4B: weesiajuidialticie ey ae ners es Sere ope Lia 9 % e oi % THAR DAILY BKAMINER, CHARLOT?TBTOWN, DECHMRER 15 1900. CANADA ee ee = 2 SCOTLAND ENGLAND IRELAND fst " e ff} i ata r ‘TTrAAa nN AMRIQ , MAPFrI OTT Arran a Lid PSUpPic Lo whaFiQGUen twit GE ee a e . 4. ca r ® oH or 15 C1 "AeA Oo eo" SE : we » ‘ ' " litoe Rhicedl as : a rw es Ln maa iy anyone to make ad = = Ge és sxainst the & aa @ —-7 CD © > m — = oo 7 a Se Tiafantarc ee te ue y 10 75 fance r v = & i to Here’s a Few Defenders. Men’s Overcoats, 10.75, det UNDERCLOTHING. LOVES. YD > Sée.0) As eci: : eon ees re : . sill . a _ i ” . 3 ai ~ - ; ecial heavy ¥Y WOOL KNIT f10Vve OI M ns ULitsters $4.90 aert. price &? QS Van's ()vercoats 15.00, cetence ae . _ . I ”, il 7 ae ‘on ee 10 . pate Shirts and Drawers 65c, defence mit, covered with leather, long +. 4+), 25 ynrice {) 50. ° a a il ae age ie 6.75 175; — Th Coats are a great defence price 4c. pe a Getence price S0e. = Soa 4 de age oats ; “ vy] At aC iil vm) a7 - , . or - wm S € 200 s10 e190 214 insu : en : } ak “y: : nae iii ; Bette I gloves are Mocha. $] to pe _ , 8.00, 91U, Sia, Sit, agalmst Cold wi eather. Shirts and drawers 73c, defence Kid Gloves 45c to $2 defence price 18 $2 to $3 less than a } reowwiar regcuid’®r. SUITS. +r . . adie ‘ie . Ook Shirts an@ drawers $1, defence There is no excuse for you Men’s Suits, $3.75, def. price #2.55 neice Ts an@ darawe 1, defence = : ‘< cA Te ee te ; if you refuse to defend your- £49, 6 <= oe ee : self with » of these Ulsters 6.49, %.29 Shirts and drawers #2, defence self with one of these sters 6.50 nrice $1.50 price $1.50. ae “« 8.50, price 5Uc. These suits are a sure defence ‘against doctors’ bills. OVERCOATS Men’s Overcoats, $6.75, defence price $d. . Men's price 6.75. Now defend yourselves. ‘yourself at these prices. a } ‘ —— +. ~ren 'Men’s Trousers,$1.75, def. price (oc. We cannot see where you wit Overcoats. 8.75, defence have any defence for not defending Now, gents, please defend your life with a good warm suit. ever seen. enemies, high price and me he We've some of the greatest defence for the hands you've IS ay = ENGLAND'S DEFENCE MAGNIFICENT > ARE WE MAGNIFICENT IN OUR DEFENCE.... over charge ; also we terrible cold of the winter _ And the greatest defence of all isa Moeha glove, lined with fur, $2.25 to $3.25 the pair. Now, iadies, if you want to de- fend the gentlemen this winter just * make them an Xmas present oi a pair of these defenders. Of, by the way, Ladies Don’t forget that we’ve just oper: eda new lot of Outing Hats, in pearl, grey, fawn and red. They're just a littie later than the early ar- rivals,75c, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75. The only defence we have to offer for these extremely low prices is that we have too much stock and not enough money ; we are trying hard to reverse it PROWSE SROTHERS, The Champion Clothiers. A BILLIONAIRE. Beit, the Diamond King, is the Richest Man in the World. Alfred Beit. who is about to form a trust to corner’ the world’s gold supply, will, it is said, shortly ) for large credits by business men;but the present condition near the diamond fields. Alfred Beit was then 22, shrewd, | the genius of Beit, who was the capable, cautious and precocious. jfirst to see that unless something His father sent him out to South|was done to control the output, Africa to investigate the general diamonds would become too cheap state of business there and to deter- to mine, mine whether the trade demanded He began by buying up the scat- the credits and if the credits were ‘tered and conflicting claims. To take unto himself an American wife in the person of Mrs. Odolf Landen- burg, the beautiful widow of the} late New Yori banxer, who was lost | at sea Many years ago. Beit is the richest man in the world. As far as personal wealth | is concerned, he the monarchs of Earope and never know that he 1d passed through any axtrardinary transaction. The im- mense possessions of American mil- lionaires are small matters when compared with Beit’s wonderful wealth. Millionaire is a big word, but it doesn't fit Mr. Beit. He is a billion- aire, and, if he desired to do so, he -guld so handle his property as to become a trillionaire in ashort time. He has all he cares for, and if he can avoid attracting too much at- tention to himself he will make no complaint. MADE JT IN SOUTH AFRICA. All of Beit’s wealth has been pro- duced and accumulated in South Africa. He is the brains and the biggest part of the diamond trust and the principal owner of the fa- mous DeBeers diamond mines at Kimberley and of the gold mines farther north. His partner is Cecil Rhodes, the South African imperialist, and ex- ploiter, but Rhodes is only an inci- dent in the diamond line when com- pared with Beit. Rhodes was a late comer, and the ingenious German bad all but completed the work of organization when the Hon. ;Cecil put in his appearance at Kimberley. Mr. Beit is 47 years old. His father was a well-to-do merchant in Hamburg 25 yearsago, and Alfred was a clerk in the concern, About thattime the South African excite- ment begunto grow important, and the |Hamburg merchant was asked . Ee ee es ee ee i could buy out all | of the South African monopoly is due to asked—$25,000 and even $160,000— in salaies. All this work was.done so quietly that the great world. knew nothing of it, and tremenduously rich prop- ‘erties were not advertised to any extent abroad until dashing, peer- less, sensational Cecil Rhodes came good. accomplish this work he was liber- | along and drew the attention of the - Thoroughly equipped with ally backed by his father and his: civilized world to Kimberley. funds, arms, letters of fathers friends in Germany. The/{ Beit never played to the public. He introductin and other use- result was the great De Beers| worldnow and thenamaze the trade, ful things, the boy set sail for Company, which for many years hasias when he cut down a 4284 carat Cape Town from Hamburg. Thence | paid 5 1-2 per cent, on its bonds and he travelled by bullock team across from 20 to 40 per cent on its stock. Cape Colony and on to Kimberley. It is capitalized for $40,000,000. When he arrived at that already. SENT FOR AMERICAN ENGINEERS. famous mining camp he found @ Nextgcame the gold discover- population which the fierce compe- jes and here, too, Beit was the first tition and search for quick riches organizer in "the field. He desired had made mad. Everywhere the the mines should be worked upon scramble for diamonds had produced ¢he hichest scientific principles. To chaos and confusion. Thousands of ¢pis endhe sent to America for en- men had rushed in, taken up claims, | good and pad, worked and re-worked | the yellow and blue clay which was filled with big rough precious stones scattered through its sub- red t With Point Forward.”° stance like raisins in a pudding, and were selling their new-found trea- oint a sures at ridiculously low prices. The thorn P of disease Theve was not evena semblance of| & an ache or pain. Bat the law or orderjanywhere. Competition) Blgod ¢s the feeder of the had ruined hundreds of small capital- | kad : whole body. Purify it with ists. Theft was commonplace. Illicit, Hood’ s Sarsaparilla. diamond buying had grown to en- s proportions, and altogether , ; Ce ee ace °. Kidneys, iver and stomach will at ence respond? No thorn in this point. the situation was such as to disgust the mind of a man bred to the busi- Severe Palins—“I had severe pains ln my stomach, # form of neuralgia. My ness methods of a staid, conserva- tive Hamburg commercial COD-| mother urged me to take Hood’s Sarsapa- cern. rilla and it made me well and strong. I have also given it to my baby with satis- factory results. I am glad to recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla to others.” Murs. Joun La PaGE, 240 Church St., Toronto, Ont. te Exhaustion—“ After treat- ment in hospital, 1 was weak, hardly able to walk. My blood was thin. 1 took Hooa’s Sarsaparilla until well and gained 20 lbs. ** The Thorn Comes Forth SENT OUT TO ESTABLISH ORDER. Young Beit saw and aprreciated | the situation. He realized that’ there could be too much of a good thing, even of diamonds, and that unless the industry was brought, It also benefited my wife.” Dresden, Ont. under control, diamonds would be-, come adrug. Atonce he began‘a'| work which is generally credited to’ Cecil Rhodes—that of organizing | and systematizing the diamond in- dustry. Rhodes came years afterward, and (of course, hadjahand in the game, ARTHUR MILLS, | sance, some pronounced it this. that |or the other. The whole dispute was st by a clever literary woman, | South African. ”’ | Ten years ago Beit and Rhodes | pure white diamond to 228) carats |and placed it in the window of a goods. ”’ Mr. Beit is the poorest-loking rich man on earth. His clothes are so very plaim as to be almost shabby. He never discusses his trade. with outsiders, but beneath his mild and apparently diffident ex- terior is a capacity for busimess un- surpassed by that of any man in the great commercial countries of Christendom. His wealth has been estimated at $1,000,000,000, but this keeps no ac- count of the few barrels of diamonds which he keeps stowed away for fear of lowering prices. Then, too, as he alone fixes the measure of h's wealth—that is, he controls the | price of diamonds—he can decrease or increase the value of his wealth | by a word. | Mr Beit came _ to London | and put up a new | house in Park Lane. This dwell ing is one of the most substantial and most costly in Europe, but it is not over tasteful in architecture. When it was built people were in dispute about its architectural | style. FOLLOWED HIS OWN STYLE. Some said it was early renais- who hit it off by calling it ‘‘early admitted that the mines had turned outup to that time ten tons of dia- ; : ! gineers, and paid whatever they | |'Paris shop as a “sample of our'| monds. The annual profits is about | $10,000,000. Mrs. Ladenburg, since the death | of her husband, has lived much j abroad, and met Mr. Beit in Lon- | don. She isa stately woman, quite ! handsome, and has been reported | as engaged to many well known men in New York, especially to sev- | eral in jthe fox-hunting set. Her) private fortune amounts to about | $50,000. Our immense stock of ladies’, gentlemen’s and boy’s watches gives you a’ complete range in quality) and price to select from.--- | G. F. Hutcheson. | GOOD COOKERY is the art of employing in the most palatable, appet- izing and dainty form all the nutritive properties belonging to wholesome food. With Bovril, Entrees, Stews, Hashes, Ragouts and Salmis are rendered doubly delicious. DO besides being nutritious and of the most delicate flavor is both money saving and time saving. NOTIGE! Removal of Snow from the Sidewalks. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby givet that the provisions of the City Bye- Law to regulate and compel the re- moving of SNOW, and also the pro- vision of Sec. 11 of the Strtute Sith Vic. Cap. 10, concerning the re moval of SNOW FROM THE SIDE- WALK will be strictly enforced, and all persons neglecting to Te move the snow from the sidewalk in front of their premises will be pre- eeeded against as the law directs. Dated at the City Hall this 6th kay of December, 1900. JOHN P. NICHOLSON, d8lw eod City Surveyor. Bovril