ear HEART gsi on, in BRY gives PUR up. 129 and amen yg : oy | te de vio 10 Be Wr Pack enterprises. ay | © the soalper is not one on which the | for Hamilton." What is to be gained To EET the Hydro-Electric Commission will agitation in that direction. Atmos wag very willing to deprive the gow- 'which he and hik political allies afore | Notthwmberland people--is willing to | {the the current genera- for warrant the idleness or | which are now in operation. o ----e EE ------ - 3 I Bails Whig. han oe oer | Mote Tighet Scalping. The Ottawa people have a or his bill, ance aut Hho Beck Eamminsion. 11 nl CE I wnt abjection, He has * intimated, says | BOIder should realize. The unused tick- the Free Press, that unless the city ix | ©" if of the ordinary kind, on which willing to concede the right of letting | full fore has beem paid, can be re- 1 the commission say where it shall get deemed. The process is sometimes «| its wnter power, the permission or | *1o%; and because of this the com- { ehulegs of developing it will be with. | PaNi®s have 'seen the favour with which the Maclean bill has been 're uh is not usally the position of | garded by some people. the commission, and there fust surely bo some misapprehension with "regard " to it. "The commission exists, it is un- | PY a member of parliament, who, derstood, for the purpose of guaran- buying a ticket at Carleton Place for teeing the cheapest power that can be Ottawa, and not using the return secured by the municipality. It is not | Portion, asked that it be redeemed in the function of the commission to in:] the capital. He was refused. He could terfere with any arrangement of the only get satisfaction at the office municipality, but . it is the medium wi he bought his Ske i which. may be employed miccessfully in | * "WAS Not in accordance wi obtaining the highest service at a the understanfling given out by the minimum of cost. , | railway companies some time ago. The voice of the Fre Press is the | 1 here it was announced that the tick- voice of reason. 'The choice of a | ®t OF the wmused portion of it, would tower," it remarks, "must be a mat-| De taken at the nearest station, and ter of the most surious consideration. | that the refund to which the buyer Independent experts must be employed | V2 entitled would be made with all to thoroughly investigate the merits | Possitle expedition, ond demerits of every power available Parliament does not propose to leg- of both sides of the river. In this re- alize scalping, but it expeets the spect the advice of the engineers of | "OMPanies to remove all cause for the tho grievahice against the companies ke wmlvable and must be given due weight, but to ay that the city shall Putting On The Screws. accept their report willy nilly and| Mr. Clark, representing Northumber- smilingly foot the bill is more than we | land in the legislature, in discussing are propared to swallow." the budget, dealt with a feature of it, which is attractive. This is the asy- Matheson And His Post. lum receipts and the method the gov- The conservative papers do not cor- | ernment has adopted for the enlurge- rectly reflect liberal sentiment on the | ment of them ' provincial budget. The argument | In the past the lunatics have been against Col. Matheson is not that he [housed as fast and as comfortably as was formerly the man who figured |Fossible, on the ground that if there surpluses out of existence, but that he | V** to be any cure it had he effectod was the one. who protested against under proper conditions. The safety the HaRos Be Is 'now"so 'wager to" ¢ol- [0 the Sane depend ' upon the isola- tion of the insane. Originally -- and , The inheritance tax was his special [With the Ross government, which was ireitation: This, he declared to be a |" Comsiderate in its regard for the robbery. of the dead, a' resort in re [helplss--the poor were provided for venue raising which 'he regarded with [8% fully as the rich. Practically there 1a particular aversion, He became | Wa& no difference in their treatment greatly enamoured of it, however, in [in the asylums. Those who could do power and amended the act respecting | 50 Were expected to pay for their it, so that he could lay more certain unhappy friends. These who could iad oi the family treasure and do so were not harassed : and make more' certain of his' division. made to bear in consequence addition- The None' tax wis' very 'ob al burdens because ofthe insane. joctionable. He gave it to be under: | The new government undestook to stood that he did not approve of it, | "MBire into the circuinstances of their and: that his party would not counjon- wards, They appointed officials whose ance it for a moment. But Col. Mathe: duty it was to look into the case of son, eritio, i+ not. Col.. Matheson, pro- each lunatic, and where the payment Sad 1 iti he for maintenance was lower than a vincial treasurer, In opposition "{eertain sum per weok they acted. Friends. when possible, were appealed to. Property, when owned by the in- sane, was' taken and realized upon. Failing revenue from these sources the councils which sent the insane to the asylums were called upon for large contributions. The account which was sent to 'the council in this city was a sample of its kind, and will be heard of again when the auditor com- pletes his work. The point is that in forcing pay: time most strenuously opposed. ment of fees the government has been Change of place has wrought a mar- more or less heartless and here and velous change in his opinions. Power From The Falls. There is & rumqur that does not ap- pear to be correct-that the power eofopany Which Mr. Culverwell re; re- scouts is not in aetord with the Hydro- Electric Commission, There is no conflict betwben them. The idea that there is may have originated with the fact that the Northumberland com- pany--and not confined in its per: sonal and financial intcrests to ernment of all the revenue he could. In power he is reaching out for more, awl planning with every 'one to im- poke more and more upon the mining railway and other industries. It was a very optimistic budget which Mr, Matheson presented, but he did not say in connection with it, as ho could have done, that the great sources of revenue were the things cause of the demands of the govern- ment, has been very great. Verily, as Mr. Clark remarked, "there is some- thing sweeter than politics; and that is charity." People might say harsh things about the Ross government, | Ladies Frequently Suffer Losses Through' the Dis- honesty of Their Merchants carry the power to the Point of dis | Thy women of Canada fragaently sul- tribution. fer money losses and great inconteni. Mr. Beck, it will be remembered, 'ences throtgh the desperate greed of on behnlf of the commission | *omé merchants who sell substitutes and common tions to bu, GF which bn the chairman, id an | S20 Somme Prebercions fo bv arrgagement would be made, at a low Ei To Ee So {th le ol 8 IC and se) hos The Tines, A 4 name | the, weak and aduhterated package t ten cents, same price sked od at. the Tomes possible cont The for the enum "bik Pye Culyerwell offer electricity in Kingston, at the sliding rates, a 10 quantity, rolerred Snaet wid most oxpensive anilines that to in the Hydro-Electric Conmis: sion's report. When will it be in a position to do this ? Possibly within a year. The Joeal government has shown its fa: vourable consideration by renewi the lease of the land on either side Hpper and lower .rapids, at Healey's Falls, or it has given its whiten. assurance of this renewal, and is to deliver the Popular all t over. dyes are er the price of anilines com- posing the DIA OND DYES. Thess water falls and at a rate ~only half a million dollars--for col- suspension of the steam appliances | he get it? Mr. Maclean' has not succeeded With [Bevan the speaker to make scalping legal, but Incidentally countenance was lent to the swplug warrant a reduction in there the distress of the persons,*be- when it appropriated $15,000 to pay Toronto N [and on behalf of the municipalities, dys put up by speculators and wld | THE department pees to be thor OND DYES, so | OUR OND DYES he ret from the | POVCRS and the machinery necess ry compani notte, always guaranteeing casual in observing the | og strength and coloring | mission has heer: exthor chory pointing out the weabness in a gov. nh Materials that cost about | ernment department. Tt widening the superintendent's powers nd Lif; for common and crude dyes are not of wif lit ving the = provisions. fo ive a decent color | or refusing k of such dyes |); AlY thi 1 . a 'color - vabiabie ov this should no doubt b the administration of the dear trent depends | hands. ND Fat. they could not say it was not good to the poor, and God knows that any family which has lunacy on its hands has trouble enough, ' " -Editoral Notes, ., Will Ald. Toye please tell thi 'people wheh they may expeet lower rates for electricity and gus? General Booth does not want much onization In England and Africa. Will Hon. Mr. Pugsley has become premier. of New Brunswick, Mr. Robin: son the provincial secretary, and Mr. The Brockville Times refers to Mr. by this shisrepresentation ? Mr. Sifton is; out of Canada, on a visit to England, and Mr. Foster is saying things about him. This is a sign of Mr. Foster's bravery. What were the carnings of the elec- tric and gas plants last year? Does rates ? If so let us have them at once, Public ownership in England may not be gnite satisfactory, but private ownership in America is not more ac- ceptable. Harriman has made that is- sue clear, -- The light department made one ap- peal to the lieutenant-governor for power to issue debentures on certain representations, and it will not want a renewal of the experience. The president of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway wants to import Ori- ental labour for railway construction The difficulty is that since it is im- ported it cemnot he deported. ------ Dr. Pyne, miftister of education, ap- pears, by the evidence, to have taken a hand in the Toronto license trans- fers. And the little, he did, interview- ing and lobbying, is not to his ere dit. We Are Starting Off for Spring Trade With Everything New, Neat and Nobby. 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Mr. Connor is called a falsi- fier, on the temperance of liguor ques tion, and is said to be doing some advertising in the hope of booming his silly H that talk does not make votes against the govern- ment then the prophets in our land are dead. | SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Way, Way Of. Toronto Globe. The slaughter of Russian officials by fanatical revolutienists © goes on apace, and so does the execution of the assassins. The outlook for bett r- ment seems very discouraging. novels ! Good To The Measures. New York Commercial. The last blow to the awfully good. but mistaken people of Utah was de livered by the United States senate the expenses of Senator Smoot in de- fending his seat. The lav grinds kard on. the Smoot protagonists. What Mr. Whitney Lacks. Brockville Times. The Toronto News continues to re- construct the Ontario government and to point out its path of rw Nir. 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