practice purposes, and the trustees ation which they have not yet re i A RARE ELECTION MUDDLE. : A ~ Headquarters. » 8° to a man makes a specialty of same. ey SPECIALTY IN COAL I you want to buy or sell City who thusiastic, but they were not gs care- ful and as a result it is announced that th of votes were spoiled. The hounds of out as oy as 7,000 ballots and as many more have to be passed upon. A sori aspect of the case is the alleged frauds which were committed. Over 40,000 votes are said to. have been tempered with, the tampering in question being the work of men who did not apparently aim at any wrong- doing, but at a correction of certain irregularities. The policy-holders who acted on their own initiative, and who were not as familiar with the printed forms, blundered, and the Committees receiving their votes pn. dertook, it seems, to amend them. In this they erred. The arrest of some ing for olders, may the ef- | tan examination into It may be found defec- y respects, and it would be concerned. if it were nulli- The state insurance tment been deficient on its part, It did to do, and in the con- i TFELIELE : F1EF 4 ] i f . TORY LEADERS UNDER FIRE. "There is 'a candid criticism of = the The Toronto Mail, Ottawa. Citizen, the Hamilton Specta- tor, and the Montreal Gazette may have their opinions and not express them, but independents are not at all rd about the expression . A rank in the government." That is [lish government dare to give ? Will | nobby hats and umbrellas. of their views. The feeling is that the manly treatment. it be a'imeasure that the Trish pet: es opposition in Ottawa is weak, faulty, dare accept ? Will the measure be so Something doing in our hat de- s x Le Lh to irrk pti dav. S y unprogressive, unassertive, that it is Try a Progress Brand suit this ie of slid Ye Suseplible hat. THOR CD. Bit hg fet 8 making no headway in dethroning ot | spring, it will please you. Living- han aan | pe DD. Bibhy Ca. acing the Lauri . sons YOu, ving: [more the question of < Treland will Progress Brand clothing for boys urier governmoen - x . "block the way." Never was a time made withsame care as men's. Liv. The Halifax Herald does not will. | Your whe tH your pocket book [more fraught with possibilities of ingston's, x recei satisfaction wi You get [good and § have a need of great deal of inform- closed was spent by the conservatives in defending the members who have in various ways discredited themselves when the obscuration of them would have been to better purpose. Nr. Borden must rid himself of certain of his associates if he would rise in pub- lie or party favour, EDITORIAL NOTES. A Boston company hopes to compel men to insure with it. Men will not be parleyed with. They will be com- pelled to insure their lives. Boston is the hib of the universe, with insur- ante men. -- The insurance people are warned by the Globe to be considerate in their paigning agai the i ™ port. Parliament will deal seriously with the insurance question eventual ly, and justly. The Laval students "broke" the meditations of the socialists in Mont- real on Thursday night. And later, in the melee, the police "broke" the craviums of some of the students in the grand chase and dispersion. The Montreal Star is astonished at the attitude of Mr. Ames, M.P., who bas referred to Mr. Fowler's state ments in parliament as "'straightfor- ward and courageous." Mr. Ames is invited to explain what he means. -- The Monetary Times accountsfor the money stringency by saying that business in the west has been impeded and money has not flowed as usual in the western channels. Loans and dis- counts have . exceeded ~ the bank de- posits, S------ It is said that the public health act requires the medical health officers to visit the schools and pass upon the health of the children. Dr. Bell may question 'this; and, anyway, there is a limit to the duties which may be im- posed upon one man. ---- It is anncunced that the friends or families of Mr. Corey, the steel trust magnate, and Miss Gillman will he present at their wedding in New York a week hence. There is one who will divorced wife, the one who worked so hard for him when he was not a mil- lionaire, Down town churches in Toronto are not regarded as profitable institutions. When Jerusalem was the Mecca of Judaism the poople walked for days in order to reach the temple, and spent days in the city in attendance at the 'services. Religion then was something real. Some people do not suffer much on account of it nowadays. The Ottawa Journal does not assail Mr- Fisher because he goes shortly to England. He has earned a trip. He has been administering two depart. ments, and doing it well. "Without making very much fuss about it," says the Journal, "he has come to the front | ingly expose the troubles of the party, ! conceal the fact that 40 anyone what Cs os at Chow's Drug Store. ® are 4) 3 1 . fino hats for §2. ibby's, TOY with its leading and edueation- Thousands of surgical operations 'are per- formed every year in our great city hospitals \\ upon women 'afflicted with serious female troubles. Sometimes the operations are 'sie cessful--oftentimes they are not. It is safe to say that certainly njue out of ten operations for female troubles might have been wholly avoided. The most valuable tonic and re-builder of the female organism, the medicine with a record of thousands of cases literally snatched from the operating table, is & Iydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Do not consent to an operation which may mean death until after you have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a fair trial. Note what it did for Mrs. Robert Glenn, whose letter follows: Dear Mags. Prvgmax :--Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is so well and widely known that it does not need any recommendation from me, but I am glad to add mine to the many which you have in its favor. be conspicuous by her absence--Corey's | has Ireland tha vanced public policy. As 'a political ists ig instrument," 'it is alleged to be at --- "ki present of no partioular credit to the Stead's Common Sense. : country or the party. Massrin § . . N ie ati 4 a 'In a certain appro- \ and practice purposes. But on what pS uray ight is more caustic lL | intenens in Mr. Stiad's por A re conditions ? cannot understand why a man like suffragettes. Proposes to open to "The college deputation did not sub. 0°07 Tate Blackstock is out in the |them not only 'Politics but the armv. nit op ition, and without it no] °®/d When the opposition is so poor | There can be no doubt of their quali- Progress can be made. The trustees | I" talent and real debating power. | fications for She latter. want to know what is required | 110 i% ROL a crowder, it is said, and so Gobd Tuck To Mim. then before they can be in a |" CARROL get the recognition that is | Hemiton Specttor. i on to net, and the negotiations hix due. "The opposition," says our Hon. George W, Ross proposes to i om contemporary, "has been of no effect. |°0rmoot the prevailing iden that the | have .h suggeeted_Juay be It haw possessed neither strength of |JTnbe 8 ol = lot of pre- ; Bur The er Ta numbers nor force of conviction. At a i ula otards. by taking principal add 2 to the board times one has been induced to think long life and a happy one, Mr. Ross. } education, now on fyle, intimates hat 1 iad Rh Was a ming 0 5h Time For A Change. the staffs of the schools must be oe opposition that the administia- Montreal Gaset efficient, but it can only be jnferred | 0" OUI run wild and destroy it | "When Canadian lumber is sold at how that efitlency is to B48 pointed wolf. These are the days, however, | lower prices in England than it can be ] out and effected. The old NE etam when Canada is making herself, and rp has at da, and when uy : i _ | es and : int, Can- with the Hamilton school board has i uae vaLive Justy ore wh we ade trom the United States at" lower been it in this ok o2 oo /| prices, duty , than they cost an ya Stig wil Je high Sioa. Sor a now political | hare, it is time to kick. y S party to en LJ --- The Sollegé Srusteon and senatel"s on gather from these opinions Preserve Us ! should make the advances and speci-| feeling of the party towards the | Toronto Star. fy what they want. It must cost con- ey 3 y A hin imminent in the Daugh- | diderable to make the Kingston |SCUe™en who represent it in purlia- | ters of the Eapire, some of the Daush years, and the Sida Srilg cant Tt [mie The most of the session just | ters having advanced the startling idea to undergo this, that i, instead of preserving the om. pire, they stayed at home and preser- ved peaches, they might add more to humgn happiness. . - Great Performance. Toronto Star. The mayor of Montreal, having for biddem the socialists" ade, is en- titled to tuke rank with the intelligent ostrich, which, when it doesn't want to see anything, . sticks its head. in the sand and its tail in the air, and from this lofty elevation looks down with scorn upon ils pursuers. The Difference. Grimsby Independent. Of course, my opinion is that the Lord's Day Alliance is a biower fake than Grimsby Park--both institutions are in the game for the that is in it, but Grimsby Park gives the Thousands FAILS TO YIELD. King Leopold's Efforts a Disap- " value for money, and the lord's Day Alliance does not--that's pointment. the difference. Brussels, May 4.--King Leopold's ef- forts to seenre the support of France against Great Britain toward the Cohgo, have failed. Gount Von Limburg-Stirum, who opposes the king's Congo policy, de- clined the foreign office portfolio in the cabinet, which the interior minis- The Money Grab. Hamilton Times. Whitney took for the province in 1906 $201,696 more from liovor licen- sed than in 1905, The municipal re- vente from the traffic has been declin- ing while that of the province in- | ter, De Troos, is trying to form. creased. The total municipal revenue | Documents, referring to the Congo led was in 1903-4, $257,866: in 1904-5, | (0 this action. $218,492; in 1905-6, $241,019. -- : Cranks At Large. Montreal Gazette, A resident of Ottawa demands that the city council pass a by-law pro hibiting the playing of pipnos on Sundays. If the council harkens to the request it will next find itself confronted with a demand from some indignant resident living next door to a church that "the music in the services be cut out because it dis. torbs his Sunday morning nap. There's A Pretty Go. Ottawa Journal. ' Winnipeg street railway com- pany is in a blissful position. Ite solicitors have advised it that under the Lord's Day act it would be illegal for the companv to operate cars on | After the restless fever we call life, - Sunday. The city on the other hand | After the dreariness, the aching pain will demand a Sunday service. That | The Jayvard ugkies which have looks.as if the v can do just Patter our toils ais past an it likes. Come to think of it that's Will give us rest Hel what street railway companies do any- way. He Leads Us On. Golden Hours. He leads us on By paths we did not know. Upwards He leads us, though our steps be slow, | Though oft we faint and falter on the way, Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day, Yet when the clouds are gone We know He leads us on. Hyp leads us on Through all the unquiet years: Past all our Mreamland hopes, and doubts and fears He guides our steps. tangled 'maze Of sin, of sorrow, and o'erclouded days We know His will is done ; And still He leads us on Through all the And He, at last, After the weary strife, Not Aesop's Day. Lippincott's Magazine. West Point's aim is to teach men to meet any situation with the best there is in them. z When General Custer was a cadet he ventured into the French section room without having so much as lobked at the day's 'lesson. The sec- tion had been engaged in the trans- lation of Aesop's fables from French to English, but on this particular day the task consisted of a page of his- tory written in French. Cadet Custer was given the book, and very bravely dashed into the tremslation of this sentence : "Leopold, duc d'Autriche, se mettit dur les plaines de Silesi." But the Duke of Austria, did not seem to appeal to him, for without hesitation e read : "The leopard, the duck, and the os- trich met upon the Plains of Silesia." Drinking Poorer Liquor. Montreal Gazette. There has. recently been a decrease in the immorts of champarne wines into the United States, a fact which been seized upon as an indication that the consumntion of intoxicants' was decrégming. This idea has heen rudely shattersd hy a report of the bureau of statistics 'to the effect that the oroduiction of chamvagne in the United States has quadmpled in the Inst décade and is now in excess of 2.000.000 bottles a vear. The people are not only drinking more, but they are drinking poorer stuff. A Big Proposition. Rochester Post-Ex| . Tuesday, May 7th, will be a great day in the British parliament -- the ig day, indeed, since William introduced his first iwart Gladstone home rule bill, wisining an immortal name for himself and splitting the liberal party in twain. On Tuesday next Augustine Birrell ~*"Obiter Dicta' Birrell as he is called, will present a bill for the establishment of an Irish council. Then will. begin another struggle in the long battle for Irish autonomy. How much will the Eng- Plenty Doing. Milwaukee Sentinel. "You say she's a celebrity 9 "Best over. She's had appendicitis, brain storm, anduhew in eighteen modern railroad wrecks." ' Campbell Bros.' The store thet savbs you money on ill alike for England and s n 'the present day. Sweet peas and nasturtium seed, mixed and separate colors, at Chown's I suffered untold agonies from a serious female wable for nearly three doctors told me I must hate an operat but I was unwilling and decided to try your Vegetable Compound. I am 86 pleased that I did so, for it restored me to perfect health, saved me the pain of an operation and the immense bills attcnding the same. Please acoept my hearty thanks and best wishes. Mes. 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