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--~S. J. 'DAILY BRITISH WHIG, punt shed $06-316 King Street, Kingato at 3% per year. Editions at : 30 ar o'clock pm : WEEKLY BRITISH WHIG {published In parts on 'Mor { Thurs day morning at $1 a year i United Stales, charge for postage ito added. making price of I {and of Weekly $1.5 er year { Attached is one of the best Job P ing Offices in Canada; rap: st and cheap work; nine improv The Brish Whig Publishing Cs, Li. ' TORONTO OFFICE. i Suite 13 and 20 Queen | bers, 32 Church .. - Toront J Smalipeice, ,J.P., representative 3 -Batte Wiha. CREATING AN OPINION y There has been an exposure SKATING, the peer of all winter sports, is made means taken by some people i : land in orde ( enjoyable with a and in order to creste a . strong, ceful Cham- H E ora gra of party wer BARNEY & BERRY'S t INN'S HOCKEY, BOKER'S And all the reliable makes. GOODS AND PRICES GUARANTEED fOr Money Refunded. Corbett's. do ptr 3 VY sentiment in favolir of their par fads. A few Canadiar abroad, on very short notice, part. iw the campaign. "A few by could not this kent cabl which were printed in the Englis Y pers, and caused some comment 4 ion whidh is created at command in i reply t6 piteous appeals from the par- ty machine is of precious little value "The marvel is that any attention pei in England to the eablegrams un der the circumstances, Come to t f it, there is no 'evidence that people did take any notice. (anpter can be closed at once. 152 ¢ II: So i---- GOING TO TO THE PEOPLE. Now it iz the Lnited States senate that is threatened with" a reforming and by the, legislatures which at pres ent elect the piembers. Several leg Jatures have passed. resolutions S0UD MAHOGANY Of a rick dark color on Sale at Yards. in fa m the eonstitatior and the efiect. that the senators shall be choken 'by the people. This is the orthodox way of proceeding, however, vor of a change our It ¢an be made in- to to handsome articles of Furni- not at our and the senate may not be to until the becomes stronger and Congress may act, on two-thirds of the mem houses, or the leg FACTORY. * BUY THE GENUINE. disposed do anything Aree the pressure sisfible. S. MNGLIN & 60. Cor Wellington and Bay Streets 'Phone 66. initiation of both bers, in # two-thirds vote, call a conventiof whieh shall proceed to In any event the feeling is in creasing that the senators shall be the elect of the people, and not of the state bodies. The next thing that some people know the electoral col- lege will He repudiated. It of touch with pgpular opinion as the legislatures in selecting senators instance occurred (Tilden's), when man had tite support of a major- of the people and failed to reach we White House. The desired amend- ment may not now be made, but the fact that it is asked for by so many of the legislatures suggests that the state Member Dominion houses are got - 50 satisfied with the trosent method of electing senators Hin Exchange, Ltd. . snd that soomer or Inter there will Mining, Listed and Unlisted have to be a change. Securities. CE ~ CORRESPONDENCE INVITED The hurry and stress and tumalt . 14 King St. East. 'Phone Main 4228, the holiday senson is over. The day Toronto, Ont. 80 long anticipated, the happiest of "all the year, is at hand. Christian people everywhere 'will sink into slum- ber to-night with the most delight- ful expectation with regard to the tures, by may net. is as much tal out of Ktre a o, van REE Gormerty W WILSON, of i de Van' s Female Pills gel able Frenclf regulator ; never fail hose powerful in reguiat 2 ile Kanai: portion of the jemale system. Refuse, fons an'y are Bold at « lor $10. a lod te pany address, : Ling Cou Bt. os, Ont, For "sale at at Mahood' 5 od's Drug So , rp 1 ING'S CAFE ING'S Lunch Counter ANG'S Private Dining : : Rooms ING (James) Prop. 18G ST. Nos 538-342 INGSTON. Now open, Telephone No. 1138. If we please you, tell others. If we don't please you, please tell u extendingly morrow, The Christmas trade has usually been regarded as the best of the year It does not lose in volume with passing years, but it is not so 'much concentrated as in the past. member," said one merchant, enjoying his share of the people's pa trcnage, "when for three weeks before Christmas we were kept busy not only during the day but far into the night." There is more buying than ever, but .it covers a larger territory, and is engdged in by a larger num- ber of merchants, The greater num} ber of people must be catered to, and they are certainly faring better than ever notwithstanding all that is said gard to the high cost of liv- who is re Taken. . witle ro ng. Cn every "Band ony meets familiar face Thele i is the home coming, the widen'ng out again, though\ only for +a day, of the family circle, with all the experiencés that warm and gratify the heart, The Cne whose anniver- sary is kepy so well, and 'with an im- perishable interest, gertainly brought into the old world a Kindness {hat will never die, "and the "Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men," which the atfiels sanz at His birth, will be ths theme of scng and story to the end of time, Let us hope that the planting make the duy an occasion for general rejoiging, fob religious and secular enjoyment, will be complete, and fhat old and ydung, of every classy and condition and creed, will' snare in the festivity, May not one be found with- out the blessed hope and inspiration which Christmas affords, : A TALK ABOU T TYGAT. the | tot of royal blood, is coming to Canada! THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, Te re -------- a reasonable percentage of de]asbunsiassasessescses | * craings, that out of this fund alt} ® : . * repéirs and replacements shople be! The Man * mat, ° ' ® On Walch. and that with care the plants 0000000000008 000000 - § i i : i wuld be maintained in a high state! § ohh ency, 3 The city found ital unfortunately in) josie chat it had not spare x . that it could not raise moneys for emergent improvements by selling iehentures, that there was no help for but' to appropriate the earuings as t as they were collected, and that years, according to the records the department which the Whig has inetd $36,267.92 of the accumu. sted surpluses were thus applied. Had | bem possible to hold all these earn- | i , or the hall of them, for restora- tion purposes, the city would not now be asked to give its eredit for a loan' { #13,000 for new lamps, for the mon- ould be there to buy them. But | city is not a sulferer. The plant was improved to the extent of $36, 9," for 'Which debentures should | have been Yssued, and it. is a small | contingency to now propose the issue | debentures for $13,000, : Let us hope that some day the de partment will" be able to change its methods so that it will be able to maintain a healthy, restoration andg the accumulation of | earnings is that maintenance does not require money there can be] wnother cut in the rates for gas, for ight or power. 'In the. meantime the nstumers of these things mast rejoice | over the benefits they have already received. These benefits may be sum- nrised thus : (a) Reduction in street lighting from $72.66 lamp to $60. the number® of lamps, 40. the reduced rate, $1,962.30 per annum. tb) Collection. of taxes from the aggregating in six years, 320, The water plant is not taxed. sal- 81,- The Lampman notices that in one of | the town churches last Sabbath even | Mg, the nunister was net satisfied to take a text from the Bible, but chose words of Uariyle. The incident has led a townsman to ask if there is bow nothing, left of the old Book put the boards. "'Pochaps this is one 'of the | reasons why people pot 'attend | charen," he says, "Tor seems that | the Book is preached done." The i.ampman tiroks this matter id worth t oudering over. 3 do 118 Now is the time, the Lampman re parss, for the school trustees to use their foresight, and at once purchasy fan up own for another common school. In another vear or two, it will. be dificult) to get sufficient land at a reasonable figure, for 4 sehool build | ng. Another, seat of earning for the { youth of t¥s town may not be built tor four. or five years, but the land {could be. secured and hed. -- It is the Lampman's opinion that {it is 'the lack of male teachers. in the public schools of to- «day that is mak ~ JR boy w% ill- mannered. The vouths are. | nat brought BP In a proper atmos- phere of school discipline. A male teacher would do more for a boy in { making hum manly than , dozen fe male teachers. Sometimes boys, who require to be strictly disciplined, go through their school life without hav- ing amale teacher over them. If they ! are: inclined to be ill mannered, they will not Likely improve. The Lampmian thinks the time has come when petti- j cont control in schools should be inssened, He would have legislation passed requiring male teachers to be engaged for all classés after the senior { turd in cities and towns. © Increase in | a Saving by | The Lampman wonders if many a old fownsman would not like to-day, to be a little boy again, and be | tucked in bed on this Christmas Eve | with his stocking hanging up, await- g the arrival of Santa Claus. He's {ture thet many would. It takes Christ. { mas to make men voung again, and f to make them kind, for *there's joy {in happy memories." The Lampman | hog we that the Christmas of all Whig { readers may be bright and happy THE TOWN WATCHMAN. H T i i the { 267 ac count, per dant ~14 {e) Proportion of civie officials' ries charged against the plants, 5.00 per anmum: : th On the three items the city to the extent has benefitted in six. years { 251.05. { This is the municipalify's side of it. here is another side, the consumers', nd it is worth while to look at it. The advantages are these: (1) Saving in gas : Yates--for lighting, 12.03 in 1908, and '818,011.60 in or a total in two years of 334,- t i i 16,3 1900, } Saving in incandescent lighting, ! 8 etwas the rates charged by the company and city, in 1908, $9,472.09, and in 1910, $10,099.20, {3) Saving in the cost of power, 34,- 000, (4) Total saving on three items electricity, $23,571.29, The gain to the consumers has; there- fore, in two years alone, in reduced the two departments, been of rates, in $57,924.92. The city a result, Liquid Linguist, "Pa, does whiskey talk ?"' "Yes, my son, it knows tongues." and the consumers can, as the more cheerfully contem- the improvement of the street lighting with the assurance that the taxes will not be aflected, as some sup- pose, that the lamps will be economical in the use of power, and that in consequence qther lamps can larger number of of good 1 i i many plate An Unusual Sight. Perth Courler. Three - men near Smith's Falls unusunl spectacle They were engaged cutting wood when a partridge hopped of - the {bueh and stood moticuless a short dy | tance from them. The men, cons } ja néw working in the woods witnessed a fow days most a ago an be erected and people have the advantage street a + out Lighting. EDITORIAL probability w ork and watched the bird. Just ther 1 red squirrel came out of his den a tei chattefing. A dog which ul | accompanied the men to the woos jheard the squirrel and made a' dart { towards it. The little animal frightened glance around and espying $10,000 | what he thought to be a stump, hop- ped on top of it. The motionless ob {ket proved to be the partridge and it peo } immediately rose up and flew awg ay, carrying the squirrel with it. Theis: | NOTES. the school ques to the property coun In all tion owners that crease without we will be relerred imagine a kicks against a small ', in- Une cannot gave cil { in salaries "granting | a protest, Earl has ofl nded some PIS hig Saving. Your shildren fn Soh | tdhished choppers watched the unusual are withput man" sight until partridge and squirrel dis- Isn't that indictment a little | oppeared from view, but how far the And the noble earl is us- partgidge carried © the strange burden | they could not ascertain. To-night, No reasonable offer will be on any fansy goods. You may at Best's this evening. - What thought teo high may be within your means. Grey parts of {Ontario ners." sweeping ? ually so suave and sensible. 'Séhool * sites used to gost a5 hundred The highest paid heretofore has bean $1,700. it give $6,500) more if certain buildings are not re sold. The board must think it i= acting for millionaires! re pfused offre you dollars. Now ww proposed to or school At Alexandria Bay the contract for rebuilding the stéamyaekit Louise owned hy George C. Boldt, whose ' Insurance ~gainst unemployment is r ; ths thing that will ean and | Summer house is located on Wellesles | Island, ssite this resort, has beer hold the public attention. Germany |i. ¢, Hoon Bros. is experimenting in it. A fad, See King's bill-of-fare, for oh 3 . A o say. Perhaps. So was old age insur-| and Xmas day, on page Ted : y - ahoe, but it is going well, and no On Joannary 2nd the ratepayers one dpories it any longer. Kemptville will vote on a bylaw Manuel, formerly of Portugal, Sunday ol to you * | incrosse the liquor licenses to $400. Temptation alenya 'dresses in most becomi attire. See King's bili-of- fare, for Sunday and as day, on page S. ens know yourself mighty well educated. As erities, most of us assume its and Jo lodk over the country and per haps settle in it. Out west he will not be lotespmg. He will find some illus trations of what Marden (of Suecess) means when Be writes of "Every man a king" > you are too i T | Ang | Por {of the | force 1910. { % - DR. SOPER- DR. WHITE, Specialists in Blood, Nerves, Blad ments of men + One visit sdvisal send history for f vice. Question diseases of free Medicine form. Hours : 10 men blank furnished 2 to § p.m. Sundays. * DRS. SOPER & WHITE 25 Torento Street, Toroute, Ont. disegses of Skin, dder and 3pecial All At impossible, pinion and ad- and book on Consultation in tablet am. ie 1 pan, acd 0am tol pw hie. : ree free TO AG: AIN 0 As Reeve of Portsmouth--Sketeh' of Rn J. i Ln terstood nr t Ba Portsme ot ctal 1 1 not He is well-known several vears he w trustee, and filled man Iso, the a nuthber al the village in fame coun hance that be time, Sery n HN Tere hean in reli and ie Lies, tive f soelely. a memi commit of the Kir He an and straightforvas thing and has convictions toe re is In r. Mal Britain the e reselted in a One that rors is A the } not writer, fo. demucd ma right to commit Japanese way, ed favor It with by is im forbids the Moreover, that it the cris tm no such chance. to witness any {tion of capital tried has not' clined irary, had has been ace "ease in the numby hi only time, the Pri Agitation fq conthe cha more humane FER HIMSELF Baiden. J. BAIDEN thie KR." f for He is Ba h der and Kingste rs he hs i te 3 But \ essiul n wee n his ov public man + public office of He member by Fe th chai Hines i nd / when Baiden litiora of thy te is T i% n Hort earnest, d 12st man courage m i t w a Change. Xe vig Benson, ma with all she i, the least This ot be British ntain cor have th aed will tt wi takin is minal We tne 18 i regare t he g of one's ow argued, and wit his "nt law gave m the to the exper i duce abel: whereve the hment ot , of the cor ompan eo: by er of murders Ladies of Montreal in men, Star. Uvmpan, all suff mpane led ges taken rm of contractors rex! a dynamite 'b ast the tiry i roe said to be rd of a female it. Two ladies hen the jury ave felt ot called oes 10 i i fwued i twelve ladies a di case his was upon t th poss show ury service wovelty, Therd is hundred, but wan rive up Ji seat i Indy, or Seven to n aggrieved because they at wi la iB bron in the hi ry who for Te wer which onl for the fair esses the cb not one me id be delighted 1 n a jury box to nother man. 0 srrve; See the new Clot od 'to-day at the College Pook Store. {ee Go to the King Fdward Cigar Store i h Books, Hie, open fer your smokers' supplies. ant" is usmaliv the forerumper ¢ Mr. Fieldiig is returning to Can- ada greatly improved in health. A few days ago a Conservative paper + nimated that his case was very bad, © Repub 2d To i011. 119%. Parent Kw der the rece a meaber ng tr gar vil school was ouispoke ition 'of Crippen orous discussios wstion of capital' punishment. its hor publie, dofinuae vie likely by « criminally in an in 1 is wi w r- 1 n 1 } ww thet n n i i pr ox if i COPOPP0000000040000040 202000000000 00600000 suIt ; OVERCOAT RANCOAT BATH ROBE NICHT ROBE SEE OUR £3.00 : LEATHER SUIT CASES, : - MEN'S OVERCOAT, $12.30, Fine Black Beaver, : or 2) rell College Ulster. _ MEN'S SvIgs, $135, A Swell Fancy "Worsted or: : English Blue and Black Worsted. MEN'S SUITS, $18.00. « Just received beauties in Fapey newest real Worsteds, colorings, fine English Cheviots and Serges, hand- tailored garments A beauty for : some $18.00. LADIES: UMBRELLAS, $2.00 Will nobby buy a beauty Very handles We Initial Our U Free ~UNDERWEAR HANDKERCHIEFS . HOUSE COAT SUSPENDERS UMBRELLA BATH 'ROUEN, SLT very nobby Somethlfig peat and MEN'S OVERCOAT, $135.00. two-style col, 20 qualities 3 'New" Speedway. lars Regular $8 for $15.00 MEN'S SUITS, $12.00. A very patty Tweed Suit patterns. New styles. Neat | COATS. Queen's MEN'S SWEATER RM KCl, and Colors, $2.95, 83.00, 84, £5.00, Whites, plain $4.50, amd" Browns, } fancy New Greys and Smoke, trim, £1.30, or 2.50, K3.50, 8. 2; § $4, $4.50, MEN'S U MBREL L AS, $1.00, $1.30, $2.00, $3.00 to 7 sa.w0. See cur Suit Case Umbrella, $3.00, $3.50, $4.30, mbrellas GLOVES. See our English Gloves, in Mocka and Kid Something extra, '$1.50, POU OPUOPOVVIPVIP000P00000 00000000 0VV00400000000 GH0400HGHH00 5c s1.00 K1.50 qualities, qualities, qualities, T5¢, in Fancy Box. $1 SHIRTS, Shirts. - New for Xmas trade. See our $1.00 Line. See our White Pleated Shirts, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50. Dainty Neckwear Elegance 50¢, in Fancy Hox, 00, in Fancy Box. i wood The H.D. The Big Store With Little Prices. Bibby Co} * : TO GET A MEDAL, Man Strangles Escaped Wolf Bare Hands, Dec. 21-A police asked for Policeman of Brooklyn, who, k life battled | wo vhich escaped from the stage of the of Brooklyn biting the sta» f2 animal With York will New dal WETOVE f his own its cage on tin alre oht While the Cosgrove his of bites pet- men exits strang hands, t on the legs before assistance arrived and infuriated rast Ww in audience a wir towards nee ntod, with bare receiving SCOTe th as caged Cr -- -------- -- Armametity on the Lakes, News "Waaking ton ecorresp New York Hora) i has referes incident nica of the Americ Judicial Settlement Hisputes There was burst of enthusiasm ust before the tervoon ' The ( : Mh ndent of Lao i follow the 'Loe g nee 10 an at jt ten nal coulis Society for tern ational tio af. scsmion adjourned, caused remarks by In Flies » and Justice William Ren loll, of the high court of Or wdvoest 2 immediate abou oi its by United v gread lakes. The ssion argee when John A. Stewart, w York, ealled attention to the tron planned for 1914 ration of the cemtenary freaty. of Ghémt a ome mrs of peace. Ir. Eliot sue: it the date be shifted to 1917, ehrate the first proposal i 1817, by Canada for the removal of wrmaments on the great lakes. He was imme liately followed by Justice Rid dell, wid read df letter from the Cen- teinary Association of Toronto, urging that the United States might see fit to add to the cilebration the perman ent rvelinquishment of arms on the igreat lakes. i ---------- The Lords' Record. «wa Free Press > Winston Churchill having sated that "no sirigle mesetre passed by the Commons enn reared wito inw iwhin the liberals are in office," an ex- ! movinmtion of the British parliament- nro records revezls the interesting fact whet of fmportamt liberal messaves mynd ~ ro nment n the the { ies. on : ois in con . anmiver- the Ne + wnt up sinee 1868 the lowds have kill: ed twenty-two amd mutilated eleven. : Not. ome ball sent up by the gov: in the same period ba ih: | horo Amphion | arms { by | mutilated or htered { er been lon for tay fa uy pe tiny How a woul ain 1 oeful that the gle chamber protective T wher i the {per how { liberals t PORE w 3 Have the | Modern Revelations, Was I'he | perst simpl fore Ren re . BOW hen » hant fer the pathetic fonger stand j deck, and before the pasing generation the boy down § I my : hed 8 per research, | fof Casa fron burping ROOET al { bianca. No does i Cormenn boy in the of anoth reputed yned ship who ih WH oi And now : X es th fhe which for collieries has bees i with Phry ueen of beauty fomalation in faet, | that Phrype did vot win aequitt from her Athenian. pelgés by rem her veil and revealing her mary beauty. Well, perk Ape, did not; bat we are very corifin that she hid been a modern woman she would have dope so on scientist tr Fefitiom i : > ang al ng € ous Monday, Dee. 26th. . For the econventende of wiih, people wha have forgotten someone, Best's will be open Monday wrong," from 9 till 1. Keep this in mind, The. Trusts and Guarantees company, limited, Toronto, have been appointed sdminisifator of the estate of Macy Ann Sehefler, late of the sity of To The setate consists of an 3 are in the property known as Adelie street west. The swrvvvioy heirs "are Noah Seholier, husband, and Lene Powers, winter. v A whole lot of people in this sig world mem to Gave lost esmtrol of tiwir hands, so far ns work rontan EE Hare, for Sunday