring. { Winlock, Wash, Dec. 10.--~Two men | who attempted to rob the post office were chased by a posse, surrounded {in the woods and shot to death. Their {names are not known, Before being surrounded one of the men shot and seriously wounded I, N, McFadden, a constable. $ Fatal Result Of Sleigh Ride. Cardinal, Ont., Dec. 9.--This village wns the scene of a sad fatality on Friday, when a little boy named Mor- rison was run over and killed. With other children he was indulging in the dangerous practice of jumping on rige and fell from a sleigh, and be- fore the vehicle could be stopped it passed over his body amd death was instantaneous. He was a bright little fellow, and his death is keenly felt by the whole village. , It Cures Coughs. Nothing more perfect than the Dia- mond Cough Remedy for the Cure of Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat and Hoarseness has been discovered. 1t is simple, pleasant, safe and sure. Helps quickly and cures thoroughly. 25ec.,at Wade's drug store, Tried To Wreck Train. London, Dec. 18.--An attempt to The Chicago Red Cross Society, of wreck a train in Bengal on the Nag-| Chicago, is making a whirlwind forty- pur - railway, carrying Sir Andrew eight hour campaign, to raise $5,000 Henderson = Fraser, lieutenant-gover- | for the destitute relatives of the hun- nor of Bengal, who was returning | dreds of miners killed by the explosion from the famine district, proved, un- successful. A . dynamite cartridge \ex- ploded under the engineer, but np- body was hurt. Compulsory Education. Winnipeg, Dec. 10.--Hon. G. R. Cold- well, acting minister of education, has announced that he favors a measure of compulsory education and the bill may be introduced at the next session of at Monongah, West Virginia. You grow strong, blood pure, nerves steady, cheeks red and rosy, you are well and happy again after taking Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Give| it a trial. 3%c. Tea or Tablets. Ma-| hood's drug store. Frederick Estabrooks, of Marysville, dropped dead while attending church at Penniac, N.B. Pure. olive. oil at «Chown's Drug ly, turning cold= . "er to-night, with light local snow falls and flurries, Wednesday, decreasing winds, fair and cold. - Christmas Store News Our assortment of novel- ties for Christmas is now most complete, 3 Time and money have alike been lavished on this § display to make.it the most complete and comprehensive showing we have ever offer- A World of Novelties for Xmas Givers. Real Lace Handkerchiefs. Embroitlered Handkerchiefs, Hemstitched Handkerchiefs Initialed Handkerchiefs, Silk Handkerchiefs, Children's Handkerchiefs. Irish Crochet Neck-Pieces. Real Lace Pieces. Dainty Stock Collars. R Stylish Leather Belts. B Fancy Girdles and Belts. {Leuther Shopping Bags. French Beaded Purses. Dainty Jewel Cases. Rubber-Lined Toilet Cases. Chantilly Lace Scarfs, Feather Neck Ruffs, Pretty Side and Back Combs. Kid Gloves For Men, Kid Gloves For Women. Kid Gloves For Children. Ladies' Silk Hosiery, etc. Remember! It Pays To do your shopping early. TO-MORROW is not a bit too soon. It means a better choice, and it's economy. | Steacy's PIPIIIIIIIIII IIIS. ib ass y WOOD. --In Kingston, on Dec. 9th, 1007, to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wood, 43 Division strest, a daughter. MARRIED. REID--WILSON.--On_ Det. 9th, 1907. at St. James' Church, by Rev, Mae morine, Frederick Charles Reid, to Ethyl Lena Wilsgn, daughter of the late Geo, Wilson, both of this City, DIED. THOMPSON. --In Reynoldson, on Da. 6th, 1907, Mary Thompson, relict of the late Edward Thompson, aged seventy-six years. MAHONEY. .--At Wolle 7th, 1907, Mrs. Dennis aged seventy-eight years. Funeral this morning, at 8.30 o'cloek, to the Church of the Sacred Heart. MURPHY .--In Kingston, on Dec. 9th," 1907, James Murphy. Funeral private, on Wednesday morning, © at 9 o'clock, from his late residence, 189 Montreal St., to St. Mary's Cathedral, where a solemn requiem mass will bo sung for the repose of his soul, TATE.--In Kingston, on Dec. 10th, 1907, at the residence of her son-in-law, John Gibson, 297 Umiversity Ave. Jane Tate, widow of the late John Sadler, aged seventy-four years. Funes private, on Wednesday morning. Interment will take place at Orms< town, Qug . ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. 'Phone, 577. 227 Princess street. 12 MORE HEATERS ONLY. . Rs Island, om Dec. Mahoney, These Stoves will go, and must go. this month. Remember, Come and get a bargain.. 3 good Parlor Suifs cheap, at TURK'S Second-Hand Store, 898 Prin. cess St. 'Phone, 7035. ote ! FOR SALE Choice Brick Residence, Barrie stroet © all improvements, grand location. Double Stone Dwelling, Earl street, bath, gas, etc. the legislature, x ) Store, ; | : Frame Dwelling, Albert reat, barn, Sed, hs Tol hn an 3 WIFT'S Real Estate and