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The best and largest assortment. Priced at 50c to $5.00 Hockey Sticks. i0c to S0c Defy Competition. Satisfactory or money refadad | CORBETTS | We are Specialists in Stair Work Show Cases Interior Finish S. Anglin & Co. (He DAILY BRITISH KLY BRITISH HIG, 18 morning at §1 a To { WEE hy be making price TORONTO OFFICE~~Suite 13 and THE DAILY BRITISII WHIG, THE WHIG SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR wig, published at Jog 2 Ontario, at $6 per year. Editions at 2.30 and 4 King Street, Kingston, os, seri in parts on Monday and States charge for postage had to nited of Daily $3 and Weekly $1.50 per year. Attached {s one of the best Job Printing Offices in Canada; rapid, styl- ish, and cheap work; nine improved presse THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED J. G. Elllett, President, Leman A. Guild, Sec.-Treas. 20 Queen City Chambers, 33 Church Street, Toronto. H. E. Smallplece, J.P, representative. The party in Britain has deliberately, repudiated dum. In 190, and on the eve of an election, the party was divided {on tariff reform. Baliour, the leader, "hesitated, ave declined, to commit {his party to it. Jodeed he.had the knowledge that some members of it, and some newspapers, would not be committed. A happy idea came to the protectionist faw.ion. tory the referen- tariff j reform or In the ekoction there were several i-sues, notably the conflict between the Com- +mons and the Lords, and Home Rule for Ireland. 1t could not het seid, when the voting was over, that tariff reform was carvied if the unionists { won, but they would end all doubt upon the question by a referendum. | Mr. Balfour said this was "eminently i consistent with the whole true idea {ot popular government." Lord Lans, [ downe, the leader of the party in the | Lords, said that there would not be any tariff changing wntil a referendum {had been tnken and the people lad expressed themselves favourably. When Albert these leaders had spoken in THE REFERENDUM ABANDONED. won the eleotion." With defeat, a crushing one, no more was heard about tariff reform. The Balfour party abandomed it. Of ! late there have been occasional refex- cuces to it, and at last, in the same Albert Hall, Lord Lansdowne claved that the referendum has dropped. The election gave party "Ireedom' on the subject. party may give some place to referendum, but will be no longer hampered by any promises. And all that Bonar Law can say is "Me too." Henceforth the slogan is tax the food- stufin--~all of them sent from Canada and so "diminish the burdens that are falling upon the poorer classes." The tory party of England and the pafty on this subject. the T he | tory alike In the election the Borden party caught the | nationalist vote with the promise of | to dumb, referring the paval question people. Now the leader is but his handy men, from Pelletier down, repudiate the idea that the re ferendum should be resorted any circumstances. Mr. Borden must make some apology for change to under his Hall, Loudon, the cry 'It has ° was CAUSE FOR A The ds engaging large attention in New York, and not with- oui much reason. Mr. Patrick was « practising attorney and hgd some cop nection law with W./M, Rice, a Yenlthy recluse, who di suddenly. Patrick offered the Rice will for pro- bate, and according to this will he | was the heneficiary the extent of Patrick case J of programme. What will it be? N AGITATION. tion illegal. The case dragged along, unsettled, until this vear, ernor Dix pardoned the conviet. The remarkable thing is that governor conferred with one re- fpecting it. had | consulted the prosecuting attorney and when Gov- the no Former governors a result, declined to pardon. Dix ask- J relerendum, has dog been the | of Canada are somewhat last | the | judge--Jerome and Gofi--and had as i WEDNESDAY, is a matter of deep 1 The people of Toronto will, by a in the municipal election, i determine whether the legisiature for an amendment in permitting of the taxation of land values. It is a pity the people without this they will petition the law cannot get proceedure. an option The Ottawa Journal says that in a fighting speech against the charges of misconduct in the Macdonald Richelieu elections, Hon. Bob Rogers produced some strong evidence "and made an impression in the house." And immediately, to escape the tan- ning of Mr. Carvell, he escaped from | the house. Fights and runs away, eh ? HAPPILY MARRIED, Men Whose Lives Were Brightened By Loving Wives. When Frederick Morel, the writer, | was told that his wife was at the point of death, he did not throw { down his pen, but remarked: i "1 am very sorry. She was a | good woman." + "Might 1 have had my own will," sald Montaigne. "I would not have | married Wisdom herself." But in spite of tnese and numer- | ous other instances there have been | men of literature who could write of conjugal fruition from an experi- j gues extending through unclouded, beautiful years. Sir Walter Scott relation, was happy, I his first wife, but also with his ! second. Cowper enjoyed matri- mony, and Moore was happy mated, and Shelley's second mar- riage was the entrance upon a joy- ous period of domestic life. | Wordsworth had many years of gladness with his wife, and Prof. Wilson was. well married, and Dr. Johnson, who was 21 years younger than his wife, "continued to be un- der the illusion of the wedding day till the lady died, in her 64th | year. Numa, who is unlike all the other | kings of early Rome, since he was a sort of poet, holding company in still retreats with the' muses--this Numa had a sweet wife of the name of Titia, who "was partaker i his retirement and preferred the calm enjoyment of life with her husband in privacy, to the honors and distinction in whici\ she might have lived with her "ather at Rome." \ There was Plutarch also, { whose days in marriage, were all Oe brightest He named his and in his marriage not only with PECEMBER 4, 1912 TANDFOLD coe Convertible Coat Suitable for our Winters (omorecrEo BY parent) OVERCOAT $8.50 Ulsters New SALE $15.00 Overcoats Senator styles, silk velvet col riltions: of dolla. nly I'wo way collar, full length, single ! Relatives of Rice took ove long they ' had ed no one for advice, pardoned Pat- | rick, sealed the record, and refused to § speak. lars, reversible tweeds, fancy pockets, ete. Beautifully tailored, regular $1 values. Bibbysspecial - $15.00 daughter after his wife, in attes- tation of his fond admiration and of his tender devotilon throughout Cor Bay & Wellington Sts. and Patrick arrested, of action, and double breasted style, dark to that wife. brown, bronze and Tweeds, FREE AN ELECTRIC IRON OR TOASTER. lighted | now by titi Every hone from Electrici A will Electric Iron or Toaster free receive an Come and have it explained. We are wiring homes every day. LET US WIRE YOURS, H. W. Newman Electric Co 79 PRINCESS STREET, 'Phone 441. STOVES AND HEATERS, good assortment tor sale, reason. ron Beds, Dressers, Stands ables, Purniture of all Bought and sold. SUGARMAN, 232 Ontario Street, te ©: 'Ss Wholesale Grocery arlo Street, What could be more suliable for for. as Christmas Gift than Furie: Call ange of goods and A are our prices ae Furniture of all kinds aught and sold. Highest prices L. LESSFS Ld STREET. FhouS 1045. i prisons and punishments, - 3 Io | largely due to the man who gives the He was charged with the murder Rice, and the valet of this ian, C.F, that he was hired by to chloroform the old the nefari Jones, the attorney swore He had carried out ous plot. This was in 1900, In March, 1902, Patrick was Ip April of the same vear he was senténeed to die in the electric He married in the Toombs. A pew trial was denied him hy the court of appeal in 1005. In J Desemies he was resentenced to die. In July, 1906, a motion for a trial was denied. The case was car vied to the supreme court, but the ap- peal was dropped in order that Gov ernov. Higgine, of the-state, might be able to pass upon the éiwe? Higgins commuted the sentence to imprison- ment for life. In 1909 the appelate man oon- vieted, chair. was new This comes at a peculiar time when Judge Goff has been establishing jus- tice on a sure foundation, when he has expedited the trial of some men, and quickly followed their con- viction with sentences. One of the conviets is ex-Chamberlain Hyde, a very influential man, partner ol the present mayor, and his election manager, bad once a law There has been a demand "in New York for a Board of Pardons, an in stitution which would take away from the governor the responsibility of dealing with criminal cases. This de- mand has been revived. The people for whom the governor acts want ehe assurance that a pardon in some mys- terious way will not be handed out gunmen whose conviction has cost the court declared the Higgins commuta exception has been taken by the Brantford Expositor to the eriti- cism by Mr. Archibald, parole officer, of what are referred wu: 8 "the Hanna methods" of reforming the convicts for 'shorter terms in On: tario. Mr. Archibald, of whom owe must speak kindly in any case, and especially in view of the very serious illness through which he has passed, has occasion to be proud of the pa- role 'system. It has been a pro- nounced and this fact is Some the dominion success, Act effect." Mr. Archibald is a of good judgment. He knows human nature so well. He also understands the con- viet life, and has the confidence of the large prison population with which he comes into contact. In thirteen years he has authorized 4,379 paroles, and only 237 ean be regarded as delin- quents. Reduced to a percentage, this it only 5.17 of the? whole, and the number of convictions subsequently was only 2% per cent. Of those whose licenses had been enncelled the per centage was 3. Thi exhibit was the bighest commendation of the work in which Mr. Archibald had been ens gaged. ! In his report, Bowever, e hsagrond with those who would sneep neay He did not approve of oppressive measures in man state so much. MR. HANNA'S PAROLE METHODS. th: but he did think the prisoners should be disciplined penitentiary, as a means to an end, and that end the re form the individual. nest decade or says Mr. Archi- Lald, "it has been demonstrated with- "ut a shadow of doubt that industrial ruthods, strong and healthy dis- tipline, accompanied by a parole, pro- duce good habits create moral and very results have acerned in the afterlife of thousands who have found their footing through the systems of our penitentiaries, and are now occupying good positions the social life of the dominion." In all this Mr. Archibald did not ge "the Hanna methods," and one ix inclined to question the Expositor's criticism, since Mr. Archibald is well koown to the Whig and should be, in its opinion, in perfect accord with the Ontario parole Hon. Mr Hanna did not make any sudden and surprising departure. \ commission inde a thorough enyuiry into the pa- tole system. The chairman of this commission was Mr. Downey, now the bead of the Mimico asvium. The ex. jedimin in Canada has been regarded sx a' succe 8, and something will he heard of it when Mr. Hanna addresses the Canadian Club, on Thursdas--sven- ing, in this oify. This story, told sise- shee, haw been of very great inter. #24, oi "During the two," and fibre, excellent in fir to system. "EDITORIAL NOTES. Horauy iw opposed to the giving a grant tu the British savy and a |i canedian savy. He is in favour of §| const ded and sub Only (that and nothing more. i Nationalism, according fo its found ines, water works system Judge Gunn re rommends that Ottawa place its utili vies under the management of a com- ion. Do our people nol see in this the tendency of the times * i -- for the benefit of Becker, Hyde, or the In a beautiful epistolary portrait of his \Trinixena, he represents her as being far above the general weakness and affectation of her sex, as having no passion for the expen- | sivenes or the parade of public ap- pearance. The world does' not know all the happy homes in it ;out of the doors of which there do come, at one time and another, manuscripts of thoughts or of sentiment which thrill the Hving race, In a right match, books and learning do no more divide husband and wife than do beautiful chikiren, or a pleasant journey, or a new i house all paid for Beautifully have passed away the lives of pairs, the marriage of whose hearts was contemptoraneous with the marriage of their minds. " When the wife of Plautius ddd, it is said that he threw himself upon the lifeless bosom and breathed no wore. He could not endure exis- tence separated from that help mate, so devotedly loved, so devot- edly loving. Pliny said that his wife, "study } Het." Historians, painters, sculptors mugicians, poets, statesmen, philo- sophers--these have become fa- mous; but who has told how far their triumphs were owing to the noiseless influence of their wives ~Philadelphia inquirer. er his manbood, of res death one on the was his An Advance Notice, 1f_you be no kin to me Nearer, say. than cousin, Let no busy Christmas bee In your head start buzsin'. Vain, it were to look nig way Christmas gifts pursuing, This year on he happy das There'll be nothing doing | H no ties of family ! Bind us close together, chance to be iriendship's tether, mind ap, you'll be If we merdly Linked bs i Make vour miss- ed When' the gifts are dropping. You're not on our Christmas When we start our shopping. fist, I by birth or marriage, you Cannot claim refition, Don't expect that we'll As befits our station Do not look for gloves or Book racks, poorly jointed, For as sure as tempus flies You'll be disappointed. Aunts and uncles by the Nephews, nicers, cousins, We're obliged to purchase for They rum into dozens. And we've got to practice thrift Event though we dread it, No ouisider gets a gift come through Live, sGore, regular $10 and 812 values, sizes 35 to 44. Bibbys special Shi BIBBYS Limited Men's and Boys' Departmental Store Watch for our | | irt Sale grey The $8.50 Our Nobby $20.00 Ulsters. New Reversible collars, English style. plain sleeve with or without belts, new Scotch fabrics clils tailoring, shield lined with best (ual new colorings. ity satins. Real dandies. Sol stores at $22.50 and £25.00 Bibbys special . 78, 80, 82 PRINCESS Some all Canada Raglan or plain with Storm collars finest line of X15 Oveércoats in sleeve, enfls Very High | Watch for our Shirt Sale | In most $2000 | STREET. ( YOUR F. J. JOHNSON hingston's Leading Filovis(. and. be Fresh Lillies, and Flowers houses eve and flora} scription a sure of Roses from satisf Car ® se. our ry 1ay designs specialty 'Phones--Store, 1212 ence, Greenhou ORDER WITH LIA tl | TAN EET season. This year. She has said it. ' Prof. Pember Coming. On December 10th Prof. Pember, the well-known hair goods man of Toron- to, will visit Kingston, and a' his rooms in the ; Randolph hotel, will show a full line of hair goods for both ladies and gentlemen. Evervone in teresiod is invited to call and inspect these goods. Don't forget this Tan Footwear. REID & Tans are going to be all the rage in Footwear this We have made special preparations for the demand, and will be able to offer you some of the swellest goods ever shown for men, women or children -- a-- TALK IRE WEIR SU when looking for the latest in CHARLES 'Phone 186. E. BLAKE THOMPSON, Real Estate, Loans and Fire Insurance ---- Agent for---- Union Assurance Soc'y & Liverpool-Manitoba Assurance Coy. | OVER NORTHERN CROWN BANK. MARKET SQUARK, KINGSTON, ONT. - ---- ; win - rar | The question has been asked, Is "RAW FOR DS. Santa Claus a myth * And one Sun | ) Cay school paper says he may, but ( : LD pa IB that is not a reason for destroying ail the pleasantries associated with the eld man's name. The dismissal of the action against Me, or, is sironger than ever. But some Filow it doos sot show 'itsell. Ig is only strong in the minds of Bowrasss Jona Lavergne. : P a - HUTT Ee --------------------------------------_