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THE FLBSHIXTOH ADVAVOS. CURRENT COMMENT Hydro Radial Opposition to ric ap- ric Electric Hy- accept- also lyAio against his all To- The were the wreck see- In the tangle created by the appointment of a Hoyal Commiesion iave.tiK.t.^not a. many euppo.c Sir Adam Beck and the Hydro Elect Commi^ion, but the Hydro Badial proposals for Ontario. Prenuer Drury . pears to have «iven all the opponcuts of publicly owned - "P^';;;** ^ " utilities the opportunity of their lives. To bogm with, ho Hydro Elect proposal, were all founded on the principle of non-pohtKal ope-^'-- ^- poliUcian and partisan advocate in the prov.nce .s now f.gur.ng how the H Sro activitiea can be brought into the political arena, and they are ac fng Pre„,ier Drury's action a. giving them a precedent ' '« "P^^J that Premier Drurv is in favor of the flat rate for the d.str.but.on of Hyd lower Thi. may be counted among the other slander, circulated again fhe farmer premier. Only the very ignorant entertain the .dea hat such X^ is po..ible. No Ontario farmer would submit to l>V'""f' ^^d in M ooutoes or his cattle at the same price delivered in Toronto and .n M C He^ould want to add the extra freight to Montreal. That >8 le Hydro rates do at present. It is true one may get a lower rate for a load to Montreal sometimes than for a small quant.ty expressed to oC but this principle also applies in the delivery of Hydro power^ flaVrate i. a delusion and a snare and could only be poss.ble af ther Ni gara sources of power at a number of equidistant po.nts througbou^ TJLe The flat rate is being advocated by people who want o w piovince. a ^^^^^J Another tbe Hyd-.P-J- 11^.; f;:,r;"of Premier Drury-s practical blockade *fthe CrlKal IP ol.ct to d^ive Sir Adam Beck into a political camp, of the Hydro K^^^^J P'°^^ ^^^^^ his career with the success It is well known that S.r Adam has p ^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ of the Hydro projects. """J;* J ^« 'J '^ ^^ ^^ ,^d staked their ^^T'^^^^hrnyd^ro'LTr bip T y fe'rtkt they' arc not going to allow credU on the "y^^^J J'^;/;, ^J, opportunities by those who have b.t- themselves to be ^^'^o Z m<^<^. vears! who have striven during all that terly opposed ^^ «>^-/°^.^; ' ^^,J,, ^, .^mit its success. The Hydro "T, llWed to be a new and untried project, whereas they are far radials are -"^^^^ '» ^'J ^' ^^^ ^.en accumulated regarding them better known and /" J^'^^^J^^'^" .^.i^^tio, when Sir Adam Beck fifteen than was possessed about electrrc '''"" information he had ob- years ago become the ^r;ZZn\TZt possesslcn today of similar "tl:L:^TZTS^^ .^L:. LL.^^^^ on the subject, on information derned ^^^ ^^_^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^^ communication the strength of wh en he as ^^ .^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^ ^^^. for the '"n?^/;^'7;,;/,S;g" ; -^-l route' a;ong the farmers. There *"' o^hel ^ay of' ge ting efther the one or the other, and if the Eadial ,s »o other way "J «"" » ^^^.^^ ,.iU be fully demonstrated in Commission does its '^"^'"'T /^^P^'J^, g^^ ^^ ^he promotion of privately ,pUe of the P;2''-;;j/„*J,;J;Ta; already stated Jhat he has nothing to n,anaged intereats. P'«""" ^"^ ^.^^ ^^^; „„ farther step than to assure :Tmp\;tilTe;*"on:1l arrTdiarsituation we may expect to see L bacCg up Sir Adam Beck before the Legislature reopens. Opposition to St Lawrence Plans .. .^ K» I nwrence river projects of deepening the water- petition, which, of course, w °°°»"\; ^^ ^^^^ there U a new crop of ob- every day. it is said, and it "I'f^^^'^i^'.^i.^j t^o same kind of fool ob- jectors in every generation. Liverpool rai^^^' ^^^ q Ste- ections to the Manchester f^PJ^^f^\^J'J'\^,, railways would ruin the phenson was "^"acked and it was jonie ^^^^ ^^^ Hydro-Electric country. The «'''°« J"°J. "/^ years ag^ and engineers and actuaries were propowUs were made fi""'^. yf^'j^^f^'Eigctric power could not be trans- Lought forward ^o prove that Hydro Electric^^p ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ mitted more t"*"^ fi"/,."^.'? * tt wUl cost $750,000,000 to carry out the St. An engineer now ^''^'^^l^^' ^^f,,Z ^l^xr: re'cognized by the official Lawrence scheme, although "^e «"''" j^ Opposition of this sort, authorities is no more than » J^'J^^^i^^/^ew York will invariably be found while attributed to cities like Mo"tre I o^^^-^ .^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^ ^j,, to emanate from personauues wuo » ^ ^j^gj^ of fear that 'Ueir, ^^wish advance in opposition to the public one As their own which ^^ey w^h to aa a vv ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ far as Montreal and New J orK are ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^^^^^ businees they can handle ana i"«y '""J' ^ country for which they are to build «P''°^„"'"rLtt threffect of beneUttng their own industry main outlets wiU only have the effect ot «« » ^^â- ^ g^t interest and a'l<«V"^„^;,^;;;;:;p"oibe th''e\dvantage''orthe lands . that lie within to promote in every Y»y P?"""'"! ^jti^ens in these cities raise objection it their traffic range. J^^^^'â„¢\h,y "a/e not well informed or that they may be taken for granted that they ?je " â- ^^ j^^ general public are'trying to promote some hng not in ha^^ony ^^^ ^^,1^^^^, of the welfare. What bencfiU al the rest, ana patriotism were whole cause the -"^v^ral local ^» t°. J^'^^'^^^ ,,,tricted to flag waving taught and understood It w^ld be r^ogni^ea a ^^ developing every ITn o'/theTu'ntr; ^nd'r ' co'^rdinaUo^n of all the varying local interests foi the common good. Lenin Against the World ' There never was a better example of the power and influence of an .. ,>,.! .n the increasing weight which Lenin appears to possess in the ,dea thaj, m the >°'j'«^»'n8 « . „ li,^ at present, and whatever may f^-l" " .n^oS^unfoldment it [s not Leuin and it is not Trotsky, nor is it be It. eventual unfoldment It 18 ,,„^i,^,i,„, that compels the great pow- Bolshevism "» P^jictised in all ts Dam government. Lenin er. to eonsent to »e«° » f^^^'^'^^^'^j^ «„"„\*^^^^^ But that would not be has an iron will. This l^^\l'"\^^\ j, j,,^;^ ^^a his idea at present eoough , "V^^^'l* ^°J,t the wirld will make or can make of his idea re- E. to be s^n but Europe, at least, has arrived at the point where she LTZ muP P'epX-.rSnnr'll^^in:! Il'e "Cia^^ lUTa^s l"°^?o'und to"X«i Now ttre' s fea^; that the idea will go up against Uat^ndTti n may be we know it to be ruthless, unscrupulous >nd.8cr.m- fn!tin^ a. the French Kevolution was. Tho good and the bad, the rich „H ThP ^or BenUe and simple have alike been involved in a common lu.n Hi ItneT'a* common .loom^ It is held that the idea behind the French Revolut°on ha^ eventually triumphed, and that the good in it has overcome fheev.l and that so it shall be with Kussia. But those who stand in he wav of the Bed Terror have little reason to worship he idea behind the TerLr By the way, readier, of Rider Haggard's "«cd Lve" may get a suggestion from it. The Lipton Handicap It ii related of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson that when he was on one occaVon approached by «n United States offic al who asked h.m how it was the British were always talking about the reedom of the seas 8 r Wv retorted. "We never talk of the freedom of the seas. We talk about he eo»m«d of the seas" This is evidently the sentiment which controU he NeT York Yacht Club. They are taking no chances in old Gotham over thl po«ession of the "America" cup. That "there !«'»«7 ,«/''? Wt tho^up and the Lipton" has become '«•«"„ da rd ^o'^'^ """^ ^•'- casion. but there i. no slip between the cup and the N. Y. \. C. ««'* the oTp Seen comp-tod for under the same condition under which 't was won the Thistle, the Oenest. or Shamrock IV. would have won it, bu that is not the bright idea. "We do not ask yon to compete "" ^l-e .•^"P- ' »fy *^' New Yorkers in effect. "We ask you to overcome a handicap which as far a. we can judge is insurmountable. You must give up ten months to bnUd several boat, on the same lines as the one you describe to us you are KoinK to build, and you must compete against the best of those with your sinfffe boat. You must slso .ubmit to a time handicap on the sir-e of your Mils. Yon must be willing to sail only in such weather as is suitable to our featherweight yaehU, so that if a breerc favorable to your ocean going boat .hould stir up you must expect to be at anchor until tho gentle zephyrs return We know, Sir Thomas, you are a good old sport, and are willing to give US the pleasure of doing you brown in this way every little while. Of eourse all tho amenitie. are carefully observed, Sir Thomas is enter- tained' like a prince and New York is all agog for a couple of weeks. But the enp stayi on this side of the ocean. There are Toronto yachtsmen who deelare that had Norman Seagram or Commodore Jarvie been sailing Sham rock IV. Sir JbMDM would have carrlsd the snp baek to Belfaat Lough. Ewty MERCHA>fr in thi« town, ind evoybiuineu rniiB o< the fannt uound ut. ii m wivocilc dl tlw TRADE - AT â-  HOME ides. Il promotn community ptidc , p«p ind GROWTH. Il it only Bvin( the ume nipport a parent is ahayi wSling to ftvof i child, niis town aixi neishbochood a( aui> it the GliLD. Wt, (he dtuens, are the PAREMS The biisineM and industnea o( ihii community an the TRAITS o( the child. They ihould be lupported. They should be DEVELOPED to the utmostâ€" And, as with seUdâ€" the more talents developed, the greater the man, orâ€" OUR TOWN. Oui folka-inostly all-«t BUYERS IN THE HOME MAR- KET. Tlwy realize that it is the mefchants and pubBc-ipiiited men who DO THINGS in this town. And that these men cannot do BIG things unleu the home business is patronized. THIS NEWSPAPER i> one of the BUSINESS insbtubons ol OUI town, h needs to be supported â€" the same as any line o( mer- chandising Circulationâ€" subsciibing for this paper â€" is one way of sup- Doit Another way is foe the MERCHA.NTS and FARM BUSI- NESS MEN lo buy advertising space in the columns of ibis paper. Newspaper advertising ia the FOUNDATION STONES lo successful selling. Buying of expensive equrpmeiit, to be operated by Inexperienced help in the attempt to get "exclusivf" and "di- rect" letters, circulars and pamphlets, has never impressed the BUYER as being exact cooperation in the "BUY-ATHOMT idea. TEAMWORK means lor all of us to PULL TOGETHER. Foolish Francesca By Olive Wadsley (Continued from last week.) "Are youf" She had just time to hear a word which sounded like "Yez." and then the taxi jerked forward; in a second the big car slid past, and for half that second two dark eyes smiled rather kindly at Francesca. So the woman with the "Parsifal" thing was a great singer' That blessed youth which, if it in- (luces wild, frantic grief and disap- pointment, also gives what it alone can give- â€" intense, resurgent hope â€" lifted Francesca 's spirits insistently. The world was not all drizzling rain ind things that hurt. It still held v'ast, glorious secrets; it still held g-eat singers who had motor-cars and pink roses and strings of pearls. Before she reached Shepherd's Bush the cold had begun to penetrate, it seemed to her, to her very bones. Dusk was falling; tho lamps were being lit. Frimkie stared at everything curiously; the funny wide streets seemed never ending. t was so long since she had seen any. Paul had never had enough money to take them up to the big stations, and she had been so little when she had first gone out to India. Paris had seemed dimly familiar; London soemed a wild wildernes., cut up by dark and hissing streets, with people hurrying about beneath conceal- ing umbrellas. At last the cab stopped at a house in the middle of a row. A long flight of stone steps led up to the door. "Perhaps I'd better go up and ring the bcllf " Francesca sug- gested to the driver. He was a human young man. "I'll 'elp you. missy." he said, cheerfully. "You go up an' ring, and I'll cart up these boxes." She ran up the steps and pulled a bell, which jangled hideously. A small youth with a strange accent opened tho door and said. "Yes, if you please!" "Mrs. Baggs Uvea here, doesn't shof" Francesca asked. The youth, without answering, went back into the hall and called, ' ' Mrs. Haggs, Mrs. Baggs, wantedl" Down tho ill-lighted hall Francesca saw an ample form hurrying. Until that moment she had not known how alone and lonely she felt. At the sight of her old nurse's large, beaming face two big tears fell from her eyes. "Well. I'm sure, I never did!" Mrs. Baggs began comfortably. ".\nd if you haven't grown up into a young lady, an' all!" Francesca, trying to find the right money for the cab, and sorting out the English coins she could not understand, gave a little convulsive sob. ' ' Let mc, me dear, ' ' Mrs. Baggs raid, picking out the right money, "A cup of tea's what you want, and a round of toast." she declared as the hall door shut, "and then your bed and 1 good sleep, coming all this way from India." Frankic followed her into a loom lighted by incandescent gas. Almost before she had time to put down her hand-bag. she found herself being intro- duced to three people as "Miss Trent from India, just arrived." She mechanically said, "How do you do 4" and was very conscious of pro- tracted stares; finally one of the three nrw ladies asked her in languid tone, if she had found the journey tiring. The question was somewhat puzzling. "You see," Frankie began, "I have had five weeks of it â€" " She stopped and laughed nervously. The lady in the lace blouse flushed iind murmured something about having •upposed it was a tube journey from Calcutta. ' ' Bit short in the temperâ€" an art- ist," Mrs. Baggs whispered a. ah* gave Franeeaca her tea. Conversation languished; at last Frankie was free to go to her room. With a sigh of fatigue, she began to unpack; it took her a long while. At the end of it she looked round for the bath, that inevitable necessity in In- dia. The rooms near her own small one were all bedrooms. 8he weut on to the next floor and found a small, dingy bath in a badly lighted room. She took the big, white-enameled cans out of the bath and turned on the hot water. It was not very hot, nor was there much of it; but she bathed and then went to bed. iler room was ut the top of the house; her open window held a space ol dark sky; a cool wind blew in through it. She lay in bed looking up at the patch of sky â€" that same sky covered Phrynette and Baby and Kit Wynton. The rush of the day, the newness of her life and surroundings, bad held back memories, now they crowded upon her. A passionate wild desire to humble Wynton. to humiliate him as he had humiliated her, came to her out of the chaos of miserable thoughts. "I'll work till I do get even," she whispered. "I'll win out, somehow. I swear I will." CHAPTKB VII. In the Star's Bressiag Room. Francesca was down early the next morning and found four men having breakfast. They all stared at her and she at them. Two were, she decided, neat and pretty old; the others obviously young and, to her untrained eyes, smart. Uanvers. the wit of the boarding house, addressed her first. "Huntin' the wild game for break- fast f" he inquired jocularly. "Bet- ter give it up. I finished the venison. I don't think, yesterday. Give the old briny a turn, Misa â€" er â€" oh, Trent, and have a bloater." Francesca, with a murmured ' ' Thank you," took it and sat down, while Mrs. Babbs, swathed in some volumi- nous garment, gave her a cup of tea. "And what are you going to do to- day, deart" she asked. "I'm going out to try and get work." i''rancesca answered, "if you will tell me how to start." "Work; what sort of workf" Ban- vers inquired. He was on a pape^, about which t^c bragged a good deal. By birth ho was American, and he had all the vaunted talent of that nation for testing other people. He was, however, a keen worker, and always on the lookout for a chance. "What sort!" he demanded again. "Any I can get," Francesca an- swered; " governesaing, shop, anything. I don't care what it is just for a lit- tle. I'm only doing it so as to be able to earn a little money and keep â- lyself while I have singing lessons." "Singing lessons t" Banver. echoed. "Can you singt" Frankie flushed. "Yes," .he said defiantly, "I can." He stared at her. "I'd like to hear you." "You will," she flashed back, "pret- ty soon." "D'you mean you're going to the stage f" he went on interestedly. Francesca nodded. "I know an actress." he Mud im portantly; "Millie Melton, tremendons flier, she is, she 's on, curious thing, this week at the Kmpire here. ' ' Francesca leaned forward, her big eyes shining, "Will yon give me an introduction f She could tell me such a lot." Banvers ostentatiously consnlted a celluloid engagement sheet which he drew from a dark-green, heavily in- itialed ]^eketbook. "Free tonight, by an sdd ehaaee," 7 HE BRAIN BOX CONDUCTED BY E. GUNN RAMSAY. Registered Accordingr to the Copyright Act, "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Not a very elegant quotation certainly, but very descriptive of some of the impossible feats attempted by some people. "Impossible"! murmurs a sarcastic friend. "I thought your philosophy admitted nothing as impossible, no achievement beyond the power of a man who made up his mind to DO." The friend was here straying a little beyond one's philosophy. Once one has arrived at the sow's ear stage, or that of the silken purse, habits must be pretty well formed and set. Kven a sow's ear, however, is a useful thing in its own place. The poor pig would look very quaint without it. The point of this quotation today, however, is the same as that which says, "You cannot fit a square peg into a round hole." The man who attempted to do either of these things with any degree of seriousness would lead one to suppose he was not thinking straight, and yet we see by contact with people every day in life illustrations of these two sayings. The misfits, the failures, the discontents and other unhappy ones in business life who slip into ruts and who are always bewailing and be- moaning their fate, their lack of opportunity, are Uvlng examples of the at- tempt to fit the wrong thing to the wrong purpose wih the result that both che worker and the Job are spoiled. How do YOU fit? Bo you "fit like a glove" or are you like a number ten shoe on a number three foot? It's just as well, by the way, to have some room to grow, rather than to be too big for your boots. But here again there is a happy medium. How do YOU fltf And if you feel that you don't fit, what are you going to do about it? Wliose fault is it? Bid you ever think somewhere every day, someone everywhere, is looking for a competent man or a competent woman in some particular kind of work, but if it is in the silk purse line they will want and expect real silk for their making and no substitute. Can yon measure up to this? Scan the advertisements in the newspapers. They tell of two divisions, marching on every day. The man in search of work and the man who is looking for a worker and among them is someone â€" who is looking for you. How will you connect upt How will you avoid being the square peg in the round hole? It is the duty more than ever before in the history of this country of every man and woman â€" every worker, to study himself, herself. It Is very largely up to you whether yon will be a misfit or a good fit. The man who offers you a job must more or less take you upon face value. It is not possible for him at sight to know all that you can achieve. You alone know what you have woven into your life by your own training and past work that will fit you for the job, and when you have attained it â€" WHAT! "Do as you would be dealt by." If you have any reasonable cause for complaint â€" if you see anything obstructing your progress, which you have reason to think is also acting to the detriment of the concern for which you work, tell it on the inside first, do not marry complaint of your job outside the walls. This is the last thing to do. The first is to give the head a chance to adjust his own business. He may be grateful to you for pointing things out to him. If you are a good worker, he certainly will be. Remember this, no good worker can afford to be lost to Canada through being a misfit- How do you fit! he answered. "I'll take you to the show, if you care to go, Miss Trent, and we can go round to the back after- ward and I'll manage the Intro to Millie for you, if I can." "Will you really t" Francesca said. "How ripping of youl Thank you most awfully. "Then that's a cinch." Danvers said, rising briskly, "and au revolr, ladies." He stopped beside Mrs. Baggs and said, "Fare thee well, fair one, till we meet again." "Get along with you, do," Mrs. Baggs said delightedly. Francesca had her first experience of registry offices that morning. She weut to three. The first manageress laughed at her when she understood Francesca 's ac- complishments, and had listened to her requirements; the second wasted neither mirth nor a moment, and the third, who had once been down herself, and had not had time to forget the ex- perience, tried to explain to her as gen- tly as possible the hopelessness of her case. (To be continued.) ORIEirrAL BANQUET. A banquet given to "Lora" Allenby by King Husseim of the Hedjaz, is described by a correspondent, who saya: After preliminary visits and military reviews, in which the Be- douin cavalry dashed by at full speed, firing their rifles, the banquet was held in true Arab style in the muni- cipality buildings at Jeddah. On the table, which was 18 feet broad by 30 feet in length, barefooted waiters dressed in rich Arab costumes walked about helping the guests, seventy in number, to slices of the joints of roasted half sheep stuffed with al- monds, rice and spices. Each guest had three or four plates, and was sur- rounded by some twenty or thirty dishes of salads, fish, roasted chickens, pilaff of mutton and sweets of all de- scriptions. The king's band of mu- sicians played throughout the banquet. At the end of the feast the king's servants handed round silver basins with ewers of scented wat*r for the guests to wash their hands in. Coffee was served in another room while guests of a lower degree sat down at the banqueting table. The remnants of the feast, which were considerable, were distributed among the inhabit- ants of Jeddah and the crews of the British ships at anchor in the harbor. CONSTAKCT OF AlUMAL APFECTIONS A case is on record of one lion who recognized an old friend after seven years and went wild with joy on seeing him. This lion spent its early days at the court of Morocco. Then it was shipped to England, and kept at the Tower. Seven years later an English- man whom it had "known" in Moroc- co visited the Tower, and the lion smelled him even before he saw him. No dog ever gave his master a hap- pier welcome. The man went in the cage, and the lion fawned on him and licked his feet. After his departure the lion refused food for fonr days. A Mmewhat similar case is recorded of a tiger who was shipped from Asia to this country and recognized a former owner a few years afterwards at the Zoo. Buffalo and camel races are among the amusements provided for gueste at Egyptian hotels. The Short Gut Every advertisement in your paper is a short-cut. Advertisements make it possible tojtell in a few minutes all you want to know about the service or articles you need. At a glance you can sift what interests you most and in a moment you know just when and where to go for what you want. Figure how many steps, how much needless walking and talking the advertisements thus save you and your neighbors. Then you realize the great economy aiKJ necessity of advertising in your daily life. â- â- M â-  it'-*<i"ttiw i