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¥ YEAR 77-NO, 286 THE BUMPER CROPS Golden & tory Review Year Shows How Soil Tillers Have Ad- vanced in Prosperity and Wealth--- Amazing Figures Shown 10.~' 'Nothing thie Washington, Dee. short of omniscience cen grasp value of the farm products 'of this year," is the statement of the B.S Hecretary of Agriculture in his an sual report for 1910, "At no time in the world's history has a county pro- duved farm products within one year with a value reaching $8,926,000,000, which is the value of the agricaltural products" of this country for 1910. "The vale of arm products from 1899 to the present year has been pro- wive without interruption. If the value of the products of 1899 is aced at 100, t5¢ value Tor this year b 189, or almost double the value for the census yimr Ven years ago. "During this period of unexampled agricultural production, a period of twelve years, during which the farm ers of this country Have steadily ad- vanced in prosperity snd wealth and in economia independence, in intelli gence, and a knowledge of agriculture, the total vale of farm products ix 79,000,008,000. BO Os of 3,121.381,000 bush- els excoeds that of the secord year of 1906 and is greater than the aver: age crop of the preceding five yours 14 per cent. While the value of Bis corn orop js Pelow that of 1909 and also 1908 its amount belongs to stories of magic. It cat hardly be reckoned aks loss Shan 31,500,000, a CONTEST A HOT ONE. _ Loeal Option Will be Voted on Mon- . Dee, 10,~As December 19h a.) fnterent in the great local tion contest now in progress tthe province intensifies With bie being submitted in all four cities, fifteen towns, nd some villages, 1 moo ities and lo- ¥ cal i eip 4 " ? ' Tn Reginh city itself excitement is growing - apidly, and both sides tting forth 'the most strenidus ef ors. Meeti option are stone is be every ahah BOGOTA RAILWAY SOLD. vote. Popular Disapproval of Concession' man's sanity. to Am. Yeans. Bogota, Columbia, Dec. 10.--The final 4 payment of $375,000 was made by the 5 ta city government, ay, eom- pleting the transfer of the properties of the ota City Railway company from the Owners, The Americas = built and operated the local lines under a concession re ars oder he idency of Gen. oval 'of the concession resilted, last March, in a! Washington, D.C., Deo successful boycott of the road an finally in ite som sale To the municipality There have monsirations recently, BE ----_---------- GRAMME OF RADIUM BOUGHT. Sir Ernest Cassel Gives $75,000 for It been #6 anti-American de | Harvest The Greatest in His- of The World | ! 'for a great many years has been col- 3 i i ! { i i I i i { says that it ! of the | 000, a suns sufficient to cancel the in | tevest-hearing debt of the United | States, buy all of the gold and silver | mined in all of thy countries of. the | : earth in 1909, and still leave to the | farmers 4 little pocket money. i The corn crop is a nationhd asset in we BIGGEST OFFICE BUILDING. 1 Edifice to Have 500,000 Feet of Floor Space. New York, Dec. 10.1% is announced here by the Contr ctors in Chicago that Chicago is to have the biggest of- fice building in the world in point of area. The building, to be known as the In- surance Exchange, will contain more than 800,000 square feet of floor space, Construction costs will be ap- proximately $4,000,000, - which added to the cost of the land and the carry. ing charges will represent a total in- vestment of $8,000,000. Under the contract the builders must finish their work by March Ist, 1992. + The Jlarfess office. building in the world at present ;s the twin Hudson terminal building in this city. Charch Union Opposed. Paisley, Dee. 10.<The prashytery of Bruce, in session here, on T ay, aftag aboud five hours' discussion 'on the basis of church union, decided against it by a vote of thirteen to five, A more than one sense. It is not merely | wealth in existence for the tume being. ! but it is an asset of perpetual recur. | rence. Year after year, throughout the | azes, u stupendous amount of with inoredible value can pe duced, The value of the farm products of 1910 shows both gains and losses 'in comparison with 1908. A ain of $130.- 000,000 i made for cotton lint ankl seeds 230,000,000 for hay; and ¥3,. 000,000 for barley. A loss was sufler- od in the case of wheat amounting to | $104,000,000; corn, $98,000,000 oats; $26,000,000; potatoes and wool, $23, 000,000 each. The farm values of the cereal crops declined $220:000,000 in 1910 from 1909 and the value of all crops de clined $119,000,000. A pet gain was made, however, in the vafue of animal yroducts amounting ft has been a vear of high prices for fos poultry "and and of 1910 ment and animals, eggs, and for milk and butter, for these reasons the total value all farm products increased in $304,000,0000 above the estimate 1€09, BIBLE SELLER IN COURT, Eitan x } Turned Back at Border, Charg : With NowSapport.™ ~~ 1 corm | roe | to $424,000,000 8 for | 4 : @bris L ») ---- HAD HARD BATTLE Ice om Lake St Clade. 9.--Capt. Thom- the drew of the With: the Chatham, Ont., o St ol = George Thompson, United tes tug G of Port. Huron, reached Wallaceburg, this morning, more dead than alive, as the result of battling for hours with ice in Leake St. Clair, in their yawl, in which they ed when the tug went down, Wi ay. They walked f to Wallaceburg from Mitchell's Bay and were all roren and had been thirty-eight without food. a ---------------- QUITE AN EPISODE. He Laughed so Much--<Broke His Jaw, Kalamazoo, Mich., Dec. 10.--Laugh- ing at a joke told by his wife re sulted in a broken jaw for Grant Boebuck. 'ihe coupie were esting din- ner when Mrs. Boebuck related an amusing story. Mr. Boebuck laughed 80 heartily that his lower jaw snappea Physicians worked over him for two hours before he could close his mouth, i oh : A about this anniversary ! 0 | fmas Greeting | HRISTMAS is coming. We to every child of God. Oh, through youth, Xontinue through manhood, and hallow old age. ijome news to every son of man, They go back to childhbod, run the memories that cluster They &re refreshing and refining in their quality. However plea- iL sant other seasons may be thus ir. : peace. The theme of the angelic choir is the Ubristian community, "Glory to God in the Highest, Peace on Barth, Good Will Toward Man." that which is associated with the birth of our Blessed Lord. essentially, the seasom of theme of every is, There is no mWsie so sweet as During the last year over 20,000,000 of peaple have been studying thie life of Christ, and it has been & source of profound inspiration. There id no life so which one may view from any side apd find The contemplation of it began with the Advent of our Saviour ings of His marvelous career with ever- Mere 15 NO romance more eplrancing, no ex- and followed the unf increasing interest. | with greater satisfaction: perience more uplifting, no subject upon which one may Step Ly step, mentally, pure, so exalted, free from Haws. complete, so itate the dent i she had come from ° TH-- ¥ Toronto, Dee. 10.-George Buskin, un known in every. town and village of Ontario for his annual visits collecting for the Uolportage Mission, and' who was recently turned back at the Ame rican border by "United States immi- gration officials, appeared in the po-| 1 E non-support court of a charge of pi ai he : Tt to hi last! year he was > his pre- 13 sent wife. In court, the point wis raised by the C4 The complainant said she was mar for or against local | ried in Bristol, + Evgland, many yenrs ng held nightly, and no | ago, left unturned to poll, her first but she obtuined a divorce from husband in Kansas and six years ago he died there. The defence asked for proof of this, and the case 'Was adjonrnad until Mondiy. The defence also questioned the wo- 8 Mrs. Buskin said her husband who lectinig money throughout the province for the distribution of Dibles Northern 'Ontario, has hundreds dollars put away. of ings TO 'RESTORE CANTEEN. General Declares it is Better Than Present Conditions, canteen law. is severely criticized the annual report troops in the Philippine Islands, who is responsible for 'many offences which cause 'the sol- diers' trial by court-martial, age of normal men for sdme sort of stimulant is a desire which such men was gratified by the canteen without the privilege of purchasing a some beverage under satisfactory cob ditions was withdrawn, Gen. Duvall declared that *'there have grown up on the outskirts of every reservation he | most unwholesome, vile quality is dis ponised, usually at exorbitant prices from the direct effects of which the soldier commits many offences which ounse his (rial by court-martial and often bring about his physical col lapse." 3 £ id Cabinet for China. 10.~1t seems safe to nnownce that the ancient absolute vo in China will exist ouly histori Chinese Now Year in BK defence as to whether ' 88 are | Mre. Duskin was his legal wife. i : oa has in thought attended the way of the Master, has heard His words, has witnessed His works, and in the presence of His miracles, parables, and scenes supernatural given agsent most henrtily and willingly to the great confession of Peter, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of God." . bitadually there has been the respectiul approach Christmas" Week. The glimpses ove gets of the Divine nature cers Adinly deepen his religious devotions. From the Last Supper, instituted in the upper chambér of the good man whom no one knew but Christ, and drawn towards Him in an ioterview such aw Nicodemus had, there has been the pilgrimage to Gethsamene, the betrayal, the mock trial, the érucifixion, the burial and the resurrection. All these events, as by a series of panoramic views, have passed before bo mind, indivi turned by: LA %.0 t is Christmas Eve. 'The city is ablaze with lights. 'There is a hurrying to and. fro of busy people. Their laughter is car- ried far apon the clear erisp air. The voices are those of h souls, There is a feeling ofexpectancy abroad. Some great inci dent is about to happen, and one that touches all humanity. In every home or hovel there iy talk of what will come the mors row. Strange it is that through the Ideal Man there is the sense of kinship, and once a year at least there is the felicity that affects the masses, Santa Claus becomes the medium of a joy, a pleasiire, an exhilaration that cannot be estimated. The older ones may smile incredulously over some of the stories which they hear--they have growa wiser with the passing years ~hut they ¢an be youny again just for a while, and they can re- towards _ KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1910. GIRL'S AWFUL CRIME Former Kingston Ito a-Drain--lIt 'A special despatch to the Whiz from Rochester, N.Y., says: "The police, to-day, started search- ing for nipeteen-year-old Gertrude En- night, Kingston, said by the police to have dismembered the body of a 4 baby, stuffing parts in the drain and burning others, The erime was discovered in the rooming house, at 99 Broadway. An investigation to find what was clog- ging a bath room drnin pipe di . "el the arms, legs and trunk of an infant. . | "The Enright girl confessed although i she disappeared before Rg. custody. 8 | authorities the girl had rented a room: taken -info Mrs. Van Duren told the fro her some time ago, saying that Rimgzston. "She was a handsome girl, net more than nineteeh years and quiet | and domwure," declared Mra. Van 8 "l cannot believe she could be respon. i | tible for the tragedy." The police allege the girl carvied the { dead body of the infant into . the house and ismembered it with a razor. f | They declare that the head was burn- (8 ed and that the trunk and legs and } AT THE CAPITAL, he Militia Department Will Build a | Its Armouries. | Ottawa, Pr Borde [§ yesterday, Bir Frederick rq | Special to the Whig. Dec. 10.--~In thé house, an nounced that in future the ouries § that have to be built throughout 'Ca- nada will probably. be gonstriucted un. der orders from the militia depart- ment instead of the public works de partment. It is undefstood that the presenti system of calling for tenders for such work will prevail but the militia au thorities will look after it. It is JB contended in some directions that hey A por t certain sections of the country and i of armouries it is officials, so the will probably go into effect. [ time criticizing members of the Et ernment for what appeared to f committee's work. Conservative members took up some then ns an attempt to obstruct business in connection with the public accounts e criticisms } were levelled at Hon. William Pugsley, in § , 10,--~The anti 3 in | of Maj Gen. W. P.¢ Duvall, commanding the United States "The desire of a very large percent: are suré to gratify," says Gen. Duvall, | this deniand of the soldiers previously harm to himself or to the service, is "8 the opinion of the general. But since SS whole- 3 disreputable places where liquor of the | by Claus. hand. i» member, too, when they sal by 'he fivesi He was to them the embodiment all that was pure and good, a fitting type of Him whosé anniversary is so close at "Life is real) life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dist returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." Christ canie to earth to show men how serve, how to suffer, how to grow manly part, how to cultivate and display the Christian grices. Ruskin caught the idea correctly and so pul himself on re- cord by saying : "I have dedicated my life to the interpreta- tion, not of the beautiful in face and "dreamt of Santa ! And now what has the life of Christ suggested to those who . hase been studying it? What are some of its lessons ? One is, as Nonetow puts it, that 3 x to live, how a in virtes, how to act the form, in landscape and gallery, but of the t¥uth and beauty of Jesus Christ." A Japanese oflicer, who accepted of a' Christians sympathy and support in his last hours, treason; saw how far his life had been a failure because it had while under condemnation for not been in accord with the life of Christ. '* The thing that Play at Oberammerg a meal 'and hétoibe in an, us as One who served." vice. I could not help thinking that Christ Himsell was amoog impressed me most," said a tourist who witnessed the Passion " was the Miiry, the mother of Christ. in at breakfast, and an hour later she was the he sublime drama. It was interesting; it was more than that; it was a revelation of the spirit of Chris Jomg woman who person- he served us at the evening It is eyes we need in these days, then, eyes to see all that is passing around us, eyes td penetrate the recesses not i ally to our struting, in order that we may conv i greet- ing or bestow the Christian benefdction which "the season wug- ta, .** I could not sleep," said 2 woman of a most bensvo- fmt characters. 1.1 Rnew th the next block lacked How 'many wing, i 18 or 3 the next house i civil government estimates [militia B mich in some parts of this a ment, § ef word that the university minister of public works, and there was a good deal of talk over dis cussions that there had been last year relative to sub-target guns ac counts, The ho the estima got down fo discussion of and got through the m con nection with the department of jus tive. They also got through sonie of the department ones regarding which Sir Frederick Borden was ssk- sed several questions. The new order that has been issued that all parties wanting to see offi- ¥ cals' at the militia department build Rings, on Slater street, must get is beimg severely criticized. 5 is claimed it resembles "red tape," of which there is perhaps Nn per art: The Free Press, the liberal sheet hete, devoted a column to this matter one day last week, ita criti cism' being quite severe. In the house yesterday, Sir Frederick Borden was guestioned' about the new rule. Professor Prince, the Dominién com- missioner of fisheriey, his just receiv. of St. s, Seotland, the most ancient of Scottish universities, has appointed him the representative of C on the international committee which has Rosebery, the lord rector of the uni- versity, in conmection with the cele bration of the 500th anniversary of , the university. w A Fife Bg 3% fl 1 $ it w ein SAD CONDITIONS. { : Bad Morals. Peterboro, Dec. 10.~"Gross neglect of children, desertion, bigamy, adul- tery, and worse." Ia these words In- or. Gunton, of Toronte, an off iH BE Girl Dismembered Baby's Body Parts Were Burned ard Others Were Staffed is Alleged She Confessed Fled. arms wire stuffed into the bath room drain pipe. ' A t case, containing the tiny litte s of the child, soaked in blood, was found. The Enright girl was not married, according to the officers, and came to the United States in September. The Kingston police weg asked to-day to watch for her, Miss Enright lived in Kingston with ber family until a few months ago, when she went to Rochester. She was employed in a Jocal store. Her people know nothing "of her unfortunate posi- tion, 'The chief. of police has not yet been natified. Another Horrid Tragedy. Sherbrooke, fjue., Dec. 10.--The East- ern townships are aghast over a tra- gedy which occurred last night, here. It is surmised that while James Hous- ton, grocer, and his son, James, were working in the furnace room, the son suddenly struck his father on the head with a hammer, which he was using. He then took his own life by hacki his throat and body. Both were nein. dead. The reason for the act is un known. PITH OF THE News The Very Latest Culled Mrom All Over the World" Nova Scotia crop report is issued. Mackie, a drill runner, was killed at Cobalt by falling machinery, An Armenian interpreter was fined at Brantford for bribing witnesses. A Hamilton womad was fined two hundred dollars for running a lotlery. Mitchell has resicned the general superintendency of the Dominion Steel Works. A Toronto Globe special election cablegram shows few changes in the re vent k ge 'Marshall, 5 lineman, died at Saskatoon as the result of falling from a pole. Rev. J. Boyd, Belfast, Ireland, bas accepted a call to the Baptist church in London. During the worst storm in years at Rexton, N.B.,, a thousand lobsters were washed ashore. > There was an increase in immigra- tion to Canada during the five months of the present fiscal year. The German budget shows that with- in a year she will be able to balance expenditure with her income. Kent county council aims to abol- ish the fee system of paying officials and propose salaried constables, A Toronto bandit, convicted as lead- er of a desperate gang In Chicago, was sentenced to twenty years. The provinecisl premiers in session at Ottawa, have adjolrned and the question of representation stands over, James McGregor, Parry Sound, who Was found on the railway track badly frozen, died shortly afterward ss a result. The expenditures and receipts for eight moniths of the enrrent fiscal year by the federdl government show a gurplus of 000,000. Loyd Smelter was found guilty at Cayuga of burning his father's barn. Macketisie King, speaking at Berlin, presented the naval policy. Toronto men clamour for the dis- missal of the Ontario railway board for not abolishing the pay-as-you-en- ter system on ihe Toronto street rail { way. | Bedouins have massacred (wo hun deed of the Kerak garrison, at Syria, and have slaughtered more than a hundred Chistian inhabitanis of the town. . Oliver Sry ars Niagara Falls, who was fined for emrryiog off his mother; has started legal proceedings to possession of her and her new tune, get for- & Torotito railway to prove they have the proper equipment for maintaining the pay-ss-yowenter system, and the case is ajourned for ten days. Erwin J. Wilder, who confessed stealing $600,000 from the Russo-Chi- dese bank, New York, $400,000 of which was recovered, has made a con: fession, involving two other men whose names have been withheld. Denkiro Kotdkas and twenty-five others are charged with i against ho life of the Emperor of Japan. first court convicted them, recommending capital punishment. The Mine Explo- J sion, ry, Alia, Dee. 10.-A terrific a occurred in Western Danada Colliers' mine, at sy an Crow's Newt Puss, last wight, and forty-five men were entombed. The fire The Ontario: railway board asks the ~ .] King tht is to. be desiced. Cust price doth- hig om LAST EDITION ~rre---- Toronto, Ont. Dec. 1 ) oo tawa Valley snd © - St ! ah Fair and nontinue decidedly cold te. ig day Sunday, her temperathre, and some light snow falla TO - NIGHT HALF PRICE SALE --OF-- WAISTINGS About 200 yards of pretty ma terials of Wool. wool and Bilk, ete Fabrics that would make smart Walsts, Kimonos. ' or Dressing Sacques. We offer them in colors Pink, Green, Yellow, Navy, Rose, Sky and Nile. Many of them are in fancy stripes, and some are spet ef- fects. Regular Price were 4c to 78¢. Sale Price, 260, CASH SALES. NO APPROVAL. Special Sale Tea Cosey Lovers We were fortunate enough te 'se- cure a Set of Samples at about half the regular prices. We offer these pretty. pleces made of White Linen and White Muslin, beautifully embroidered with white or eslere We also show the aatural Hues shades, with colore. Just the thing for a useful Xmas Gift. Cia eee of \ so STEACY'S MARRIED, McCUAIG-~ANGLIN On 14 at 56 Barrack pb Dee, th, Street, by . da P. vy's New Christ Cho are here. Pastor Warns Naggers, Chieago, Dee, 10 sdvies to wives is not to gag thei husbsads. lt may ify your feelings to give why to sn of temper, of it my satisfy yourself and show others how t, is your authority, but it will be uctive of no good results, I thete is anything = wan hate, it is - " In yf © on BE cer" ara aus by. HEF This statement was made by Rab, - liam White Wilson, pas Mark's Episcopal church, in sn dress to the Social Economics Club. a -- Fur Neck Pleces and For Mink, Fox, Alaska mine, Postion Lamb, e. see tho new fadey styl y ' mas presents at Cempbell Kingston's busy fur store. -------- Queen Maria Pin's Debts : ton, e, 10-~The phage of Lo ministry of finance has - wary charged with ps the debt of Quien Maria Pia, randsother ol ¥ansel. House Jackets, Path robes, Dwver's viloe iis ew.